Premier League — Matchweek 28

What are them Nottingham ducks signing before kick-off?

Tremendous goal from Hudson-Udoi to stun Pep's peeps.

Great to see City struggling.

Admittedly, it’s a shame that their downturn has handed the red twats pole position but, still.

Michael (2), How casual was that City defender allowing the Forest to get into the penalty area and not blocking the shot, he looked very poor to me.

Third and fourth in the league league these two teams show how mediocre the league is this season and although Liverpool deserve to be top they have not been under any real pressure for most of the season——the best of an average bunch and that’s not my natural bias against Liverpool.

Well. they have put themselves under a little pressure here Dave,

Don't they do Mull of Kintyre, MK?

Shite song.

GET IN hahahahaha

Send the filthy fucker off.

I wouldn’t get too excited. It’ll be 7-1 by the end! 😏

But it's like Istanbul Scott, we can enjoy half-time

Very true, Paul!

Ah crap, like Istanbul

Unfecking real!

Oh a penalty for the rs, how unexpected!

"Did the contact cause the player to go down in the way that he did?"

They only check for that against us?

Drama queen penalty again

Harrison Armstrong got MotM for Derby County today. Did a lot of work off the ball.

Do these Sky Sports clown pundits Hendrie and Izzy somethingson actually get paid for their expert analysis?? No wonder nobody pays for Sky anymore!

It's bad enough them being on air on my dodgy Firestick, the volume is muted whenever these pundits speak, Carragher being the worst of course.

FFS
I've just seen a fine try disallowed for Wales because the Welshman carrying the ball hurdled a tackler and that's not allowed in Rugby Union.
What bollocks!
Cymru am byth!

Villa have some seriously pacy players!

First of all, total respect to Forest for the season they are having. They're not necessarily the most easy on the eye team to watch, but they know how to win.

I saw that, Mark. I don't really understand the rules of Rugby too well other than the forward pass. It's much more complex game than for the uneducated like me, think it's just about picking a ball up and running. But that looked fine to me.

Bournemouth have had two one v one's in the first four minutes of their game at Spurs, and brought two outstanding saves from the Spurs keeper……

But I suppose some would say they were poor misses by the Bournemouth strikers.

How about that Tavernier strike, though, Rob.

So many times, players are put off by the attempted header and don't follow through on the unaffected trajectory of what was a fantastic ball from Kerkez. He stuck with it all the way and got the reward.

Ange will be very unhappy!

Great goal, Michael, but as you say, it was all about the cross from Kerkez. Mind, he was given the freedom of north London to put the cross in, but take nothing away from him, was a great cross.

I see no recent comments are not showing up on the main menu page again!!

Smashing goal from Bournemouth. They really are a good side to watch nowadays and attack with pace and purpose. That young CB Huijsen looks to have a terrific future ahead of him.

Iraola has built a team with a real identity. I didn't see it coming when we beat them 3-0 at Goodison early in his tenure. Thought he was out of his depth.

Bournemouth rip Spurs apart for a brilliant second goal, but unfortunately it’s offside.

What a goal that would have been!

What a fantastic game!

Don't think he meant that though.

I'm supposed to be out digging holes in the garden...

Ooops... Yea, I'd forgotten about that glitch again, Rob. Thanks!!!

Superb game this. Bournemouth very impressive but Spurs still dangerous

Was that Spurs goal a cross or a shot? Not sure Sarr meant to score.

WTF was Kepa doing there? Penalty for Spurs. He came, stopped, came again and wiped Son out.

Bournemouth have a brilliant team, great finishers but an idiot goalkeeper. At fault for both goals in my opinion.

That was a thoroughly enjoyable game.

That Manure owner Ratcliffe, is one empathy-free, lizard in human skin, self satisfied, uber capitalist, psychopath.

Yep, Ratcliffe is cutting staff like the twat over here Musk and they seem like they enjoy it.

Great save but an even bigger miss.

Liam # 25, Iraola is a really good manager but he hasn't built the Bournemouth team.

That is down to money and the director of football, Tiago Pinto (and his predecessor).

Since being promoted in 2021 they have invested more than £350M in their playing squad compared to us in the same period.

Iraola has nothing to do with recruitment and squad building. He just coaches the players he is given by the club.

I probably disagree Robert as, to me, iraola has built the way the team plays. Which is why I was referring to. Rather than just player recruitment.

That's the thing I can't understand. How people enjoy other's losing their livelihood.

I've had to agree to restructures in work which have led to redundancy. Worst days of my working life.

Get in

Wow, screamer by Rice.

Liam #35, and he perfectly reflects the cold, money-grubbing Glazers.

And since I hate everyone and everything related to Man United, I've been smiling a lot watching their antics and the distress among their supporters.

Not celebrating that part, Liam, just the general wreckage that the owners have made of the club.

Was Hojlund ever good?

What a blunder and what a tackle.

New signing Paul

Stuttering run there for Collier for Man Utd

Of course Liam it will still be July.

That's an instant legendary save.

It looks like Week 34. Make sure to turn all media off.

Paul, back here it’s not a case of simply turning all media off! It’s gonna be a feckin nightmare.

I feel for you mate. I really do. Can you be a blue tortoise for a couple of months and not go out?

We can push it back if/when we win at the tin hut.

I sort of see what you mean Liam # 41, but it would have been a heck of a lot harder for him without being given such a good squad of players well adjusted to front foot football.

Both things are mutually dependent to a certain degree, I suppose Robert.

True, Liam,

Which is why it's great to see so many Directors of Football and generous owners praised for the major role they play – alongside managers.

Liam, Robert,

Bournemouth are like Brighton and prove the DoF approach CAN work. The system and structure is in place, so you can literally parachute a manager in to pick up from where the last one left off. Smooth transition versus the "let's start again" approach.

I suppose it's get ready for the big red love fest that will engulf our city. I'll have to stay away.

As Rob alludes to, it will be unbearable. When we bring a trophy home, we will have our day and show them what it's like to celebrate.

Many may remember what I call the humiliation of 1986. A joint parade by Liverpool and Everton through the city. Them on the bus in front with the league and cup. Us behind having finished 2nd in the league and lost to them in the FA Cup final, behind them and lost.

I will never understand why we agreed to that. I watched it across from the Pier Head and felt for our players. They didn't want to be there. In hindsight, I probably didn't, but we were out in numbers.

Stayed in York that day, Danny, no way was I popping over for that public insult. All made much worse, of course, because we gifted them the cup and the league.

There would have been hardly any neutrals who would have said that they would win the league after Kevin R took the piss out of the clown for the second goal on 22 February 1986.

I was there in the Kop on that day but there was no way in the world that I would have hopped on a Trans-Pennine train for the public disgrace.

Was it top Tory Maggie Maggie Maggie I hate Boys From the Blackstuff Carter who agreed to that fucked up chroeography?

If anybody had told me that 28 games into the season we would have the same number of losses as Man City, I'd have called the sanitarium on 'em.

The new Canadian PM is an Evertonian.

Uh-oh... are we gonna have to cheer for the Skunk Maggots tonight in the hope that the Hammers don't go above us and push us back into 16th place?!?!?!

Regrettably Michael

Cheer Maggots ? Nah.

We'll reel West am in further down the line

I'll be cheering em in the Carabao Cup final for sure.

The Carabao cup final has been cancelled in our House, Brian.

Its not happening

I'd never ever cheer for Newcastle. Can't stand them.

Oh I won't watch it Col, never watch the rs play, but I'll be hoping for a Newcastle win.

So Brian. I don't know what you mean. There is no match.

There’s three games this coming Sunday…..

Arsenal v Chelsea
Fulham v spuds
Leicester v Man Utd.

They’re the games we’re only interested in! Nothing else matters.

We all know the last trophy the skunk maggots won was the old Inter Cities Fairs Cup, back in 1968/69 season. What I didn’t know, something I was told today, was that the previous season 1967/68, they actually finished 10th in the old first division, and therefore only qualified for the Inter Cities Fairs Cup due to the old “One City One Club” rule. We finished fifth, spurs seventh and Arsenal ninth, but none of us qualified for Europe because Liverpool finished third and Chelsea sixth, and those two along with Leeds, who finished fourth, and Newcastle the lowest ranked club eligible entered the inter cities fairs Cup.

So if it weren’t for that ridiculous “One City One Club” rule, the skunk maggots would not even have been in the inter cities fairs cup the following season to win it.

And they think they are bigger than us!! 😂😂😂😂

If they weren't playing them in the final Rob, I would not want them to win. I don't want them to tonight. After the other side, they are probably the club I like the least. The real United have never bothered me.

The aftermath of Sunday's cup final is going to be a nightmare either way. Sky and Talkshite will be fawning for weeks, whoever wins it. I wouldn't worry about not watching it, just switch off for the love-fest afterwards.

I'll be rooting for them. Not just for family connections, but I always had a soft spot for them. I find them similar in a lot of ways to Everton and liked my trips to Villa Park. I've always disliked Newcastle, way before the Keegan years, when they were declaring themselves as big as Manchester United.

“I'll be rooting for them. Not just for family connections, but I always had a soft spot for them. I find them similar in a lot of ways to Everton and liked my trips to Villa Park.”

Your confusing me again Danny??
“Rooting for” who?
“Soft spot” for who?
And what has Villa Park to do with it?
It’s the Shite v Newcastle.

I’m tellin’ ya, Mark, Danny is deffo losing his ollies!!

A draw will be perfectly acceptable Michael. We should keep our skunk support for Sunday when it will be needed.

I’d sooner the next president of the PGMOL, be an Evertonian, rather than the Canadian president, Paul.

I watched the highlights of the Liverpool game on Saturday because I heard there were a few contentious decisions and the only thing in my mind was that Slot, must have been delighted with the match officials.

The game stinks, one rule for one and another rule for others, and the squeezing hinge’s , definitely get more favourable decisions than anyone else, despite their claims to the opposite🤮

Skunks have put a pretty decent team out tonight. Thought Howe might have rested a few in anticipation of their biggest game in decades next Sunday!

Sorry, confused moment!

Push by Isak?

Lot of empty seats at that Stadium too.

Come on West Ham.

Don't let these beat you.

I don’t want a WHU win, we play them Saturday, want their confidence to be really low coming into the game against us.

We need the barcodes to win and for a few West Ham players to get injured or red carded.

How shit were West Ham…..apart from the effort by Soucek in the very first minute, when he spooned over the bar from about 2 yards out, they didn't pose any threat whatsoever to the skunks' goal.

They only started to show some urgency when the board went up to show 6 minutes added time, and even then they didn't threaten.

If we can't beat them on Saturday, then we are definitely on the beach!

I am just watching a press conference covered live by Sky, which has Jim Ratcliffe, Seb Coe and the CEO of Man Utd. They have set up a task force to build a new 100,000 stadium for Man Utd, but they are looking for the Government to underpin this idea as part of the regeneration of this part of Manchester. Only yesterday Ratcliffe was telling everybody if he hadnt sacked 250 workers at Old Trafford and sold players as they would have gone bust by Christmas.

So they now want to build this shiny new stadium seemingly mostly funded by British taxpayers, and this from Ratcliffe who despite being one of the richest people in Britain pays no taxes here as he lives in Monaco. The actual cheek of the man. Also surprisingly you would have expected one of the Glasiers as the owners to be there, but the question would have been asked why they had assist stripped Man Utd for there own financial aims.

Ratcliffe mentions how the North West has been left behind and all the iconic stadiums are in London and goes on to mention Wembley, Twickenham but fails to mention these are national stadiums not club grounds.

So how do they get a new ground largely funded by the Government yet one of the most underfunded cities in Europe our city of Liverpool has had very little Government money for regeneration. Also Everton have paid for and built an iconic stadium with no help from the Government and if any City deserves money for regeneration its this City.

So I just hope that fans at every other club make it abundantly clear to the Government that no Government money should be given towards the building of a new Stadium for Man Utd.

Brian, I raised this issue some time ago, but was assured by ToffeeWebbers more savvy than myself that this stadium would have to be funded privately. Well, we'll see.

Totally agree with you Brian. It still makes my blood boil that West Ham’s stadium was built with and still largely funded with taxpayers money. How can United have passed the PSR rules if Radcliffe claims they would have gone bust by Christmas? What about all the money the Glaziers took from the club?

United should be forced to accept their situation, sell their best players, refrain from buying expensive replacements and work with what is left and develop their youth squad - like any other team would have to. Until they get their finances in order. Only then, could they contemplate a new ground. And even then at their own risk and expense.

Regenerating Manchester is no more a priority than regenerating Liverpool. We couldn’t even get public funding for an adequate transport system to our new ground, let alone public monies for the ground construction.

I think Everton will beat WHU on Saturday but, while they have players like Bowen and Kudus on the field they have a chance.

But those 3 points are definitely needed on Saturday to end any worries of not playing in the Premier League next season at Bramley-Moore Dock.

If we lost all our remaining fixtures, I'm still confident we wouldn't go down.

Looks like Billy Smarts Circus if you ask me.

The two-faced cheek of Ratcliffe is beyond contempt. It will probably get built but cost £4B instead of £2B, take twice as long and run out of money.

Government funding be dammed, every other football club in the league with an under developed area will demand the same. They will become the most reviled club in the land. If they aren't already.

Not a hope in hell the government will fund the new stadium for Man Utd.

Be the best stadium in the Championship…

Thought I'd get in there first! 😂😂😂😂

Brian, they are in debt to the tune of in or around £1bn and owe over £300m in overdue transfer fees.

And are adding another 200 redundancies to the 250 already announced.

But they want the UK Government to help fund their new stadium?

If they end up breaching PSR, there's probably as much chance of them getting a points deduction as their Manchester counterparts.

What the Glaizers have done to Man Utd is a disgrace. They basically loaned the money to buy the club, but are now using money from United to pay it back. I could have done that.

They've taken hundreds of millions out in dividends and get the club nearly a billion in debt; when they bought them, they were debt free. With the money they got from Radcliffe they should have paid the debt off at least.

Hail the Glazers! Long may their downward spiral continue.

Nigel.

Without clubs like United, Liverpool and Arsenal there wouldn't be a Premier League.

I can't see overseas TV paying billions to watch Everton v Fulham, or Palace v Bournemouth.

He's one alien reptile walking amongst us is Sir Jim. People are disposable. Let's make everyday people redundant and spend a few billion on a new ground with other people's money.

Dress it up as regeneration and fleece the taxpayer. Rope in alien reptile apologist No 1 Seb Coe to grease palms. Not one ounce of empathy for other human beings these people.

Paul @92,

No sympathy for United or the Shite tbh Paul regardless of whether it's good for the EPL or not. In fact, I would go so far as to say seeing LFC and MUFC sink into oblivion is on my bucket list of wants before my time comes. Probably never happen but here's hoping.

Nigel. Amen to that. I hope they fuck off to hell the Yank leprachaun has treated them like a cash point and it was a leveraged buyout. I think the twat put up £80M for a club worth £800M.

They get away with murder, No FFP or PSR investigation when they are £1B in debt.

Don't get me started on the VAR penalty in the recent game. Saw a couple given last weekend no different from ours that was denied.

James @95,

To be honest, I much preferred the First Division before it became the Premier League anyway, seemed fairer and money wasn't as much of an issue. Makes no difference to me how many overseas people watch it.