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

Was Mings playing centre-back? Played there against us in a PSF and my immediate thought was 'will play for England within a year'

There's a step up between repelling Charlton and mastering international football, granted, but still

well one only takes a spray you get from any good homeware store

buzz off

@imago yes Mings is the violent psycho at the heart of our defence, he is actually very good. could be really really good if he can subdue the impulse to commit grievous bodily harm that one assumes is constantly bubbling away just below the surface. various chumps were lolling at our having massively overpaid for him this summer, by the end of the season itll transpire that 25m or whatever was actually great value

@biscuits maybe Keinan Davis will turn out to be good? apparently we refused loan offers from half the Championship for him in the summer, seems like Smith might have earmarked him as a like-for-like alternative for Wesley. not a goalscorer per se but big and mobile and capable of 'occupying' defenders. fuck it, John McGinn is gonna be our top scorer this season with 9 goals

hating Eddie Howe's look

Mings reminds me of Martin Laursen a bit. Wins everything, chips in with goals from set pieces, relative immobility offset by the colossal extent to which he is Up For It

After that horrorshow Leeds game with the disputed goal he was just booming with laughter, clapping everyone on the back, throwing his shirt into the crowd, didn't give a fuck

He's a bit better going forward than the comically one-footed and nosebleed-prone Dane, though he does probably have slightly more dropped-bollock potential

https://eumerch.bethesda.net/media/image/9f/a3/2c/FALLOUT_4_CAR_DECAL_THUMBS_UP_VAULT_BOY_0005_600x600.png

Eddie Howe's verdict on the commemorative brexit fifty pence.

well, my two local teams managed a solitary point, and Marta managed to get red carded for striking an opposing player.

let's see how my new squad does. Go Wolves!

Newcastle are the better side atm, though Arsenal aren’t playing any of the new signings.

you only whine when youre signing

well this game is kinda dishwater atm. Wolves just getting dispossessed and fouling

Looks like Leicester have been all over us first half but it's not on TV and I'm watching Arsenal huff and puff against Newcastle.

On the plus side it usually bodes well for us playing against the run

goal for Wolves overturned by VAR for an incidental, unclear possible handball.

fuck this

extremely harsh hand handball judgement according to 5live

it wasn't even 100% clear that it did hit his arm, it was incidental.

meanwhile the sportscasters are fellating the ref as to how correct he got it.

Diego Jota is having a terrible match

*Diogo

had 1 v 1 with keeper there

i forgot this is the year VAR will ruin the EPL, just like it did our mickey mouse league since last year.

it's been pretty bad in MLS, but only because the refs that PRO hires are too fucking stupid to know how to apply rules

there's gonna be VAR in schoolyard games soon

Wolves-Leicester has been much mor exciting this half.

For the record I hate the way VAR is implemented before we got robbed. Non-intentional handball is a slightly different stupidity

for me, being a fan of NFL football and watching that game getting micro-officiated into the ground for hte last decade, this feels more like that.

I don't mind it for like, possible red cards that were missed

i hate it for PKs because every little contact looks savage in slow motion

Pedro / Mount / Barkley / Abraham front four for Chelsea today.

Make me bet I say Chelsea edge it but

meh, 0-0 draws are so much fun, thanks VAR!

three teams, two points. not a great sporting weekend, but take one on the road.

Wolves easily dispossessed throughout the match though.

Bit of a gutter after scoring but i'd've took a point at Leicester

yeah and they def were the lesser team so.

ok I guess I root Chelsea now since they have my country's only good player

plus I used to work for Aon and I hated that fuckin company so fuck Man U

feel like Man U are gonna get stomped at home

Plucky amateur hour looks very open right now. Abraham and Mount look very up for it.

surprise, our nonexistent midfield is getting ripped to shreds

Luke Shaw getting caught out a lot. Pedro looking good for Chelsea so far

Penaltyball?

no wayyyyyyyyy

Bring back sarriball

Laughably inept defending from zouma

For the second time. He looks rattled.

Feels like a lucky break for United who don't appear to have realised you need to defend that left hand side.

Wan-Bissaka's going to walk Utd's player of the season I think

They can get two more of these pens and still not wins this, it feels

Shit from Shaw shitter from mount

Not convinced wan-bissaka knows what to do with it in the attacking third

Pogba will be utd's player of the season

My god these last few minutes of football. The ball's just pinging from area to area because neither team has a midfield capable of making a tackle.

That lay off from Martial!!!

Just incredibly poor

More comedy defending, Utd escape