2024-25 English Premier League discussion

Busy_Bee4422 · January 5, 2025, 3:58pm

Fulham snatched a well deserved draw. They have grown on me this season.

Busy_Bee4422 · January 5, 2025, 4:16pm

The weather in Liverpool is terrible today. It snowed overnight and it has been a wet day today. Rashford isn’t even on the bench. I hope he saved money.

ArthurItas · January 6, 2025, 10:22pm

The way Nottingham has been playing is lots of fun. Nuno Espirito Santo deserves a lot of credit for turning this club around.

Cooke · January 8, 2025, 3:39pm

Guessing that Liverpool fans would react negatively to Musk’s ownership?

dr_t_non-fan · January 8, 2025, 5:59pm

Need to beat LIV, again, next week to have a shot.

ArthurItas · January 8, 2025, 6:06pm

Must see TV, and not paywalled here!

dr_t_non-fan · January 8, 2025, 6:15pm

I now have Peacock, though I prefer to watch on my own time, and Peacock has a hell of a delay (several hours) between the live feed and a replay.
Not sure why streaming companies don’t allow me to watch a little delayed, like my TiVo used to. Or watch it at 1.5x speed, like my TiVo used to.
Also, Peacock has this weird “you don’t need to watch the first 3 minutes of the second half after watching the required commercials” bullshit. My TiVo did not have this “feature.”

dr_t_non-fan · January 9, 2025, 6:16pm

Everton ownership: Good news everyone! Yes, I know you are going to play today, but we’ve decided to sack the coach. Truth is, we didn’t know about this Thursday “Cup” – I think that’s what it’s called – game. All games are on Sundays, right? And only one a week, right? Anywho, listen to your temporary coach and your team captain. They know what to do, until we fire them.

Busy_Bee4422 · January 9, 2025, 6:42pm

IIRC Forest also won the league in 78 or so after getting promoted to top tier then.

dr_t_non-fan · January 9, 2025, 7:01pm

And that was immediately after being promoted, as opposed to NF this year and LEI nine (really??) years ago.
LEI was in danger of getting relegated after being promoted (were at the bottom at Christmas, but the following year they were at the top on Christmas), as were NF last year.

Cooke · January 9, 2025, 9:44pm

Got a bit of a treat today as a number of my cable tv sports channels showed the Fulham-Watford FA Cup match. Fulham won decisively much to the delight of my English SIL and his dad who was at the match today (season ticket holder).

mavvj · January 9, 2025, 11:15pm

At least we won. Probably my last trip to Goodison.
It was a grand old stadium.

Busy_Bee4422 · January 18, 2025, 8:08pm

Watched the Fulham game. Adama scored a great goal to finish off Leicester 2 nil. Leicester had chances but didn’t score.

Saw the highlights of the Liverpool game. Liverpool won 2 nil with Darwin scoring a brace.

The_Polymath · January 18, 2025, 9:46pm

It definitely looks like Liverpool will win the PL at this stage.

dr_t_non-fan · January 18, 2025, 11:45pm

It looked like that a few weeks ago. Thanks for coming around.

Maphistos_Sidekick · January 20, 2025, 1:54pm

I don’t see a gift link for this, but…

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As it happened, the prince’s schedule was fully booked on Wednesday morning. He would be attending the College of Paramedics’ inaugural emergency and critical care conference in Birmingham, making a speech that paid tribute to the country’s paramedics.

Once official duties were over and before returning south, a gap in his diary emerged. William, 42, realised he would have an hour and a half to kill.

An idea came to mind. An understandable one, too — what would be better than a midweek drink talking football?

The prince knew there would be pockets of Villa supporters at the station before heading to Merseyside later that afternoon. His aides contacted Villa, asking if they could arrange a group of supporters to meet him inside Birmingham New Street station and, just tucked round the corner of the entrance, where The London and Northern Western Wetherspoon’s pub was.

The Prince makes an effort to watch every game and whenever his schedule permits, will attend in person. On a handful of occasions last season, he and his dignitaries entered the dressing room to wish Emery’s squad well. He is known to most of the players and has been to Bodymoor Heath, Villa’s training campus, to watch practice sessions.

“The first question was why he got involved in Villa,” says Johnson. “He told us that one of the people who looked after him and would take him to school was a Villa fan. They took him to his first game against Bolton. Will said none of the Royals are into football apart from him and his son, George.

“There was never a dull moment or awkward silence throughout. None of his entourage sat with him or tried to listen in. His eyes were always on us, just talking to the table like a normal bloke talking about Villa.

Kid_Rock · January 20, 2025, 4:02pm

Takeaways from this week

Liverpool looks solid. Arsenal blew big chance to gain. NF remains fun. City too little too late, time to stat pad Haaland. Spurs OMG.

Battle for Europe should be good with 4-8 being a one game spread and people not completely buying NF.

Cooke · January 20, 2025, 9:35pm

They would be flirting with relegation had they not won more games earlier in the season. Maybe they are saving themselves for the League Cup (although I expect Liverpool will lay a beating on them shortly).