Birstall Owl Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 On 10/04/2022 at 19:52, SiJ said: Bernado Silva is a f*cking brilliant player. Absolutely, but he's not David Silva ........and he's in denial that he's thinning on top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 2 minutes ago, Birstall Owl said: Absolutely, but he's not David Silva ........and he's in denial that he's thinning on top No, though there will only ever be one David Silva tbh. Bernardo is this weird mishmash of industrious, hard working, diminutive midfielder, who can also do a job up top. Suppose Foden is sort of similar. Swear we didn't really used to see these sort of players in English football. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickly Kevin Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Yep it was the top 2 teams in the country going at each other. But it really lacked something as well. There was no bite or rivalry to it. It isnt a patch on Man U v Arsenal games of the past. The PL has such a gap now I find it hard to care about two teams hitting near 100 points way clear of 3rd. Sky can hype it but it just isnt that interesting and I cant see it changing for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG D Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 7 hours ago, markg said: I didn’t enjoy it that much to be honest. Far too many mistakes. Found it incredibly frustrating You must be a very frustrated fella sat at Hillsborough on match day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markg Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 32 minutes ago, BIG D said: You must be a very frustrated fella sat at Hillsborough on match day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The only way is S6 Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 I saw a quote from mogadon Michael Owen last week about Salah signing a new contract: If he leaves Liverpool, everywhere else is a step down except City, which would be a step sideways. Really? Sideways? From a club with 1 PL title in 30 years to one with 5 in the last 10. Wake up Michael, then wake me up please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bannofan Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 11 hours ago, Quickly Kevin said: Yep it was the top 2 teams in the country going at each other. But it really lacked something as well. There was no bite or rivalry to it. It isnt a patch on Man U v Arsenal games of the past. The PL has such a gap now I find it hard to care about two teams hitting near 100 points way clear of 3rd. Sky can hype it but it just isnt that interesting and I cant see it changing for a while. If you look at it objectively as a competition, the Premier League is a bit bizarre this season. This year Chelsea were supposed to have a really good chance, but they have never really been close since the opening month. It's been a two horse race for ages,. Chelsea then have been stranded in third place, with teams beneath them being incredibly inconsistent, and even now the ' race for 4th place' is between three very flawed teams in Spurs, Arsenal and the terrible but still there Man Utd. Then there's West Ham and Wolves, and after that a big gap to a bunch of teams that can beat each other on any given day , right down to Norwich who I think are a joke for the way they just accept relegation every time they get promotion. Only the top 5 have won more than half their games. 9th downwards have a negative goal difference The ' pundits' have been bigging Crystal Palace up all season...but they have won 8 games all season..losing 10. Not exactly great stats on paper. I just the think the money and spending power the big clubs have just make it a quite a disjointed competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickly Kevin Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 7 minutes ago, Bannofan said: If you look at it objectively as a competition, the Premier League is a bit bizarre this season. This year Chelsea were supposed to have a really good chance, but they have never really been close since the opening month. It's been a two horse race for ages,. Chelsea then have been stranded in third place, with teams beneath them being incredibly inconsistent, and even now the ' race for 4th place' is between three very flawed teams in Spurs, Arsenal and the terrible but still there Man Utd. Then there's West Ham and Wolves, and after that a big gap to a bunch of teams that can beat each other on any given day , right down to Norwich who I think are a joke for the way they just accept relegation every time they get promotion. Only the top 5 have won more than half their games. 9th downwards have a negative goal difference The ' pundits' have been bigging Crystal Palace up all season...but they have won 8 games all season..losing 10. Not exactly great stats on paper. I just the think the money and spending power the big clubs have just make it a quite a disjointed competition. I know Man United won 99/00 and 00/01 easily but from memory there wasn't such a schism in the league. * I could be wrong. But while top teams will have the top players the wages mean this is more unbalanced than ever. Will a player sign for a mid table team over a top four team these days? If we ever got back to the PL the achievements of Wolves is absolute limit of what we would ever achieve. Or we would be a Palace/Burnley. How fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bannofan Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Just now, Quickly Kevin said: I know Man United won 99/00 and 00/01 easily but from memory there wasn't such a schism in the league. * I could be wrong. But while top teams will have the top players the wages mean this is more unbalanced than ever. Will a player sign for a mid table team over a top four team these days? If we ever got back to the PL the achievements of Wolves is absolute limit of what we would ever achieve. Or we would be a Palace/Burnley. How fun. I mean, it won't be an issue for a while I don't think, but looking at the table now we could finish anywhere from 8th downwards if we got there . Brighton and Palace are 10th and 11th, and before the first game of the season no-one would have batted an eyelid if they finished in the bottom three. 7 points separate 8 teams in the middle of the table. That has to say something about the quality now. Aston Villa have lost 17 games this season and are still 12th! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorrallOwl17 Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 If you can't enjoy matches like that on Sunday then you have a screw loose. The best players in the world, the best managers, trading punch for punch it was brilliant, can't wait for it again at the weekend. All the wages and money aside, it's awesome to watch. Money is what it is in football nowadays i'm past caring about how much PSG are spending on Neymar or what City are paying for Grealish etc, that's football at the top end unfortunately so just got to get on with it and enjoy the standard nowadays. The quality in these 2 teams is frightening, but granted watching Martin Keown forearm smash Van Nistelrooy was also top entertainment 20 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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