The English Football Thread

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

Stoke beat Arsenal at home. In other news: water is wet.

[Laylabelle 9,292]

Though if we lose tommrow be less hahah Arsenal and more ahhhh..for now however...yay! 

[Pizy 17,860]

Arsenal looked devoid of ideas that whole match. Missing a certain someone who dragged them to victory time and time again last season.

[Johnnyeye 7,405]

4 minutes ago, kmk108 said:

There were some ridiculous unpunished tackles in the Southampton-West Ham match as well. I don't know what's going on, but I've never seen Premier League referees this inconsistent before.

The FA need to bring all of their Premier League referees in and find a way to be more consistent. One of the problems is the rules are so dependent on the referees interpretation, it's bound to be inconsistent. The biggest issue with that is the FA is scared to take retroactive action for fear of undermining their referees. Makes no sense. 

the FA is a joke, you can get sent off and banned for whistling or clapping to the referee and yet get away with murder on the pitch for a dangerous tackle, the referee standards are pretty low it must be said, too much inconsistency. Maybe the league should consider VAR as an option for referees

[Johnnyeye 7,405]

Just now, Pizy said:

Arsenal looked devoid of ideas that whole match. Missing a certain someone who dragged them to victory time and time again last season.

that someone would look great in blue though

[xPetrCechx 13,546]

6 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Arsenal looked devoid of ideas that whole match. Missing a certain someone who dragged them to victory time and time again last season.

Sanchi?

[xPetrCechx 13,546]

[bluephoenix 1,125]

7 hours ago, Jason said:

If we don't win the league this season, hope City do it. Can't stand United or anyone else winning it!

Seriously can't take Mourinho some how. Not sure why, and every time Lukaku scores ....

[Last Sicarius 610]

Chill guys. UTD have easy fixtures but also its only beginning. In past two season, City had great starts but how they ended everyone knows. After January we can start telling who is going to win league.

[Tautvix 1,321]

6 minutes ago, Last Sicarius said:

Chill guys. UTD have easy fixtures but also its only beginning. In past two season, City had great starts but how they ended everyone knows. After January we can start telling who is going to win league.

Please tell me how many times Jose has failed to win the title after a good start in his 2nd season? 

City had nothing to do with United here...

[Miki-Liki 405]

Holy hell, what's with this defeatist attitude?

[bluephoenix 1,125]

they are strong contenders there is no doubt they have spent a lot of money and quite frankly have a good team. The way they play is testament to the fact that the dressing room is happy

I just hope that we can up our efforts to create a good foundation of players that would serve us long term *surprise surprise* the players who could actually grow and become long term aren't with us (looking at our recent baffling transfers : Chalobah and Ake).

[kmk108 1,186]

2 hours ago, Mana said:

If City fail to win the league, after spending £200 million odd on players, SERIOUS questions will be asked about Pep.

But I hope we retain though, as if we don't this is the first season Conte failed to win the league as manager.

Not entirely true. He's won the league every season he's been the manager of Juventus and Chelsea, but he never won the league with Atalanta, Siena, Arezzo and won Serie B once with Bari.

[kmk108 1,186]

Huddersfield with two wins in two matches. They'll win the league...

[Miki-Liki 405]

A serious question for the journalists, is Chelsea still in a crisis?

[xPetrCechx 13,546]

3 hours ago, Miki-Liki said:

A serious question for the journalists, is Chelsea still in a crisis?

Where is the Chelsea crisis? Then again it's not like Chelsea beat one of the title contenders like west ham or Swansea or have the all mighty French joey Barton aka Paul Pogflop 

[cosmicway 1,247]

City is tipped by the bookies to win the title (2.35). Mou follows (3.25), then us (7.50).

[Milan 17,835]

Everton with 8 Englishmen in their line-up. And playing good football.