'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

Way to spoil a, admittedly awful, joke, gbx

Salah is godlike, yes.

Well that's red all day from Carroll what is he at these days

And again and again....wtf

Eesh arnautovic wrist

Great chances and saves itg

Arnautovic deserved that tbh.

Moyes out.

Will Hughes v Dutch looking yesh

Pitchside analysis is fucking excruciating

and when they win the CL too. that will be good, yeah

Lollll

Pulis out.

Schteve's still available iirc

Is this the first time he's ever been sacked?

No: sacked by Gills at least; maybe Pompey also?

no relegation record intact tho

he'll be fine, i'm sure he has plenty of hobbies outside of football.

What's the top 4 look like

City
Utd
Arsenal
LFC

?

Guardiola on Pulis: "A big hug for Tony. He was an amazing man, so gentle."

— Richard Jolly (@RichJolly) November 20, 2017

James Beattie might have still have to go into counselling, to cope with that memory of the towel dropping from the naked Pulis as he strides towards him, nostrils flaring and violence in his eyes. "When naked Tony came at me with a flying headbutt, everything just went into slow motion..."

haha, is that true?

according to Ryan Shawcross, 100% true!

Well documented that one

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/nov/20/west-ham-fans-stop-calling-999

this is fairly crazy.

Niasse charged with diving!

Was pretty clearly a foul imo, but certainly whatever you thought of awarding it I couldn't see an argument for calling it a dive

so the rule is yellow card for a dive, two match ban for retrospectively being caught?

look forward to some heated philosophical discourse about intentionality

Is it diving or "simulation" he's being charged with?

Because it absolutely was the latter

Successfully deceiving an official

Yeah it's that too

Everton 1 Atalanta 5

lol

There is apparently a chance Lamela might be on the bench vs West Brom this weekend, which would be terrific.

That'd be great, for him and he's also turned into a very useful option the like of which we don't have on the right

We managed to beat them with Schindler sent off and they were fucking shite. That was before Pulis was sacked, but Megson is just basically his self-cloning Water Bear copy.

This tweet has aged well

Loving Everton's business this summer. Here's an early call - they finish above Liverpool this season.

— Richard Keys (@richardajkeys) July 9, 2017

He literally only said that because they signed Rooney.

Which lol

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42103736

This is extremely grim. I seem to remember there was a lot of smoke around Robinho back when he was at City, but I also just never really believed that a footballer at his level would ever be convicted.

I seem to remember a lot of optimism for Everton round these parts...

Carroll is just irresistible to Moyes isn't he?

Tbf who would you pick in his stead? This West Ham squad is a disaster

Also apparently the baggies approached bilic and he knocked them back? It's difficult to comprehend the lack of imagination and ambition

From bilic?

the squad is a shambles, and i'm not even really indulging in kneejerk Carrlols, he's just absolutely unsuited to any available ten that'll end up playing behind him

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/1024/cpsprodpb/110A8/production/_98900896_moyes_hero_getty.jpg

(bonus points for naming this image 'moyes_hero')

xxp both

yeah look i am in no way defending Andy Carroll and his swinging elbows here but once you're down to him and Andre Ayew it's basically a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. they're fucked no matter what Moyes does. and the continuing presence of Arnautovic would trouble me more if i were a Hammer. so many liabilities in this squad lol

Going great so far.

they are the worst team in the division.

even Palace with their contemptible Christmas points return have got more about them than this West Ham side. they remind me of the absolute worst days at Villa in 2013-2015. it's not that they're entirely bereft of players, but no one has the least fuckin clue what's going on, the manager least of all

West Ham boss David Moyes, speaking to Sky Sports: "It's so important to get the first goal. If we get a goal then we'll get the crowd behind us. If we don't then it'll be tough."

Sacked by the middle of next month.