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

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

“Tick tock” (as they call it over here on) on the past few days https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/sports/soccer/super-league-soccer.html

That's not bad, though it's an odd decision to refer to "European soccer’s governing body" three times in the text but not call it EUFA at any point.

Or indeed UEFA

lol https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-22/jpmorgan-s-european-super-league-debacle-is-about-stakeholders

European Super League: Clubs 'cannot leave', says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez https://t.co/eGx3IImEtS

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 24, 2021

lol i'm not pwned

only saw the team line-up today not the game, so this may be based on assumption rather than reality, but starting to get pissed with klopp persisting with fabinho at CB when it only ends up screwing up the midfield. thought he had learned this is the case from the evidence of this season and man city's experience with fernandinho last season but the last couple of league games klopp seems to have gone back to it. annoying. not that they deserve to be in cl next year purely for on the pitch reasons let alone last weeks shenanigans

So is it TomD's turn to enjoy all that Mourinho brings to your club?

Fabinho back at centre half as Phillips has joined the list of the fallen