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

Y'know, the word "shitshow" is bandied around a lot these days

Should have been about 6-2 to Brighton

Thought Trossard was wasteful with that one that hit the bar, was lucky it didn’t fly miles over

Opta saying four is is the record for a single team hitting the woodwork in a match, Brighton hit it five times with Trossard doing three of them

Another ludicrous handball decision against Palace.

Total bullshit pen to Everton there

Christ's sake. We already had a pointless check and dozens of replays of the first one that hit his arm that obviously wasn't a pen either

It can’t go on like this. It that’s an unnatural position, you might as well pin defenders’ arms behind their backs.

This is hilarious.

Amazing.

You can still get 25-1 on Lampard being the first manager sacked.

age ain't nuthin but a number? yeah, thiago, whatever.

3-0 up from 25% possession.

critical support for the Boggies

Hmm this is strange. I thought Lampard had quietly assembled the best team in the history of the premier league with some astute summer signings?

he did, but he left them at the arcade by mistake and when he returned the next morning, they were no longer there

my dad was Villa so I am too, but all my mum's side of the family were Baggies and I have no beef w/ them (still hope they go down but it ain't personal). this is hilarious.

Slaven Bilic is deeply irritating though

my local team in the States (Orlando City) actually beat the Baggies handily in a friendly 5 years ago (3-1). it didn't mean much - Kaka was actually playing for us, and we were in mid-season form and the Baggies in training/pre-season form, but you'd never know it by the way fans were screaming about it afterwards ('the season's over!')

to be honest i've always hated the Bluenoses way more than West Brom

oh ffs you Tesco wankers

Lampard is absolutely delighted.

Well not every team will go to the Poorthorns and manage a draw

Sky pundits giving Frank credit for making game changing substitutions smdh

actually tbf Jamie Redknapp is being slightly more circumspect

Gareth Barry is in some respects my avatar of my football fandom and I will forgive him almost anything. my first ever live football match was Villa 1 - 0 Arsenal on the last day of the 97-98 season and i believe that may have been his full Premier League debut at the age of 17. the following season we got season tickets and kept them for another 7 years so basically throughout my entire formative period as a football fan Gareth Barry was the Villa boy and for that i will love him unreservedly forever. but christ whose idea was it to let the boring cunt talk on the telly

I saw Robert Huth make his Premier League debut for Chelsea. Something to tell the grandkids.

Chelsea making Thiago Silva the captain on his debut is a massive vibe. Bungling a routine clearance to concede the second is an even bigger one.

So I asked myself, have I got anything more useful to do than sit in the pub and watch football all day?

Kinda surreal watching Leeds and Blades playing shexy football

Chances both ends technically altho Bamford must be a lock for Golden Wasteman this season

Bamford is going to end the season with 38 goals from 1062 chances.

it'll be something to talk about when he is the Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford in 2031

I've had him in my draft-based fantasy league since the start of the season, final pick after all the Leeds fans in the league passed over him in multiple draft rounds. Absolutely can't wait for an excuse to drop the prick (seriously, it's like having Tim Henman in your team) but a) he won't stop scoring and b) he's playing Spurs soon.

Lol SV I made a give him 20 chances and he'll score joke at the time

Bielsa was at our game on friday night to mark his protege's homework, and as the commentary team noted with his mask covering more of his chin than his mouth. It's disorientating for me with L66ds having such a likable and impressive manager and Town having his former deputy, one can almost forget you are supposed to absolutely despise these fuckers. But I sort of wish them well these days in a confused manner, probably need a therapist to help me work through this confusion!

Big up whoever in the stadium decided to celebrate the Spurs goal by banging out 'Sandstorm'.

We are a completely different team with Lo Celso in the side, suddenly everything knits together.

Son is always impressive tho

That Newcastle handball appeal, my god

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a ball being hoofed against the tucked-in arm of a defender from three yards while grown men appeal to the referee in feigned outrage forever

We are moving worryingly closer to "fuck this sport", it's true

Lot of squandered possession from Spurs imo

Yep, I think it’ll come back to haunt them.

Patrick Bamford. The posh boy Pukki. The millionaire Marcus Stewart. The violinist who has defences on strings. Could’ve gone to Harvard but decided to teach the Premier League a lesson. The Barclays can’t handle that smoke. pic.twitter.com/AKkiVpnzru

— m durrant (@thepigeonpost) September 27, 2020

ffs

The game is dead.

Game's gone, that was a fucking disgrace

Fucking ludicrous VAR twaterry

It's not *just* VAR, it's just a clown car of bullshit now

Ludicrous interpretation of handball

It's a farce. But, I have to admit, a funny one.

Prior to Wilson taking the kick, Newcastle has had no shots on target and six attempts to claim a handball.

We should have been out of sight by then but this is a travesty. Once players work out at that all they have to do is make the ball hit the defender's hand the whole game's fucked.