The English Football Thread

[BlueLyon 9,359]

26 minutes ago, Vesper said:

if the voting is post season and Victimpool win the title, VVD

if Shitty win title and Sterling goes wild in last 4 games, Sterling

if we finish 3rd or 4th and win the EL, and he closes out with huge games

Eden should win

as other than Kante

we literally have no other players who would start for either the dippers or shitty (maybe Rudiger at the murderers when Gomez is injured, but Matip has been shockingly good, back to his dominant Bundesliga form)

Eden could have Messi esque games till the end of season, he wont win it. It will be either Sterling or Dijk.

When is the voting though? If its after season ends, it will be a player from a winning team.

[LAM09 6,823]

I agree. However, he is in the running for the golden boot and is the star for Liverpool so I'm surprised.

Surprised Aguero got chosen on similar grounds.

It's either VVD or Sterling.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Top 6 is absolutely crazy in PL. There are at least 5 teams that nowdays deserve to play in CL. No other league has such competition each year. 

I predict that sooner or later PL will get 5 spots in CL at this rate.

[communicate 2,703]

59 minutes ago, Yeboii said:

No Mo Salah!?

Expectation.

Mo salah is having a very good year but last year everything went his way in epl. Now people expect him to deliver messisesque number every year otherwise it is not good a season. 

[Vesper 29,140]

24 minutes ago, BlueLyon said:

Eden could have Messi esque games till the end of season, he wont win it. It will be either Sterling or Dijk.

When is the voting though? If its after season ends, it will be a player from a winning team.

 the winner scheduled to be announced on Sunday, April 28 at the PFA's annual awards ceremony in London

 

so its all up in the air

I would guess VVD wins

take him away from the dippers they have zero cahnce to win the league or the CL

or if not zero, massively less

Shitty have had huge injuries all year and if not for that VAR call, would be in the running for a calendar year septuple  (no team has ever won every trophy possible in a consecutive calendar) year

Barca in 2010-11 almost did that for first time in football history, but they only have 6 possible trophies, as they do not have a an EPL Cup style tourney in Spain

only this, exactly 9 years ago today stopped them from all 6 trophies 

Copa del Rey Final, lost, in extra time, a CR7 header, so Mo stopped Pep from having best football season in football history

Spanish Super Cup- won,

La Liga won,

CL won,

UEFA Super Cup won,

FIFA World Club Championship won

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Copa_del_Rey_Final

[communicate 2,703]

6 minutes ago, BlueLyon said:

Top 6 is absolutely crazy in PL. There are at least 5 teams that nowdays deserve to play in CL. No other league has such competition each year. 

I predict that sooner or later PL will get 5 spots in CL at this rate.

It comes down to money, if epl generate more  and more TV money, eventually it will come 

[LAM09 6,823]

Top 6 is absolutely crazy in PL. There are at least 5 teams that nowdays deserve to play in CL. No other league has such competition each year. 
I predict that sooner or later PL will get 5 spots in CL at this rate.

It was only a matter of time considering the money being pumped into the league.

They just reformed the CL format, so that hope is a way off.

[NikkiCFC 8,066]

52 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Unfortunately it isnt, even if we win the last 4, we finish 5th if both Arse and Spuds win out

Best chance for Arse to drop points are the back to back away games at Wolves and Leicester (so we will know in 9 days if Arse is probably going to drop any remaining opints, barring a huge bottle v CP, BHA or Burnely)

Best chance for Spuds to drop points is away at Bournemouth (meh) and then the last day of the season, at home v Everton, at home v West Ham and at home v BHA are propably both 3 points for the yids

I would say Spuds have the easier run in

 

 

I know it isn't mathematically but I'm sure they will drop points. 

[communicate 2,703]

I have just realized if Arsenal win all of their remaining game they will finish 3rd. That is one one hell of an achievement for Arsenal. The are imo the 6th best team this season in term of squad behind us

[communicate 2,703]

Has hazard won player of the year? 

He is imo has been the best player in epl for quite some time now. 

[NikkiCFC 8,066]

6 minutes ago, Vesper said:

 the winner scheduled to be announced on Sunday, April 28 at the PFA's annual awards ceremony in London

 

so its all up in the air

I would guess VVD wins

take him away from the dippers they have zero cahnce to win the league or the CL

or if not zero, massively less

Shitty have had huge injuries all year and if not for that VAR call, would be in the running for a calendar year septuple  (no team has ever won every trophy possible in a consecutive calendar) year

Barca in 2010-11 almost did that for first time in football history, but they only have 6 possible trophies, as they do not have a an EPL Cup style tourney in Spain

only this, exactly 9 years ago today stopped them from all 6 trophies 

Copa del Rey Final, lost, in extra time, a CR7 header, so Mo stopped Pep from having best football season in football history

Spanish Super Cup- won,

La Liga won,

CL won,

EUFA Super Cup won,

FIFA World Club Championship won

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Copa_del_Rey_Final

Well if you look at it that way they would lose in Swansea if there was a VAR so no FA CUP. Yes ball touched Llorente's hand but goal was regular because hand was in natural position. With new rules next season goal would be disallowed. 

[Vesper 29,140]

 

16 minutes ago, communicate said:

It comes down to money, if epl generate more  and more TV money, eventually it will come 

UEFA just changed (Feb 27, 2018) the league qualification slots to allow the top 4 leagues (Ligue 1 still only gets 3) to have 4 straight to CL group stages teams

and La Liga would get 5 before us, as they have a far higher coefficient average over the 5 year period, although we are catching up. The 3 years from 2014-17 killed us

 

 

[Vesper 29,140]

21 minutes ago, communicate said:

I have just realized if Arsenal win all of their remaining game they will finish 3rd. That is one one hell of an achievement for Arsenal. The are imo the 6th best team this season in term of squad behind us

that back 4, especially with Bellerin out for the year, is so shit, so yes, amazing achievement if they pull off a mini sorta-double (3rd place and EL trophy)

those 2 strikers make the difference

[Vesper 29,140]

2 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Well if you look at it that way they would lose in Swansea if there was a VAR so no FA CUP. Yes ball touched Llorente's hand but goal was regular because hand was in natural position. With new rules next season goal would be disallowed. 

plus that 2010-11 Barca team would have smashed Shitty

and that wasnt even the best Barca team

and I made a huge fuck-up (sort of, to be technical, as they only had 5, not 6 trophies to play for in a calendar and they did win them all)

the 2008-9 Barca was, IMHO the best one season club ever, DID win all 6 trophies in a consecutive calendar year (they just didnt play in the August 2008 (as they were 2nd in 2007-8 La Laga and didn't win the 2008 Copa del Rey the season before) Spanish Super Cup but did win it in August 2009)

they won

La Liga

Copa del Rey

CL

UEFA Super Cup

FIFA World Club Championship (2009, December, when they beat Willian's super 2008-10 Shahktar Donetsk team in the final (Shahktar was in middle of winning 6 out of 7 (including 4 doubles), and 8 out of 10 Ukraine league trophies )

2009 Spanish Super Cup (August 2009)

the ONLY thing they lost from start of season in August 2008 to end of season 2010 was the 2009-2010 Copa del Rey (Sevilla, who ended up winning it, knocked them out on away goals, on 2 super controversial goals in January 2010)

but they did win all 6 major trophies in a row

Fergie said in 2009 they were by far the best team he had ever played against or seen

even IF Pep had won the Septuple this year, both of those Barca teams would crush both of the last 2 Shitty teams in a best of 3 or best of 5, IMHO

 

[Vesper 29,140]

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[Vesper 29,140]

Geordies shredding SOTON, 2 nil, Perez on a hat trick already

[Johnnyeye 7,454]

2 hours ago, communicate said:

Has hazard won player of the year? 

He is imo has been the best player in epl for quite some time now. 

13/14 season Hazard won PFA young player of the year, 14/15 season Hazard won PFA and FWA player of the year, premier league player of the season and Chelsea player of the year  

[NikkiCFC 8,066]

Fulham two wins in the row lol. And now Cardiff has great chance to stay in the league over Brighton. Much easier schedule.