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

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Serie A club Inter Milan confirm they have withdrawn from the European Super League

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) April 21, 2021

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Asked whether the project could still happen after the exits, Agnelli told Reuters: “To be frank and honest no, evidently that is not the case.”

“I remain convinced of the beauty of that project,” he said, stating it would have created the best competition in the world. “But admittedly … I mean, I don’t think that that project is now still up and running.”

“I’m not going to say how many clubs contacted me in just 24 hours asking if they could join,” he said, declining to name them. “Maybe they lied, but I was contacted by a number of teams asking what they could do to join.”

“I have had speculation to that extent that if six teams would have broken away and would have threatened the EPL, politics would have seen that as an attack to Brexit and their political scheme,” he said.

“If you tell me other methods for putting together such projects … if you were to ask the authorisation of others, I don’t think you would have carried out a project like this. The relations are there, I have seen relations changing in time, some people I am quite sure that people will be open and talk to each other. I don’t think our industry is a particularly sincere, trustworthy or reliable one in general.”

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— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) April 21, 2021

Amazing would many sanctimonious clowns have forgotten the formation of the premiership and the champs league and sky and sudden grown consciences

I think Barcelona are still in there but, perfectly, this is coming down to the two scummiest football teams in Europe: Juventus and Real Madrid.

It's a shame that Normal Football Guy seems to have sacked off twitter

if barca don't withdraw then they can wait for the esl to be formally declared dead and therefore not have to pay a withdrawal penalty no?

A league with just Real and Barca in it playing 30+ times a season would be... fine by most of their fans, and certainly all the media and TV I'd guess?

The Scottish dream

The only football rivalries worth mentioning are those that go back to the war of the spanish succession imo

Kirkwall Ba game the only one that really matters, Uppies vs Doonies the eternal rivalry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwall_Ba_game

Don't know if the prem are going to take any punitive action on this, but a meaningful points penalty that would move man c off the top of the league would also probably see arsenal get relegated

The Scottish dream

It most certainly isn't.

Don't know if the prem are going to take any punitive action on this, but a meaningful points penalty that would move man c off the top of the league would also probably see arsenal get relegated

― building a hole (NickB), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 16:24 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I’d lol

Spurs deservedly behind. Horrific, listless performance.

At home, against a team with nothing much to play for, and they can neither execute, nor defend, a corner competently.

No, no, theyre about to be 'unleashed'

These fucking heroes

Great performance by Southampton to be winning against one of Europe's elite teams, this must be like a cup final to their players.

it really is tough going when you are an elite club surrounded by jealous riff-raff who all raise their game against you, ask Bradford City!

Nice finish from Bale from Spurs’ first real attack.

That first hour as bleak as anything since my own personal low of udinese

Lo celso and ndombele look like a pair of lads newly introduced to this league

Jose out

Yep.

Second half has only been a little better but, again, lucky to be playing a side liable to concede twice from two chances.

Ah, it’s going to be ruled out.

If Vinicius can’t get on the pitch under these circumstances, I can’t imagine when he will.

Lack of confidence prevents us doing more than two moves a game, from which we score twice give or take a lucas standing in the way

Kind of thing youd take confidence from if you werent as a group totally invested in your own hard life

Has to be a pen.

Who’ll have the honour of missing it?

Never in doubt.

So much better after the hour, i wondee what mourinho stopped saying to them

well that FP-worthy sangfroid didn't last long at least

our weekly ninety minutes' hate

goals in the 30th, 60th and 90th. one for the real headz

a true run lola run of a football match

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— joolsd (@joolsd) April 21, 2021

deems' manager

Only once since 1990 has any team other than Inter, Juve or Milan won Serie A

I thought Lazio and Roma had won it? (goes off to google...)

That’s correct, I forgot about Lazio in 99.

And Roma the next season!

Those were the days.

(xpost to myself)...yes they did (though the only reason I was vaguely aware of this is because I lived in Italy then - I've got no idea about the last 18 years). And apparently Sampdoria won it in 1991.

Roma won it 20 years ago and have been runners up in 9 out of the last 19 seasons.

one of my great-grandfathers was a Sampdoria fan (i reckon from the clubs inception through merger in the 40s given his age) until he died in early 1991 right before that first and thus far only scudetto. football, bloody hell.

That's harsh

Inter won the year when everyone else got caught match fixing, right?

Inter won five years in a row, starting the first season Juve were booted out iirc.

Roma won it 20 years ago and have been runners up in 9 out of the last 19 seasons.

― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 22:47 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Roman Poulidor, amirite?

Mind ay when Argentina were runners up in the world cup and two copa americas in three years, and like, lol what do you expect naming your country after silver