Lads, it's the Premier League thread - EPL 2019/20

The only way to keep the clubs solvent is to suspend all rents & mortgages for the duration of the epidemic. In fact, abolish money for a while. I'm sure everyone'll be happy to go back to the old ways once we're covid-clear.

Wait if the season is nullified does that mean the whole Mourinho thing was just a bad dream?

No, he'll still be there waiting for you if/when we get through this

Liverpudlians have the bluest of balls

i'm guessing bookie wagers on Premiership winner are gonna be in limbo for a while.

So many of them must've paid out already

based on current standings?

Yeah some bookies will pay out early when the thing's a foregone conclusion, more for a bit of publicity than anything

oh yeah I do remember some bookies did that for the Hillary Clinton wagers and wound up having to pay the Trump wagers too on Election Day.

Alderweireld on the radio just now came across as a real mensch

by all accounts

otm. was it about his ipad donations?

that was talked about, but then general chat about being with his family, how the players were interacting during the lockdown, he just seemed like the kind of guy you'd want around you in a crisis

Like when Mourinho is appointed your manager.

is that a crisis or a lingering infection?

I'm sure that even sourfaced mou would appreciate hearing of tobe et le rona

always good to see your players forming those neat interconnecting triangles amirite

hey I'm here all year

stop, i ate my last chocolate last night

levy came back with a big twin peaks bar said that'll fuckin do u

Jack Grealish: Police investigation launched after Aston Villa captain pictured at car crash site https://t.co/fihm371DNu

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 30, 2020

oops

ahem

england's jack grealish, please

Premier League exploring possibility of finishing season with ‘World Cup-style’ camps in June and up to five matches a day

Stoked for the madness!

liverpool winning the premier league? not essential

Five-a-side and rush goalies the only possible solution

we haven't the fuckin squad

The English Premier League's head has come off and its body hasn't realised yet

was gonna do a "finishing the season behind closed doors is shit and wrong y/n?" poll but we might as well have it out here

y btw

They're in a tough bind because like, obviously normally they would need to kill some of their workers in order to continue to make some money, but their workers are like actually worth a lot of money? So if they die it's bad??

Not like Glenn Murray or whatever but my god imagine if it was Pogba

Pogba is the virus iirc

where is he

where is he

a ravaged, tormented souness raves as he staggers around his ruined mansion

RIP MSK Zilina, first club to fold "due to coronavirus outbreak"

Let's hope Newcastle's next!

still hoping for Leeds, i'd take Bielsa when Nuno gets bribed away by one of the wrong'uns

not only is Bielsa a brilliant maverick manager he is also a committed socialist, it's horrible that he rocked up at that ugly oversized skip on Elland Rd.

Otm. Bielsa's one of the good ones; I wouldn't ever wish him on bloody Leeds.

a combination of Leeds friends and Bielsa has softened me over the last couple of years. I kinda love the idea that he'd rather play his way than take a lazy promotion tho.

As part of #WolvesAtHome, a number of club legends have been calling up and checking in with our older fans.

Steve Bull is one of them and it's fair to say he's a natural...

📞 @wwfcfoundation pic.twitter.com/8m33RlUOkh

— Wolves (@Wolves) April 1, 2020

Steve Bull apologising for not being Kenny Hibbitt

#dcfc
Nice to see Tom Huddlestone training whilst in self isolation pic.twitter.com/88rHjSQ6VY

— Shinniesta (@PrimeShinnie) March 28, 2020

not only is Bielsa a brilliant maverick manager he is also a committed socialist

I didn't know that! His brother and sister are both politicians and neither is particularly on the left iirc.

Steve Bull was brilliant on a recent episode of Quickly Kevin: https://play.acast.com/s/quicklykevin/a113b5e6-ae34-45bc-8aa1-94e017c1a209
(The whole podcast is great if you haven't heard it - 90s football, extended interviews with the likes of Tony Dorigo, John Moncur, Darren Huckerby, in-depth readings of the Steve Bruce novels, which are just astonishing. Will depend on your capacity for extended Josh Widdicombe.)

Unfortunately my capacity for podcasts and Josh Widdicombe is pretty low, but we've all got time on our hands at the moment.

Quite. He's actually pretty good company. Ymmv!

This doesn't really belong here but holy shit at the Maradona documentary. Amazing film. It's on All4 for the next 20 days: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/diego-maradona

Discussed it on another thread. Brilliant film.

The idea of listening to Widdecombe talk about football revolts me, he'll only go on about The Snot and their filthy ways and I'd rather just go on pretending they don't exist.

Belgium becomes the first European league (I think) to make a decision: rest of the season cancelled, and effectively the most recent standings declared final. So Club Brugge are champions, and Gent go into the CL as runners-up. Relegation still to be decided.

— Rory Smith (@RorySmith) April 2, 2020

seems a tad hasty