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

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

Beautiful

Don't think I've enjoyed watching villa that much since they battered Palace on boxing day

AEG even did a little bit of Bamford-y shithousing at the end. Deliciously satirical. Wonder if anyone else caught that reference

Crying pic.twitter.com/mnrgJnPrqK

— Marxcelo Bielsa (@judeinlondon2) May 2, 2021

lool

just heard a disgusted Pat Nevin dismissing this unruly mob as "quote unquote fans"

souness spectacularly ill informed about the glazer's ownership of man utd.

xp one of those posters at the utd protest claims that avi glazer visited epstein island!!

the 5 live coverage of this is abysmal as well

i'm pissing meself that a few cheeky scamps have got cunts choking on their prawn sandwiches in outrage

gnev supporting the fans, basically saying they are in right

must be hard for all the footy journalists/pundits not being able to tweet their outrage this weekend.

Souness was nearly falling off his chair. Even Roy Keane was giving him a "steady on" look

Carragher also on the fans' side

also laughable tosh from the premier league ""Fans have many channels by which to make their views known, but the actions of a minority seen today have no justification."

yeah fans views about kick off times and var really respected.

strong "strikes are bad" energy from the some of the clowns complaining about this on the radio

so many levels to this one

If people want to defend what Man Utd fans did today, fine. But then be consistent. Don’t complain when BLM do it. Don’t complain when Kill The Bill protestors do it. Don’t complain when Extinction Rebellion do it.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) May 2, 2021

I think most of the people who either consider it piss funny or maybe even a commendable example of fan mobilisation don't complain about other protests surely?

there was a caller on 5 live who said "it was a protest, they are supposed to go too far"

(xp) I wouldn't be so sure about that.

well I did stop going on my football messageboard because they were always banging on about how great socialism was and hijacking threads with messages of solidarity with BLM!

oh no I meant Tommy Robinson

Surely red

Cunts

well I suppose on some level Hodges has a point then, but making reductive comparisons with BLM protesters to pissed off Man U fans is extremely bad

Excellent hattrick

Gonna write a Spurs-themed death metal song called Eviscerating The Relegated

Some lovely pass and move stuff

Am reading that bale has now scored more goals than lamela since lamela replaced him eight years ago

“ For 90 minutes on Tyneside on Sunday something peculiar happened: it was possible to believe Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal really are “the new Invincibles” after all. ”

Lol U wot mate @ the start of the guardian coverage of yesterday’s game.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/may/02/act-of-desperation-is-ultimate-expression-of-fan-powerlessness

Again, in the coming days you will see the actions of this tiny minority grossly amplified in an attempt to recast the protest as some sort of violent riot.

no doubt some copper was horrifically injured by a flying stray rizla paper