No More Sarri - Premier League 2019/20

[EIM]

All that stick you gave Rogin. Disgraceful. I hope you all apologise.

[jwdd27]

Joe Gomez is another for my bulging "never seen him have a good game" file.

This is enjoyable stuff.

[ale]

I wonder what the record defeat is for newly-crowned champions in their next game? I remember when Liverpool won the title in 1983 with games to spare they celebrated by losing their next game 2-0 at home to Norwich.

Didnt Arsenal lose 4-1 at Old Trafford in 1989-Michael Knighton scoring. Seem to remember Arsenal also losing 4-0 a late season game after being confirmed as title winners but not confident enough to press issue without Google.

[ale]

This could, if Liverpool are not more careful, end up as a dry bumming.

Will probably be only of importance to tedious future debates about greatest teams. But without looking at remaining fixtures could well be matter of fact Liverpool end up well short of highest points total in a season. Which would mean less than last season.

[caja-dglh]

So Manchester City as unofficial champions, the first team to beat the Champions. </ schoolyard logic>

[Toby Gymshorts]

Will probably be only of importance to tedious future debates about greatest teams. But without looking at remaining fixtures could well be matter of fact Liverpool end up well short of highest points total in a season. Which would mean less than last season.

Meh.

[Gangster Octopus]

That Kane disallowed goal is a thing of great amusement. Only Colm can believe that it was handball...

[Patrick Thistle]

Yeah it's utter bullshit. Was a foul on Moura. No free kick given.

[Gangster Octopus]

Watching the highlights of West Ham v Chelsea and having read Skinhead back in the day, I was just wondering if outside the ground there was any virtual violence...

[Jah Womble]

Yeah it's utter bullshit. Was a foul on Moura. No free kick given.

If a goal cannot be awarded - and no advantage is perceived to have been taken - the referee has to bring play back to what would otherwise be a free kick. The one thing it isn't, ffs, is a f/k to the defending team.

But we all know that that revised handball ruling is beyond a joke anyway. The only consolation I can take here is that it didn't occur in a game that Spurs actually deserved to win.

[Patrick Thistle]

With no fans and ambient crowd noise, the whole spectacle is like a shit football sim. VAR breaks are like buffering moments when the computer tries to load the next section of play. VAR also mimics the arbitrary randomness of a poor computer play generator as well.

[Lang Spoon]

Hush, VAR is the perfect future and any resistance is Gammon, or something.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

So Manchester City as unofficial champions, the first team to beat the Champions. </ schoolyard logic>

I was bored at lunch so actually did track this through from the start of 2019-20.

Man City (champions) lost to Norwich.
Norwich lost to Burnley
Burnley lost to Leicester
Leicester lost to Man City
Man City lost to Wolves
Wolves lost to Liverpool
Liverpool lost to Watford
Watford lost to Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace lost to Liverpool ...

... and Liverpool lost to Man City.

so the "championship belt" ends up in the same place, but I thought it might amuse to see who else held it this season (or yet could if they beat Man City).

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Hush, VAR is the perfect future and any resistance is Gammon, or something.

I can't hear you over Jamie redknapp saying it was "The worst decision Ive ever seen" and "We need to be able to show more common sense."

The handball rule is the handball rule, it is very clear, and it's the same for everyone. It was the same for Mahrez's fifth goal last night. it will be the same if someone handles the ball while scoring against tottenham. The problem last night is that the referee didn't seem to see what happened to Moura as a foul, so didn't give spurs a free kick. (and if the rules didn't allow him to go back when advantage didn't accrue then they should be changed for that, that's an obvious flaw in implementation)

[elguapo4]

It wasn't a handball either, it hit him in the back.

[Diable Rouge]

Stanislas gives Bournemouth a lead at Old Trafford after dithering at the back.

[Diable Rouge]

And Greenwood clinically equalises.

[Diable Rouge]

Rashford has evidently improved his penalty-taking technique.

[Sporting]

Rashford has evidently improved his penalty-taking technique.

Both him and Fernandes adopt this stuttering run-up approach. Suppose if it works...

[Toby Gymshorts]

That's a fantastic strike by Martial.

[Sporting]

That's a fantastic strike by Martial.

You can afford to be gracious now, I see!

[Toby Gymshorts]

Erm, what?

[Diable Rouge]

As things stand currently:

3) Leicester 33 56 +29
4) Man United 33 55 +22
5) Chelsea 32 54 +13
6) Wolves 32 52 +11

[Sporting]

Erm, what?

One of those Saturday afternoon jokes. Ignore.

[Diable Rouge]

United almost give away a goal from the kick-off, and now potentially a penalty.