Still not worthy of a thread

[Sima]

Is the unofficial PL Champion thing still being done on here? Cant remember what thread it was on.

[Village Idiot]

This is fun/interesting. Top 5 passing clusters for each La Liga Club.

 

 

The Barça one is very zen and may seem counter-intuitive given how Flick has us play, but it really isn't if you watch us. We just move the ball quicker in the other areas.

[maybe_next_year]

4 hours ago, Village Idiot said:

This is fun/interesting. Top 5 passing clusters for each La Liga Club.

 

 

The Barça one is very zen and may seem counter-intuitive given how Flick has us play, but it really isn't if you watch us. We just move the ball quicker in the other areas.

 

Poor Real Valladolid, can only assume no.1 is passing it back to the keeper, 2 & 3 are him distributing it. 

 

Interesting to see how negative Sevilla's looks, all backwards, all in their own half. 

[joeyt]

Think this might have been the worst international break yet. Feels like it's been going on for months and it's still not over

 

The David Coote stuff last week feels like a lifetime ago

[BlueStar]

 

[GeordieDazzler]

17 hours ago, Village Idiot said:

This is fun/interesting. Top 5 passing clusters for each La Liga Club.

 

 

The Barça one is very zen and may seem counter-intuitive given how Flick has us play, but it really isn't if you watch us. We just move the ball quicker in the other areas.

Real’s is basically ‘get it to Vini’

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[Stifler]

The Premier League are going to own their own TV content distribution in 2 years time.

No idea if that means they will move to a subscription model or not.

[Heron]

Why do Chelsea not have a sponsor? Their shirts look much better for it.

[Stifler]

28 minutes ago, Heron said:

Why do Chelsea not have a sponsor? Their shirts look much better for it.

The Premier League rejected their proposed sponsorship with Riyadh Air.

[Heron]

8 minutes ago, Stifler said:

The Premier League rejected their proposed sponsorship with Riyadh Air.

So they didn't simply have another sponsor for a season?

[Fezzle]

9 hours ago, Heron said:

So they didn't simply have another sponsor for a season?

After last seasons ridiculous fake sponsorship they probably couldn't find a real company to give them the same amount. Not a good look to accept a substantially lower deal as that sets market value

[joeyt]

It will get lost in the Other Games thread but this goal reminds me so much of Bergkamp against Argentina.

 

[Yorkie]

Both goals were absolutely erotic but yeah that first only lacks Barry Davies exploding in delight. 

[SteV]

Noticed Smith-Rowe was the only English player out of the 22 that started that Fulham-Wolves game.

 

Doubt the fans of either side are too bothered, but not a great look for PL I would say.

[joeyt]

2 minutes ago, SteV said:

Noticed Smith-Rowe was the only English player out of the 22 that started that Fulham-Wolves game.

 

Doubt the fans of either side are too bothered, but not a great look for PL I would say.

 

Nelson and Robinson were born in England to be fair and Iwobi and Bassey moved here when they were really young so its probably a bit misleading

[SteV]

31 minutes ago, joeyt said:

 

Nelson and Robinson were born in England to be fair and Iwobi and Bassey moved here when they were really young so its probably a bit misleading

From the Fulham side, yeah probably, but not from the Wolves side.

 

Granted, they were missing Dawson, who would play, but looking at the squad, he seems to be the only English player likely to have much of a chance of starting.

[Fezzle]

Was 15 years ago the first non English game wasn't it? Not sure why it's suddenly an issue now

[loki679]

COS THEY'RE COMING OVER HERE AND TAKING OUR JOBS

[SteV]

1 hour ago, Fezzle said:

Was 15 years ago the first non English game wasn't it? Not sure why it's suddenly an issue now

Not really an issue as such, but if you were to have multiple teams with hardly any players from the country you’re playing in, I personally think it would take something away from the league. 
 

The top teams are always going to have a reasonable number of ‘home’ players, not least because they’ll buy up all the best young ones, but we don’t want a league where the bottom half is full of teams that were substantially majority foreign.

[Fezzle]

20 minutes ago, SteV said:

Not really an issue as such, but if you were to have multiple teams with hardly any players from the country you’re playing in, I personally think it would take something away from the league. 
 

The top teams are always going to have a reasonable number of ‘home’ players, not least because they’ll buy up all the best young ones, but we don’t want a league where the bottom half is full of teams that were substantially majority foreign.

But like I said it's been regular thing for 25 years, arsenal have fielded a non English team over 150 times in the league ffs

[SteV]

36 minutes ago, Fezzle said:

But like I said it's been regular thing for 25 years, arsenal have fielded a non English team over 150 times in the league ffs

Yes, if the odd team like Arsenal, or nowadays Wolves, do it, it isn’t a major issue. But if we were to see more teams doing it, I think it does become an issue.

 

I mentioned it because on first glance it looked like you had both teams in that fixture almost exclusively foreign. As mentioned, you can make the case that it wasn’t really the case with Fulham, so not quite as standout as I first thought.

[Kid Icarus]

Just a random thought, but what word would you say characterises the stereotype of each fanbase?

 

Eg, off the top of my head.

 

Arsenal: Psychotic

Chelsea: Cunts

Everton: Bitter

Liverpool: Sanctimonious 

Man United: Arrogant

Us: Deluded

Southampton: Apathetic?

 

[Pilko]

Liverpool: Victims

 

[Disco]

Sunderland: Inbred