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

Lampard is absolutely delighted.

Well not every team will go to the Poorthorns and manage a draw

Sky pundits giving Frank credit for making game changing substitutions smdh

actually tbf Jamie Redknapp is being slightly more circumspect

Gareth Barry is in some respects my avatar of my football fandom and I will forgive him almost anything. my first ever live football match was Villa 1 - 0 Arsenal on the last day of the 97-98 season and i believe that may have been his full Premier League debut at the age of 17. the following season we got season tickets and kept them for another 7 years so basically throughout my entire formative period as a football fan Gareth Barry was the Villa boy and for that i will love him unreservedly forever. but christ whose idea was it to let the boring cunt talk on the telly

I saw Robert Huth make his Premier League debut for Chelsea. Something to tell the grandkids.

Chelsea making Thiago Silva the captain on his debut is a massive vibe. Bungling a routine clearance to concede the second is an even bigger one.

So I asked myself, have I got anything more useful to do than sit in the pub and watch football all day?

Kinda surreal watching Leeds and Blades playing shexy football

Chances both ends technically altho Bamford must be a lock for Golden Wasteman this season

Bamford is going to end the season with 38 goals from 1062 chances.

it'll be something to talk about when he is the Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford in 2031

I've had him in my draft-based fantasy league since the start of the season, final pick after all the Leeds fans in the league passed over him in multiple draft rounds. Absolutely can't wait for an excuse to drop the prick (seriously, it's like having Tim Henman in your team) but a) he won't stop scoring and b) he's playing Spurs soon.

Lol SV I made a give him 20 chances and he'll score joke at the time

Bielsa was at our game on friday night to mark his protege's homework, and as the commentary team noted with his mask covering more of his chin than his mouth. It's disorientating for me with L66ds having such a likable and impressive manager and Town having his former deputy, one can almost forget you are supposed to absolutely despise these fuckers. But I sort of wish them well these days in a confused manner, probably need a therapist to help me work through this confusion!

Big up whoever in the stadium decided to celebrate the Spurs goal by banging out 'Sandstorm'.

We are a completely different team with Lo Celso in the side, suddenly everything knits together.

Son is always impressive tho

That Newcastle handball appeal, my god

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a ball being hoofed against the tucked-in arm of a defender from three yards while grown men appeal to the referee in feigned outrage forever

We are moving worryingly closer to "fuck this sport", it's true

Lot of squandered possession from Spurs imo

Yep, I think it’ll come back to haunt them.

Patrick Bamford. The posh boy Pukki. The millionaire Marcus Stewart. The violinist who has defences on strings. Could’ve gone to Harvard but decided to teach the Premier League a lesson. The Barclays can’t handle that smoke. pic.twitter.com/AKkiVpnzru

— m durrant (@thepigeonpost) September 27, 2020

ffs

The game is dead.

Game's gone, that was a fucking disgrace

Fucking ludicrous VAR twaterry

It's not *just* VAR, it's just a clown car of bullshit now

Ludicrous interpretation of handball

It's a farce. But, I have to admit, a funny one.

Prior to Wilson taking the kick, Newcastle has had no shots on target and six attempts to claim a handball.

We should have been out of sight by then but this is a travesty. Once players work out at that all they have to do is make the ball hit the defender's hand the whole game's fucked.

Especially if its Andy Carroll using his head.

Dier's back was to the ball ffs

Yes Spurs shd've been out of sight but when I'm this radge about a decision that doesn't affect me

they're not even calling these handballs in MLS ffs, and their officiating is a joke

It’s also completely unbalanced. Defenders are effectively being told, if you’re going to challenge for the ball, you have to jump with your arms pinned to your side. Strikers don’t. As the Havertz thing showed yesterday, as long as you’re not the one who scores, it doesn’t seem to matter if the ball hits an attacker’s arm.

this feels like point shaving, wonder if Tim Donaghy is behind this

apparently Lascelles also committed a clear cut handball, albeit by the same pedantic interpretation of it these muppets are using now.

I hope Bruce loses to ten of these miserable idiot handball decisions this season

var managed to make the in ground experience of watching football terrible last season and having achieved that has moved on to making viewing at home wholly unsatisfying too. congratulations.

it's just aggravating because World Cup 2018 managed to use it so unobtrusively and instead of learning from that, they decided fans wanted more hyper-officiated football.

unless you're a relegation zone team who can literally only tie or beat the giants with this kind of luck, I doubt that's true (and hell I doubt fans of those squads want it either!).

it will wind up being like NFL football, where they made the roughing the passer rules so ridiculous that defenders started injuring themselves contorting their bodies trying to tackle the QB the very limited way they were allowed.

IMO cut defenders arms off, only solution

Cheeky monkeys

Absolutely outrageous from Vardy.

OK I like football again.

City made the classic mistake of getting an early goal. You need to wait a bit longer to score the first one.

Very weird watching a Guardiola team playing it long to Rory Delap's son.

Took vardy out my fantasy team this week

Huzzah a game not dictated by shit reffing

Cmon Wolves, give this shower the gubbing they deserve

Fuuuck come on. I saw that coming. Someone converge

Fucking idiocy, gifted the goal