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

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

"She said no and stop several times... I entered her from behind. It was rude. We didn't change position. 5/7 minutes. She said that she didn't want to, but she made herself available." https://t.co/BysnBW6nsX

— 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 😭😭😭

📹 @LewisDeighton17 pic.twitter.com/0iuTQgtvkl

— 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.

no new CM and we've sent Gibbs-White out on loan for the season. the natives are fucking livid

Mendy refused bail. If you look back at the timeline Pep was defending his character and talking about what a great bloke he was and don't be judgemental etc.. around the time he was in the shit for hosting a house party during the lockdown. Even though at the time it was known by the club and manager he was facing multiple rape allegations.

Brazil vs Argentina situation - a timeline

1. Emi Martinez, Cristian Romero, Emi Buendia and Lo Celso lied about having been in England within the last 2 weeks in order to enter Brazil

— EiF (@EiFSoccer) September 5, 2021

Almost a flawless plan.

Brazilian health officials came on to the pitch five minutes into the match with Argentina to shut the game down.

neanderthal posted a guardian link about that here: who will host the 2022 world cup?

Sanchez and Romero are still quarantined so the Spurs back four is Royal / Tanganga / Dier / Reguilon today, which will be interesting. The dream of a season of 38 back to back 1-0 wins might be tested.

I'd take Rodon over Dier any day in any formation

I'm liking Royal so far

very intelligent in his positioning

palace looking the more threatening side, not a lot of clear cut chances but totts struggling to get out of their own half for lots of this half

Winks a dose

No cover for fullbacks

Lloris giving them life at corners and with distribution

Worst version of kane out there also

Its unnecessary, poor stuff this

Kane just ran out of the way of a pass, if this is what we have gained for a year 100m will start to look very nice

poor half from Tottenham, for sure, can't see where the change is coming with all the injuries, only grace is palace not managing to convert their pressure into goals, Nuno has a lot of shouting and slapping to do at half time

beneteke deflecting his teammates Gallagher's chance off target from close range, his cursed look after when he realises he is a goal vortex, sucking goals out of the team by just being on the pitch

Tanganga could be off here.

Yellow only. Could have been two imo.

Right decision from the ref - foul was obviously a yellow but the the nonsense afterwards was basically all Zaha, the most aggy player in the league

tangbye

Idiot.

Yeah there’s his second!

whatever you say about zaha, he's had him on toast today, head gone

Yep credit to Zaha for that one. Have to say I think it’s a softish second yellow