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

i believe we are taking it one game at a time as per Nuno's orderd

Sweet free kick from Milovojevic. I didn’t know he could do that.

Nigel Pearson looks very much like a more physically fit Mark Kermode

Still don’t get the mild to very positive attitude towards audience sound out of a tin. How is this anything but laughable with empty stands and knowing there’s not a single fan in the stadium? Why do people so desperately agree on being deceived and play along even?

Eve-Pool’s first 15mins arent better because of it, that’s for sure.

it somehow sounds less bad than the shouts echoing across an empty pitch to me, makes it feel marginally more like a match

The fake booing after a yellow card lmao ;_;

All power to those who prefer it, I’m probably behind the times, but the whole concept is utterly ridiculous to me.

I want to hear it the way the players hear it. I want to feel the alienation of playing in a hollow and empty stadium. No need to cover it up.

Ill stop now /oldmanyellsatcloud

i really hate the crowd noise too, would prefer silence but at the same time i think it would be awesome if they played a sitcom laugh track instead

especially for arsenal games

truly nonsensical booking for milner but maybe a sign that mike dean is favouring everton this time?

i really hate the crowd noise too, would prefer silence but at the same time i think it would be awesome if they played a sitcom laugh track instead

mike dean then fails to book an everton player for a wild lunge, it's happening

Did u enjoy the bbc's first ever live broadcast of a premier league game specific user such as imago

the sound in TV sports are never "real" anyway. there's a lot of work that goes on in the background to juice up the audio, from using special mic techniques that pick up sounds you would never hear if you were there, to using library sound effects to make things sound bigger/fuller.

the last game yesterday was wolves-west ham

The crowd sounds on NBC are worse than expected because they’re also too quiet.

the real mike dean returns

zappi that's interesting and a good point! Also they censor out offensive chants and it's weird when you can hear ball-thwack so loudly sometimes when the crowd is in full voice etc so yes, they manipulate the mix and gently fuck with your sense of where your ears are located within the stadium. I guess I'm just being horribly rockist and would prefer some sort of approximation of thee authentic sounds of the match in question

actually it's not, I'm more resentful of the blatancy of the psychological coercion going on, so maybe this will just lead me to hating manipulated crowd noise when we go back to normal times?

Lolverpool

Maybe it's easier to deal with if I tell myself they're just tapping into some sort of ghost sound worn into the fabric of the stadium a la The Stone Tape

Everton should’ve scored three times by now

Maybe years of playing Football Manager has trained me to appreciate fake crowd noise

Be a lot of bookies pissing themselves laughing about now

The away crowd launch a final ‘Liverpool! Liverpool!’ chant, home crowd does nothing to drown it out lol

defining a 'good game' as one where both teams score, there have not been many good games since the restart

Plane has just flew over the Etihad, “White Lives Matter Burnley” wtf pic.twitter.com/BXzOxEbyCM

— Emmett (@TheEmmett_) June 22, 2020

seeing as away Burnley fans always look like time-travellers from the early 19th century or extras from Peterloo when they get to big cities. I'm amazed they didn't think thee devil's flying machine an unnatural conspiracy of flagrant witchcraft.

Grand club

There's been a joke going round Twitter about Burnley players wearing All Lives Matter shirts so I assume it's someone trolling Burnley fans? Insane thing to do.

it's an expensive way of being a cunt

Yeah I don't think you do this to make a joke about Burnley fans being racist knuckledraggers

Don't think anyone's that committed to the #bants

I've some vague recollection of the Burnley fans applauding an ex-player during a game, who had been accused of racially abusing another player and faced FA charges. lol about an absolute convoluted racist shitfest there!

I meant applauding him in support of his racism!

It's a deranged and expensive thing to do even for straight up Nazis clubbing together.

More to the point what plane company agreed to fly that banner in the first place?

The Lancashire Luftwaffe.

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If only.

that's 5, hope they double it

jfc thought you guys were joking abt the all lives matter stuff

both L2 playoff semis have been cracking if you want a break from this tedium fyi

good lads Leicester, keep dropping points

On the subject of dropping points, I see Spurs are going with Aurier / Dier / Sanchez / Davies again.

thoughts and prayers

This is absolute bollocks and I hate watching it. At no point when we get the ball do I ever think that something might happen.