Alone in the Park - it's the Prem 2020-21 thread

Solid list tbh, I'd sub out Richards for Andrea Dworkin, it's a bit of a sausage fest and I bet he's a boring bastard

Somebody needs to start the non Prem thread so I can lol at Derby

I just spent literally five minutes scrolling down the preliminary FA cup fixture list on my phone. It's astonishing so many non-league clubs are still going in the age of cholera.

Excellent Leeds goal. 1-1 after about ten minutes.

Awful defending for both teams. Would be 2-2 if Bamford wasn’t a terrible fraud of a player.

the curse of the post! but still Bamford is shite!

mo salah with short hair looking hot

missed the start, was hoping this would be spicy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZBIs0gs0E

Ah 2017 LFC how I've missed you. Actually it turns out that I haven't and have become one of those dullards who values competence over excitement. I blame too much Football Manager. First LFC penalty poor decision imo.

They don't call it the Poorthorns for nothing

The gulf in quality and ambition between Leeds and West Brom / Fulham was enormous.

lol, what a let-off.

Everton deserve to be ahead though.

Ambition doesn't really come into it with Fulham, I think they might just be awful.

Very concerned that Toby is just washed up, he's lost all his pace and he and Dier is not a CB pairing that inspires confidence.

Bearing in mind I'm a back 4 you'll need to cover Doc too

Yes and we don't have the pace at the back to do that. Sanchez needs to be in the team but I think Mourinho's decided he's a wuss.

Son's decision making has been awful today.

I see Nuno's signed his new contract, obviously that's a relief but not least cos it'll be one less thing for our doomsayers to moan about

If Spurs end the transfer window with no striker and Dier at CB, they’ll deserve everything coming to them.

Everton threatening to be, what, the third team to return from pre-season so far

deliberately maneuvered to get my class's lunch to start at exactly the time the Wolves match does. ;) so that covers the first half at least.

you could probably check out now anyway

jfc I was 6 minutes late getting the feed up and we scored twice already?

Wolves are just putting on a masterclass in possession retention in that last sequence. Jimenez just a touch high there.

dying to see the goal replays

man Jimenez is fast

Drafted Jimenez first in our fantasy league so a goal within three minutes was an excellent early return.

I think Sheffield United's fake fans have been stunned into silence by those two early goals.

they're staging a fake walkout right now

Sheffield starting to see more possession now

If McBurnie gets sent off he can probably make his shift at the South London craft beer shop he works at the rest of the time.

major lol at Donk's bowl cut

wow, first goal was a beaut.

Podence, maaan, nice linkup

amazed Sheff didn't score on that one

wow, lucky again. Patricio was exposed there.

Wolves you might wanna tighten up here.

wow, almost 3 there but nope

Far be it for me but that was a high quality win

A high quality spanking if I'm honest

well-earned clean sheet (esp that Seiss header towards the end to save a goal). considering how out of sorts Wolves looked at the beginning of last year, good start to the year.

Chelsea have been fairly shite

3-1

Brighton pretty possible to go down imo

I thought they looked pretty good tbh. Lamptey is a brilliant prospect

Chelsea scored two jammy goals and a wonder strike out of nothing

On the basis of this weekend there are worse teams than Brighton.

I can't believe I'm saying this in week one but the current bottom three look like they're all going down, depending on who West Ham replace Moyes with.

Raul's touch on his goal was so beautiful I nearly cried

I was too bombed to properly follow Chelsea-Brighton tbf. West Brom a lock for relegation, almost certainly Fulham, that's gotta take the stress off a few teams

Jack Grealish has signed a new contract at Aston Villa for a number of years and, perhaps unfortunately for him, it's fiiiiiive

I have a soft spot for the boy Grealish I gotta admit

good callback biscuits

yes it had me searching for the footcelsior thread

One of the game's sleeping giants, biscuits man aston villa is desperate to relive past glories

Tell you what I reckon the villa could nick this on a set piece

lot of shade thrown Neil Taylor's way these last 4 years but credit to the lad, the way he fooled those Burton defenders into thinking he'd totally lost sight of the ball during the build-up to the equalizer was something else. Bergkampesque! #BAMBOOZLED

Any old Iron came good in the end! I used to talk to this bloke in the bookies who drank with him and said he'd often be knocking back the pints at the bar in the George Hotel before a match day.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/callum-wilson-makes-graeme-jones-21201344.amp

Some wonderful glowing praise for Bruce from Callum Wilson here, for balance

“I think Graeme Jones coming in as a coach (in January), definitely complemented the manager because he’s a little bit more tactically aware and up to date, whereas the manager has his different strengths and attributes," Wilson revealed.

If I was a club owner I'd save money by simply employing a manager who doesn't need a ghostmanager to do the job for them. To quote DJ Martian "Systems Thinking can solve this problem"

i wonder if anybody's ready?

Covid's ready!

Someone has to start a new thread. You have 2 minutes or it's me

fobttll!

ahaha JINX

lol I knew you had that thread title primed and ready to post!

ironically it's what they should be telling us whenever we post there lol

I'm amazed that Calzino knows who DJ Martian is.

A meeting of two eras, fully 20 years apart!

someone resurrected that classic thread on here recently and I saw it linked on twitter once as a pisstake in response to some bullshit Dom Cummings sloganeering