Written in the stars that after umpteen near misses they will finally get relegated the year they leave Goodison.
Looking like 3 from 5 already - Sheffield United, Luton, Everton, Fulham and Wolves. Won’t work out that way of course but it looks very like it at the moment.
Maybe add Bournemouth to that list and possibly Burnley, though I think they will be OK. Palace will be OK unfortunately.
I hate penalties like that tbh (unless against Palarse) Nketiahs touch went fully 20 yards away straight out of play, no chance he gets to the ball at all or makes anything of it, but because the keeper brings him down it's a penalty. All keepers have to do is come out and close the angle, then just not bother diving at their feet, and the attacker will just take a heavy touch out for a goal kick every time
The "second yellow cannot be overturned" rule needs to change with VAR nowadays, because that's absolutely insane, barely any contact, no shirt pull or anything, if there's a card at all it's for simulation
I hate penalties like that tbh (unless against Palarse) Nketiahs touch went fully 20 yards away straight out of play, no chance he gets to the ball at all or makes anything of it, but because the keeper brings him down it's a penalty. All keepers have to do is come out and close the angle, then just not bother diving at their feet, and the attacker will just take a heavy touch out for a goal kick every time
Had to laugh when I saw Jordan Ayew was amongst the 3 most fouled players in the premier league. Diving around, whinging like a shitter version of Zaha.
I want to know why Partey and Odegaard were not booked for waving the imaginary card
Other players have been and its supposed to be one of the new rules, which people will accept if its consistent, but booking someone for it one week and not another week is ridiculous
I initially thought that timewasting passage of play by Arsenal was brainless. It was like they were daring the ref to book someone.
Then it occurred to me, that maybe that’s exactly what they were doing - the players are making a mockery of the rule changes. Arsenal may have come a bit unstuck with the time wasting yellow due to their man getting a second yellow later, but quite a few teams have really been pushing it in these first couple of weeks, like they know the refs will eventually back down. It makes me wonder if the strategy is to take the risk of a yellow for the payoff of wearing the refs down.
We’re already seeing it with the waving imaginary cards - the ref hasn’t booked them tonight, as if the rule doesn’t exist. Refs are just too terrified of being the one to send someone off cheaply. (The fact that tonight’s red card was one of the softest you’ll ever see will just exacerbate that.) Rule changes in recent years have been a joke. They either don’t work or they’re too difficult to keep going, so they don’t solve anything.
Manchester City have agreed to sign Belgium winger Jeremy Doku from Rennes in a deal worth £55.4m.
The 21-year-old has scored 12 goals in 92 appearances for the Ligue 1 side.
Doku is poised to become City's third major signing of the summer, after Mateo Kovacic from Chelsea for £25m and Josko Gvardiol from RB Leipzig for £77m.
Newcastle United have signed 18-year-old Chelsea defender Lewis Hall on loan and will make the deal permanent next summer. The England Under-21 international made his Premier League debut for Chelsea in a 1-0 defeat at Newcastle in November. A fee of £28m plus £7m in add-ons will be activated at the end of the season.
Done like that to get around FFP. I hadn't realised that he was a childhood Newcastle fan (his father is from the northeast)
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No you morons, it IS a penalty.
Diving around, whinging like a shitter version of Zaha.
Fuck em
Other players have been and its supposed to be one of the new rules, which people will accept if its consistent, but booking someone for it one week and not another week is ridiculous
Rule changes in recent years have been a joke. They either don’t work or they’re too difficult to keep going, so they don’t solve anything.
The England Under-21 international made his Premier League debut for Chelsea in a 1-0 defeat at Newcastle in November.
A fee of £28m plus £7m in add-ons will be activated at the end of the season.
Done like that to get around FFP. I hadn't realised that he was a childhood Newcastle fan (his father is from the northeast)