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Yesterday's results:
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We are now well into the season - so early-doors aberrations are behind us - but I didn't expect any of these results. It's almost as though the (relatively) established clubs can't cope with the new boys on the block...
It's great to see Huddersfield , Burnley and Bournemouth upsetting the apple cart but the fact is the premiership is a money grabbing filthy capitalist engine
I really hope Leicester winning the title wasn't a one off but it seems it was
It's back to the big boys of man city , united , spurs , the arse , Chelsea and it's fecking boring
The thing that jumps out at me from those matches is four goals from four games. After a decade or more when the top clubs as a rule played progressive, attacking football, we seem to be heading back into an era of defensive football as marked by sides playing just one, or, sometimes, no strikers. That's not the main reason to fear an onset of more boring football though - it's that whereas sides who play with just one striker would have three or more players who would be trying to join in when the ball was played up to the lone forward in the past, now that number is dropping and the three centrebacks approach is increasingly becoming a five at the back system as wing backs are slowly being transformed into, essentially, defensive players (i.e. full backs) again.
I hope Man City or, maybe, Spurs win the Premier League this season - the last thing we need is for the Mourinho way to succeed.
It’s like a mix of the big 6, the usual mid table ones, Stoke, West Brom and a few league 1 clubs....it’s a bit boring to be honest.
Apart from the big 6 all the other sides are so scared of relegation, negative football rears it’s head, they’re so afraid to lose ergo that’s what you get. Simples.
There seems to be the super-rich, the poor who have invested in a manger or system and the poor whose owners are trying to raise capital by doing things on the cheap.
On the Sunday Supplement this morning, a journo suggested that some Premiership owners are buying into the Leicester fairy tale and have been liberated into expecting greater success. I think the league will become more competitive and entertaining.
The two games this afternoon were a wonderful advert for Premiership football.
It's always about the top 6/7 in the Premiership, the rest are just trying to avoid relegation?
That is probably the point. Beyond the top 7-8 teams, the rest of the division has been up for grabs for seasons. When you consider how poorly Premier League teams often do when they get relegated and how well (relatively) Championship teams have done after promotion, the gap is closer than we think.
Refereeing today was abysmal in the prem !
They gotta look at themselves tonight and think "are they up to making tough & right decisions" (the officials that is)