Lads, it's the Premier League thread - EPL 2019/20

Those fans are not into PR spin. They sing from the heart. "Sheikh Mansour, My Lord, Sheikh Mansour".

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ian wright's desert island discs is wrecking me right now.

Thank you for the kind messages about #DesertIslandDiscs 🙏🏾 And special thank you to @laurenlaverne who was absolutely brilliant host during what was an emotional few hours recording ♥️♥️♥️ https://t.co/Y6KmBJwwzH

— Ian Wright (@IanWright0) February 16, 2020

Beautiful.

That episode was a tough listen and his love for that teacher is beautiful.

(The cynic in me is seeing a huge amount of sentimentalising of teachers and teaching at the moment. Every podcast I listen to has a personal story style ad attached to it. The advertising has gone from 'look, being a teacher makes you rich!' because, well, it doesn't, towards this more charitable, benevolent, 'teachers can change your life' stuff, which might be true but can you stick your mawkish ads up your arse, sort out the funding and pay them properly, please?)

Wrighty is fucking awful, what's right with you people?!

you'll be getting misty eyed over another septic pimple like Neil Warnock next!

empathy is a curious thing isn't it

I'm allergic to celebs tbh. I save my empathy for people with real problems not self-indulgent bathos on the old wireless.

mr pigden sounds like a legitimate source of empathy to me

As are Wrighty's experiences growing up. He's ordinary as a pundit, sure.

growing up terrified of your stepfather ,watching your mum get abused, going to prison . not real problems. okay.

He's that much of an obnoxious boorish cunt he once compelled me to be on Roy Keane's side, and that is somewhere I really don't want to be.

plenty of us have endured all sorts of shit in our childhoods and I don't doubt he had a very tough upbringing himself, but it doesn't mean I'm going make allowances for what a nauseating personality he is.

sorry if I'm being an arse here, but I just cannot stand the fucker - his voice put's me on edge and he reminds me of a total dickhead I used to work with.

the sentimentalising of celebrity travails is a bit of a "hand me the remote" for me usually, but idk, this one seems to have something genuine to it too.

as for wrighty, hes....normal? i mean, that includes that hes often moronic, im sure he holds views about football and life and everything else that would make him a pain in the arse and certainly a BAD ILXOR but does he seem like that bad a fella? id pick a good twenty regular pundits ahead of him for a fuckin kicking i must say.

wrighty always gets a pass for me for the outfit he affected for an entire world cup/euros that one time

I think anyone who has ever been in a working environment with one too many alpha-male types being the norm will have met a Wrighty or two in their lifetime.

honestly think Wright has grown as a personality and a pundit the last few years

yeah i think thats also true tbh

think hes open to being told hes wrong, seems to have a sense of humour about disagreement that for instance and to pick two very obvious examples, the likes of shearer or keane dont and could never dream of developing

I wouldn't say he's an alpha male type either, he laughs far too much for that

Shearer seems a much worse character than him tbf and I certainly don't want to listen to that cunt's ep of D.I.D. either. I'd get the load of these poppy wearing cunts in a deathpit tbh

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-51580401

Classic entitled United fan

omg!

he could have at least told him that Man Utd's next title challenge will be coming soon enough .. in the championship.

Of course I'm biased but klopp's reply is just beautiful

Should've told the little twat to fuck off tbh

im sure the first draft was close enough to it

I also hold a modicum of inexplicable goodwill towards Ian Wright

I liked it when he astutely identified that James Rodriguez had had a little look, vs Uruguay, in 2014

Jurgen Klopp, on the other hand, seems to be an almost obnoxiously pleasant human being, a real "Mary Sue"

Shankly would have told that entitled little shit he'd be lucky to get a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking after penning a letter like that.

man fuck klopp for real, toothy git

8-(

Wrighty's original Mr. Pigdin moment actually did make me more favourably disposed to him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omPdemwaNzQ

he is still an annoying arse though

While we're traducing footballers we don't know, I have an irrational hatred of Jordan Pickford

Pickford seems like an irritant alright

but Kasper Schmeichel really grinds my gears

Gonna make a spin-off thread for ILF

Footballers you hate

How Lossl never managed to usurp Pickford might be some form of nominative determinism

alli benched

p sure that goal will stand

Terrible defending but great finish l

yup. 5 at the back beaten by one pass.

stream skipped what all fucking cunts should i blame

back five is pointless if nobody ever moves

jesus chelsea are making this look like a small pitch

seen the goal. rotten flatfoot reactive arah fuckit defending

"oh thats brilliant"

fuck off. thats an entire club generation of full backs who dont think they ever have to look at defending their flank

fuckin gutless lazy stuff everywhere you look

jesus youd pay to play us if your team was in a sticky patch

eccentric Pepe

I think I’m resigned to never understanding the handball rule. Does protecting your face count as a ‘natural position’?