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

had managed to completely forget that mou was still spurs manager, feels like he had been and gone already.

― oscar bravo, Thursday, June 11, 2020 3:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

literally thought exactly the same thing yesterday

Somewhere a poor Spurs fans is waking to that crushing disappointment.

The interrupted timeline will mess up the Third Season Meltdown scenario for sure, or has he brought that one forward already? I forget.

so what has been the televised decision on these games now then?

https://www.premierleague.com/broadcast-schedules

The other 6 matchdays haven’t been arranged yet I don’t think

If you don't have any subscriptions, these are the ones Sky are showing for free on Pick (Freeview ch 11):

https://www.live-footballontv.com/live-football-on-pick.html

Two games (Bournemouth-Palace, Norwich-Everton (hopefully an early goal from Pat van den Hauwe there to settle the nerves)) also on BBC.

really spoiling us with the cream of the fixtures there

I think it's over a decade since I watched a Merseyside derby live (Cup replay, 2009, when ITV failed to broadcast the goal). They're absolutely excruciating, and I try to ignore that they're happening. But I might...watch this? Maybe? The weirdness will offset the horror.

that's one of the "Liverpool might secure the title" fixtures i think? i'd skip it :D

What are they gonna do? Take a lap of honour? Live-stream from a bus depot, greenscreen of Utting Avenue rolling past?

the latter is an excellent idea and must happen

Zoom celebrations

As you were lads

Harry Kane was among four players who returned to the Tottenham side as they lost to bottom club Norwich in a friendly on Friday

— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) June 12, 2020

An Open Letter to all MPs in Parliament...#maketheUturn

Please retweet and tag your local MPs pic.twitter.com/GXuUxFJdcv

— Marcus Rashford (@MarcusRashford) June 14, 2020

beautifully rambling and on point letter from Rashford here, so not all footballers are complete cunts - just about 99% of them!

Would seem to me that the vast majority of footballers are not cunts, but that Britain's right-wing media and Conservative government has been happy to portray them as such and it has proved very effective in propagating that idea.

Wolves have been touted as a possible destination for Porto winger Jesus Corona.

Here we go.

Ah shite

All 22 players take a knee before kickoff.

Someone just pressed the ‘celebrate goal’ fake crowd noise, which had me running back from the kitchen unnecessarily.

hi everyone

Come on Villa, Champions League of Rona places at stake here

That looked like it was over the line.

That’s extraordinary.

Dear me, first game back, how does that happen?

They forgot to switch it back on

Goal line tech otm

I'd prefer a cocktail bar background murmur than fake crowd noise tbh

‘System now working’ suggests it’s possible they literally just hadn’t turned it on.

IT FLASHED UP GOAL AT HALF TIME HAHAHA

I hope someone remembered to press the "fuck off ref" crowd noise button when the goal didn't stand.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eau1WShX0AsMWsE?format=jpg&name=medium

lmao

People arguing about VAR. The world is normal again.

think we're gonna see a lot more shirt tugging in the box without opposing fans and var to an extent calling it out

So glad it's back lol

Something very right about the first game back being 0-0.

Absolutely hilarious that Mustafi is playing today.

Got to say the fake crowd noise makes a huge difference and I'm glad it's there.

Hawk-Eye statement on the goal line incident during Aston Villa v Sheffield match this evening. pic.twitter.com/I2u5lqKMqe

— Hawk-Eye Innovations (@Hawkeye_view) June 17, 2020

Blue Monday ffs you corny fucks

This Norwegian advert for the return of the Premier League is beautiful, brilliant and unsettling in equal measure. pic.twitter.com/EWoHYKIh5s

— Alasdair Gold (@AlasdairGold) June 17, 2020

roy <3

Got to say the fake crowd noise makes a huge difference and I'm glad it's there.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:26 (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

OTM

de bruyne managing to make football with no crowd noise exciting somehow.

Lads.

I didn't like the fake crowd noise. I found it quite unsettling.

And the Sky Sports anti-racism message felt just a tad cynical considering Murdoch also owns the fucking Sun

Murdoch hasn't owned Sky for over a year now

Well I'll be darned

Sarah Vine seems to think BLM on the shirts is the first time football crowds have been subjected to political propaganda, despite about 18000 minute's silences for our boys and fucking giant poppies and soldiers on the pitch becoming completely routine in the last couple of decades.