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

Well ped-antic comes from the latin ped for foot and antics, so you see

if Villa don't win this, it will make the Burnley game look like a fair exchange of gifts

had a great game, traore

Yes, I was worried he was a bit of a fancy no end product guy but he's really turned it on tonight

Very happy to see young El Ghazi enjoying life once again, too

The fuck is that a yellow for james

Ahaha yeah I thought that was a clear arm in the face and pen at the time

James's pairing of lightning speed with the upper body strength of an infant does not endear him to refs

I think he's had at least three incorrect yellows for diving

Fernandes a thoroughly dislikable super player

Go on

yeah go on

Wait which part is developable beyond the surface

Bruno is undoubtedly a snide fecker

not sure what part of yesterday's match prompted your comment though

His excellence, few of them passes (and the way he delays them if needed) were choice

I think he's the best midfielder in the league at the moment, arguably the best player, and certainly the most important to their team.

Of course if McTominay keeps this form up...

mctominay out for the season with an injured cock iirc

my relationship with utd atm is one of baffled admiration, obv. find it very hard to avoid watching them, although i somehow KNEW the manchester derby would be as it was and cleverly ignored it

that said, utd are basically villa with a little bit more in the tank

very similar styles and players. utd have more pace and rashford > watkins. palace are another, less effective, version of this. quick transitions and pacy forward swarm with a #10 knitting it all together

fulham are kind of that too, but without the #10. anguissa is a bit deeper-lying

or am i just identifying how top-level football is played now

I don't generally gravitate to watching united so I just wasn't sure why Bruno was such a dick

He just smiles a lot and he let someone else take a penalty while he was on a hat trick so I assumed he must be fairly nice

Doing a little dance while you're taking a penalty is a bit much, but it also seems to be broadly effective so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not

why does grealish not take pens btw, was there a traumatic miss one time

or has a psychologist ruled that young el ghazi has no emotions and is therefore best candidate

I don't think he has any particular aptitude, or appetite for, shooting on goal with anything other than stinging volleys from lofted corners

The most important issue of the day of course is that Long Covid relents and frees ASM once more

Otasowie getting a start, love to see it

Poor goal to concede after we started well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpW7X4btvEI

those little leagues are all like 'but my burnley oh nooo'

stream froze at 80-odd minutes and i wasn't minded to find another one, sad i missed Fabio's goal, this is going to be an annoying season

Are there at least any lols Arsenal.tv types ringing in?

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robbie and dt immortalized in the latest david squires guardian comic strip a development i wasn't expecting, the image of sammy lee will give me nightmares.

top trolling from samuel allardeeché

is the trippier thing a people placing bets on where a player is transferred to deal a la sturridge? cos if so then bookies get what they deserve on offering such a ridiculous market imo.

also seems odd that the english fa can ban a player in another league especially when it benefits an english club (chelsea) while at the same time leaving him free to play for the national team in the euros this summer. i can't imagine the belgian fa for example getting away with banning kdb from playing for man city for 2 and a half months.

The Athletic article about it contended that it was nothing more than him telling his mates on WhatsApp that he was going to Madrid, differentiating it from the Sturridge story where apparently he told a relative that he was "going to Sevilla, stick a grand on it and if I don't end up going I'll give it back to you."

Seems like a farcical length to go to protect the profits of bookmakers, using the cover of being against matchfixing.

thanks for that lamonti

does the fa have a list of people one is allowed to tell when transferring to another club? like if player A discusses with his wife about going to a club in another country and she tells her wider family to talk through the wider ramifications meanwhile her kid brother sticks some money on said transfer is the player open to a ban?? seems ludicrous.

meanwhile tuchel out poch in at psg. how does allegri still not have a job btw?

Thunderbolt from Barnes just there. Decent game

James Justin now the undisputed champ of 'pretending to have received a mortal blow to the face 20/21'

Rashford coming for the crown if we're allowed any part of the upper body

They're all at it!

If I wanted to watch several employees of a wretched, long past its prime franchise lie around pretending to be injured I would watch the WWE Royal Rumble!

hearty lols

Zaha plays both Mings and the ref like a fiddle, gets the former sent off.

Like a fiddle not a nigel kennedy reference btw

Get ready for 45 minutes or Grealish screaming at the ref to even it up after every foul

Yeaurr monstuh cmon aston vulluh

Watkins putting in a fairly heroic shift under the circumstances

Harder to play against ten men

Booooom

That is an absolute cunter