Fuck Off Back To The Little Leagues: EPL 21/22

minute of stoppage when McGuire spent more than that whining to the refs after the last foul call

Podence is gonna be one of the first subs, I would imagine?

Sounds about right, loving Brunoball but we can't find goals yet

yeah the ball movement is incredible, but just disconnected in final third. feel like one's coming. i hope so.

I just bumped into a black labrador pup called Bruno, it could be a sign

For which side tho

ugh damn slice, Trincao

holy fuck at Traore keeping possession

lol that was pretty crazy

COME THE FUCK ON

between this and Orlando City's match on Friday I have blue balls right now

oh fuck this.

against the run of play and with Neves curled up in a ball

to play this well, still not score, and....ugh.

please at least knot it up

<3 mason

fucks sake

well maybe this will be like 2019-2020, slow start with few goals and no wins and big explosive middle of the season.

so frustrating

We'll finish top half, need to sort the goals out, let's see how it looks in a month

Sa let himself down but on the whole what a treat we are from last season

when one of your lot tries to bid peanuts for Sorba Thomas in the January window it won't happen unless they stump up £25m. Our chairman is mostly useless but he's getting very good at playing hardball with prem clubs who unsettle our best players and try and get them on shitty low valuation staggered payment deals that only suit the buyer.

Fair history lesson from michael j upthread, rangers affiliate suggestion rescinded

Everton Catholic/prod situation has always been weird aiui

Mike Dean is some lackspittle cunt

Kind of associate Liverpool with Rangers tbh.

Yeah there's definitely been some historical back and forth

the history of sectarian club affiliations in Liverpool does seem very confusing compared to Glasgow. Also the sectarian electoral loyalty was more divided between the Liberal Party and Tories up to the early 80's iirc.

Celtic/liverpool a v clear relationship from this side of the water but that may be a confused angle

The rhys james red card was bullshit huh

yeah I can remember this coming up when Diouf spat on a Celtic fan once!

Celtic/Man Utd is much more of a thing in Scotland, historically at least - might be different in Ireland - and given that 90% of what Rangers' fans do is to annoy people that would explain them supporting Liverpool.

The strongest link in my recent experience is between Rangers and Chelsea, for whatever innocent reason

my family are all Liverpool-supporting Catholics, only recently heard that we're supposed to be the Protestant club. Even my second cousin is a Liverpool supporter and he's the Bishop.

I think we've talked about this in other threads; the binary was allegedly: EFC/Liberal-Labour/Catholic vs LFC/Tory/Protestant. Even though the Orange HQ was in Everton (my mum got in trouble for going to watch the parade as a girl - "I just liked the drums and the pipes"...) and the city centre and docks were more Catholic areas. I think slum clearances had something to do with dissipating that sort of territorial stuff. (My parents crossed the divide in that sense, and I don't think it was that big a deal even in the '50s.) Any sectarian identity associated with the clubs vanished decades ago and was confused even back then.

"To hell with Liverpool and Rangers too" goes On The Banks of the Royal Blue Mersey... but this also mentions Big Ron Yeats so not exactly contemporary.

xxp

My mum says she was terrified of the Orange parades, this would have been in Speke in the early 60s, so exactly where the slums were cleared to.

Think the important commection to Scottish football for me is Kenny Dalglish rather than any of that.

Bobby Collins and Alex Young for my dad :)

my scouser friend is a catholic Liverpool fan from that kind of ancestry.com "irish background" beloved of celebs. I've tried to talk to him about this before. But you can't get no sense out of him, he went to a private school!

I’ve had a half-hearted dig myself, based off what I can remember and the 1911 census didn’t really corroborate or contradict. Supposedly my mum’s side (Catholic) went Cork -> Belfast (a job at Harland & Wolff) -> Liverpool (due to life-threatening workplace accident at Harland & Wolff), widowed gr-gr-m lodging with local families in Walton, raising infant gr-f. Dad (Prod) seems to have been generations of Wallasey/Birkenhead.

None of this supports EFC Catholic as I don’t think Mum’s brothers and sisters cared one way or another, my Dad’s family were the Blues. If I were to conduct a poll of my sixty-odd cousins (unlikely, I’m not in touch with any of them), it wouldn’t look good for Everton. Glory-hunting Generation X.

I guess another side to this is “going to watch both teams”, still pretty common within my lifetime. Dad went to the ‘65 Cup Final! Only the second time a M’side club had been to Wembley since the War so a big deal. I went every other week early ‘80s with a couple of lads in a family friend’s car… and on derby day one of these boys suddenly acquired a red and white scarf.

Anyway, back to your table-topping Spurs :)

You dont ever hear too much about whether spurs are proddy or taig 🤔

Think the important commection to Scottish football for me is Kenny Dalglish rather than any of that.

Another reason why Celtic fans didn't like Liverpool.

Even though the Orange HQ was in Everton (my mum got in trouble for going to watch the parade as a girl - "I just liked the drums and the pipes"...) and the city centre and docks were more Catholic areas.

That's how Orange walks work, they are designed to march through areas where they can cause maximum annoyance and irritation and where they can rub as many noses in the dirt as possible.

Growing up in the Mearns there is definitely a Rangers/Man United correlation amongst the teuchters, the Tory farmers would look down on Liverpool (well the males would; a North Wales lad could still receive sneaky favours from the farmer lassies in back hallways of pubs) & presumably Everton too if it ever occurred to them, some random enclaves of Leeds fans for some reason but mostly if you were Rangers it could be safely assumed your English team was Man U, it was part of their whole superiority thing, any member of the 80s-> oil industry diaspora or their progeny is to be at best tolerated but mostly distrusted in a pinched brow way, Manchester United are the biggest and most successful team, why would you follow anyone else? These inaboutcomers clearly don't know anything about football

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— Tesla Driver (@ShatChitBetGang) August 30, 2021

Spurs have agreed a €30m fee for Emerson Royal.

I’ve not seen much of him, other than a couple of games for Barca this season.

Odsonne Edouard will be in London today in order to sign as new Crystal Palace player on permanent move from Celtic. Done deal and here-we-go! 🔴🤝 #CPFC

Personal terms also agreed. Medical today morning. €18/19m as final fee.

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 30, 2021

I have a hard time working out whether Edouard is much good but it’s an interesting signing.

good business from celtic that, if confirmed

Leeds are apparently going to pay something in the region of £25m for Dan James. But they weren't willing to pay a penny more than £4m for Lewis O'Brien. Glad my club told them to match our valuation or get fucked.

Dan James sale is the best business we've done in years

also looks like Camavinga is signing for Real

Leeds fans at Old Trafford the other week singing “you’re too shit to play for Leeds” at Dan James 😭😭😭

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— Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) August 30, 2021

Spurs appear to have paid Aurier to leave, having failed to sell him.

Fantastic business

The fucking wretched cunt

One of our overpaid wastemen from our Premiership era (Mbenza) allegedly had a few decent contract offers from top flight - but not big European sides but jeez what did he expect - that he turned down in favour of getting paid nearly 20 grand a week to turn up at a free gym for a year.