Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

I know Twitter is not the best barometer but the United fans appear to be absolutely lapping this shit up

might as well put on brave face on when everyone is laughing at you. God, some of those entitled dickheads on 5live yesterday talking all that Utd way bollox yesterday reminded why I fucking despise this club.

in a way hating the whole club makes you the truest manchester united fan of all

that's could almost be a grave insult, but obv contains some truth as well! But don't forget fans of every other club in the football league don't have quite have that preternatural desire to see pretty football and see their club winning games like utd fans do. Because that's the Utd way.

Do Burnley fans want to see pretty football?

not since the Stan Ternent days when they signed Gazza!

i think wanting to watch decent football is completely fair, not wanting to watch Moyesball or Mouball is more than fair

that's the united way when they're losing but if mou had them one nilling their way to a title nobody would give a shit. it's not as if there were never seasons like that under fergie.

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god knows i have PTSD from a lot of our pre-Nuno years

Some of my favourite promotion campaigns in the 90's/00's were built on formless kick 'n' rush football and outright thuggery. But I'm not calling that the HTAFC way!

Half the clubs in the league claim some spurious "way" that they're currently not adhering to. Commentators are always shiteing on about the "tradition of attacking football" demanded by fans of West Ham, Newcastle, etc

true

in this sense, Burnley remain truest to their way

yeah once the club starts talking about their way you know things are really fucking shit

it makes me think about the Crewe Way + how they used to be held up as the platonic ideal of a lower league club. Then that myth crumbled to pieces when it turns out they had a long-standing culture of institutional child abuse and even the revered Dario Gradi was using club staff to delete dodgy material off his PC.

omg

the charlton way fyi is to panic whenever winning

calz do you have fond memories of the time lou macari brought the united way to huddersfield?

he got us to the playoffs, but the football was woeful. 11 behind the ball at home to relegation threatened Notts Co in a 2-2 draw was a great memory! But some ppl remembered him quite fondly because the fuckwit that followed him (Mick Wadsworth) was comfortably our worst post-war manager and took us down to L2.

lot's of players hated him. I seem to recall a West Ham player accusing him of finishing off his career because he had him jogging on concrete after he wasn't recovered from an injury. But tbf he seems to do expend a lot of his energy helping the homeless in Stoke these days, so he's obv not a total monster.

maybe that's a path that jose could follow to redeem himself

There's probably never been a better time for English football fans to enjoy good, exciting, attacking, technical football that also wins games, certainly compared to the Mourinho imperial phase. You shouldn't have to choose these days.

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— Zack Goldman (@ThatDamnYank) December 19, 2018

Played worse than this and won this season

How has a Liverpool team just set a record for least goals conceded by xmas

Virgil player of the year I <3 u

Given mad Friday and booze and distraction that was a good match imo

It was indeed, news to nobody but you need a bit more firepower

I was in the pub so not really giving it my full attention but why were there massive fuck off fireworks and what appeared to be Gary Neville doing a DJ set beforehand?

have a feeling money will be lashed out on a new number 9 in January but that's never a straightforward job and especially not in terms of maintaining the shape of the rest of the team

Palace with two goals in three minutes against Man City!

😭

Oh in answer to Matt's question it's because our awesome owners bring the razzle dazzle whenever possible

That Townsend goal was ridiculous.

without Mooy, Hogg and Williams we don't even have a midfield functional enough for the championship. Lol can't wait for Town to get back there tbh.

Chelsea losing now too.

Palace again!

wtf City

stop making these scores up!

comedy sub Quaner coming on now, god help us.

poch in

Palace holding on

Merry Christmas everyone!!

*is extremely churlish*

Croydon Boxpark is going to be like Sodom and Gomorrah tonight.

Also Spurs fans, how many times have you seen Andros try that and it end up in the stands? Literally dozens.

Saw townsend belt one into the face of a small child (some distance) behind the goal, making him cry and his dad very cross, in the warm up at goodison park a couple of years back. A sweet strike then as well tbf

I mean, everton had put up netting for the warm up specifically to avoid that scenario, but like that was ever going to stop andros peppering the crowd

Well this is fun.

what a difference a manager makes eh

I know it's only Cardiff but it really does shine a light on how bad Mourinho was. He would never have allowed three or four players to stream forward on the counter like that.