EPL 2022 / 2023

@KiwiPie i at least can confirm i'm interested, all aspects, Wimbledon were there not long ago...chance we'll be there again (although we did get our second win of 2022 on the weekend) plus all the aspects of the fan ownership stuff

currently the fact they cant buy their way out of that league easily is one of the only things stopping more people wanting to sell out....but then the fact they cant get out also mean we'll do anything to stop going back there

@Kiwiwomble said in EPL 2021 / 2022:

@KiwiPie i at least can confirm i'm interested, all aspects, Wimbledon were there not long ago...chance we'll be there again (although we did get our second win of 2022 on the weekend) plus all the aspects of the fan ownership stuff

currently the fact they cant buy their way out of that league easily is one of the only things stopping more people wanting to sell out....but then the fact they cant get out also mean we'll do anything to stop going back there

Turn your ground back into the venue for the car boot sale and you might make some money.

@Crucial it was a great market! we probably still could in the areas around the ground

@Kiwiwomble said in EPL 2021 / 2022:

@Crucial it was a great market! we probably still could in the areas around the ground

I “rented “ old bikes from there for a while. I say rented as every now and then I would have to repurchase it after it got flogged from outside Tescos. £20 every couple of months was a reasonable price

@Crucial :cat_face_with_tears_of_joy:

was going to say the last time i went was the early nineties and maybe it was more reputable then....but i also remember dad talking about geezers selling stuff out the back of the truck....so i might not

@Kiwiwomble said in EPL 2021 / 2022:

@KiwiPie i at least can confirm i'm interested, all aspects, Wimbledon were there not long ago...chance we'll be there again (although we did get our second win of 2022 on the weekend) plus all the aspects of the fan ownership stuff

currently the fact they cant buy their way out of that league easily is one of the only things stopping more people wanting to sell out....but then the fact they cant get out also mean we'll do anything to stop going back there

I wonder if it would be better for all teams if it was 4 up, 4 down between League 2 and the National League. One disastrous season and you can fall out of L2 and it is a really hard division to get out of given the number of ex-league clubs fighting each other every season.

@KiwiPie Would that help though as you would still have just as many clubs coming down so effectively it would still be as much of a shit fight.

Looking at the teams that are currently in the National League there are a lot who have played in the Football League but most briefly.

I guess you all want to emulate Luton or Rotherham. At least there is automatic promotion. There were some decent non-league teams prior to 1986 who never got the chance to go up.

@Rancid-Schnitzel so good

look, i'm just happy someone on a sports show actually had a strong opinion

but holy shit that was an awful take. The price alone meant 15 goals would have been an amazing season

the fact he's got 14 after 8...

that guy should be shown that clip every single week.

Impressive.

@Bovidae Pretty good - Swiss education system is very good hence his English is superb as well.

@KiwiPie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:

@Bovidae Pretty good - Swiss education system is very good hence his English is superb as well.

Born in the same village as my wife. He’s a keeper that one

@Billy-Tell said in EPL 2021 / 2022:

@KiwiPie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:

@Bovidae Pretty good - Swiss education system is very good hence his English is superb as well.

Born in the same village as my wife. He’s a keeper that one

i thought he was a defender?

@KiwiPie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:

@Bovidae Pretty good - Swiss education system is very good hence his English is superb as well.

Cue Harry Kane joke.

@KiwiPie Obviously concentrating on the league!

@Higgins We did have our best 2 players on the bench but that is an embarrassing result! Comes to something when even non league teams don't take the cup seriously.

Big win for Liverpool this morning which benefits both the North London clubs.

@KiwiPie They're only two tiers below you, aren't they?

Not like; say - a Premier League Team losing to Crawley Town ...

A lucky win for Arsenal at Leeds, which had plenty of drama. First there was a 40 min delay to the game shortly after kickoff due to a local power cut. Arsenal had the better of the 1st half so deserved to be leading due to Saka's goal. But the 2nd half was all Leeds. They dominated possession and had numerous chances to equalise, none more so than the penalty. Then Gabriel gets sent off for a kick on Bamford, which VAR rightly overturned as Bamford pushed him over leading to the clumsy contact. Ramsdale was huge.

These are the tricky away fixtures you need to win if you want to make the top 4.

@Bovidae

Combined with Liverpool tipping over city and Arsenal are four points clear at the top.

City still clearly the favourites, but I'm curious about how far behind a team has got and remained the favourites to win the league.

@Cyclops Man City are still the team to beat. There are a lot of games to be squeezed in before the WC, and squad depth will be so important. They can rotate players without losing quality.