Fuck Off Back To The Little Leagues: EPL 21/22

Traore and Saint-Maximin both on target, big day for Schrodinger's Wingers

Play the Tears for Fears, DJ, this one's over

NLD has been postponed, to Spurs’s objections.

Seems strange a team that could name a 20-man squad on Thursday can’t name 13 players three days later.

Oof.

oh my word

Fuck this!!

in off the keepers balls

a teabag

Sanson to blame for both goals iirc

Amazing.

hmm

Ramsey putting it on a plate so the new kid can steal the headlines, classy

never in doubt

Lol the defending for that Villa equalizer

Bruno's body language is great

Oh god I just clocked the Joelinton Christ the Redeemer cardboard cutout

I think I have to go to bed now

Rafa out, as expected.

West Ham vs Leeds is great fun. There has barely been a point where West Ham have not dominated but they keep conceding goals. Currently 3-2 Leeds.

Current odds (lol):

Wayne Rooney - 11/8
Duncan Ferguson - 2/1
Frank Lampard - 7/1
Roberto Martinez - 10/1
Slaven Bilic - 10/1
Paulo Fonseca - 12/1
Nuno Espirito Santo - 16/1

feel weird typing it but i wouldn't wish this on Rooney

if not graham potter now then when

also lol at 'wouldn't wish this on Rooney' given his current circs, albeit ones where he has essentially a free swing (and is making a real fist of it)

Potter won't go near that shitshow. Rooney wont't go yet when he actually seems to be doing good things against the odds, he will secure his Derby legacy then be Everton manager after-next.

Feel weird typing it but I wouldn't wish Lampard on Everton

Everton are probably one of my more favoured English sides - partly because they're not Liverpool.

Feels like there's a bit of a groundswell of schadenfreude towards Everton lately

I always viewed them as being one of the more likable teams, is it a kind of Icarus tall poppy syndrome thing after they appeared to flirt with the big time for Carlo and James' cup of coffee or whatever, reality stomping them back into the ground like a hapless Coen bros protagonist who attempted to defy the role fate allocated them

Digne's Villa career might be shit for all I know, but it seems suboptimal to sell him solely because of a dispute with a manager who leaves less than a week later, as much as their hands were probably already tied when they bought his (?terrible) replacement as soon as the window opened

I like Nuno.

I can't recall us ever dismissing a manager during their first season? Even Mike Walker got another few months.

WHY THE FUCK DID THEY SELL DIGNE THEN? was my first response to My Brother. Since 89 (obv) we've had no dislike to Everton, it's all one city, as long as they don't finish above Liverpool (95 I'm counting sheep with my dismissive wave) I wanted Rafa to do well, it looked like it might be happening first few games but yeah nah, I still would only give him like 8% of the blame for the current ahfuck

Their fans have become a little more notably unfond of/unpleasant towards spurs since they misattributed andre gomes broken leg to son (it was aurier) a few years back and ive just presumed the entire world has been turning against them ever since because sonny is so lovely

There are ominous similiarites to post MO'N Villa, failed punt at the big time, disillusioned chairman who doesn't get it, "pragmatic" appointment of a disliked rival manager, mediocre cheapo signings who flatter to deceive as the rot slowly sets in

Digne might be Fabian Delph in this comparison, somewhat confusingly for Actual 2022 Fabian Delph

Dixie digne

I get the impression people recognise that their owners are pretty dodgy, even if the details aren’t widely known.

Tbh im not sure they havent snuck rather under the radar a bit, i know nothing on them

They definitely have not got as much attention as they should but the saga of Alisher Usmanov trying to buy Arsenal and the board flat-out refusing to sell specifically to him, the suggestion that he might be the only person in recorded history to actually fail the Fit And Proper Person test, his switching attention to Everton and the club being bought by his business partner shortly after might be in the background of a few minds.

Never in doubt

lmao

looooooooooooooooool

wow, just seen the final score for that - wtf happened?

SPURS HAVE STOLEN IT! 😱

Two goals in two minutes as Steven Bergwijn comes up clutch for Tottenham! 😤

He hadn’t scored a Premier League goal all season before tonight... pic.twitter.com/ncrFoKLQPZ

— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) January 19, 2022

jammy af

I was only just reading how they're trying to get rid of him too.

4.5 XG away from home = not that jammy

Id characterise that as us deserving to be left saying how we didnt deserve to lose tbh, xG is ok so long as you dont shit the pants as a habit when it matters

I celebrated the winner but like his positive impacts against west ham in the cup lately i thought they wouldve served just as well as evidence of his not being nearly food enough, bad touches and lucky accident scuffs

Norwich improbably out of the relegation places as it stands.

blimey! and potentially sucking Everton into the mix as well

both Everton and Newcastle going down with doomed Burnley would actually be funny as fuck

McGinn looks like he's going to commit an actual crime at some point in this match

Nice

beaten to the punch by several Everton fans

If any of us needed proof that we are all, in fact, old fucks now, Ian Wright's grandson has scored for Stoke this afternoon.

Wolves-Brentford paused for a drone flying above the pitch