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

Going with the radio, really can't be arsed to leave the settee

hey wow i get to watch one for once

lol u run into Traore's solid body, u go down, hardcore

sick of the anxiety that every ball that flicks near someone's shoulder or hand incidentally is gonna be a PEN. glad that one wasn't

Well at least we're winning at the Shithousing Olympics?

pretty dull half. neither team had many opps, though AV had the closest one!

not having Jimenez hurts obviously, but Wolves just seem to struggle to create legit options except in occasional pockets of time. not a lot of fluidity out there today, quite a few bad touches

sounded decent on the radio, chances both ends? i like this formation, gotta remember it's still new to them

Wolves found a few chances toward end of half. Podence had a lot of them, Silva's playing pretty hard, Traore is Traore.

i think we'll see it open up in the 2nd a little

shot way too early there Adama. had other options there and good numbers

oh Fabio

wow, that was an incredible shot. just unlucky

starting to get opps now.

fuck's sake Martinez is having a good game

Would've been an amazing goal, great save. Martinez definitely MOTM if it stays level

ooh shit, shock random sending off

Mike Dean, quality ref

That's us fucked

Not so fast

Ffs sake lads

Mike Dean centre of attention again.

Joao nicks off for the early shower

fuckin Semedo. his only real misstep today and it's fatal

12 yellows and was there a particularly bad challenge in the match?

shitty way to lose. scoring is going to be tough without Raul, just have to keep slugging at it.

xpost none egregious, no.

Yeah this was not a particularly ill-tempered game at all beyond a couple of niggly flashpoints that didn't really kick off

Villa were being pretty dickish in the first half I guess

Semedo could've been booked first half maybe. Luiz sending off sounded random tbh

Gonna go to the gym and listen to the 3pm kickoff. Not sure who's playing but at least it definitely won't be as dour and niggly as that one!

It’d be interesting to see what West Brom could do with a decent striker. Their midfield is very good.

Newcastle scored after twenty seconds and have done nothing since.

Brucey is a legit terrible manager, don't care what anybody says

This is desperate stuff.

blitw

terrible. cowardly from both teams. city never used to take so many touches in order to pass the ball so slowly from side to side.

"DE Bruyne. DE Gea. DE-rby. Hehehe" is a brainshit for the ages from Tyler there, what on earth

feeling so blessed to have avoided this tbh

btw biscuits what is more embarrassing, winning 4-2, or dodging 4-2 in the 94th minute when your two left-backs conspire to scramble in a fifth

Martin Tyler with the worst piece of commentary ever seen? pic.twitter.com/XwruMhAGgS

— Scott Bird (@Birdiex94x) December 12, 2020

Imago I think in that situation your only responsibility is to scramble that fifth by whatever means necessary, it's like only beating Georgia 3-0 in qualifying or whatever, the record books just will forever reverberate with "very much a case of job done" and people will move on

well that's what we did today so I'd best be glad of it

also that from Tyler is some serious retirement fuel

A Spurs fan outside White Hart Lane once shouted at me "you should be ashamed you're the werst team ov eva seen" after a particularly pathetic 0-0 with O'Leary era Villa and I think I know how he felt

you know I thought about him the other day and I completely forgot that he managed you, just assumed he sort of disappeared into the mist after leeds

A Spurs fan outside White Hart Lane once shouted at me "you should be ashamed you're the werst team ov eva seen" after a particularly pathetic 0-0 with O'Leary era Villa and I think I know how he felt

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 12 December 2020 19:24 (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Think i was actually at that one tbh

I am Spurtacus.

Not sure about that in real time, but should have crossed tbh do hes lucky either way

Offside!

Excited to find out whether Sheffield United will secure their second point of the season before February. They don’t look much like doing it today.

I think they are going for the Hudds model of being the biggest pile of shite to somehow stay up and then have a tilt at being worse than Derby in their record-breaking relegation season

although tbf they did alright last season didn't they - but now everyone has their number!

It still rankles that we could have picked up Che Adams for a packet of crisps and a few training cones when he was at Ilkeston. And our stupid fucking manager (think it was Simon Grayson) and scouting staff ruled he was no better than anything we had.

I have a half-baked theory that unless you're George Graham or Alex Ferguson, the authoritarian managerial approach has a limited shelf life and Wilder has pissed enough of his players off that they've just given up. Either way they're making Saints look amazing so I'll take it.