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Paul Walsh's glasses

Exactly. Why the fuck should I care about Bournemouth Because of the romanticism? It's a true underdog story. I want to watch good football. I have no connection to Bournemouth, don't know why I should be bothered by them. If they look good on MOTD tonight I might watch them in the future Bournemouth play a lot better football than a lot of the teams in the league (including us). I'm biased, but it's great seeing a little team from Dorset giving it a go in the Premier League. Yeah, their only claim to fame bar climbing the league system is that Howe supposedly have them playing great front foot attacking football. Not interested in checking out Bournemouth, but he maybe wanted to check out Villa. What the hell. Villa have some players that I kind of want to see, Bournemouth don't, is it that ludicrous a thought like? As it happens I can't watch the match anyway

Exactly. Why the fuck should I care about Bournemouth Because of the romanticism? It's a true underdog story. I want to watch good football. I have no connection to Bournemouth, don't know why I should be bothered by them. If they look good on MOTD tonight I might watch them in the future

Exactly. Why the fuck should I care about Bournemouth

Figure the Bournemouth game could be entertaining. Aye maybe. Villa seem to have a couple of new players that could be interesting What even is this opinion? How is the first PL match of Bournemouth not that interesting? Because none of their players interest me. I want to see good players play

Definitely looking for Norwich to Kick some ass. Have you seen their team? Have you seen Pardew's lineup? Don't forget the dross that used to beat us in the cups under Pardew too! Don't forget that Palace team has now had their first full pre-season of not using a ball, so they will be primed to tank. Maybe but that Norwich team is even worse. Redmond their one remotely exciting player is on the bench

Definitely looking for Norwich to Kick some ass. Have you seen their team?

Figure the Bournemouth game could be entertaining. Aye maybe. Villa seem to have a couple of new players that could be interesting

Not one 3 o clock kick off I remotely feel like even keeping my eye on

What does that have to do with anything

He left earlier than that. Everyone ignored this heartfelt shit. The smiley makes it okay

He's been really good tbf. It still tells you how shit its been

Chris Smalling man of the match tells you how bad this has been

I would not like to be picking a man of the match for this, basically everyone has been decent

He's not a world class striker anymore based on this performance

Tottenham don't even look like they're trying to get a goal

Bolasie on the bench

Schweinsteiger's going to be class for them

Love Schweinsteiger

Has it?

You don't see free kicks given for a high foot in this country? FFS Owen

Don't think Rooney's best position is as a striker anymore tbh. He looks more comfortable deeper and more involved

What's with the Anguish? We complain when the big boys take all the good players are we complaining when the mid table sides take them too? I think its a good sides outside the top 4 - 6 are signing quality. It's just the way this forum operates pal. If Serie A/Bundesliga/La Liga was signing all these good players for midtable clubs, this forum would be jobbing one off at how amazing those leagues were going to be, whilst at the same time slagging off English football for being so far behind. Because its England thats signing these players at midtable clubs, its all of a sudden heinous, disgusting, awful for the Champions League (although I'm pretty sure if a CL club was in for these players, they would go there, so it tells its own story) and every other which way you want to negatively comment on it. Quite frankly its a sinister state of affairs when people can be that self loathing over their own country, whilst actively obsessing over a nation that promulgates rampant and offensive patriotism (USA), but each to their own. I'm sure no matter how many good players the mid table clubs sign, they will be referring to them as "dross" after about 3 weeks into the season. I haven't seen Rondon play much in club football for ages so can't comment on his circumstances but in general I think its a bad thing that players are moving from historically big clubs to play for bad teams either fighting relegation or trying to get midtable in the Premier League. In our own club here, we've been basically s*** for ten years and we've been able to get the best players from clubs such as PSV and Ajax who in the past were European powerhouses but due to not having enough money they'll never have a chance of winning or competing in Europe again unless they get a sheikh to take them over. The same with teams like Marseille who have lost two of their best players to West Ham and Swansea this season. I could have sworn we last returned to the Premier League with Newcastle, founder member of the football league, football manager has a lot to answer for! #Deluded. wat

Carrick's been good at breaking up play

Didn't change his name?