Premier League 2025/26 Thread

[bovril]

12 hours ago, rugbyblue said:

With the game changing almost beyond recognition since i was a kid, i find it kind of comforting that life of Riley is still the goal of the month/season music 😂 .

Just me?

They changed it late 90s to some kind of electro swing dance type thing which was quite good. Then a dad rock number early 2000s whose name escapes me. Then brought life of riley back in the late 2000s for nostalgia reasons I guess. 

[fox_up_north]

Christ I forgot it was even a legit song. Lightning Seeds really are the football soundtrack in England. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

44 minutes ago, bovril said:

They changed it late 90s to some kind of electro swing dance type thing which was quite good. Then a dad rock number early 2000s whose name escapes me. Then brought life of riley back in the late 2000s for nostalgia reasons I guess. 

 

Surely the early 00s dad rock number was embrace

[tinpot_fox]

4 hours ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Pep to Milan or Juve?

He’ll probably go somewhere that can afford Haarland 

[Fear Of The Fox]

1 hour ago, purpleronnie said:

Inter miami?

It would have been my 1st choice if I was Pep. No financial issues, divorced, a more relaxed work environment, another huge contract, weather and the list continues. In fact there's no other option imo. 

[davieG]

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Arsenal are the first team in Premier League history to go a whole season without receiving a red card or conceding a penalty.

[StanSP]

11 minutes ago, davieG said:

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Arsenal are the first team in Premier League history to go a whole season without receiving a red card or conceding a penalty.

If refs did their job properly that red card stat wouldn't exist. Gabriel and Havertz should have seen red at the very least.

[Super_horns]

21 minutes ago, StanSP said:

If refs did their job properly that red card stat wouldn't exist. Gabriel and Havertz should have seen red at the very least.

And probably a few penalties too?

[Tinman]

Ya cant buy class.

 

 

[fox_up_north]

Maybe somebody asked him how he makes his money

[Corky]

20 minutes ago, Tinman said:

Ya cant buy class.

 

 

Don't get this at the Polo, do you?

[StanSP]

39 minutes ago, Tinman said:

Ya cant buy class.

 

 

 

21 minutes ago, fox_up_north said:

Maybe somebody asked him how he makes his money

Apparently it was a political feud. 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

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[Fear Of The Fox]

This is the Mafia the PL and FA support. The Forest owner in a brawl with the nephew of the Greek PM who also was his secretary for 3 years. This was yesterday during the Euroleague Basketball final. 

This is the PL ladies and gents. Enjoy. 

 

 

[Warks_Mackem]

Still hasn’t sunk in yet to be honest. I’ve had 30 years of “have you ever seen a Mackem in Milan?” from those morons up the road. Well next season there’s a good chance you actually will see a Mackem in Milan. 

 

I’d have snapped your hands off for Conference League yesterday morning so to get Europa League was just something else. I was slightly emotional at full time.

 

I have faith that the ownership and recruitment team will be ambitious again this summer. I feel it’s a bit of a myth that playing in Europe = season of struggle tbh. Only one team in the last 26 years has been relegated the season after qualifying for Europe: Ipswich in 2002. It’s going to be tough but it’ll be one hell of a ride.

[Super_horns]

1 minute ago, Warks_Mackem said:

Still hasn’t sunk in yet to be honest. I’ve had 30 years of “have you ever seen a Mackem in Milan?” from those morons up the road. Well next season there’s a good chance you actually will see a Mackem in Milan. 

 

I’d have snapped your hands off for Conference League yesterday morning so to get Europa League was just something else. I was slightly emotional at full time.

 

I have faith that the ownership and recruitment team will be ambitious again this summer. I feel it’s a bit of a myth that playing in Europe = season of struggle tbh. Only one team in the last 26 years has been relegated the season after qualifying for Europe: Ipswich in 2002. It’s going to be tough but it’ll be one hell of a ride.

Fantastic achievement and hopefully won’t disrupt your season too much .

[filbertway]

16 minutes ago, Warks_Mackem said:

Still hasn’t sunk in yet to be honest. I’ve had 30 years of “have you ever seen a Mackem in Milan?” from those morons up the road. Well next season there’s a good chance you actually will see a Mackem in Milan. 

 

I’d have snapped your hands off for Conference League yesterday morning so to get Europa League was just something else. I was slightly emotional at full time.

 

I have faith that the ownership and recruitment team will be ambitious again this summer. I feel it’s a bit of a myth that playing in Europe = season of struggle tbh. Only one team in the last 26 years has been relegated the season after qualifying for Europe: Ipswich in 2002. It’s going to be tough but it’ll be one hell of a ride.

Depends how you define struggling. I doubt Forest or Palace were too chuffed with their league performance.

 

Certainly doable to compete on two fronts, but playing Thursday Sunday is obviously going to be a struggle and it'd be fair to expect you to slide back somewhat in the league if you do well in Europe. All English teams should qualify from the league phases as well as we just have such a big advantage over every other league.

 

Anyway, I was chuffed for you lot, hope you enjoy next season  

 

I fancied you to do the best of the 3 that came up as your gaffer plays a way that suits underdogs. Obviously your recruitment was superb as well, signing basically a whole new starting XI is no small job either.

[Wymsey]

51 minutes ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

This is the Mafia the PL and FA support. The Forest owner in a brawl with the nephew of the Greek PM who also was his secretary for 3 years. This was yesterday during the Euroleague Basketball final. 

This is the PL ladies and gents. Enjoy. 

 

 

Seem like he provoked it.

 

Shame the PL can't just terminate club ownership immediately.

 

[Finnegan]

3 hours ago, Tinman said:

Ya cant buy class.

 

 

 

It's a joke he passed the fit and proper test.

[The Year Of The Fox]

6 hours ago, fox_up_north said:

Christ I forgot it was even a legit song. Lightning Seeds really are the football soundtrack in England. 

Banger 

[Nalis]

2 hours ago, Warks_Mackem said:

Still hasn’t sunk in yet to be honest. I’ve had 30 years of “have you ever seen a Mackem in Milan?” from those morons up the road. Well next season there’s a good chance you actually will see a Mackem in Milan. 

 

I’d have snapped your hands off for Conference League yesterday morning so to get Europa League was just something else. I was slightly emotional at full time.

 

I have faith that the ownership and recruitment team will be ambitious again this summer. I feel it’s a bit of a myth that playing in Europe = season of struggle tbh. Only one team in the last 26 years has been relegated the season after qualifying for Europe: Ipswich in 2002. It’s going to be tough but it’ll be one hell of a ride.

Enjoy it. You will have other fans questioning the struggles of balancing the league with europe but honesty, what is the fvcking point of football is you cant enjoy the ride? Even if you do get relegated next season (you won't be anywhere near it) so fvcking what, you enjoyed europe and dont let the whingers tell you otherwise 

[The Year Of The Fox]

3 hours ago, Warks_Mackem said:

Still hasn’t sunk in yet to be honest. I’ve had 30 years of “have you ever seen a Mackem in Milan?” from those morons up the road. Well next season there’s a good chance you actually will see a Mackem in Milan. 

 

I’d have snapped your hands off for Conference League yesterday morning so to get Europa League was just something else. I was slightly emotional at full time.

 

I have faith that the ownership and recruitment team will be ambitious again this summer. I feel it’s a bit of a myth that playing in Europe = season of struggle tbh. Only one team in the last 26 years has been relegated the season after qualifying for Europe: Ipswich in 2002. It’s going to be tough but it’ll be one hell of a ride.

Best fans in the NE

 

 

Enjoy 

[grobyfox1990]

The Premier League generates around £10bn a year in gross value added to the UK, including from ticket sales, merchandise and tourism. That represents a 14-fold increase since the 1998/99 season, according to Ernst & Young, and is broadly comparable to England’s entire agricultural output. Clubs and players — who earn on average over £4mn per year — contribute £4.4bn in tax revenue, equivalent to the salaries of more than 100,000 NHS nurses. Altogether, the league supports an estimated 104,500 jobs. Since the launch of the top tier in 1992, when English football was recovering from a 1980s nadir of hooliganism and crumbling facilities, its quality and spectacle have fuelled a renaissance and attracted billions of viewers worldwide. In 2023/24, the league generated £1.7bn in international broadcast revenue alone, nearly equalling the rest of the UK television sector combined.

 

Good counter argument to the happy clappers who hate modern football. Hopefully this position of dominance is not thrown away, and owners realise a big part of the 'product' and revenue generation is the local fanbase

[CL Fox]

9 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

The Premier League generates around £10bn a year in gross value added to the UK, including from ticket sales, merchandise and tourism. That represents a 14-fold increase since the 1998/99 season, according to Ernst & Young, and is broadly comparable to England’s entire agricultural output. Clubs and players — who earn on average over £4mn per year — contribute £4.4bn in tax revenue, equivalent to the salaries of more than 100,000 NHS nurses. Altogether, the league supports an estimated 104,500 jobs. Since the launch of the top tier in 1992, when English football was recovering from a 1980s nadir of hooliganism and crumbling facilities, its quality and spectacle have fuelled a renaissance and attracted billions of viewers worldwide. In 2023/24, the league generated £1.7bn in international broadcast revenue alone, nearly equalling the rest of the UK television sector combined.

 

Good counter argument to the happy clappers who hate modern football. Hopefully this position of dominance is not thrown away, and owners realise a big part of the 'product' and revenue generation is the local fanbase

Just because it makes loads of money doesn't make it good - im not sure how in any way thats an effective counter argument 

[CosbehFox]

20 hours ago, Warks_Mackem said:

Still hasn’t sunk in yet to be honest. I’ve had 30 years of “have you ever seen a Mackem in Milan?” from those morons up the road. Well next season there’s a good chance you actually will see a Mackem in Milan. 

 

I’d have snapped your hands off for Conference League yesterday morning so to get Europa League was just something else. I was slightly emotional at full time.

 

I have faith that the ownership and recruitment team will be ambitious again this summer. I feel it’s a bit of a myth that playing in Europe = season of struggle tbh. Only one team in the last 26 years has been relegated the season after qualifying for Europe: Ipswich in 2002. It’s going to be tough but it’ll be one hell of a ride.

Fair rucks 

 

I’d be interested to see how many getting relegated season after that one though. That’s normally when your squad is drained and/or attracting attention from elsewhere