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

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

Jose's gone to Roma!

Lol

Amazing

They're a historically underperforming club expected to finish 7th this year so he should feel at home.

Next Spurs manager odds on Rodgers, Parker, Nuno and Potter are all shortening with Naglesmann and Ten Hag both ruling themselves out.

RIP alan mcloughlin

Happy imago tears day everyone #stayingup #EzeEasy

don't care m8

more worried about football being city vs chelsea on a human face forever

Well, tuchel made a significant blow in the champions league pre match, pep is furious, they should have had a clear penalty at the end and aguero messed up,missing one earlier in the game, VAR a fucking mystery as usual, this made the champions league final pretty tasty, can't under estimate Chelsea on this form

the point is that everyone is bored to shit of both of those teams already, making the next twenty years very very boring indeed

well, you know, in this jizzneyland moneyball obscene spectacle of a game, I don't support either team but I'd prefer to watch them right now in a big game situation, than many teams or even my own team, arsenal

le sigh

Willian's touch there summing up his entire stint at Wolves

Finally