Premier League 2025/26 Thread

[Corky]

Abysmal game

[egg_fried_rice]

JJ coming on for Leeds. How long before they concede?

[Fox42]

Just now, egg_fried_rice said:

JJ coming on for Leeds. How long before they concede?

Harvey Barnes to score against Leeds

[jammie82uk]

25 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

in the League Cup match earlier this week.

They got pretty lucky in the league cup, Grimsby had a goal ruled out for offside that should have stood that would have made it 3-0 

[Footballwipe]

2 minutes ago, jammie82uk said:

They got pretty lucky in the league cup, Grimsby had a goal ruled out for offside that should have stood that would have made it 3-0 

And yet today the referees are batting for them. It's almost as if refs are human, make subjective decisions, sometimes make mistakes, and people's mental biases take hold. 🤷‍♂️

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, Footballwipe said:

And yet today the referees are batting for them. It's almost as if refs are human, make subjective decisions, sometimes make mistakes, and people's mental biases take hold. 🤷‍♂️

It's years of luck they got in the 90s/00s which means they've got a lot of bad decisions to go against them to make it even. 

[fazzyfox]

When I heard that the “Chelsea Gunman” was just a lad in costume on his way to a comic convention one image sprung to mind…….

The irony is he was probably the least heavily armed person in the area at the time.

[Foxdiamond]

10 hours ago, Craig said:

Nonsense.

 

He's in control of the ball, it's Chalobah who is late and puts his foot where Muniz is about to plant his. 

They shouldn't use slow motion as it exaggerates out of context the natural movement. 

[Leicester_Loyal]

3 hours ago, Footballwipe said:

And yet today the referees are batting for them. It's almost as if refs are human, make subjective decisions, sometimes make mistakes, and people's mental biases take hold. 🤷‍♂️

I mean referees in the past have admitted giving the decision Uniteds way purely because it was them, Keane, Fergie etc. 

 

 

[Super_horns]

Will Anthony Taylor give penalties each game for hugging and pulling from corners now ?

[Soar Fox]

Lucas Paqueta to Aston Villa

[lfu]

PL officials being useless, shock horror
Too interested in policing Marco Silva's body language to care that the VAR bottled it for Fulham's disallowed goal

 

source tweet
 

And the mate she's texting (the Head of Football Communications at the Premier League) is a Cov fan it turns out

[The Year Of The Fox]

Grealish going back to being Grealish

 

Pep doesn’t half know how to spoil football 

[The Horse's Mouth]

13 hours ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

Huh? Would like to know what exactly do you think I'm stealing and from whom? If you're speculating I'm "illegally" streaming, it's far from it. Some of us have legal subscription packages from other countries (we have dual citizenship) and we're allowed to use them on the go with dedicated apps. Given the content we have access to, the football one comes to 10p per 3 months and I may be overstimating it. 

So how are you “boycotting” then, you’re still paying for the product and still consuming it  

[Foxdiamond]

That managers have to be careful of their after match comments about referee and Var decisions for fear of punishment. As long as they are not abusive etc surely it is against freedom of speech?

[MC Prussian]

Grealish doing well at Everton so far.

[DennisNedry]

4 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

Grealish doing well at Everton so far.

It was really a flip of a coin wasn't it?

 

It was either gonna be a Rashford at Villa, or a Phillips at West Ham.

 

Glad for him actually, he's a bit of a diver but seems a nice bloke.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

1 hour ago, Foxdiamond said:

That managers have to be careful of their after match comments about referee and Var decisions for fear of punishment. As long as they are not abusive etc surely it is against freedom of speech?

This isn't America, we don't have absolute freedom of speech.  You also don't have freedom from consequence for your speech. 

 

Rightly or wrongly, criticising the refereeing of a game could be called bringing the game into disrepute. Like we need more lame excuses from managers in interviews anyway.

Edited 31 August 2025 by Mike the Metal Ed

[Super_horns]

1 hour ago, Foxdiamond said:

That managers have to be careful of their after match comments about referee and Var decisions for fear of punishment. As long as they are not abusive etc surely it is against freedom of speech?

Silva was totally within his rights to be annoyed.

 

Scott Parker not so much as unfortunately for Burnley was a shirt pull which actually the on pitch ref should have spotted really .

 

Infact VAR overruled him twice .

Edited 31 August 2025 by Super_horns

[Foxdiamond]

32 minutes ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

This isn't America, we don't have absolute freedom of speech.  You also don't have freedom from consequence for your speech. 

 

Rightly or wrongly, criticising the refereeing of a game could be called bringing the game into disrepute. Like we need more lame excuses from managers in interviews anyway.

The bringing game into disrepute makes me laugh when the officials do that every week. Seems you can lambast the PM and the King but careful how you go in football 

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

This isn't America, we don't have absolute freedom of speech.  You also don't have freedom from consequence for your speech. 

 

Rightly or wrongly, criticising the refereeing of a game could be called bringing the game into disrepute. Like we need more lame excuses from managers in interviews anyway.

They don't have it either tbh, apart from the principle of no government-sanctioned consequences for speech, which the current government over there is doing its best to violate in practice anyway. 

 

On topic, of course the refs need to have some protections regarding such things or no one would want to do the job and there's no game anyway. 

[Foxdiamond]

Just now, leicsmac said:

They don't have it either tbh, apart from the principle of no government-sanctioned consequences for speech, which the current government over there is doing its best to violate in practice anyway. 

 

On topic, of course the refs need to have some protections regarding such things or no one would want to do the job and there's no game anyway. 

I do agree refs need some protection regarding their integrity and personal security etc. I don't think a manager should be afraid of sanctions for saying officials were useless though. 

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

I do agree refs need some protection regarding their integrity and personal security etc. I don't think a manager should be afraid of sanctions for saying officials were useless though. 

And then the question becomes where the border is between the former and the latter.

[Foxdiamond]

4 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

And then the question becomes where the border is between the former and the latter.

I remember years ago the ref was miked up. Tony Adams called the ref a cheat. David Elleray the ref booked him. Said you can call be useless but don't ever call me a cheat. This is sort of line I would use. 

[Tuna]

 

Sad to see what is happening to Brentford. Star players and manager all leaving this summer.