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

Norwich manager looks like a bad guy from a Steven Segal movie

Steven Segal isn't bad, he's ABOVE THE LAW

Has long enough passed that I can post this?

Norwich return to the Premier League. The Championship, like all good parents, will keep their room just as they left it for when they come back home next year.

— Danny Baker (@prodnose) April 27, 2019

#bantz

They're pretty decent going forward. I think they've enough to stay up. Get fucked Danny Baker

Hi I’m a Crystal Palace supporter now.

Wolverhampton here

i just like a good game (match)

Welcome all.

I’m not sure Norwich are much better equipped than Fulham to cope with the Premier League but it’ll be fun to see them try. Pukki and Leitner should score goals. I suppose it only requires Newcastle, Villa and Sheffield United to be worse.

this whole ozil/kolasinac thing seems so weird to me. are they actually being threatened by an organised gang with regard to their testimony or something?

Is there an ilx fantasy league?

there used to be but I dont think so anymore

better that way

i'd forgotten again that jack wilshere exists

oh good, VAR is going to really improve the Prem this season

the use of it for razor-thin offsides is so wrong-headed

yeah absolutely it isn't the existence of the tech i'm bitching about at this stage, but if they keep this shit up i'm gonna stop watching football

I see the league is going to be as competitive as ever.

Bournemouth finish about as well as my local team

man why wwas this the game they gave us here locally

Bournemouth look terrible

Sheffield, well, mama always said....

finally a goal

lol...Bournemouth gonna Bournemouth. give away the equalizer with 2 minutes left

silby your team got a draw....against a 10 man Everton....at home.

could be worse! a point is a point

Billy Sharp :D

Grealish has got a bit of a Cathy Dennis thing going on here now, hmm

Didn't watch a ton of Spurs last season but thought Eric Died was as poor as Trippier, be interested to see if he lasts the season as a regular

Ooh good chance for lucas

Eric died lol

Danny Rose might end up outlasting Poch.

Lol not deliberate
Xp

Grealish can't pull off that look like Patrick Berger could.

Actually watched a snide broadcast of everton v palace in an everton pub... never felt in much danger of exposing myself with extravagant gloating goal celebrations.

Glass half full: we gritted out a point we didn't deserve

Half empty: we played shit and should have been stuffed and are definitely going down if that's the best we've got

wanna hear darragh on that goal

Lol, starting like we ended last season.

One punt down the middle

Sweet pass, way too easy. Spurs will still win I think but hella shakey at the back.

disgrace

Villa have looked the more dangerous side since they scored.

hateful hateful sport

Weak finish, didn't channel his namesake enough.
Aside from the moura chance the quality of spurs' crosses has been excreable

playing like they just expect goals to come to them

This whole 45 has been an excellent argument as to why we shouldn't sell Eriksen.

silby your team got a draw....against a 10 man Everton....at home.

could be worse! a point is a point

― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Saturday, August 10, 2019 8:54 AM (one hour ago)

I caught the thrilling final moments in the form of the text feed on FlashScore. Not a bad start to my career as an English football fan

Harry Kane gots the yips.

saved by the offside flag

Twitter Spurs fans giving up

We start where we left off last year. #Liverpool and #ManCity thrashing the opposition. I feel if #Spurs don’t beat ManCity next week then season over. It’s that predictable #Football #DeathOfFoorball #MoneyRuinsTheGame #LevelPlayingField

— Dylan Lewis (@DesignFourTweet) August 10, 2019

No top 4 this season #spurs #THFC #THFC

— HETSPURS (@HETSPURS) August 10, 2019

You can kind of see why all them players turned #Spurs down this week 😂😂

— Simon John 🎅🎄🎁🎅🎄🎁🎅 (@LoveSimon88) August 10, 2019

@HETSPURS

lol Twitter fans

Good to see a St Mirren player scoring in the EPL.

Out for a throw in ,jesus

what the fuuuuck

Lol at level playing field hashtag. When has this ever been the case?

also death to "foorball" hashtag

Man United captain Harry Maguire was detained for questioning on the Greek island of Mykonos for assaulting officers after a brawl, Greek state TV ERT said: https://t.co/aWvfXTm2eD pic.twitter.com/pKvHz4wYOx

— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) August 21, 2020

Kai Havertz to Chelsea, one step away and then... here we go! Total agreement to be reached on nest hours with Bayer Leverkusen. Last bid is going to be accepted. €80M + €20M add ons as final fee. Last details and paperworks time. 🔵 #CFC #Havertz #Chelsea

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 24, 2020

Chelsea aren't fucking about

if we can get Maitland-Niles that will be a smart signing

Feels so weird that we are weeks away from a new season

i know, and i'm not sure restarting to empty stadiums is gonna improve the quality any

Community Shield is on Saturday!

no way :O

i was waiting for September to start a new Prem thread, nobody really cares about the Community Shield anyway i guess

I need sport of some kind, cos otherwise my weekends are dire.

My boys in Orlando just signed a Watford player lolol

i know, i miss the football when it's not here

don't recognise the Watford lad, not sure he ever played for them in the Prem

He didn't, think he was on loan in second div

Which means in our pathetic league he'll probably start

Idly wondering how many players actively prefer it without any fans there. They're unlikely to be back for basically the entire season as far as I can tell.

Some of them are probably used to crowd silence. I'm sure Fulham will have warm memories of it this year

it probably works for some players but the quality and the intensity is reduced i think because psychologically it must be so different. i think there'll be spectators in before Christmas, but socially distanced to the extent it'll still be weird, and whether that experiment survives whatever spike we've got to look forward to god knows

It's not even how it looks on TV, I'm fine with that, but the socially distanced match day, without the usual rituals around that, it just feels like a joyless proposition.

I'm really missing the dialogue between the players and a stadium of fans. Even the champions League final felt halfway like a friendly.

MLS is opening up games to small handfuls of fans, and this could be humorous. Just remembering pre-pandemic, a few years ago when a bunch of douches were harassing Tim Howard at a Colorado match and he loudly told them "go fuck your mother".

Harry Maguire found GUILTY of aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and repeated attempts of bribery.

— Martha Kelner (@marthakelner) August 25, 2020

lol that didn't take long

Andy Carroll with a timely reminder that he is the greatest striker England has ever produced pic.twitter.com/ZVslHlTBq8

— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) August 25, 2020

“Do you know who I am? I am very rich, I can give you money,”

“I am the leader of Manchester United”

already enjoying the commentary from experts on the Greek legal system on Twitter

lol also Phil Jones trending

lol also Phil Jones trending

So looks like Messi is going to City then :|

Shame Stoke are in the Championship

wet Tuesday nights will be available in Burnley, Leeds, Salford

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgSQvfZWkAMWSOH?format=jpg&name=medium

quite a lot of online Wolves fans throwing a fit about Doherty to Spurs, personally i have faith in the owners and Nuno tho the money quoted seems low, even in the mystery market of covidball. still i think this could be one of those deals where it works for everybody.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ega1xbtWoAARcFz?format=jpg&name=large

Young Doherty, circled

Pogba's got the 'rona

As do six Chelsea players apparently

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

No EPL thread should be open for 13 months.