BristolUK

Yay, the fixtures for the new season are out. It's been so long without any footie - welcome back, Premier League!

Premier League fixtures 2020-21: Liverpool begin title defence against Leeds
I see Burnley and Villa aren't playing the opening weekend. Presumably because they would have been playing Manchesters City and United. Why the hell can't they play each other and get the match out of the way? The season is already crammed.

Former Lancastrian

Well seeing some non existent club only finished their season less than a week ago I think we deserve a rest. Some might think because the players are knackered or fans are sick of shite performances from them. Will get better if and when fans are allowed and stop with the piped in crowd noise. There again who wants Leeds fans coming to their city/town?????

BristolUK

Just to clarify, you know I was talking about Burnley and Villa playing each other?

hardlyintense

It is not very long since all the shops on the roads approaching the London teams grounds all had their shop fronts boarded up on the Friday before Manchester Urinals played there the next day,then the hoardings were removed on the next day,.

pommybird

Any preferences for tonight? My dad was a lifelong Inter fan so I’m hoping they lift the cup.

BristolUK

It may seem uncharitable to say so but as remarkable as Sevilla's Europa record is, in the period they've had their six wins they've qualified for the Champions League 6 times (geographically avoiding Barca and Real) getting further than the last 16 just once and doing badly enough twice to parachute into the Europa tournament.

It's a little bit like yo-yoing between the premier league and the championship and being praised for the promotions.

el collado kid

What a great game last night brilliant football,nearly got out of control great stuff ,good football end to end diving arguing managers getting shitty goals.The only thing is so tierd went to bed on 75 mins,still very enjoyable.viva espana

civilservant

Why exactly can United not play on the opening weekend? Because the played a couple of extra games a week later? How much do these players earn again?

Then again, everything past our first team is utter shite, so I guess they better get a break because they'll all be playing a minimum of 46 games this season (that's the 38 PL games, 1 FA Cup, 1 EFL Cup, 6 CL Group Games, in case anyones wondering - and yes, I'm assuming we'll get dumped out of each cup straight away and finish bottom of our CL group)

Sounds like Maguire might be in jail too. So we need 2 CBs now

BristolUK

Has everyone seen Early Man?

Fun football movie in the best traditions.

BristolUK

No idea whether guilty or not but, frankly, that sounds like bollocks. People are fighting, getting your ID out to show them doesn't sound a likely first response and even if they did, that's going to stop them fighting? Give over.

https://www.theguardian.com/football...fficers-lawyer

civilservant

Can't believe no one has mentioned that Messi wants out at Barca. Or is it just a ploy for a new contract? Who would want to pay a 33 year old Half a Mill a week? Can he do it on a wet Wednesday night in Burnley?

I have a feeling we might be about to find out.

BristolUK

More a ploy for a change of president perhaps.

Given he reportedly wanted Barca to re-sign Neymar, maybe PSG is the obvious destination.

el collado kid

Quite agree my old carrot cruncher,Sounds like a total load of bollocks as usual.It's all greek to me

el collado kid

Is that former lancastrian still going on about city.Get over it my old cock being a lancastrian is bad enough i'd of thought.I do hope you get messie( bugger)and it cost you millions and millions and he is shit,Just joking Haha Hehe.hope he comes to the premier if not with city or utd maybe just maybe he will come to the saints.Come on you saints.

BristolUK

As unlikely as that sounds, way back when, Keegan coming back from Germany to play for Southampton was similarly unlikely.