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

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

Xp

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

Aye, right. He's not that desperate for a job.

Next time the BBC approach Wolves about showing one of their games live they should politely decline.

Why?

Does Tom D support Wolves?

sounds like another afternoon of champagne football

Forgot this was on, woke up, saw score....lol.

it could've got worse

Does Tom D support Wolves?

The happiness of my fellow ILXors is my first concern.

But, yes, they have been fucking dire.

I'm watching in hopes of a mega comeback of epic proportions.

Just seen united scream a foul out of a ref from.....nothing?

Greenwood was quite obviously pulled back

Awful game, but Leeds didn't come to play at all

Ref’s a coward. Laporte should have had two yellows, rather than one.

Though you could probably say the same about Reguilon.

Tierney is a crook

he's simply not up to Super League standard

Well done, he's 29. pic.twitter.com/Y7ZYm8m1Dv

— Jonny Sharples (@JonnyGabriel) April 25, 2021

No jpg from Biscuits? Season's basically over I guess

Yeah to be honest you always want to give 110% every game but me and the lads are on the beach mentally

so wolves put together 3 really good seasons in a row, then lose their best player for half the season through injury, and have a mediocre to bad season.

the reason is obvious according to some guardian football writer

It was difficult to watch Wolves’ lifeless display at Molineux and not link it to the way the team has been put together. Jorge Mendes’ influence at the club has been documented at length and, on the face of it, has served the team well: successive seventh-place finishes attest to a squad with a serious (and seriously pricey) array of talent. But perhaps the pitfall of allowing a super-agent to curate your squad is that factors like attitude, togetherness and commitment to the project fall by the wayside.

not like burnley of course

Im as prone to it as anyone else but yeah, a baked in advance gotcha stored away until the circs conveniently suit is not worth a dry shite as analysis

i have numerous semi-formed thoughts about this disappointing season - a disappointing season when we'll finish very comfortably mid-table - and i wouldn't reduce it just to the loss of Raul - tho most teams would miss a player of his talents imo

anyway the Mendes thing is a nonsense, Nuno has always favoured players that fit into the team ethic and mentality, sometimes maybe at the cost of alienating more talented but mercurial individuals, and anybody who watched our first two seasons in the Prem ought to laugh at the idea that the problem is "flash Portuguese mercenaries who can't be arsed"

How the fuck are Palace 13th

ancient curse iirc

lol talking of cursed I read a Dyche to Palace rumour the other day somewhere

That reminds me, I've been assigning Shaun Derry's playing career to Sean Dyche ever since I first became aware as Dyche as a manager.

Ah. pic.twitter.com/lSdSxvjW7z

— Football365 (@F365) April 26, 2021

Big fan of Everton and Villa being contractually obliged to forget how to defend and just have a go at each other for 95 minutes twice a year

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2021/5/1/f3a21d88-4f50-4c96-aa8e-5ca6391ab801.jpg