Classic last day of the season game between Southampton and Liverpool.
Unfortunately for Southampton even if they win today it won't be enough due to results elsewhere. Namely their own results across the other 37 games.
10' for Everton to blow this. Lets go Bournemouth .
Truly sad to see what happened to Leicester. Champions League in recent memory, now, relegated.
Classic last day of the season game between Southampton and Liverpool.
Unfortunately for Southampton even if they win today it won't be enough due to results elsewhere. Namely their own results across the other 37 games.
I lol'ed. That was damn good.
Very nice to see Lucas Moura brought on and then scoring a beautiful goal with some wonderful dribbling in what will be his final Tottenham game.
Shame, Everton hold on to escape again.
Rutter thrown his shirt into the crowd and they thrown it straight back.
Commiseration to Leeds, Leicester and Southampton - easily could have been us.
Though I'm glad we are safe, I have zero confidence that our board will learn the right lesson from our just barely avoiding relegation for two seasons running.
They feel like someone playing Russian roulette, who after seeing the first five players survive, have concluded they'll be fine on their turn too,
That was experience, a Dublin pub with about a million TV Screens showing every game from an Australian feed. Big groups of fans all chanting ‘Leeds are going down!’ which felt a bit harsh and one Everton fan who went ballistic when they scored.
Liverpool v Southampton was a game of defensive comedy. Both teams had players who assisted goals against their team. Zero intensity to be honest, but given there was absolutely nothing riding on it, to be expected. Klopp was just sat down shrugging by the end. Salah hit the bar with a beautiful dinked shot, then screwed a much easier chance horribly wide. Summed up his game.
Had to feel a little for Leicester, Southampton and Leeds, but they all bought it on themselves. I can’t believe Everton keep getting away with it.
Oh people hate Leeds for reasons so despite us not being in the Premier League for 16 years, we still live rent free in a lot of folks heads.
Like we got this rep in the 70s for winning things through thuggy and sportsmenship, despite like pretty much every time doing that and it stuck (Dirty Leeds aren't we) Always makes me laugh that because go youtube Leeds 7 Southampton 0 and it's clearly one of the best footballing displays of that era but hey Clough hated us so we most have cheated right (ironic again given we lost out on a European Cup and a Cup Winners Cup because of corrupt refs and 2 league titles because of an offside goal and the FA deciding we had to play a league game 2 days after winning the league).
Oh people hate Leeds for reasons so despite us not being in the Premier League for 16 years, we still live rent free in a lot of folks heads.
Like we got this rep in the 70s for winning things through thuggy and sportsmenship, despite like pretty much every time doing that and it stuck (Dirty Leeds aren't we) Always makes me laugh that because go youtube Leeds 7 Southampton 0 and it's clearly one of the best footballing displays of that era but hey Clough hated us so we most have cheated right (ironic again given we lost out on a European Cup and a Cup Winners Cup because of corrupt refs and 2 league titles because of an offside goal and the FA deciding we had to play a league game 2 days after winning the league).
That movie with Michael Sheen is as good a reason as any to not like Leeds.
Ah yes, although a good film from a film prospective, as a historical exercise is a load of crap. Jonny Giles even successfully sued the author of the book for libel.
Casually reminded of how Ronaldo/Messi/Lewandowski/and now Haaland have totally twisted what a good goalscoring season is, because, excluding England, the top scorer in the other big 4 leagues is Mbappe with 28.
Conte vs Tuchel feels so long ago.
Conte vs Tuchel feels so long ago.
You should try that opening Community Shield game that Haaland completely failed to score in and Liverpool won a convincing 3-1......
Squires was on that today.
Also, I don't want to just chop up Squires' work and paste it piecemeal, (so check out the whole thing here), but this Luton Town panel was gold.
I haven't thought about Steve Foster for so long.
Gotta admit, as good as Bednarek's own goal was, I think Klopp doing his hammy while remonstrating with the 4th official is the Slapstick Moment of the Season.
Gotta admit, as good as Bednarek's own goal was, I think Klopp doing his hammy while remonstrating with the 4th official is the Slapstick Moment of the Season.
Oh I dunno. Jota wiping the smirk off Richarlison’s face in the Liverpool v Spurs game was right up there, considering the slapstick defending both teams engaged in that game.
Premier League still booming in Asia despite Manchester City dominance
There are concerns in England about whether the increasing dominance of Manchester City will reduce the popular and commercial appeal of the Premier League. The signs in Asia, the biggest overseas market, however, suggest that even a succession of City processions will result in more fans for the club rather than fewer for the league.
“Nobody in South Korea thinks that the Premier League will not be competitive, especially if City can also achieve meaningful results continentally and there are still dogfights between big clubs to qualify for the Champions League,” Baek Jung-hyun, head of planning at KBS Sports, South Korea’s public broadcaster, said. “There are enough interesting points in the Premier League for Korean fans. Arsenal could have been champions and nobody expected that at the start of the season.”
Asia, home to more than half the world’s population, is far from one mass. The regions (there are five football sub-federations: east, south-east, central, west and south) are made up of countries with their own cultures, languages and history. Overall however, England’s top tier is the most-watched of the foreign competitions, with football-loving south-east Asia, home to about 650 million people, the continent’s traditional English football hotbed.
In Malaysia, this season’s television ratings are the highest for six years. Broadcasters believe the upward trend will continue as long as Manchester United and Liverpool, traditionally the two biggest teams in the country, as well as Arsenal and others, are near the top, signing big players and playing good football. Sasi Kumar, a former Singapore international and now CEO of D+1 Sports in Madrid, agrees. “Fans are mixed in Singapore. Liverpool and United fans have the history and many of them are now in their 40s and 50s but the younger fans go for who is winning and who is popular. If City keep winning, I don’t see that it will impact the Premier League in Asia.”
The market for European leagues is a little tougher in China but there, too, England’s is the one to beat and supporters are also not going to switch off if the battle at the top becomes predictable. “Chinese fans won’t be bored as long as the English Premier League keeps spending to attract most of the top talents across the world,” said Luo Ming, editor of the longstanding sports newspaper Titan Sports. “While Manchester City’s dominance in recent years has been evident, the competition for the championship this season has generated a substantial amount of discussion.”
Over in the west, Wael Chehayeb of the Lebanese Football Association estimates that four in five football fans in the country watch the Premier League. “It is by far the most exciting league,” Chehayeb said, adding that there are few concerns about competitiveness. He picks the recent draw between Champions League-bound Newcastle and soon-to-be-relegated Leicester as an example of its unpredictability. “The position of the two teams doesn’t matter – it is not easy to predict the winner.”
Al-Nassr fan Jana Mohammed was watching from Saudi Arabia. “The Premier League is the most popular league here and people support different clubs, especially Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal. No football fan likes to have one team dominant but they like seeing their team winning.” It may be no surprise that there is more excitement in the country for next season with Saudi-owned Newcastle on their way up. “Now, Saudis have another team,” Mohammed said. “Newcastle will be the favourite for many in the future. We feel loyalty to it.”
It could be that Newcastle are the best hope to challenge the United Arab Emirates-backed City. Either way, if the team keep improving, their fanbase will grow. City’s has. Nobody imagined 15 years ago that City could one day challenge Manchester United and Liverpool for the affections of Asian fans.
If you're looking for a game to be background noise that you don't have to watch, the Europa League final is fantastic thus far.
If there's any kids watching the Europa League final tonight, this is what top-level European football often looked like in the mid-2000s.
The second half has been better and also would drive any "traditional" English fan absolutely insane.
Genuinely hilarious amount of gesticulating in this game.
EDIT: There has only been "football" in the second half using the absolute most generous of definitions.
There’s definitely players on the field and a ball. We can’t deny that. The clock is also running, and there’s a referee, so most of the requirements to be a football match are met.
Sevilla in the Europa League:
They're 7/7 in the Europa League. Ridiculous.
Excited to see them crash out of the CL next season, but finish 3rd in their groud, and make it 8/8 next year.
Also, Gonzalo Montiel is the only player to score the winning penalty in a World Cup final and a European final in the same season.
Had not seen the video of Roma fans harassing Anthony Taylor and his family at the Budapest airport.
This, after Jose's showing in the cark park.
In a just world, both Mourinho and the club will face significant punishment.
Missed this. Very happy for Union Berlin, even if Freiburg would've been an equally wonderful representative.
Well. That was quick.
The first FA cup final in years I haven’t watched. Well done City.
Yo, WTF is wrong with people? Tribalism and "bantz" have just gone insane.
A man has been arrested at Wembley after a picture emerged of a football fan wearing a jersey with what appeared to be a reference to the Hillsborough disaster printed on the back.
The Metropolitan Police Events Twitter account retweeted a picture of a man wearing a Manchester United shirt that had the number 97 on the back and the words “Not Enough”.
Yo, WTF is wrong with people? Tribalism and "bantz" have just gone insane.
A man has been arrested at Wembley after a picture emerged of a football fan wearing a jersey with what appeared to be a reference to the Hillsborough disaster printed on the back.
The Metropolitan Police Events Twitter account retweeted a picture of a man wearing a Manchester United shirt that had the number 97 on the back and the words “Not Enough”.
It’s on the rise unfortunately. Prison sentences and long bans are the only answer I fear.
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