Luton won't win the league - Premier League 2023/24

chose Luton instead of "football"

Burnley are playing really well against City and don’t deserve to be 2-0 down.

Also I’m very excited for the age of Richarlison

Who's ready?

Haaland wants to break his own record i see

Burnley back with a bang (missile thrown from the stands at a black player, aggro pitch invader, straight red card, etc). They looked pretty decent going forward at times.

Arteta being outed as a TERF really opens up a few avenues for Peter Drury..

Oh ffs, just as I stopped hating him.

ref and var still idiot cunts then

two better pen shouts for brighton since and ref has no interest

goals galore in the late game

Pat Nevin

Former Scotland winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

Diaby and Watkins are linking up very well and that is why Newcastle have had to defend quite a bit.

They've had some defending to do, but they'd HAD to do defending [because of Villa's threat].

Brilliant stuff

Nevin sounds like he's pissed tbh

var a joke a very clear offside for the fourth

bit early to be breaking out the "stop stop" gif

WTF happened to Villa?

Newcastle may be unfortunately good

dunno if the Mings injury might've got in a few heads either

Ugh, yeah. What a way to start the season.

i make it a policy to celebrate injury to violent pigshit thick cunts whose usp is to attempt to injure better players

total bullshit to disallow everton goal also

I have to say I find Chelsea’s attempt to piss all over financial fair play to overspend on a million different players absolutely fascinating. There is no way Todd Boehly doesn’t play Football Manager, and play it like an 11 year old boy.

yeah, I'm not buying Vicario

fuck it actually why not:

this ref is a cunt

and jesus cmon surely club dna isnt real it cant be can it

was just coming to post that I heard deems detonate from here

ref genuinely a cunt tho cmon all must acknowledge

ive been screaming for royal off since before 1-0 but the game makes a fool of us all in time

sanchez def a fall guy but that yellow was a nonsense yes

royal, bar a v nice goal, has been comical

yeah, I'm not buying Vicario

― Number None, Sunday, 13 August 2023 13:42

Hes not great on the ball

fuck me that is another var call

really weird hesitation in key areas so far which im not loving across the team

vicario looks like he might make a slightly undependable third choice keeper tbh

Spurs aren't really going to go an entire season with Richarlison as their only striker are they

we signed an argentine prospect

and we should wrap up a deal for gift orban this week apparently

neither play right back

This is getting rather ridiculous now

🚨 Romeo Lavia has chosen to join Chelsea from Southampton. Liverpool were pursuing but are aware of decision. #CFC & #SaintsFC have good relations, so no issues expected on deal or personal terms. Fee likely to be around £50m + add-ons @TheAthleticFC #LFC https://t.co/EjmFknCViS

— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) August 14, 2023

fucks sake

Lol was just talking about this - I assume FFP doesn't apply to Chelsea

who does it apply to at this point?

lol i can think of one team it does

cough

good luck tonight obvs

cough

I'm cautiously optimistic about the season at the moment which if you're not before you've played a game then things really are grim

gonna enjoy watching this while working.

"cautiously optimistic" might be a little strong but I don't think things are as bad as our pessimists are painting it

not until there's evidence, anyway

starting with, I guess, Cunha as a hypothetical number 9 is not a statement of bold intent

hope Kalajdzic stays in one piece this year

Mason Mount sounds like the name of a hipster folk band

enjoying the pace of this one

Utd absolutely abysmal so far. Van Gaal vibes

so close Sarabia

damn it boys you learned last year that missing these opps comes back to bite you later. so close again

Good effort, good energy, no striker

Ditto for Utd. Apart from the first and second part

think Kalajdzic will be a super sub?

he ain't 90 minute ready but maybe could fire one on target in a 20 minute appearance

Cunha leads the league in almost goals

Enjoying Wolves' gameplan of simply running at Utd

please just find a forehead here.

jfc. i don't know where the goal is gonna come from at this point.

Cunha's had a helluva match otherwise

like we didn't see that coming.

hey look, Fabio Silva actually taking shots that have some velocity in the direction of goal.

Kalajdzic! the giant

pitch invader in a promising attacking position. thanks dick.

this should be a pen

which means it won't be probably

jobbed again.

Blatant peno

as much as they should be, those are never given

That was decent but about what I expected, away at Old Trafford is a free hit, time to worry is when you go on a run of brave battling beatings

anyway, I would LOVE to know what these cunts do on the training pitch because it's looking like another season of them playing like they've been introduced minutes before kick-off

gonna take some absolute hammerings again with this midfield set-up too

Our middle 3 bossed your middle 3 for most of it, yeab

Didn't look a pen to me btw, it was off his head and away before Onana hit him

I think Onana fouled the bloke who didn't head it. Maybe still a foul idk

I've just got those "didn't work him, didn't earn it" blues

very very hard to care about this league any more between ffp meaning nothing, oil money collections of brilliant players playing boring football and var giving united the old daytona catch up boost of ten points a season

we will welcome you into the high stakes hard charging world of the usl championship

i have failed the language test multiple times alas

and proudly

olise to chelsea. they won't stop till they've got em all.

Wonder if they wanna spend £30m on Elneny

Already got another xp

Roméo Lavia to Chelsea, here we go! Deal agreed between clubs on final fee short of £60m add-ons included — structure also agreed 🚨🔵🇧🇪

Lavia will undergo medical tests this week, just informed by clubs that the agreement has been reached.

Roméo said yes to Chelsea on Monday. pic.twitter.com/sH9wlpYlnk

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 15, 2023

Exc:
🚨 Man United chief executive Richard Arnold told the club’s executive leadership team in first week of August that the club planned to bring back Mason Greenwood. The club then aborted scheduled announcement for August 4. Details @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/ZpGvoH0zTv

— Adam Crafton (@AdamCrafton_) August 16, 2023

yeah, fuck this club

NEW @TheAthleticFC

🚨Manchester United’s plan to bring back Mason Greenwood included listing football pundits, politicians & journalists and categorising if they would be hostile or supportive. Domestic violence charities were assumed “hostile” https://t.co/p78gQ5wKto

— Adam Crafton (@AdamCrafton_) August 18, 2023

i dont want to make this a club v club issue because fuck knows what club would definitely behave any differently but jesus christ this is incredible own goal stuff isnt it

yep

quite apart from the moral aspect, it's just an astoundingly bad business decision

It's all just profoundly depressing to me though

I'm still holding out hope that the backlash will be enough (and fair play to Adam Crafton for continuing to report the story) to make them reconsider

I even sent Arnold (the cunt) an email myself lol

otm, otm

"obviously the fixtures come out and the first opponent you look for is domestic violence charities- always a challenge, fans up for it, these are the reasons you come to a club like machester united"

Wait are Man United unlikeable now? How could such a thing be allowed to happen?

I wouldn't be throwing stones tbh

for the hat trick

Just got to admire the committment to becoming The Club of sexual violence

van gaal predicted it to a certain extent

Lol, tbf i wdn't want to conflate perfectly wholesome shexckx mashchocischm with the current issues

Fabio Silva with the start

i know, i wish i could stop feeling anxious on the lad's behalf

this isn't making me feel great so far

gee like I didn't see that coming

3 v 6 and he scores.

had about 3 pulls at him and nobody got a tackle in

i mean great goal but poor defending tbh

ridiculous. it was an incredible play by Matoma but you had numbers back, come on.

xpost lol otm

we've struggled with their high press and it's sick how many players they get forward

Man U didn't really press much so Wolves could move at will, but Brighton making Wolves look mega anxious on the ball today

xpost haha dammit

maybe if Brighton keep kicking balls away they'll go down 3 men

just feels like they're so predictable w/ where they're going w/ the ball, especially w the triangle passing, that Brighton pretty much knows where it's going.

sick run by Silva there.

Liverpool carrying on in the same toothless fashion as last year

really thought it was a blip, but maybe the salad days are over?

Wolves also a little too compact which is contributing to pinball-esque heavy touches. but some promising moments in the last few minutes. hoping Silva can be a spark as he seems to be playing with fire.

damn Silva again!

oh for SOMEONE who can actually finish

oh for SOMEONE who can actually finish

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oh for SOMEONE who can actually finish

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Fabio Silva is having an incredible fucking half though

oh fuck Ait-Nourri shd've buried it

some really good stuff from us except in the box

whats good in streaming these days, not a cop honest

google reddit soccer streams

ty

abysmal

ffs

30 seconds before they scored i thought "Lemina's a bit high up the pitch there, not sure about that"

still, we've always got plenty of goals in us

and I'm out

think it's fair to say Brighton have got the measure of us

stop, stop, we'm already dead

the tugback on madison there that wasnt a free would have been a pen against us last week and today

ref isnt a cunt as such (yet) they just cannot rise above their genus as predictable in applying every squeeze they can where they can

richarlson and kulusevski look very very pedestrian

amazing from fernandes there

that surely cannot be far enough away to be given?

phew

spurs honking so far

christ the marking from crosses is terrible from spurs we've gotten away with a few

porro so close

postecloggedloo out

something something about him having to move out a load of shite tbf

wellllllll now

good game

crowd actually putting pressure on refs and home team which tbh has not been a feature in the new stadium til now

fuck it, go spurs go

Spurs look alright

we go victor wembanyama and ange, cant fuckin lose this year

I don't think I can take a season of this

team, and manager, is in deep, deep trouble

+9. game’s gone

Christ, they added 9 pointless minutes to Brighton vs The Many-Times Perforated Corpse of Wolverhampton Wanderers earlier too

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that were good (mostly)

sboszlaityear

that's it thats the post

the fuck has the wolves player been beaten to that cross, that's sackable

Extremely gratifying to see this billion-pound Chelsea team get comprehensively beaten by 10-man West Ham

Moyesy 3 Career Criminals 1

sarr pler

richarlison dung

Are Spurs just like alright and having a nice time now or something

do spurs only have one song or what. dismal stuff

bournemouth’s songbook even worse

ah saturdays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuM1wAewyDw

If we can't beat Everton I'm going to need a new TV afterward

always a good sign when your 3rd game of the season is a six-pointer

Everton 451 at home classic Dycheball

Utd two nil down within 4 minutes :)

hard to compete with your Forests and the sheer spending power

i say this as the Wolves are struggling under the Dycheball cosh

Lol offside by a mile.

Just way too tentative with the ball. So afraid to give it away that they either settle for most predictable pass or hoof it awkwardly downfield.

Ain't gonna beat a press that way

Neto playing on the right is almost never a good sign

Fabio is within two more shit passes of me turning on him

like Brighton last week we look a man short in every area of the pitch, i can't even work out what the tactical fault is

This is soooo boring

Everton seem to be overloading the right side where we always seem to want to go for some reason, and then Wolves attacker has few outlets with three guys surrounding him.

Would help if any of the crosses intended to change point of attack got anywhere near the target

Man U pulled one back

already counting down til half time when i can run to the corner shop for more booze

my stream keeps breaking up but lol Everton refuse to score cheers

I forgot Cunha was even on the field

Not having Nunes may be hurting as he's one of the few who can dribble

Neto has been trash today

entire team's been dogshit imo, ended up making a wine run early

Lmao denied by the flag. Correctly though

he knew straight away, ffs

Few more like that, with one player distracting the side judge, and one delivering an EMP to take out the VAR and we're golden

Goddammit Silva

Nottingham lead squandered

i feel like i can finally accept Fabio's never going to do it at Wolves

Sa has had to WORK today

Put in Kaladzic

this is like if a football match was The Third Policeman

Man U winning

YESSSSSS GET IN THERE

lol my stream is quite slow but thank you for keeping me engaged

hahaha fluke

First SOG all match.

Happy for Kaladzic though!

*Kalajdzic. I can't spell

good to know that at worst we'm only the 19th worst team in the Prem

I'll take a win. Even if it didn't look very good.

Two matches in their 10th minute of stoppage.

Nottingham not only completely collapsed but went a man down in the process

Man U-Nottingham basically played an Extra Time period

we probably deserved the win in that we dominated the game from the fourth minute on but jfc that was some slapdash stuff

no composure in this team whatsoever

red card was harsh in that it was an extremely cynical foul but there was a covering defender

there'll be wailing and gnashing of teeth over the pen but it was the correct decision if a tad soft

agreed

on the red

havent seen pen yet

agreed on pen tbh think its quite clear tho

Everton finally doing a Sunderland, complete with their own stadium of light?

It's ridiculously early to say, but yesterday's game sure looked like a relegation scrap

christ will you fucking hold yer horses fulham will pull out of it

luton and sheff utd are nailed on certainties surely. possibly bournemouth.

all jokes aside this is evertons year i think

Thread title should have been 'Luton won't win a game - Premier League 2023/24'. I'd put money on the Bournemouth manager being the first sacked this season.

Iraola is a good manager and i think the embarrassment factor of having given O’Neil the boot for no particular reason other than to bring him in will see him given a long leash. The squad is trash, though.

Steve Cooper might be one to watch if Johnson gets sold and Awoniyi stops scoring.

the longest dreaded vote of confidence in recent memory alright

Never in doubt.

newcastle awful in the final third, just stupid stupid stupid all second half

two brilliantly taken goals and one save of the season contender and job done

Howe subbing three of their best players didn't help

i wonder what the nufc job severance package entails these days

Was thinking we'll see if Howe survives the season.

i wouldn't wanna bring up the word severance with the Newcastle owners tbh

lmao I'd stopped following this game

He's just a fab Andy Carroll.

xxp fpd you not for the pun but for presuming i wasnt already making it

i kinda realised you was after i'd typed it but i couldn't be bothered not to send

yellow card for timewasting

Lmao we're above Newcastle after getting dismantled by them two weeks ago

They've had a bastard of a start to the season compared to us, but still

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66631302

I love it when a club who wouldn't be in the prem without deeply bullshit and possibly* corrupt VAR decisions are crying about not getting a fair break at OT

* sorry I meant absolutely fucking corrupt

none of the decisions against them were remotely problematic is the actual thing

official response from the league: "Lol. Lmao."

which many felt was extremely harsh on the visitors

otm, many of the visiting fans felt it was extremely harsh on the visitors

Including results for nottingham steve cooper winning
Search only for nottingham steve cooper whining

Tommy Doyle is a nice signing for us but i can't help worrying we've got a system for ruining young prospects

i was against letting Matheus go but he's been a bit of a dick throughout tbh and it looks like we might actually spend a chunk of the money so bon chance everybody

otoh he'll be a great resource if Michael Myers ever shows up during a match

🚨 Chelsea have reached agreement with Man City to sign attacking midfielder Cole Palmer. #CFC expected to pay #MCFC fee in region of £40-45m for 21yo England youth international. Medical anticipated in next 24hr ahead of completing transfer @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/VG85QLpo9Q

— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) August 30, 2023

Chelsea have now reached the point where they're spending tens of millions on made-up players

regens

Gotta throw some money around I guess

it costs a lot to finish somewhere between 5th and 11th in the modern Prem, just how it is

well this escalated quickly

the dream of fielding an all-Bueno back 4 moves closer

Being reported now by radio channel Onda Cero that Sergio Reguilón is close to joining Manchester United https://t.co/Hxgk158FGi

— Jonas Adnan Giæver (@CheGiaevara) September 14, 2020

I know it's an emergency loan and everything but it still feels like a new low?

nobody happy about this one because what if hes ok for ye and we are playing perisic/davies ahead of him

I know it's an emergency loan and everything but it still feels like a new low?

update:

🚨 | Jonny Evans is set to sign a one-year contract at #mufc to keep him at the club for the 2023/24 season. [@lauriewhitwell] pic.twitter.com/0LG4WkjeXF

— UtdDistrict (@UtdDistrict) September 1, 2023

people you were surprised to find out were still

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/01/liverpool-reject-staggering-150m-offer-for-mohamed-salah-from-saudi-arabia-side-al-ittihad-football-transfer-window

Klopp, who has lost Jordan Henderson and Fabinho to lucrative offers from the Middle East this summer, said: “I don’t know how long it will stay like that but the next two weeks will show how much of a challenge it is because, whatever happens then, no one can react any more. That is something Uefa or Fifa should have an eye on because we all have to protect the game.

The (sponsor-branded) boot's on the other foot now! Wiping a tear away here for this appalling challenge to the authentic community-rooted English transfer market.

My heart bleeds.

Klopp is such a self-righteous dick.

Oh no won’t someone think of the children football league being given hundreds of millions for players that are past their prime

I know they aren't calzinos favourite club but happy to see origi back in the prem.
I am losing track of who plays where tho eg is lloris still at spurs? and aubamayang at Chelsea?

lloris is as at Spurs but there is speculation they may cancel his contract a year early, as they have too many non-homegrown players.

Auba went to Marseille and hasn’t scored in 4 games, continuing his anti-streak since he fell out with Arteta.

Mason Greenwood has joined Getafe on a season-long loan following 19 months of inactivity at Manchester United, with the Spanish club paying no fee and making only a minor contribution to his salary of about £75,000 a week

On loan? Srsly fuck this shit

I mean maybe this is how the mechanism of severing ties with a player works but it sure doesn't look like it to me

Might just be a deadline panic "get him out the door" thing tbf

the question is why not terminated tho

what possible purpose maintaining his registration if not angling for future first team duties

Angling for money?

Termination of contract would have been the only decent move but I can't say I expect clubs to make decent moves

no i mean i know im asking rhetorically ofc

i just think from a purely cynical PR point of view they'd be crazy to try and keep him warm and bring him back to the first team in 12 months, so i assume they just didn't get a sufficient offer

but there is probably some fault in my assumptions here

Not to defend him or Utd but it may be tricky terminating his contract considering he had the charges dropped. I could see how he wanted to kick up a fuss, I know I would if I was gonna lose SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND A WEEK* and this is a compromise.

*da fuq? I know he is supposed to be a good talent but they gave him this contract at 19??? Football is run by lunatics

maybe it's putting him in the shop window or something, but they've had soooo much time to get this all sorted

Well they said there'd be 'Sevilla' consequences for his actions

ffs wrong team, there goes the 'joke'

there's got to be a get tae fuck/Getafe joke in there somewhere

terminating a contract is easy you just have to pay him off

in terms of sacking him without doing so, id be very surprised if united couldnt just point to the reputational impact and plead a case and at least get a hearing

Clown car own go from pickford, though not really his fault

You're not allowed to do that if you've known someone since they were 7 I guess

Cameron Archer starting off v hot for Sheffield Utd

i feel like "technical area" is a misnomer for any space occupied by Sean Dyche

Pickford has made absolutely ridiculous point-blank saves tipped onto the post two games running tbf

Akanji stood in an offside position and jumps over the ball. But the goal is given.

Be shocked if Marco Silva doesn't have another yellow card over this one.

VAR refs making it up as they see fit for whoever they want. #MCIFUL pic.twitter.com/agSkZPL9Uq

— Ginger Tonali (@GingerPirlo_) September 2, 2023

spurs making it look very simple indeed this second half

Chelsea struggling to cope with moneybags Forest

with all the players in and out, its not an ideal scenario to bring in a manager who hasnt any experience of the epl is it

they may need to strengthen the squad

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John: Yeah so Chelsea might be losing at home to Forest, but if you amortise goals conceded over the next 8 years then actually they're top of the table...

I'm sure this has been adoing the rounds on Twitter or whatever but this is p funny for #getinvolved

Villa beat Burnley 5-2 at Villa Park once under Martin O'Neill when I had a season ticket. It felt kinda weird

lol fuck you Chelsea

Omfg at the Pickford own goal

Evan Ferguson ✓

add another tick

A cursory Google suggests this is the first time there have been three premier league hat tricks on the same day since Yeboah, Shearer and Fowler in 1995

Also, hahahah

yeah howe's getting sacked isn't he?

can he sing this song

O'Neil has got a nemesis

New meme unlocked- Salernitana sporting director Morgan De Sanctis sends a message in English to the Wolverhampton manager for trying to convince Dia to join yesterday pic.twitter.com/6ZrRs3ksGy

— Francesco (@FRANCESCalciO_) September 2, 2023

incredibly generous of Palace to decline the free goal we offered them

pretty sure Cunha just made the same penile analogy with Dawson as I did

just daydreaming about being 90 and still waiting for Wolves to have a striker

I just turned it on.

Lol.

fucks sake that's what happens when you've got one

Just wild to me that basically the Jimenez horror injury essentially began the drought and no coach has been able to solve it.

They weren't exactly Man City in 2019-2020 but 51 goals is better than...this

Raul looked a fair bit sharper in the Fulham highlights yesterday too

But the malaise looks deeper than one player tbh. We look like we're probably not gonna go down but are always on the verge of a relegation run

GET IN THERE

OMFG how much do I love Hwang

Off the shoulder goals vmic

Head and shoulders knees and goals

Can't remember seeing him score with a clean hit but he's always in the spot

fucking Rob Jones must be getting his ULEZ paid for the next 10 years or something

1 v 3 and he scores.

Hell of a flick but the ways we concede this year are maddening

yes, absolutely shoddy bullshit

just absolutely no guts to this Wolves team

There's nobody assuming the leadership role at all

and there it is

quite a Palacey performance, just kept in it until our touch and effort has got lazy and now look capable of picking us off at will

Kalajdzic calmly demonstrating why he starts in front of Fabio as soon as he's match fit

That's the shred of hope I'm clinging to

why was havertz not booked for that exhibition lol

cunts cunts cunts

(no way was that Garnacho goal offside)

otm a totally bullshit call- amidst imo a very decent ref/var performance besides in that second half

apart from not actually booking havertz as stated

wasnt a clear dive either

thought garnacho was offside when I watched it initially but the replay made him look onside lol. arsenal first goal was lovely. what colour was utds kit? couldn't tell if it was green or black.

oh and the glazers deciding not to sell utd after all is such in character trolling of the fan base

green and white (cos the club is shite)

I really don’t understand the commentary on motd/ten hag’s comments. Gabriel gets pulled to the ground… and that is a foul BY him?

nah hes obstructing but its never enough for the goal to be overturned

exactly

no complaints on the Arsenal goal. This should have been a pen though

Crazy 😂 pic.twitter.com/8AUPT3adhA

— UtdPlug (@UtdPlug) September 4, 2023

Didn't even get a replay

which was that, blocked for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLS57JFGio8

could def see that either way but idk feel like if you get between the man and the ball and dont actually kick/punch/drag him down, you probably feel aggrieved as a defender if its given?

Antony dropped from the Brazil team for allegedly beating up his girlfriend, jfc

Brazilian federation official statement on Antony dropped after investigation 🇧🇷

“In order to safeguard the alleged victim, the player, the Brazilian national team and the CBF, the organization informs that Antony has been removed from the Brazilian national team”. pic.twitter.com/5SYBSgGGDq

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) September 4, 2023

Looking for that Getafe deal obviously

reported details have me wondering how hes passing drug tests tbh

Just raze the club to the ground and start again

Inside the VAR discussion on Nathan Ake's goal against Fulham 📺 pic.twitter.com/atLdPjaOwT

— Football Daily (@footballdaily) September 6, 2023

Inside the VAR discussion on Andre Onana's clash against Wolves 📺 pic.twitter.com/FVJt5niQ2n

— Football Daily (@footballdaily) September 6, 2023

Inside the VAR discussion on Kai Havertz' penalty appeal against Manchester United 📺 pic.twitter.com/YD9HqznNq4

— Football Daily (@footballdaily) September 6, 2023

my takeaway: Anthony Taylor's voice would go through you

ake- bullshit framing cunts

onana- bullshit framing cunts, more concerned with booking aggrieved manager cunts, normal collision fucking cunts

sharing these vids really isn't making much of a case for var adding value to the refereeing process

Onanana
It's the way that we rock when we're doing our thing (fouling forwards)

FUGFC

its notable how confusingly stupid their mic set up is

can they really not find a.better system than all squawking over each other

imagine if they had VAR for any patient that died on operating table in an ER and these guys were doing the narration

Antony facing fresh abuse allegations from two more women

✍️ @TelegraphDucker#TelegraphFootball I #MUFC

— Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) September 7, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/07/manchester-united-invited-convicted-paedophile-geoff-konopka-to-first-wsl-match-at-old-trafford

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/07/manchester-united-deny-any-cover-up-in-allegations-against-antony

Think that's it for today

Bloody hell

just dysfunctional on every level. is there even any part of the club that works anymore other than the mechanisms for sucking money out of it?

there's an element to me of -not to defend this, pls understand - "this could be any club in the epl and beyond" and united while architects of their own handling of each have been also unfortunate

arsenal, city, spurs, everton all also have high profile players that have been corporately/strategically defended to pick a random term for sexual/domestic assault allegations and im only going from memory and recent memory at that

you could say football/epl has a problem, you could say corporate sport or corporate strategy has a problem and i think youd be closer to it than focusing on the utter fucking balls united have made around this issue ever since re-signing ronaldo (or should i bring giggs into it here even? not sure what the club treatment of that issue was)

by which i mean to say in my middle para that the media and legal structures that epl can buy seem to have protected those clubs to an insane degree but uniteds players have all gone unignorably viral or public where the other cases havent to the same extent (or mayb not with three separate cases, tbf)

agree with all of that

Seems bizarre that there hasn’t been a move towards something similar to the MLB domestic violence policy that takes some of the decisions out of the hands of the clubs, enables sanctions in the absence of criminal convictions and has an education/ training / psychological intervention element for all players as a preventative measure.

That doesn't seem bizarre to me at all tbh.

enables sanctions in the absence of criminal convictions

sports clubs not the only structures that really dont have a standard approach here, not even in the very public sphere

is ex mail journo neil ashton still running pr at man utd btw?

https://x.com/lauriewhitwell/status/1702376239875440992

777 Partners has signed an agreement with Farhad Moshiri to acquire his full stake in Everton Football Club, which accounts for 94.1 per cent of the Club’s shares.

777 Partners has signed an agreement with Farhad Moshiri to acquire his full stake in Everton Football Club, which accounts for 94.1 per cent of the Club’s shares.

— Everton (@Everton) September 15, 2023

americans presumably

Not sure how accurate this is

777's Clubs since they've taken over:

🇦🇺 Melbourne Victory: Yikes. Last season they managed 28 points from 26 games. Lucky there's no relegation in Aussie Football.

🇮🇹 Genoa: Relegated from Serie A in first season of ownership, went straight back up are so far are not…

— Tom Levins (@TomLevins1) September 15, 2023

An update in the comments says Vasco and Sevilla are currently in the relegation zones of their respective leagues.

777 Partners is an American private investment company based in Miami.

well ofc

brexit endgame going to plan eh

can they be much worse than Moshiri tho?

what better way to give your 20 year old CB his first Prem start than against the Wolves' attack?

BOOM

Neto's back baby

Cunha take those clown shoes off

really shd've finished that half more than the 1 goal up

that's an incredibly restrained analysis should be three minimum

i'm trying to manage my all purpose anxiety which is aggravated enough whenever i watch us

i can only recommend appointing ange postecoglou as manager sorry if that doesnt help

great futuristic half-mullet from Matt Doherty here

the same half mullet fucked us against the dutch so tbh....

fuck sake

i know, i know

got the 2+ goals and the Salah assist, if Jota had managed one shot on target before getting subbed I'd be £110 richer. I need to stop doing these stupid fucking bets!

delighted for you :|

alas I didn't win shit, although I'd like to add I wasn't betting on a Wolves loss here.

oh right, yeah that is a lot of eggs in the one basket

cunt ref is it

ref and var total shameless cunts in this game tbh

simple obvious pen ignored, timewasting in the extreme not punished and spurs players booked for nothing

ref has booked sheff utd keeper for handling ourside box but utterly ignored ten mins of timewasting from him

just have clearly decided to help out poor lil shitkicker sheff utd today

maddison just booked for....holding his head at another shit decision

so any decent managers available?

you could have seen this coming, hard to ask players to beat the opposition when the ref is so clearly revelling in winding you up at a certain point

helluva day for away teams

More like Tenuous Hag than Ten Hag.

Daft long VAR review for a late Villa penalty. Ref sticks with giving it.

I don't think it should have been overturned but I'm biased

And now it's 3-1 Villa hahaha

Never in doubt!

ref still needs killing but yesss

ended that game with Bruno playing CB

Ten Hag was the real bald fraud in Manchester all along

happy for postecoglou and team that they managed to keep the head and pick through the passes for a decent winner, feels like a good mark of progress

but delighted for richarlison who is v much in the soldado bracket of it might not work out but it wont be for lack of trying

pic.twitter.com/Mh4NnFYcDk

— Alternative MUFC. (@AlternativeMUFC) September 17, 2023

Holy fuck that is wonderful. Put that twitter account in charge of motd

there used to be someone who did that for charlton highlights packages, who was both ruder and funnier than that

godawful first half from Wolves, bad tactics, bad execution, comedy own goal would have set the seal on it

Jesus Christ

thank fuck for Neto

be a miracle if we finish this game with 10 still on

Come on Wolves, I want Luton to finish the season with no points.

oh nice, a bullshit handball

fuck football tbh

Yep, sound pic.twitter.com/iU3xYK7Bsr

— KK (@_KKWWFC) September 23, 2023

Handball is about vibes more than guidelines, and a lot of people are feeling lol wolves rn

This is a cry for help pic.twitter.com/wHTGaWrumB

— Lucy (@LucyMuckyKnees) September 23, 2023

lol, no fruit flies on him!

has he considered making lemonade?

Never mind lemons, he's on tae plums at Chelsea.

anyone?

poch: https://www.iflscience.com/a-redditor-began-finding-strange-notes-they-turned-out-to-be-from-themself-58641

Chelsea so dire

I just want a goal please God. Let them lose 10-1 just give me a goal!!!

Ooh, we've not had a Chelsea fan on here in a bit lol

I'm prepared to take that bargain as long as the one goal doesn't involve Mudryk, I can't take conceding to the second coming of Gabriel Agbonlahor

Yeah I’ve kept it to myself for obvious reasons, but I figure this current downward spiral is the most appropriate time for it to come out. It’s a family affair since the 70s so give me some grace

Muddy put in a cracker of a potential assist earlier. A nice change of pace from his normal dribble-lose-ball strategy

Goodnight all

Is roman abramovich low key goated when running a successful football club is the vibe

The lemons appear to be on the pitch.

gonna need a fresh batch of lemons on Monday, the ones there will be mouldy by then

Things have turned sour at Chelsea this season.

'That is a penalty'

Sheff Utd 0-3 Newcastle

Clinton Morrison

Former Republic of Ireland striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

That is a penalty. He catches him. That is a penalty.

He kicked him and that is a penalty.

Poch is living his zest life

Come on NUFC, give us double figures.

I thought about turning this off at 3-0, so glad I didn't.

my new lodger, a Sheffield United season ticket holder, has taken the train up from Cambridge to see this

Some consolation for gammon utd, a big newcastle win will annoy the wokes

having played sheffield united a few times in recent seasons and built a sort of recognition of their fans, players and the club as a whole in that time, fuck sheffield united and their goblin story year in the top league

so thats not a handball by gordon

cool cool

nketiah tackle is red all day imo

pic.twitter.com/RRNGwMuG3M

— Michael Cox (@Zonal_Marking) September 24, 2023

hes right in one of those screengrabs

hes right in one of those screengrabs

we really do have to

i won't hear a bad word about PGMOL

cos i'm not sure how deep the conspiracy goes

The tipping point for Arsenal surely came at the end of last season. Shortly after getting pumped 3-0 by Brighton to further derail their Premier League title challenge, Mikel Arteta called a press conference on 19 May to announce the “newest member of the Arsenal family” at their Colney training ground, a chocolate labrador named Win. “I carefully chose the dog and in my opinion it’s the perfect representative of who we are right now. Her name is Win, we all love winning and Win needs a lot of love. So the love for Win, that was basically the feeling.” The following day, Arsenal lost at Nottingham Forest, gift-wrapping the title for Manchester City.

No more loser dog than a chocolate Labrador (I say with love for chocolate Labradors as a previous owner). Doomed

Are today's football managers all on psychedelics or something?

holy shit, Brighton on the end of the second worst beating of the day

oh ffs not Dave Edwards on pundit duty again

Neto on the wrong side again, just fuck off O'Neil for fuck's sake

ok i take it back

its an art man

great to see a ref refusing to be intimidated by the home crowd and giving us fuck all

can we play these every week?

Wow @ that sequence

my chest is in knots

gods i needed this

quite the day of results eh

can't even begrudge the croydon lot

much

Hell yes

quality trolling of Pep

"THE KOREAN GUY" pic.twitter.com/nd6WrdyEbc

— Wolves (@Wolves) September 30, 2023

Everton iced by Luton

Luton out of the relegation zone

I reckon I might watch Match of the Day tonight, maybe do some high-grade resentful screeching about media agendas when Villa-Brighton's only on second

Second? United lost at home!

quite the day of results eh

Rangers 1 Aberdeen 3

^I semi considered trying to go to this for the lols before suggesting Stenhousemuir as an alternative. Gf objected; Necropolis it was

In fact I'm staying near Celtic Park and expecting some very merry nightlife given what happened in the respective games just now

Get in Villa! liverpool win now will make this a nice day

^I semi considered trying to go to this for the lols before suggesting Stenhousemuir as an alternative. Gf objected; Necropolis it was

― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 17:11 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

(unintelligible) glarsegeauw nekrawplus

reffing in this game stinks so far tho weve had the better of it tbf

(unintelligible) glarsegeauw nekrawplus

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 30 September 2023 17:15 (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

there will have been a surfeit of limmy references

in that accent

he def needs to bring that character back for The Sycamore obv

liverpool pretty excellent with ten

how about 9

ah ffs

do spurs only have one song or what. stg you’d only hear the AP song once per match at CP

bollox

that's the only way that was happening

cant stop cumming not sure what thats about

haha, spurs acting like they’ve won the premiership

AP is just a winner

AP will win spurs trophies. his qualities will override spursiness

ange

thats all i have to say

PGMOL has admitted that Luis Diaz had a goal incorrectly ruled out for offside in Liverpool's 2-1 loss at Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.https://t.co/UUi56zX7VT

— Dale Johnson (@DaleJohnsonESPN) September 30, 2023

i think we all know there's a simple answer here, which is to have a video review team reviewing VAR

the prem should introduce “flag post” technology

im somewhat baffled what an apology is for

theyve never gone officially with apologies in thirty years of fuckery from refs why is var different

Wolves TikTok coming up trumps again.#wwfc #wolvespic.twitter.com/uH7DGfFgLO

— Wolves Fancast (@wolvesfancast) September 30, 2023

The explanation that the VAR team knew it was onside but thought it had been given as a goal so didn’t intervene before Spurs restarted play is pretty extraordinary, tbf.

You have to admire whoever's inventing these rationales

mad dash to restart hastily being written into tactics everywhere

Used to be like that in the rugby. If the conversion was taken, the try couldn't then be reviewed. They sensibly changed it after lots of teams would do a quick drop goal conversion if they suspected their score wasn't valid.

club statement rich with promise of tshirts

PGMOL has released the full audio from the VAR hub relating to the Luis Diaz goal that was incorrectly disallowed in Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/fyKqBPmLmP

— Chris Wheatley (@ChrisWheatley) October 3, 2023

lol

The moment when it hits them pic.twitter.com/YanqbrtW5i

— Jakub Krupa (@JakubKrupa) October 3, 2023

Did I hear mention of Ollie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAJTkXmd-s4

richarlison looking for a miss of the month hat trick within forst five mins

Maddison assisting the shit out of a football yet again.

two pure foolish yellows but tbh we might be as well off playing the rest of this on the break

porro equally likely to score and be the reason we concede

blow up ref ffs

ross barkley lives!

Getting a sick thrill out of bad Utd are right now. Genuinely the worst it's been post-Fergie

also Onana literally does not save any shot on target

Yeah love Ute’s downfall. It’s… Chelsea-esque. Maybe they should replace ETH with Fat Frank

Chris Basham injury looks bad :/

whatever

Beckham.....Sheringham......MCTOMINAY

that was fellaini-esque

having United be both shit AND evil feels too much, they're really overdoing it this season

It’s a shame that being shit doesn’t send teams down, or even really in a relegation battle anymore*. So many teams will be pissed to see Utd above them this season, because they can still afford World Cup winning level talent.

*unless it happens over years, like at Everton

top tier shithousing from both teams in the west midlands derby

Rob Jones is a fucking coward

whatever is going on with this feed the arsenal.crowd noise sounds as fake and sudden when it comes as fifa 95

We could have a proper title race this season

Last year has taught me to not trust that feeling

he wasnt talking to you mush

lol

reffing in this league hits a new low every week, the general standard cannot be put down to mere incompetence

Fulham's first goal vs sheff utd was so cleanly beautiful.

I thought that too. MAYBE the keeper could have come out earlier but it was a lovely construction

bobby decordova reid one destined to be one of the ultimate 'random player whose name floats through your head' of this era

Can't think of too many professional footballers who have a blind Labour MP among their siblings tbf.

Let's win this battle of the bad!

Ffs. Completely against the run of play.

Jfc

Wolves forgetting how to defend this season is my big takeaway

That was shit to watch. Lol

i didn't feel up to watching, sounds very prescient of me

THERE WE GO

Cunha baby