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

welp at least going forward i'll be able to see the damn games rather than yelling at students.

sad to see we didn't pull off the same magic from last year, but hey....last year we hadn't even won a game until when? lol

Sent this tweet out to Emiliano Martinez today:

"Bienvenidos a su nuevo hogar, Sr. Martinez. Muchos gracias por ser un miembro de nuestra familia. #UTV #AVFC"

this is on the borderline of unacceptable but fuck it he makes me laugh

Wolves 1-3 Manchester City- Alternative Commentary pic.twitter.com/MbaRSfFixF

— cameron🇵🇹 (@wwfccameron) September 22, 2020

We have someone who does exactly that. Can't lie I do enjoy it. Ours has the voice at about double speed, fitting in much more verbiage and coming off as twice as pissed off

Semedo deal finally done, been biting my nails. Next phase is coming together.

Moyes has the rona.

i saw three West Ham lads have tested positive, looks like our game on Saturday might be off

also there's a lot of footballers starting to test positive, i doubt this is specifically cos of football, tho it's surely part of it, but also reflects the situation across the country?

more time for us to bring in Douglas Costa tho ffs, my head isn't used to this, i can still remember Gillingham at home

Football is testing very heavily and routinely, at the top level at least, so it's probably identifying more asymptomatic carriers than most other areas of society. Moyes and the other players don't appear to be ill (yet).

They're also going through airports a lot.

Misread that as Diego Costa and tried to ponder it for a while; couldn't lol

xp

it's probably identifying more asymptomatic carriers than most other areas of society

this is my main thought tho obv there are the other factors involved

Is Semedo good?

Barca first teamer, he's quick, strong, good feet. Don't know how many modern full backs are the full package attacking and defending but our system mitigates the defensive side a bit. I've enough trust in our scouting set-up at this point that Nuno sees him as somebody who meets the requirements and i'm absolutely certain he's at least a step up from Doc, and i rated Doc.

you may remember him from such games as

"He's just turned Nelson Semedo inside out! An experienced right-back... Whoops!"

Wow, Alphonso Davies is just so difficult to stop 🔥

A magnificent assist from Bayern's rising star at left-back 🙌#Club2020 pic.twitter.com/NCbOrOyaJS

— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) August 14, 2020

i'm aware of the Davies thing but by that rubric Podence just killed De Bruyne's career Monday night

anyway, looking forward to watching teams quadruple up on Adama/Semedo

I jest

Pretty jealous of any team making signings at the moment tbh!

nah i know :D also Davies is potentially pretty special himself

The Premier League and EFL banging the drum about how terrible it is the government won't let them get supporters back in is doing my head in

Like I get that the impact of this on the lower tiers of English football will be catastrophic but fuckin hell read the room lads what did you think was going to happen

mostly i've heard Rugby Union dudes moaning who i hate anyway but yeah it's not a good look, instead of demanding to host rona parties they should maybe be asking some more pointed questions about how else the government might stop us ending up with the 44 Club

It's is imperative that no public money is spent on "propping" up rugby clubs, they will spend every penny of it on pint glasses which they will then drink piss out of

can you believe we have the best looking team in the prem

— liv (@oliviawwfc) September 24, 2020

show me the lie

Looks like Wolves - West Ham to proceed with Moyes managing from home

What if his feed has a delay?

Can only help West Ham

What will they do without his tormented looks from the touchline or are they going to beam them on Zoom using a big telly?

Is it Solskjaer's last game yet?

Odds shortening

Always love a Panenka.

Aw poor show

This seems like a good game, Brighton are entertaining

Was momentarily outraged by the reversed penalty but Aaron Connolly's Plan A is clearly Fall Over

Utd clearly stung into action by the prospect of ending up with a manager that sometimes shouts at them and asks them to work hard

Would have been criminal if Brighton hadn’t got a second.

Arse. Can't say Brighton didn't deserve that, though.

First time I have ever seen the game restarted after the final whistle.

a real "you are the ref" moment

that might be the jammiest win i've ever seen

Amazing pen

Y'know, the word "shitshow" is bandied around a lot these days

Should have been about 6-2 to Brighton

Thought Trossard was wasteful with that one that hit the bar, was lucky it didn’t fly miles over

Opta saying four is is the record for a single team hitting the woodwork in a match, Brighton hit it five times with Trossard doing three of them

Another ludicrous handball decision against Palace.

Total bullshit pen to Everton there

Christ's sake. We already had a pointless check and dozens of replays of the first one that hit his arm that obviously wasn't a pen either

It can’t go on like this. It that’s an unnatural position, you might as well pin defenders’ arms behind their backs.

This is hilarious.

Amazing.

You can still get 25-1 on Lampard being the first manager sacked.

age ain't nuthin but a number? yeah, thiago, whatever.

3-0 up from 25% possession.

critical support for the Boggies