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

Wonderful finish from Mateta.

Oh yes

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/feb/22/sign-of-the-times-how-english-clubs-are-turning-to-high-interest-us-loans

lol I don't feel so bad about the tight penny-pinching knacka that runs my club now.

Oh a beauty

Ben-tekkers

Ridiculously good saving tackle from Romeu.

lee mason has killed var. congrats

This is one of the biggest fuck-ups i've ever seen in professional football.

As far as i can tell, that was only ruled out because Mason blew the whistle for absolutely no reason while the ball was going in.

full on clown show

It had practically crossed the line by the time he blew again.

Forced to agree with Windass here.

Brilliant mr mason at WBA is it Perry mason 😆😆 get football now is laughable wow whistle?

— Dean Windass (@DWindass10) February 27, 2021

Is this game on BT? I assume the contemptible yokel Peter Walton downed his stashed cyanide capsule to avoid having to weigh in on this

lol, unfortunately it’s on Sky so we missed that.

Brighton really are cursed

God, they absolutely played Villa off the park the other week without scoring

Brighton will be one of the better teams to ever go down, with a fair shake from officials early on i think they wouldnt have gotten that air of game pretty doom neither

Everyone is just constantly slipping over on this pitch

Some measure of belated justice for AEG tho

finally Wolves figure out what to do in the box. though idk how that wasn't saved.

not complaining. 1-1.

was Lee Mason the ref Nuno said wasn't up to it? and subsequently got an FA charge for so doing. they should apologise.

meh. glad they came back, but this offence is anemic af without Raul and Podence. sad that what looked like an obvious one got miraculously saved in stoppage, that woulda been a helluva steal.

think Newcastle were better overall.

Points dropped imo, can't beat relegation fodder not good enough

just seems like getting results take quite the effort no matter their opponent lately.

MOTD comms letting Mason off pretty easy on that

We got a lesser-spotted "conceding a free kick for kicking the ball twice in a row off a penalty" and all

Brighton have now set the record for most penalties missed by hitting the woodwork in a single match (2), having already broken the overall record for striking the woodwork in a single match (5) in that horror show vs Utd earlier in the season

Steven Gerrard is reportedly being lined up to replace Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool boss with increasing doubts over the German's long-term Anfield future.

— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) February 28, 2021

After your laughter there'll be tears..

Gerrard has to manage Liverpool at some point surely?

it probably would be a popular appointment with a certain section of the numpts that phone 606, but my scouser friend is not amused.

It would maybe be best for all of us overall to get Gerrard and Terry "out of the way" fairly early on, we've ripped the Lamps plaster off already and come out stronger for it

I'm sure lots of 'pool fans want Gerrard nowhere near the job but they don't run the club.

it probably wouldn't be as popular as the second coming of King Kenny

Kenny replaced hodgson tho

probably a sign of my own detachment but am a bit surprised at how seriously fans are taking this season. 4 defeats in a row at home in front of a full anfield would be crisis time sure, but this doesn't feel like the same thing. I dunno.

What.....what is this

I may regret saying it but Bale seems to be immeasurably sharper than he has been in a couple of years now.

city have been seriously impressive, p much every other team in Europe has been varying degrees of meh.

xp

Defence is still rickety, i predict joeks here tbh

Moura will tell you hes meant that

Bale outruns someone for the first time since that copa del rey iirc

This is nice this is good

Gaps everywhere in this so far

who's this Bale kid?

Darude’s going to be stacking up the royalties.

Nice messy goal u love to score it

'fuckit, four up top' paying off i see

Well its nothing like that, sir

More a famous five tbh

This is good, imo.

what a baler

that was a fabulous move actually