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

Is John McGinn "back"? Two assists and a textbook marseille roulette before half time

LOL EVEN MCGINN IS AT IT pic.twitter.com/mVg5vBQ4pe

— Tøbiàs 🦁 (@AVFCTobias) September 28, 2020

yeah lol you could see what he was gonna try as he raced into contact, ngl i cheered

sincere appreciation too in this house for Trezeguet sprinting from right to left and back again, beating several defenders, losing the ball, winning it back, passing it on and making a run into the box, going like the clappers the whole time, before finally crashing face first into the turf when he inevitably ran out of gas at the crucial moment. go on son

Industrial-grade ketchup on that 0.8 Girosflin from the wee man. Bedlam in the ends. Fulham got straight-up Ultra Naté'd

Did I miss a third goal because I was composing a risible Mundial spoof post? Yes

go on rule that shit out

Martinez did not drop a clanger, that is fake newa

Don't call it a comeback

Not sure Fulham will reach Derby’s 2007/2008 points total at this rate

At this stage I'm wondering if they'll reach Swindon's goal's conceded record.

didn't have tierney down as a typical arsenal primadonna

wah my poor face wah

get tae fuck

scotland's other left-back having a moment there mind

tierney hits back by being absolutely ruined for the equaliser

and that's that little face-off settled

Pep might not like having a negative GD at the moment but a solemn reminder that Stoke lost their first ever league game 2-0 and that was the closest they've ever been to zero overall pic.twitter.com/oiYlSB6eKr

— Duncan Alexander (@oilysailor) September 28, 2020

lol

not that charlton's would look much different? actually i now need to know this

I can only offer you all-time PL goal difference

https://www.statbunker.com/alltimestats/AllTimeLeagueTable?comp_code=EPL

I'm sorry I'm not having MK Dons in there.

meh! I refuse to acknowledge such lousy Murdoch propaganda that ignores 100+ years of football history

bit of a turn-up

Morning, Villans. 😉

Welcome to Aston Villa, @RBarkley8! 🙌

🟣 #WelcomeRoss 🟣 pic.twitter.com/hTBWEi1RDz

— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) September 30, 2020

Elegant Stealth Transfer

Not a bad window. Just need to sort, it says here, Milot Rashica - I don't know what that is but I know I need it yesterday

He's very good.

Newly Chipper Villans a nice counterweight to the cocky Wolves massive itt

i'm just gonna let that one sit for a while

I wish the gloomy Baggies were having a good transfer window or at least just bought their main transfer target rather than fucking about and haggling over mere pennies, because in the meantime our transfer window is at a standstill until the matter is resolved and no point playing deadline day chicken with our rotary club gammon chairman, no-one will win.

I'm sure I speak for the board's entire Aston Villa Football Club contingent when I say we retain deep respect for Wolverhampton Wanderers despite their baffling and borderline offensive shitting of the bed on Sunday evening

aiui Wolves-Villa is a tepid rivalry compared with either club against Blues or West Brom.

Everyone dislikes the Blues, that time under McLeish when they beat Arsenal in the league cup final was all the sweeter because it was the start of their hopefully ongoing downward spiral.

The Blues are cunts, tbh the Boggies are more a gently patronised poor cousin than a hate figure.

lol, yeah, Birmingham's ratio of success to widespread loathing engendered must be the largest in the country maybe

My uncle's one

He's a cunt ah no he's grand

I can't work out what element of Blues hate is their comical lack of trophies as compared to their long history of being renowned for thuggish lumpishness

lol, yeah, Birmingham's ratio of success to widespread loathing engendered must be the largest in the country maybe

The Franchise and Millwall must be above them in that particular table, maybe Cardiff, but that's about it.

And yeah I guess we all know individual fans who are grand, I know Leeds fans who are fine tbh

Does there exist a single fine Rangers fan? They seem most bad and hated, or is that the ilx SPL massive at work?

A lot of Prem-focused Southerners under the age of 40 or so have probably lost the knack of hating Leeds. There are kids making their debuts this year who weren't even born when they were last in the top flight and they're more known as a byword for disastrous financial mismanagement and lol spying than the Dirty Leeds of old. Doesn't help that Bielsa's Leeds are a lot of fun to watch as well.

Obviously all right thinking people despised them in the early 00s and their relegation in 2004 was entirely deserved.

There's extra layers of hate in the Leeds adjacent North too

West Brom fans' hatred of Villa reaches more comically deranged extremes than Blues ime

Proper just seeming like they're going to explode at all times, "THE ONE AT MY WORK WILL BE GLOATING AFTER THIS RESULT I CAN'T FUCKIN STAND IT I HATE THEM SO MUCH" etc

you quite literally love to see it

It feels a bit attention-seeking idk

"THEY SAY WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THEM BUT THEY'VE GOT A 50 PAGE THREAD ON THEIR FORUM ABOUT HOW FUNNY WE ARE! I REFRESH IT CONSTANTLY TO AN EXTENT THAT ENDANGERS MY JOB"

Our fans are quite awful, of course, but at least they're having a nice time and chilling out for the moment

former ilxor Merdeyeux is a Rangers fan and a sound lad iirc

birmingham should have been relegated to league one about 6 times in recent years. but for a goalkeeping error in the last minute they'd have gone down instead of us this year. they keep surviving. it is hellish

we could have last-game relegated them, they were even down to 10 - it was a shameful day for me. It would have made up for 2002 when that cunt Trevor Francis relegated us on the last day.

What's the level of Forest-hate like these days? My Derby in-laws were happy to see Leicester win the league but Forest still draw hate despite three decade's worth of near uninterrupted failure.

I wasn’t aware that anyone outside the East Midlands ever hated Forest, fwiw.

They used to get a lot of chants about being scab miners at our place as recently as the noughties. But now strike-breakers are probably considered exemplary citizens in the current rotten milieu.

Jonjo Shelvey celebrating with a cupping of the ears and a 'shush' gesture, to an empty stadium against League 2 opposition. Fair play. pic.twitter.com/5hTgV9WUh9

— Paddy Power (@paddypower) September 30, 2020

not seen such a classy player since Lee Hughes

Stoke will randomly do us tonight

Stick the house on it