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

The other guy w/Smith, I think it's Seb Hutchinson. The slight introduction of a "w" sound when pronouncing r's, I'm going down a rwabbit/wrabbit hole and it seems there's some disagreement whether it's a regional accent or a slight speech impediment? Like, he just said "it's a gwreat chance"

i think speech impediment but ill give a good listen now

but tbh are you not describing smith there?

One of my daughter's best childhood friends did this and I think she got picked up a lot of pronunciations via her father who had a moderate hearing loss.

xp well they never show the booth guys talking so I don't know which one is which. I think of Smith as the play-by-play guy and Hutchinson is the deeper-voiced color commentator but maybe I have it backward.

Sorry for derail, this isn't the regional accents thread

you would not believe the derails weve had over the years, and in a lot better matches than this

enjoying reguilons crossbow arc crosses from deep

foden hat trick

feet so quick, so decisive

instructive to see what a man city goalie can do without action taken vsthe fouls out goalie has to endure without a whistle in each of our recent games

by which i mean this league is stinking and every ref is a cunt

blue cards

just part of football's optimisation arc, see also expanded major tournaments and the same teams winning everything forever

Can we exchange VAR for blue cards? I'd take that.

Football needs a 'card rainbow' - red, yellow, blue, green, orange, indigo and violet. Also cards can be challenged in real time and the appeal judged by AI.

Countdown to breakaway "realness" league continues

Apropos of nothing I had an anxiety dream last night where Luton were drawing 6-6 with either Villa or Burnley, and I was following it online praying they wouldn't find a winner, but then they did 13 minutes into injury time

You've somehow turned that into an anxiety dream for me too as we're the only club to ever win 7-6 in English football league history. Unparalleled depravity

still say, take away VAR for offside, instead send the players a text message that says "Ur offside" in real time

Cunha hurt and departing. Ugh

Non contact injury too. The worrying type

Bellegarde coming in

Wolves concede first, shocker

there we go Dawson!

goal rescinded due to a fraction of centimeter of a toe. fuck VAR, fucking sick o this shit.

Wolves just completely dominating and pulling Brentford out of shape but this has the eerie feeling of "well VAR chalked off our goal, now we're too in our heads to finish again", but hope to be wrong there.

fuck this

spurs horrible, passing is shockingly bad and they are second to everything

centre halves used to defend crosses

im an old fart i know but whats the fucking job these days at all

ye will already be seeing the potential for fuckery

just once youd like a ref to have a homer at our place, already getting none of the scrappy decisions

Xpost Hwang ridiculous miss, kinda feel like VAR woulda pulled it back for foul in buildup

This has the makings of a wild one

Lol yeah I was kinda surprised at what we got away with there

Feel like yr gonna put up 4 the say Wolves are defending

now we have son back theres a clinical edge, but hes very overrated in the buildup/possession richarlison make terrible decisions

the rest drop in and out bar maddison, when he plays we play

our centre halves and full backs tend not to prioritise what you might expect so dont write anything off tbh

Kind of a fun open match so far

for ye maybe

richarlison had a lot more quality when he player against us iirc

not much to recommend this tbh

serious lack of interest in doing the work, as usual

Predictable

fuck's sake my stream hadn't even kicked off til just now

Dawson you overhyped feeb

Sarabia you melt

GET IN

i believe the phrase is GET THE FUCK IN

lol snap

number 9s who need 'em?

numbers 2-6 otoh id take a few

the lack of quality is staggering sometimes in this spurs attack

ye wont believe me but until romero fucked our season against chelsea we played amazing, one touch stuff

now we only get one touch

i do have vague memories of youse being good at some point this season

we definitely need a third here tho

what is a back post?

can it even *be* marked?

will never find out watching these cunts