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

v much appreciate the BBC headline 'Newcastle to take action over Joelinton haircut'.

It's fuckin hilarious

Bruce solemnly addressing the MOTD cameras like "he's a good lad but wuh cannat condone that thing he's walking round with on his head"

well this was always going to happen

Newcastle have been pretty good

they do this every so often, it's odd

ASM is back of course, that's gotta be a big part of it

oh dear god I only just saw where West Ham were in the table

Yeah the opposition get really distracted by all that nothing he does

now I recall that you're the naysayer

'we've got Trezeguet 2 he's way better'

That's my opinion and you have to respect it

Trezeguet has been archetypal Game Lad this season, possible dose of Covid notwithstanding

few of us foresaw AEG getting 5 in 5 tho

AEG super saiyan was vmic imo, he has Something

now with charlton postponed by the comforting familiarity of a waterlogged pitch, which relegation derby am I going to treat myself to

gonna start with brom/fulham i think

Which is live on BBC1 for some reason. The Beeb get all the glamour games.

p stoked for west brom fulham tbh

Cheyne-stoked

west brom parking the bus here
taking the 0-1

Not sure the last time I saw a team have so few touches in the opposition half.

should probably be down 4-0
tactical sub on 22 mins too

They are now winning.

never in doubt

lol

Not sure the last time I saw a team have so few touches in the opposition half.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 January 2021 15:40 (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sir,

Sick ball in from Ben Stokes there

Beeb unwittingly picked themselves up a cracker here

Was just saying that

Gary Lineker genuinely starstruck to be in the same room as Gareth Barry

How on earth was that not a penalty? He moved his arm towards the ball.

Let's just give the lad credit for a decent save

Southampton looking like they'll score a hatful so far

xps hit thigh first is the reason apparently
deserved a goal for the move b4 from ings tbh

An entire season's VAR luck in one game!

Martinez also palpably heroic

incredible ass armpit action

Very poor refereeing display. Ward-Prowse flicked a bouncing ball up in the air and headed it back to his own keeper, which still counts as a backpass

When i think of the decision in the 95th minute vs Newcastle to penalise dier for handball and i see them now just totally fucking randomly going "naaaah" to calls like that, man fuck this stench of a league

Refs are a disgrace holy shit

Reffing of fernandes since he joined this league is not even pretending to care about what you see.

Unreal.

warning, v indulgent post incoming.

been pondering my relationship to football recently. i don't know if i am somehow satisfied complacent or sated cos lfc have won the cl and prem in the last 2 seasons, or perhaps i was never a real 'fan' to begin with, but for a while i've felt something a little off when i've been watching the game. finally think i've identified what it is that i've been missing. the rage is gone. i've never been a particularly angry person but there would at least be a few occasions per season where football would make me genuinely angry. that feeling is missing now.

as for the cause, could be that i'm older, but tbh i was plenty mature enough 20 years ago and i don't think anger is much to do with maturity anyway. think var has made me detach from football a bit and the lack of crowds has detached me still further. it all feels v bloodless to me now and i find myself gravitating more and more towards highlights rather than full games. anyway my football related stress has gone but with it a bit of my enjoyment. i used to wish the result and performance of people i have never met representing a team in a city i've never lived in didn't mean so much to me that it affected my day, and now that it almost feels like it doesn't and i really really miss it :(

still don't want lfc to test my ennui by losing to west ham today mind you.

Definitely feel a bit of cognitive dissonance with the football these days, for all the reasons you mention. tho it's still more than capable of making me feel angry, even on an existential level

the lockdown has made things a bit weird and rubbish tbh

Including the football

the game still gets my blood up enough to curse and swear with genuine bitterness and hatred every that fucking tory twat Bamford scores

Crowds, var, the stunning resolve of the refs and those responsible for their comportment to favour man united at every juncture, and finally the utter waste of the talent and resources while producing an entertainment product of absolute shite

Also poch last year broke me to bits tbh

There’s also so much of it. Matches almost every day, everything on television, it’s not sufficiently interesting to demand that much attention.

Burnley FC

i definitely enjoyed teh football more pre-pandemic, I didn't even get to see the Wolves bedshit yesterday as I was taking my folks to get vaccinated.

I try not to get angry at sports at all anymore cos it feels like there's already so much to be angry about, I don't wanna waste the rare moments where i'm in a good mood being mad that a bunch of people did something incorrectly with a ball

yeah games at random times, i'm working so less time and attention, no pubs to watch a match with other people

gotta try and run home for half past five to watch the next FA Cup game ffs

yeah that's the other thing, I used to never watch a match of any sport without having at least 5 beers so without that accelerant, emotions run more muted

Not having anyone to meet and watch with also

Tho i had a Google meet with the lads the last night and it worked pretty well

Long ball team