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

I'm interested in the possibility of rule changes, if this takes place outside the game's existing governing structure

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Oh wow, never noticed before, but... nice.

Jose gone!

Breaking: Tottenham have sacked Jose Mourinho. Full story to follow @TeleFootball #thfc

— John Percy (@JPercyTelegraph) April 19, 2021

Six days before a cup final is a bold time but I’ll take it.

lol some ppl suggesting he left on principle!

There's a rumour he refused to run training today in opposition to the ESL.

I bet Klopp will be very quiet on ESL today

Jose's played a blinder here

The last true football man

Yeah, let's have fucking Klopp on giving us his man of the people bullshit.

Is life getting too fuckin weird or what,

Jose was much much cheaper to sack once top four was mathematically impossible *taps forehead*

Don't for a second believe superduperleague is the reason, but it would be funny if, now the idea is out there, Jose leaned into it

I can imagine him having some fun with it.

It's going to be very interesting to see who takes over. The assumption for a while has been Naglesmann but, with more or less the whole of German football opposed to the ESL, there might be some understandable reticence on his part.

Chris Powell and Ryan Mason will see out the season as co-managers.

while that chairman and those players and those aspirations stay in place only a greedy moron takes that job

Will be hilarious if Mason wins Spurs a trophy in his first week in charge

Chris better get his flat-cap dusted off, he's bigtime now!

while that chairman and those players and those aspirations stay in place only a greedy moron takes that job

I bet Klopp will be very quiet on ESL today

― calzino, Monday, 19 April 2021 10:40 (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, let's have fucking Klopp on giving us his man of the people bullshit.

― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Monday, 19 April 2021 10:42 (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I suspected Liverpool-friendly board ilxor would be loving this. You'll get the chance to hear what he says tonight, he won't be able to avoid it after the Leeds game on sky. I suspect he is a decent bloke and it's not all "bullshit" but he won't be the first person to be put in a difficult place by his bosses

Our beloved PM weighs in with Man City foremost in his thoughts:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/apr/19/ministers-urged-to-take-action-over-european-super-league-plan

“These clubs are not just great global brands – of course they’re great global brands – they’re also clubs that have originated historically from their towns, from their cities, from their local communities, they should have a link with those fans, and with the fanbase in their community. So it is very, very important that that continues to be the case.”

ive genuinely not noticed ilx liked any team except wolves tbh

Now, we hate united because they dont acknowledge the reffing bias

And lfc have a lot of the MAWK to mock, including the thing you just did there tbh

But do spurs get away lightly?

Everyone hates chelsea

Nobody cares about city, thats their tragedy

Arsenal are just another particle on a different stage of the joke wave than spurs

idk, idk

if that was MAWK I dont know what I can say

Xp surely this place is infested with Spurs fans

How many of us like them, though?

It is true, even a casual observer like myself has noted the Spurs experience is 99% loathing and 1% ecstasy

when I was a kid I learned the concept of "glory supporter" from various flaky liverpool fans, including my arsehole brother who later tried to remould his history as a hardcore Town fan despite photo evidence of him sporting a full reds kit in 1980 - the prick!

I was pleased for them to finally get a title, but in a very detached manner and was just as pleased to see them decline into Spurs style top 7 mediocrity this season!

Mourinho gone

And Sturridge has gone to Chelsea. Spurs are easily the most likeable team out of the Big Six, no contest. I wouldn't say I exactly like Man Utd but I don't dislike them that much either.

My family are from Liverpool, I was born there and spent my first 4 years living 5 mins from Anfield and being taken to games, can remember none of this of course and spent my childhood elsewhere, so have the same weird relationship with LFC as many do, "suporting" by taking a vague interest and watching MOTD sometimes, but actually supporting / going to see clubs wherever I live instead (so far Hereford Utd, (not Southampton), Viktoria Žižkov, (not Brighton) Dynamo Catford*, Beijing Guoan) - was still happy with the title last year, but it wasn't anywhere near as big a deal as it was for my mum.

Being unable to avoid having a certain respect/regard for Utd is one of my great shames lol

I live 5 minutes away from the Emirates but I've managed to resist the temptation to support the Arse so far, maybe mid-week games against Atletico Madrid will change that?

Jaysus, it's all coming out this morning

I don't need to justify my hatred of Liverpool FC with, y'know, stats and that, but I note that TAA's late winner vs Villa was 37th time they've won a game in stoppage time in the Prem era. Which is miles ahead of anyone else (I think Man U are next with 25). Tottenham have lost the most times to 90'+ goals.

"Ah, but this is why LFC are good not bad". Please.

Should make clear perhaps that mawk was capitalised as a play on RAWK which is iirc the long established fanzine/org for lfc

And having done so, id then nonetheless say that yeah bringing what is not for no reason a well-known lfc wider fan trait of persecution complex into the thread is tbh pretty silly for the reasons i laid out in my post which you decided to ignore in favour of focusing on the four letter pun.

Its all good like, but cmon

We had chelsea fans leave because of the abuse we gave john terry, regardless of who supports them on here spurs are a disliked running joke, klopp is an arse whom im sure we all like and wish well regardless but he is an arse.

utd are poison, obv

apart from wolves, and the two boys are turning in recent weeks, there isnt a club doesnt get the jab whem we're all here (rare enough these days) because football is shit and because we project to a ridiculous extent both positively and negatively onto the entities and events involved

Refs a cunt btw

I got the pun, I just wasnt sure how my defending the manager qualified, absurd maybe, I'd take that.

Let's not go there with the persecution complex thing, we're all friends here

I can barely watch the Wolves at the moment tbf but having lived thru much much worse my tolerance for shouting at them is pretty high

Tuchel says he found out Chelsea were signing up to the European Super League yesterday. Adds: “I’m here to be in the biggest competition... I trust my club to make the right decisions” #CFC

— Liam Twomey (@liam_twomey) April 19, 2021

while that chairman and those players and those aspirations stay in place only a greedy moron takes that job

Is that any way to talk about the Wolves manager?

Maybe i should have said especially greedy

UEFA have confirmed that players will be banned from playing for their national teams.

I'm a little sceptical, tbh. It makes sense to play hardball at the moment but it seems inconceivable.

It's not clear why it would be fair to punish Denmark, for example, by banning Eriksen, Kjaer, Brathwaite and Hojbjerg from the Euros or Eriksen, Kjaer, Brathwaite and Hojbjerg for a decision they've got no input in to.

All posturing at this point I guess

Good to see UEFA acting out of a sense of ethical responsibility at last though

It's going to be very interesting to see who takes over. The assumption for a while has been Naglesmann but, with more or less the whole of German football opposed to the ESL, there might be some understandable reticence on his part.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, April 19, 2021 10:50 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

be surprised if levy is willing to stump up nagelsmann's 20m euro release clause. chris wilder is available.

We'll be OK, Oli McBurnie plays for Sheffield Utd iirs.

We are examining every option from governance reform to competition law and mechanisms that allow football to take place. We will put everything on the table. They have put money before fans

'We don't know what law it's meant to violate but, damn it, we'll think of one'.

Culture Secretary Dowden announces a fan-led review of football in wake of six EPL clubs wanting to breakaway, saying: "We will do whatever it takes to protect our national game"

— Sean Ingle (@seaningle) April 19, 2021

Reviving the Corbyn classics again.