English Premier League & Other Club Football Thread

OK, if you say so I stand corrected.

Test cricket is similar - maybe only 70 balls/hour, lasts 7 hours per day for up to 5 days - and is a brilliant setting for chatting, eating and drinking with friends because of the tedious periods of…nothingness…that punctuate the compelling drama, and it’s still the best (ie most complex) team sport ever.

Two biggest PL sugar daddy clubs dropping out was predictable, having the least to gain from the new league.

Let’s hope the others follow suit.

I hope there are severe penalties. 15 pt deduction next season at least.

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I don’t think banning players can be justified when they’re bound by their contracts to play when their employer club tells them to.

https://twitter.com/Lawton_Times/status/1384574412024950788

Jingoism @CaffeineNeeded ?

Having got the ESL accepted it would be a small step for the yank owners to make their clubs play some home games in America. Kroenke has just built a $6Bn stadium in LA, I believe. I’m sure he’d like to see more events there.

https://twitter.com/Sporthub365/status/1384575210301628416

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Dumb question:

Why are the Manchester teams the most valuable? Is it just as simple as London having so many different teams that those teams are splitting a bigger pie so many more ways, where with Manchester there’s just the two behemoths?

Thanks in advance.

No, it’s coincidental. Utd are the most successful and well known EPL club side and have huge support around the world; City are quite different with a newish sugar daddy owner with effectively limitless funds. They were a big club until the 70s and were relegated a few times but worked their way back up before the oil owner appeared.

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Ed Woodward resigned. Good riddance to the c***

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Juve guy too

https://twitter.com/honigstein/status/1384584371815030792

Re: football is for the fans, no superleague:

What about the American fans who only started watching this year because online sportsbetting was legalized? Are they not fans too? We just want an 84oz pepsi, a couple big macs and the world’s greatest athletes performing for us every weeknight at 3am GMT. Is that too much to ask?

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New rule: every time there’s a whistle, play stops for at least 2 minutes and we can fit some commercials for guns and opioids in there

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You must be a big fan of VAR.

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Cant: Sorry.

Rule 1: pepega
Rule 2: see rule 1

:v:

Don’t be ridiculous

The gun sponsors can go on the kits themselves

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https://mobile.twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/1384521053876150272

https://mobile.twitter.com/ESPNFC/status/1384433931785736195

OMG!!! there taking our 90 minutes boys, get Gary.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1384502970583117824

That should do it

https://mobile.twitter.com/_PaulHayward/status/1384447255659401218

Mourinho is the 1st & only manager to be sacked by a ESL club :rofl:

https://mobile.twitter.com/MartinCloake/status/1384575205503381513

It’s funny how you think that serves as a rebuttal for anything you’ve said about this topic. Predictable, but still funny.

I’m trying to contextualize the drama of the last 72 hours for my american sports (non-football) friends and really struggling.

This whole thing seems completely insane to me. The initial plan, the backpeddling, the H A R S H response from EUFA including being willing to burn down the CURRENT champions league semis

like wtf???