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

What's the level of Forest-hate like these days? My Derby in-laws were happy to see Leicester win the league but Forest still draw hate despite three decade's worth of near uninterrupted failure.

I wasn’t aware that anyone outside the East Midlands ever hated Forest, fwiw.

They used to get a lot of chants about being scab miners at our place as recently as the noughties. But now strike-breakers are probably considered exemplary citizens in the current rotten milieu.

Jonjo Shelvey celebrating with a cupping of the ears and a 'shush' gesture, to an empty stadium against League 2 opposition. Fair play. pic.twitter.com/5hTgV9WUh9

— Paddy Power (@paddypower) September 30, 2020

not seen such a classy player since Lee Hughes

Stoke will randomly do us tonight

Stick the house on it

yeah i'm feeling the same way. pleased Smith isn't chancing anyone we actually care about out there, Traore excepted. still paid down my tenner to watch this nonsense of course, such a sucker.

Anwar El Ghazi is very shit and seems like a prick, i do not like him.

"nothing wrong with the run there from El Ghazi but there was nothing at the end of it" says the anonymous Carabao Cup commentator, neatly summing things up

"here's Elneny for Villa and he has SKIED that", says the anonymous Carabao Cup commentator, and while i think it would be the act of a friend for someone to point out to this guy that El Ghazi has got nothing to do with Egypt whatsoever but is in fact of Moroccan extraction and that he was born in the Netherlands and has represented the Dutch international team in the past (TWICE!!! who the fuck knew?!), I would also hesitate to blame anyone for not knowing the dickhead's name cause he is awwwwwwwwful

here they are, chipper in impending defeat to stoke

if only we could all be thus

that was pretty compelling as an It's a Wonderful Life-style vision of what might have been had that bloke remembered to switch on the goal line tech computer against Sheff Utd last season

turned on liverpool-arsenal and literally the first thing i saw was an arsenal player lying on the ground holding his face. it's pathological at this point

certainly they're ruining football

according to the commentators on the Chelsea Palace game, "the referees have been instructed to be more lenient on the handball rule"

Sort of, but the Newcastle one would still be given until a formal rule change next year

Chilwell smashes one in from about 5 yards out on his debut

Dire game so far though

Ah well

Pickford on fire again

if only

Everton dead certs for the title this season then?

I'd go with 'almost guaranteed safety' at this point.

shameful result

Good game this.

After being hammered for 20mins Leeds don't look overawed here at all.

Last time EFC won seven in a row* from the start of the season, Archibald Primrose was PM. Me neither but he seems *awful*.

* granted three of these have been Carob bar cup and two of those opponents I wasn’t even sure were league sides

Oops, flagrant mixing of asterisks there. That’s probably jinxed it.

He's usually referred to as The Earl of Rosebery, or was when I did politics A level anyway.

The upcoming Merseyside derby could be a top of the table clash, when was the last time that happened?

Cavani to Utd appears to be a thing

Wonderful

Newcastle have now scored from five of their six shots on target this season.

Saint-Maximin has been superb again.

Cavani is such a weird move for Utd. P sure he's moved on to the 'frequently injured' part of his career. Still back in the day he had the best movement of any CF I have ever seen.

Everton and Villa the 2 teams that have improved their starting eleven the most in the close season? Guess perhaps Chelsea but would need to see some evidence that Chillwell/Silva/Mendy will work, though it's hard to imagine they could be worse than what came before.

Breaking | Bayern Munich are in advanced negotiations to sign former PSG attacker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, according to @SaberDesfa.

— Get German Football News (@GGFN_) October 4, 2020

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— beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS_EN) October 3, 2020

Howard Wilkinson's still alive

Pulis or gtfo.

West Ham are completely bossing this. It’ll be hilarious if they start losing games again when Moyes comes back in person.

well i guess i feel mildly better about last Sunday's result now

what's the opposite of a dead cat bounce, Moyes appears to have invented it

if you lose today it'll be time to worry tbh

If we don't win today I'll start to worry, nervy already

Saiss at wing back, hmmm experimentalism until Rayan Ait Nouri arrives

like Kilman tho, nice to see him get a game

who's that little shit holding his face when he wasn't touched

ah, Podence. sorry NV but he's straight on the twat list

he was touched but i know that's your shtick this season <3

that half was so bad the ref couldn't bear to add any time on

telling myself we're in a transitional phase but idk

he got a charge to his shoulder and held his face! hatred of simulation has always been my shtick but i am going all real-man brexit warrior tis true

if it's the same incident he got a hand across the nose/eye, didn't look much but then all Podence did was wince and clear his nose, ref had already blown

dendoncker with a gruesome facial disfigurement there now ;)

physio having a look. all teeth still present