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

with tom on this one

Ugly bunch of shitkickers managed by Sgt Major shitkicker

de Gea out

fuckin state of these fucking cunts

how a cunt among that defence faces a fuckin mirror

Gift wrapped!

five men in a row fail at the minimum of their job

its just incredible

Bruno is going to single-handedly save our season

so about this aurier chap, deems

one swallow maketh not a summer i know but

i can write you a chapter if you like

i have a particular hate for a player that has an important, basic set of duties and anything else that he does is offered as an apology for his neglect of same

hes a proper athlete, very very good at a face-off, but absolutely feckless about position or tracking and his delivery and passing are usually delayed, poorly chosen or poorly executed.

lovely touch, and every now and again a cross or a hit like that.

worth at least fifteen goals against us in a full season, and you cant even begin to account for the other effects a player like that has on a team because you cant rely on him in any phase of his game

so fuckim tbh. nice goal tho.

expected wolves to be better in defence than us tbh

took a few years for dele alli to turn into exactly the player opposition fans always claimed him to be didn't it

see, no better than us in defence

Jota!!!

whose the big lad in yr defence that doesnt see red for elbows nor yellow for two footed swipes

pls nobody tell me that is a good goal

id fuckin quit fat bastard over 40 football if two players walked through six of my team like that

dogshit

ref is a cunt tbh

saiss should be twice off

idk what VAR is seeing in the Everton winner that was chalked off that the ref couldn’t.

im just going to support whatever club lo celso moves to, im done with this

hi guys :D

ILX derby.

helluva match. fought sleeplessness to watch it.

better than eleven cunts i could name

idk what VAR is seeing in the Everton winner that was chalked off that the ref couldn’t.

i think a player sitting in the six-yard box might just be interfering with play a tiny bit

Lol Adama for the second goal, like a tank with a jet engine

Xp, it’s not as though the ref and linesman missed him. It just looks like the subjective opinion of the VAR referee overruled the subjective opinion of the on-field officials as to whether he was interfering or not, but idk.

Yeah, one of the stupidest features of the current implementation.

Lol at Raul killing Tanganga for the third.

imagine he's standing up in that position and he dummies the ball - would you consider it offside then?

it seems absurdly obvious to me, but I think the rules about interference are too soft if anything

i just happened to be distracted and looked up when Raul had he ball, cut in, dribbled and fired.

was so pleased to see what a brilliant pass had set it up on the replay.

i look brilliant when im playing against idiots

it seems absurdly obvious to me, but I think the rules about interference are too soft if anything

Absolutely bang on. The most recent rewrite of the offside law makes what counts as interfering with the game far too lenient. Siggurdsson was obviously "interfering" with the game in an actual sense of the word, but he wasn't obscuring De Gea's vision, movement, or motion to kick the ball or kick the ball. The law as written doesn't account for De Gea's thought process, and let's be honest, he was never saving it anyway.

Then you get to how the decision was made. Who called it? I heard Sounness say something like "if he had to get out of the way of the ball, he's interfering with play" but there's been goals given like that this season where a striker has to jump out of the way of his own player's shot in an offside position (I think it was Sterling) — albeit with the goalkeeper entirely out of the picture.

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wanyama leaves spurs

lucky bastard

Joins Montreal Impact. LOL.

hahahaha uhhhh enjoy that fickle ownership group

Alexei considers the roots of his rage and resentment, explores the dangers of magical thinking and contemplates what the philosophies of Bertholt Brecht could offer Premier League football.

very funny ep of Alexi Sayle's imaginery sandwich bar is this and includes an Eric Dier joke to make it Ilx friendly.

The Secret Footballer is opining that the reason Troy Parrott isn't getting a game is because Spurs are nervous about his links to a notorious Dublin crime family, which is a lot more fun than the likely truth, which is that he just isn't good enough yet.

It beggars belief that Kitson is somehow still in the know, he must have a good spy network!

He probably isn't good enough but I think we should factor in Mou's hatred of young people too

uh

i thought id posted about the above, apologies if not

if spurs *arent* deeply worried by parrotts very close links to the parties involved then they absolutely should be.

i would think its definitely a factor

all being well it'll turn out to be a maradona at napoli scenario, you'd take a couple of league titles surely?

yeah probably tbf

Life is life.

Rumours that Kane might be leaving in the Summer

meh, same speculation as every year

and tbh seeing as buying a striker to challenge him seems an untouchable topic, his seasonal two month injuries are really becoming a major issue

if a huge fee was spent on two replacements and we just started a proper rebuild i could take it

Think Spurs'd do good to sell off Kane and restructure the squad, to not be so dependent on him, rather sooner than later. There is the small disadvantage of having Mou as manager, though.

who's even still left from the gareth bale money buys. lamela?

god i'd forgotten about chiriches