General Premier League Thread - 2016/2017

Johner

Ayew looks done already.

Johner

Hopefully Tore doesn't come back to haunt us.

That_Guy

Ay-ow

Hammer Archer

Being a record signing for West Ham is a curse.
Our record signings recently have been Ashton, Savio Nsereko, Matt Jarvis, Carroll and Ayew.

That_Guy

Poor game.

Harry Palmr

Under 2.5 is a market for Chelsea games this season I suspect.

SantryRed

I fail to see what Matic brings to Chelsea. Especially with Kante there now. Waste of a spot.

That_Guy

What was he doing??? Just get rid!!

KERSPLAT!

Manchester United

2nd yellow for me.

RasTa

Most obvious yellow ever, this ref is always useless.

Paully D

Kante absolutely immense tonight, mistimed tackle at the start of the game aside. Picking up right where he left off last season.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Paully D wrote: »

Kante absolutely immense tonight, mistimed tackle at the start of the game aside. Picking up right where he left off last season.

My favourite player.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Some strike from Collins.

Bret Hart

Leicester

Quality goal.

Crackle

Manchester United

Good man Diego. Good finish.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Lovely from Costa, arrowed in.

Harry Palmr

Another steller ref performance.....

Hammer Archer

Surprise surprise, yet another refereeing nightmare in favour of Chelsea.
Both Costa and Kante should be off.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Conte has them riled up early.

Harry Palmr

Chelsea could be a good bet for most carded side this season - assuming the refs stop being cowards.

Corholio

Is celebrating with the crowd a yellow in the Premier League this season? Not a Costa diss, genuinely asking.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Happy for Conte, chelsea will probably need a couple more players to win it outright.

Johner

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Surprise surprise, yet another refereeing nightmare in favour of Chelsea.
Both Costa and Kante should be off.

Costa definitely should have been off, don't think the ref bottled it though it just looked like he was a bit late on a challenge he had every right to go for. Looking at the replay it was a definite yellow. Kante's was just a foul, not a second yellow imo. Anyway, the best team won, fully deserved win.

MD1990

Chelsea looked good. Especially in midfield & attack. Defensively they need a new CB badly. I hope they don't get Koulibaly who is a superb CB.

Mr.Nice Guy

Manchester United

I didn't realise Ed Chamberlin had left Sky. Pity as I liked him better than this other guy.

Paully D

MD1990 wrote: »

Chelsea looked good. Especially in midfield & attack. Defensively they need a new CB badly. I hope they don't get Koulibaly who is a superb CB.

Zouma will do the job nicely IMO, I think he's superb, though I agree they could do with another.

LiamoSail

Conte will never fit at Chealse, he's too likeable a character. A Conte replacing A Cùnte as James Richardson observed on Football Weekly

Corholio

Johner wrote: »

Costa definitely should have been off, don't think the ref bottled it though it just looked like he was a bit late on a challenge he had every right to go for. Looking at the replay it was a definite yellow. Kante's was just a foul, not a second yellow imo. Anyway, the best team won, fully deserved win.

He was more than a bit late in fairness, he ended up tackling Adrian at the top of his sock, not far from his knee. Straight red once your studs end up there.

kfallon

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I didn't realise Ed Chamberlin had left Sky. Pity as I liked him better than this other guy.

He's fronting ITV's new racing coverage in January.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Come on leicester.

SantryRed

Watford robbed today due to incompetent refereeing. Costa should have been sent off for a second bookable offence for diving. He should have been sent off in two out of two games so far now :rolleyes:

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Insipid.

HalloweenJack

Savage being a twat. Hoddle speaking sense: if Clattenburg's not sure, he shouldn't give it.

Leicester also had the ball afterwards so I think playing on was to their advantage.

Unearthly

Chelsea

And there we go, shirt pulling goes unpunished. It seems like refs decide to award a penalty once every few months for it even though it happens every game multiple times

That_Guy

You might be hard pushed to find a worse game than this. Just dreadful stuff.

That_Guy

Jesus wept Clattenburg you bottler. Should be off.

paulie21

Leicester getting shafted here

Unearthly

Chelsea

Ah here how can you not give that as a pen

LightningBlue

He gives that free-kick but wouldn't give the penalty. :rolleyes:

Lukker-

SantryRed wrote: »

Watford robbed today due to incompetent refereeing. Costa should have been sent off for a second bookable offence for diving. He should have been sent off in two out of two games so far now :rolleyes:

The faux outrage over Costa makes it even sweeter.

Robbed ya? No mention of the stonewall penalty Chelsea were denied beforehand? Obviously not.

Corholio

Costa should have definitely went, I'd be surprised if there was Chelsea fans who wouldn't think that. The dive looks worse the more you look at it. The fact that it's Costa seems to actually give his defenders a buffer on the whole 'oh your just outraged it's Costa again' regardless of what the actual incidents are. Two weeks in a row he should have been sent off, that's not a Costa witch hunt or 'outrage', both reds were pretty clear to be honest.

SantryRed

Lukker- wrote: »

The faux outrage over Costa makes it even sweeter.

Robbed ya? No mention of the stonewall penalty Chelsea were denied beforehand? Obviously not.

How is it faux outrage? Should he or should he not have been sent off for the dive?

And yeah, Chelsea should have had that penalty, that goes without saying, but 1-1 vs 10 men is better than what happened.

Unearthly

Chelsea

What a goal by Stuani

JPA

Manchester United

Inevitable relegation battle looming for Sunderland with that current squad. Surely need 5 or 6 signings.

JPA

Manchester United

Sunderland defence in ribbons but great play from Boro. 0-2

ctrl-alt-delete

JPA wrote: »

Sunderland defence in ribbons but great play from Boro. 0-2

Lovely football by Boro for the 2nd, great play from Negredo.

The Sunderland defence is a shambles though. It is embarrassing for them. Selling the central defensive pairing that kept them up, relying on O'Shea who has fitness issues and then having to replace him with Pieenar when he gets injured.

If they don't have 4 or 5 quality signings lined up they will be down there all season.

SlickRic

Brad Guzan is a terrible keeper.

Pienaar is awesome.

JPA

Manchester United

SlickRic wrote: »

Brad Guzan is a terrible keeper.

Pienaar is awesome.

How a Premier League club decided to sign him I'll never know. I thought he'd be lucky to get an MLS club.

That_Guy

For a full house, the atmosphere at West Ham's new stadium is pretty pathetic.

murpho999

Manchester United

That_Guy wrote: »

For a full house, the atmosphere at West Ham's new stadium is pretty pathetic.

Running tracks around pitches are bad ideas.

Crowd too far away and the green carpet around the pitch just looks wrong.