Paper work complete, Ronaldo is officially a Man Utd player again.
Ronaldo scored two late goals to pip the Irish and with those becomes the world record holder for international goals.
110 CRISTIANO RONALDO
109 Ali Daei
89 Mokhtar Dahari
84 Ferenc Puskas
79 Godfrey Chitalu
78 Hussein Saeed
77 Pele
76 Lionel Messi
Absolute scenes in the Brazil-Argentina game. The Brazilian police have run onto the pitch to try to arrest the four EPL-based Argentine for breaking Covid procedures.
Big day today! But it's not televised!
Bit annoying but I fully support the 3pm Blackout. Thin it's a great initiative to get people out to game - either playing or watching.
Who knew Man Yoo vs the Geordies would arguably be the most anticipated game of the year!!
@majorrage said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
Who knew Man Yoo vs the Geordies would arguably be the most anticipated game of the year!!
Kevin Keegan??
@majorrage said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
Big day today! But it's not televised!
Bit annoying but I fully support the 3pm Blackout. Thin it's a great initiative to get people out to game - either playing or watching.
Who knew Man Yoo vs the Geordies would arguably be the most anticipated game of the year!!
Here in NZ, all games can be watched live - at 2am.
Sorry Fulham I may have to reconsider my support.
I have just learned White Hart Lane has its own on site craft brewery. Talk about value add. Can produce 1 million pints per annum and sell 20,000 on a match day
Now that’s what I call a stadium.
Mind you it’s a long way from Auckland
C’mon FULHAM
(Plus they pour Fullers)
@kiwipie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@majorrage said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
Big day today! But it's not televised!
Bit annoying but I fully support the 3pm Blackout. Thin it's a great initiative to get people out to game - either playing or watching.
Who knew Man Yoo vs the Geordies would arguably be the most anticipated game of the year!!
Here in NZ, all games can be watched live - at 2am.
Yeah, in Hong Kong it was the same & a mate of mine in New York is forever going on about it.
I watched my son play football at 3:30pm on Saturday instead. He's not quite the same level as Ronaldo (hell, he's not quite the same level as most of his team mates), but thats the system working exactly as it should IMHO.
@majorrage said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@kiwipie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@majorrage said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
Big day today! But it's not televised!
Bit annoying but I fully support the 3pm Blackout. Thin it's a great initiative to get people out to game - either playing or watching.
Who knew Man Yoo vs the Geordies would arguably be the most anticipated game of the year!!
Here in NZ, all games can be watched live - at 2am.
Yeah, in Hong Kong it was the same & a mate of mine in New York is forever going on about it.
I watched my son play football at 3:30pm on Saturday instead. He's not quite the same level as Ronaldo (hell, he's not quite the same level as most of his team mates), but thats the system working exactly as it should IMHO.
I agree, but lockdown with all the games being shown and there rarely being 2 on at the same time spoilt the armchair viewer a little. But it has restored Match of the Day to its rightful place showing a ruck of games on a Saturday night.
Nothing in the EPL so far has disturbed the expectation that the big 4 will pull well clear of the rest, the likes of Spurs, Leicester and maybe a couple of others will be distant for fighting for 5th and that the promoted clubs will all nestle near the foot of the table with quite a few others.
@kiwipie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@dogmeat Unlikely but not impossible! I can see Brentford being in the relegation battle as the season progresses - no idea if QPR are good but they do have a guy called Chair. Wikipedia has him as 1.58m tall and weighing 53kg - surely some mistake!
I think he was hoping it would be Fulham...
@canefan Saturday's result notwithstanding I would bet the house on Fulham and West Brom yo-yoing back up. Standrad in the Championship seems to have fallen away and in a Covid environment parachute payments are even more 'helpful' than usual.
QPR have every chance of making the play-offs then who knows.
Brentford will be up against it. Promoted clubs always are - since FFP anyway, but they will be battling it out with half a dozen other clubs so they can hope. Squad depth might be an issue but they seem well run and have a good ethos so I hope they stay up.
Another UCL disaster for Man United the main story of week 1. A thrashing for Barca isn't really news these days when the opposition is Bayern.
United and Ole looks like a union heading for inevitable divorce but it is delayed by extravagant gifts to paper over the cracks. But the more expensive things Ole has to cope with, the less he looks like knowing what the hell he is doing.
@dogmeat said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@canefan Saturday's result notwithstanding I would bet the house on Fulham and West Brom yo-yoing back up. Standrad in the Championship seems to have fallen away and in a Covid environment parachute payments are even more 'helpful' than usual.
I thought the same with Bournemouth previous year, 2 games a week and injuries over a long season makes the championship more of a marathon. Need to have players fit near the end.
Hard to make the big predictions this far out, but both teams look likely to be there abouts. Key is to finish obviously in the top 2 and avoid the playoff shootout which anything can happen. Personally I hope my cherries stay close, we have a good young squad, but I am well aware if we have a few injuries we are farked. Still good start for us at least.
@bayimports Fulham have a very strong squad but the last two weekend's results show the accuracy of your comments.
I'd still be very surprise if we didn't finish top 2. We played shite against Blackpool but 9/10 times we would have beaten Reading with 25 shots on goal.
I think you'll be there or thereabouts. It's looking like 3 from WBA, Fulham, QPR, you guys and Sheffield.
I base this on Sheffield having the squad and Manager to make up for their slow start. Coventry have done well but surely not and Stoke, Huddersfield and Blackburn all look very limited despite their lofty positions.
I hope you like 1-0 results with very little goalmouth excitement a.k.a Parkerball. Fulham are a helluva lot better now Scott's gone. Nice guy and could develop into a decent Manager but at this stage it's all about the cardigans.
@Kiwiwomble The game wasn't broadcast in NZ, or at least it wasn't on Sky. Instead they showed West Ham beating ManUre. 
It will be interesting to see where he lands. A very good player whose career has been affected by injuries in recent seasons.
@bovidae He's missed so much football when he should have been at his peak - but he did play around 170 games in the EPL but not a single game since the 2017-18 season. But on 70K pounds per week for this the last few years, he should be set up for life.
Brentford obviously didn't see him as part of their plans after he was on loan there, suspect he would need to take a dramatic salary cut to get a gig somewhere.
@kiwipie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@bovidae He's missed so much football when he should have been at his peak - but he did play around 170 games in the EPL but not a single game since the 2017-18 season. But on 70K pounds per week for this the last few years, he should be set up for life.
Brentford obviously didn't see him as part of their plans after he was on loan there, suspect he would need to take a dramatic salary cut to get a gig somewhere.
Back to the championship for him, or maybe a gig in the US or the Middle East maybe?
@kiwipie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@bovidae He's missed so much football when he should have been at his peak - but he did play around 170 games in the EPL but not a single game since the 2017-18 season. But on 70K pounds per week for this the last few years, he should be set up for life.
Jesus - Foodbill doesn't really cut it for Winston. Brewster's Millions?
To quote Yosser Hughes, "I could have been a footballer...but, I had a paper round."
@chris-b said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@kiwipie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@bovidae He's missed so much football when he should have been at his peak - but he did play around 170 games in the EPL but not a single game since the 2017-18 season. But on 70K pounds per week for this the last few years, he should be set up for life.
Jesus - Foodbill doesn't really cut it for Winston. Brewster's Millions?
To quote Yosser Hughes, "I could have been a footballer...but, I had a paper round."
He signed a contract extension ahead of the 2017/2018 season to keep him at West Ham until 2023 and I think that was when he moved up to 70K per week. Since then he has played 19 games for West Ham. That's about 750K pounds per game not including any pay-off to terminate his contract early. Over 1 million NZD per game played. That's a decent hourly rate.
Ha! Villa beat Man Utd 1-0 at Old Trafford. Happy days
Man Utd were awarded a last minute penalty but Bruno Fernandes forgot for a second he's not Jordie Barrett.
@sparky said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
Ha! Villa beat Man Utd 1-0 at Old Trafford. Happy days
Man Utd were awarded a last minute penalty but Bruno Fernandes forgot for a second he's not Jordie Barrett.
So many times yanited get gifted last gasp pens
@bovidae said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
Did Emi save the penalty or was it a miss?
It went a long way over the cross bar. Emi messed with Bruno's head before it, telling him he should give the penalty to Ronaldo. Brilliant mind games.
A reversal of last week when United got the late winner and then West Ham missed the pen.
A good day for Man City with none of their 3 main rivals winning - great game between Brentford and Liverpool. Brentford overloading Trent T-A repeatedly and he struggles to defend without being overloaded.
And if Brighton win the last game of the weekend they go top for the first time ever.
@bovidae said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
@Hooroo North London is red today.
I have a feeling we won't get much to celebrate this season, so I am clinging on to this like we have won the Prem! 
Has MK Dons played Wimbledon AFC this season? Is this the first season they have been in the same div??