EPL 2020/2021

@junior said in EPL 2020/2021:

@majorrage said in EPL 2020/2021:

@junior ok. So city were the best team until they faced a better team and lost. Got it.

I personally think beating both Athletico and Real in the knockouts was phenomenal. If City or Liverpool had done that we’d never hear the end of it.

You're right. Just as City's beating Dortmund and PSG was also excellent. You're taking at umbrage at saying that both teams were great in the lead up, but one might have been a wee bit better, but then the other side were better on the big and were deserved winner.

All Black fan mentality right thurr

Have you forgotten what you wrote?

Best team in CL this year by some margin.

That’s your words. You can keep rewriting it if you want, but it was bullshit then and it’s bullshit now.

I took huge exception to the build up being all about city, and explained that above. I’m cool with being chippy about it too.

@kiwipie said in EPL 2020/2021:

who is interested in entering my Euros competition? Should be launched towards the end of the week. For Euro 2016, @dogmeat was 3rd out of 28 so it is pretty easy to do well (I was 2nd).

Bloody cheek

I'd actually recommend @KiwiPie 's comp. Easy to complete - you don't have to remember to tip every round and with constant games there's plenty of interest

Plus as he said it's piss easy. He neglected to mention i won the world cup one in 2010 and was 2nd in 2014.

Hint - get the goal scorers - individual and team right and you'll go a long way.

Let the manager dramas begin. Carlo Ancelloti is gone from Everton for Real Madrid. Seems like poor form from him given how much he talked up long term planning for Everton.

@cyclops said in EPL 2020/2021:

Let the manager dramas begin. Carlo Ancelloti is gone from Everton for Real Madrid. Seems like poor form from him given how much he talked up long term planning for Everton.

Most people are nothing if not opportunistic

@cyclops said in EPL 2020/2021:

Let the manager dramas begin. Carlo Ancelloti is gone from Everton for Real Madrid. Seems like poor form from him given how much he talked up long term planning for Everton.

Hard to turn down Real when Everton are always so .... mediocre. The promising signs at the start of the season just withered away and they finished below Leeds

Ancelotti wasn't their first choice but he has been at RM before and had success there despite all of the politics. You have to be impressed with his CV.

Gee it's a merry go round for Italian managers at present. Ancelotti, Conte, Pirlo, Inzaghi and Allegri either taking up jobs or being movedon just to name a few.

@cyclops said in EPL 2020/2021:

Let the manager dramas begin. Carlo Ancelloti is gone from Everton for Real Madrid. Seems like poor form from him given how much he talked up long term planning for Everton.

Good opportunity for Nuno Santo in my view. The talk seems to think it's between him & Moyes. I can't see why Moyes would leave West Ham though, he's arguably the EPL 20/21 manager of the year with the results there. Nuno also seems to be talking to Palace, but that would be a step sideways or backwards from Wolves. Everton may not be one of the top tier clubs, but that may well change with their new stadium.

Graham Potter is a name that has also been mentioned for Everton.

Everton have had talks with both Nuno Santo and Eddie Howe already apparently.

The reality is as a manager that you simply don't want to be the last person standing when the game of musical chairs finishes.

Comte reportedly in advanced talks with Tottenham.

@sparky said in EPL 2020/2021:

Comte reportedly in advanced talks with Tottenham.

This sounds like the Mourinho appointment - a proven winner etc etc. Conte is good for a season it appears and by then he's pissed everyone off and pisses off. If Inter didn't give you enough to spend, welcome to Levy and Tottenham.

@kiwipie said in EPL 2020/2021:

@sparky said in EPL 2020/2021:

Comte reportedly in advanced talks with Tottenham.

This sounds like the Mourinho appointment - a proven winner etc etc. Conte is good for a season it appears and by then he's pissed everyone off and pisses off. If Inter didn't give you enough to spend, welcome to Levy and Tottenham.

I'm not sure he is the guy we should be getting. The way Levy operates, we need a guy who is comfy developing young players and surviving on a budget

@canefan said in EPL 2020/2021:

@kiwipie said in EPL 2020/2021:

@sparky said in EPL 2020/2021:

Comte reportedly in advanced talks with Tottenham.

This sounds like the Mourinho appointment - a proven winner etc etc. Conte is good for a season it appears and by then he's pissed everyone off and pisses off. If Inter didn't give you enough to spend, welcome to Levy and Tottenham.

I'm not sure he is the guy we should be getting. The way Levy operates, we need a guy who is comfy developing young players and surviving on a budget

yeah that's not Conte. He's gonna publicly get this shits with not getting the players he wants.

@mariner4life said in EPL 2020/2021:

@canefan said in EPL 2020/2021:

@kiwipie said in EPL 2020/2021:

@sparky said in EPL 2020/2021:

Comte reportedly in advanced talks with Tottenham.

This sounds like the Mourinho appointment - a proven winner etc etc. Conte is good for a season it appears and by then he's pissed everyone off and pisses off. If Inter didn't give you enough to spend, welcome to Levy and Tottenham.

I'm not sure he is the guy we should be getting. The way Levy operates, we need a guy who is comfy developing young players and surviving on a budget

yeah that's not Conte. He's gonna publicly get this shits with not getting the players he wants.

He sounds similar to Jose in his pomp. He was more subdued this time, probably due to his failures at Chelsea and ManU

Conte is also very demanding on the players.

@bovidae said in EPL 2020/2021:

Conte is also very demanding on the players.

Good. Our players need a kick up the arse. Son and Kane had statistically amazing seasons, if the others had pulled their collective finger out we could have made top 4

Euros 2020 (2021). I'm running a picking competition and Ferners who should be getting an email out it soon are

@Hurrycanes
@dK
@Higgins
@dogmeat
@Hooroo

as you entered before, contact me if you have a different email address from 3 years ago.

For anyone else that wants to enter, PM me an email address ASAP and I will add you to the list - I will be sending out the details on how to enter this weekend.

And the English domestic season rumbles on. The playoffs for the National League started today and Notts County magnificently triumphed over Chesterfield 3-2 and will play Torquay next weekend for a place in the playoff final. Early game to avoid clashing with the Euros!

@Kiwiwomble Not sure if you have read this:

@bovidae said in EPL 2020/2021:

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Amazing story and good on him. I did not realise that MK Dons were the renamed relocated Wimbledon FC. Vinny Jones would approve!!!

I know Erling Halland has been touted about for most big clubs, but shit if he went to the most likley team (Chelsea) imagine how good their team would be... Halland, Haverts, Pullisic, Mount, Kante, Werner, Chillwell, Azpillcueta, Thiago Silva, Rudiger, etc etc

@mackerzzzz said in EPL 2020/2021:

I know Erling Halland has been touted about for most big clubs, but shit if he went to the most likley team (Chelsea) imagine how good their team would be... Halland, Haverts, Pullisic, Mount, Kante, Werner, Chillwell, Azpillcueta, Thiago Silva, Rudiger, etc etc

Ziyech as well....

@bovidae Don't really think Villa need him tbh. We have Wesley coming back and Keinan Davis if we were to use target men. Would rather we tried to sign Abraham instead.

Unbelievable Jeff!

At the very, very bottom of the EFL, after 96 years in and four years away, the team that once beat Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United 6 - 0 has returned to League 2.

And somewhere, Jeff Stelling is having a brilliant night after a nail biting game

@donsteppa said in EPL 2020/2021:

Unbelievable Jeff!

At the very, very bottom of the EFL, after 96 years in and four years away, the team that once beat Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United 6 - 0 has returned to League 2.

And somewhere, Jeff Stelling is having a brilliant night after a nail biting game

It sounded like a real thriller but I had lost interest when we went out to Torquay in the semis when I'm sure all their goals were either offside or handled. A few scandals in the league this season where certain clubs furloughed some of their players and then bought new ones to replace them! Clubs mentioned were Chesterfield, Stockport and Barrow so at least it seems like Hartlepool were clean.

Which of course reminds me of the day that Hartley and Poole scored for Hartlepool