Premier League 2020/21 Thread

[Finnegan]

If you think Liverpool are doping but we weren't, you're an idiot. 

 

Every club in the country these days has a sports science team pumping them full of every single chemical they can legally get away with giving them.

 

Everyone in the league is juicing legally. 

 

The difference is just how good your sports science team is at getting the balance right and what money you have for the latest and best supplements. 

[Soar Fox]

How many players suffer from concussion a season? I genuinely can’t remember any last season in the premier league. 
 

Also I like @ealingfox idea of being ruled out of the following game. You can’t come off with suspected concussion on a Saturday and be available for selection on a Tuesday. I have a feeling we’re going to start seeing a hell of a lot more “head” injuries from now on.

[Koke]

21 hours ago, StanSP said:

 

 

Praying we never join these clubs in appointing dinosaur managers. Im actually quite proud those guys have never managed Leicester.

[Koke]

I'm surprised Allardyce hasn't managed Stoke tbh. And I completely forgot Hodgson managed Blackbur. This is football incest ffs.

[cruzFOX]

In other news Villa play today after a long vacation. Hope they lose. Also with every other influential teams players dropping like flies due to injuries how is Grealish still 100% fit? You'd think the law of probability will eventually catch up with him. Can see them struggling in games without him. Speaking of drugs... 

[FoyleFox]

21 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

How many players suffer from concussion a season? I genuinely can’t remember any last season in the premier league. 
 

Also I like @ealingfox idea of being ruled out of the following game. You can’t come off with suspected concussion on a Saturday and be available for selection on a Tuesday. I have a feeling we’re going to start seeing a hell of a lot more “head” injuries from now on.

I thought the current rules were that you were out for 7 days - this was mentioned when Kasper got wacked in the head. He came off as as precaution, subsequent confirmation he didn't have concussion so started our next match.

[FoyleFox]

14 minutes ago, cruzFOX said:

In other news Villa play today after a long vacation. Hope they lose. Also with every other influential teams players dropping like flies due to injuries how is Grealish still 100% fit? You'd think the law of probability will eventually catch up with him. Can see them struggling in games without him. Speaking of drugs... 

I think everyone else was referring to performance enhancing ones though

[Leeds Fox]

16 minutes ago, cruzFOX said:

In other news Villa play today after a long vacation. Hope they lose. Also with every other influential teams players dropping like flies due to injuries how is Grealish still 100% fit? You'd think the law of probability will eventually catch up with him. Can see them struggling in games without him. Speaking of drugs... 

Due to the law of probabilities, if so many other ‘influential players’ are ‘dropping like flies’... surely they make up whatever quota you’ve made up and Grealish is unlikely to be injured.

 

Seriously though, other players getting injured has absolutely zero effect on one individual player you’ve just brought up. 

[brucey]

 

[Manini]

21 minutes ago, brucey said:

 

Look at the first response to that tweet. What? 

[lnkstern]

26 minutes ago, brucey said:

 

 

This seems like another situation of 'we will keep voting until you get it right'.

 

Seems to be an increasingly common occurrence nowadays.

 

Edited 17 December 2020 by lnkstern

[StanSP]

Mike Dean, Graham Scott, Robert Jones as refs for us over the festive period. 

 

Edited 17 December 2020 by StanSP

[Corky]

I thought Rodgers was leaning towards wanting five substitutions?

 

This five subs thing is getting tedious now. Rotate your squad, alter your formations, adapt your style of play to cope.

 

 

[twister]

59 minutes ago, lnkstern said:

 

This seems like another situation of 'we will keep voting until you get it right'.

 

Seems to be an increasingly common occurrence nowadays.

 

good **** the big four bullies

 

we know it will go through eventually, they wont stop but keep fighting to the last job to protect the competivness of the game and the league

[UniFox21]

1 hour ago, brucey said:

 

Favourite line of this article was highlighting once again, Klopp made 0 subs in the game last night 

[StanSP]

Villa should be ahead here. One cleared off the line, free-kick saved well from Pope and a good block by Taylor to deny Traore.

 

Not sure how Mee escaped a booking for cynical foul on Grealish just outside the box.

[StanSP]

Now they've hit the post. 

 

All set up for a classic route-one Burnley goal to win it in 2nd half.

[lnkstern]

Argy-bargy time.

[Super_horns]

3 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Now they've hit the post. 

 

All set up for a classic route-one Burnley goal to win it in 2nd half.

Probably.

 

Set play after about 70 minutes .

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

2 hours ago, brucey said:

 

 

Everton, Brighton and Southampton the scabs

[purpleronnie]

If i hear one more in house commentator on sky sports news say 'If I'm Honest' or 'To be Honest' I'm going to scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, purpleronnie said:

If i hear one more in house commentator on sky sports news say 'If I'm Honest' or 'To be Honest' I'm going to scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a valid point to be honest.

[Buce]

3 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

I thought the current rules were that you were out for 7 days - this was mentioned when Kasper got wacked in the head. He came off as as precaution, subsequent confirmation he didn't have concussion so started our next match.

 

Judging by last night's howler he's still concussed now.

[AjcW]

16 shots in the first half against a team sitting deep... that sounds nice. 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

Wow Jack Grealish is superb, I've lost count the number of goal scoring chances out of nothing he's created for his striker's. If they had Vardy they would have been 4 or 5 up!