The English Football Thread

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"Since the beginning of October, Arsenal Football Club have had more foul throw-ins (5) than Premier League goals (4)."

[Vesper 27,282]

51 minutes ago, Jason said:

Maybe we have different definition of underdogs but...

 

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1 hour ago, Special Juan said:

Looks like Pogba is off

He's in..he's out..he's in..he's out..

Thought he had gone already lol. Been talked about so much

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5 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

He's in..he's out..he's in..he's out..

Thought he had gone already lol. Been talked about so much

He's shite

[Pizy 17,860]

Offer them Jorginho + cash for Pogba. Recreate the France NT midfield duo with Havertz or Kova in front of them. 😅

Pogba in a proper midfield setup (instead of next to donkey's like Fred and McTominay or a slow as a cruise ship Matic) and he's a world class player.

 

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8 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Offer them Jorginho + cash for Pogba. Recreate the France NT midfield duo with Havertz or Kova in front of them. 😅

Pogba in a proper midfield setup (instead of next to donkey's like Fred and McTominay or a slow as a cruise ship Matic) and he's a world class player.

 

zero chance Mino the twat goes for that

Pobga and Mino both want him back at Juve

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6 minutes ago, Vesper said:

zero chance Mino the twat goes for that

Pobga and Mino both want him back at Juve

Saw some Italian football journo on Twitter say Juve couldn't afford him. Probably do what all these cheap ass Italian clubs do and try to pay in installments I guess.

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27 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Saw some Italian football journo on Twitter say Juve couldn't afford him. Probably do what all these cheap ass Italian clubs do and try to pay in installments I guess.

do we really want the clown car that is the whole Pogba entourage here?

it will disrupt the delicate team chemistry IMHO

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46 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Offer them Jorginho + cash for Pogba. Recreate the France NT midfield duo with Havertz or Kova in front of them. 😅

Pogba in a proper midfield setup (instead of next to donkey's like Fred and McTominay or a slow as a cruise ship Matic) and he's a world class player.

HELL. NO. 

[Special Juan 27,093]

Just seen Arsenal's position in the table

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59 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

He's shite

Most def....1 wonder goal every 2 seasons does not mean your WC

53 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Offer them Jorginho + cash for Pogba. Recreate the France NT midfield duo with Havertz or Kova in front of them. 😅

Pogba in a proper midfield setup (instead of next to donkey's like Fred and McTominay or a slow as a cruise ship Matic) and he's a world class player.

 

Never gonna happen

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5 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Just seen Arsenal's position in the table

it's a glorious thing

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Moncler buys Stone Island for $1.4 billion

The deal is expected to close by the first half of 2021. While the two Italian brands will remain separate entities, the acquisition will see them share information on how to best capture the American and Asian markets. They will also amplify their direct-to-consumer channels for the new luxury customer and push further into sustainability.

We called up Moncler’s CEO and Chairman, Remo Ruffini, to ask him what it was that attracted him to Stone Island, and what’s next for the brand.

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/moncler-remo-ruffini-acquire-stone-island-interview/

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2020-21 English Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion       
Southampton                        

http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2020/premier-league-brighton-hove-albion-vs-southampton-s1/

https://www.totalsportek.com/southampton/

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 Ben White starts at DMF

 Tariq Lamptey starts at RWB

[Blue Armour 4,158]

9 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

 

It is not the same. Spurs are underdogs. Basically for starting 11 they got just two new players Reguilon and Hojbjerg. If Mou wins it with them it would be story similar to Conte winning season with us. Neutral fans love stories like that.

Also if he wins major trophy with Spurs that would go on top3 list in his career with what he did in Inter and Porto. And all of that have much more value than whatever Pep and Zidane did in their careers because it is huge overachievement.

We'll see. You have a point, and I've seen some fans claim this, but I think a lot of people jumped on the wagon after their win over Pep and city.

I'll give credit to JM and Spurs for coming through relatively unscathed, after a tough list of fixtures in the PL in the past 3 weeks.

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19 hours ago, communicate said:

What we did was we kinda asked our fb especially Chilwell to play conservative. So son like his goal against arsenal, won't play one on one against cb. 

It f*** up our offense also though because Werner can't play without support. 

It was expected that at any time, one of our fullbacks would have to hang back to watch their runners.

Shame that we didn't have Pulisic fully fit to start the game. I feel his play could have helped unlock their defense even without full-backs supporting. 

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16 hours ago, petre.ispirescu said:

Listen, I simply cannot understand why there is 'Spurs are going to win the title' vibes around and people are truly afraid they might go all the way. I mean ok maybe Mourinho might have done it this way in the past, but not when he's had that many quality, and I mean really, really good teams that are challenging, too. For me Liverpool and City are nailed on to go head to head for the league title again and are the two main candidates. Not the sole ones, but still easily the two best teams around, then there is Chelsea and it might sound funny but United will go deep, too IMHO and the thing is that all this four teams have better attacking players than Spurs.

You might think Spurs will park the bus v the big teams like they truly did v us, City and Arsenal, but they did not look that good v Burnley, West Brom and Brighton either, three wins in which they shot less than 8 or 9 shots on goal combined. In three matches...

It's like a honeymoon period for them now and Kane looks like he's playing the Kante role now. They will fall apart as soon as they go on a winless streak and Mourinho starts blaming someone, anyone. In his mind they are now first because of him, soon Son or somebody else is going to be at fault for not tracking back on Ola Aina.

On another note happy for Arsenal's brilliant title challenge yet again, fuck that obnoxious and deluded fan base.

Good point.

Looking back at Mourinho's PL title wins, there were not many teams in contention for the title race.

Also, despite this being December, we are only 11 games in., meaning another 3/4 of the season to go. Therefore, even their current position at the top doesn't mean much.

And speaking of fixture lists, any idea why some teams still have a game in hand without any official dates announced for these? You would expect them to play before the midway point in order to preserve the integrity of the competion.