Premier League Round Up (Mar 7-9 2020)

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Not the most interesting of weekends this, but City lost again and Everton were humiliated at Chelsea, which was nice. Both of those were on Sunday so I’ll get to them in a bit.

 

On Saturday Arsenal had an undeserved 1-0 win over West Ham at the Emirates. The Hammers were the better side and even Arteta admitted that. So far I don’t mind him, he seems alright considering some of the dubious company he’d been keeping before taking the job. There’s absolutely zero chance his hair is still naturally that colour though. It’s so black it’s almost as shiny as his mate Pep’s chrome dome, albeit in a different way, obviously.

 

West Ham were coming off a much needed win last week but they’re still in big trouble at the bottom. They could have really done with a result here and if they knew how to finish they’ve have got one as they had so many chances. 

 

Bowen hit the post, Haller wasted a great opportunity due to a dreadful touch and my boy Antonio somehow put one wide from a yard out. He was also denied by a great save by Leno and all those misses would come back to haunt them as substitute Lacazette converted an Ozil nod down. Initially it was given offside by Sian Massey but VAR correctly over ruled it and gave the goal.

 

Moyes said afterwards, “we had one of the best referees in Europe and two excellent linesmen (his mates Keys and Gray will be proud) who had very good games today, so I’d have been happy to trust their decision and I don’t think we needed to go to someone else”. 

 

WHAT??? He wasn’t joking either, he was deadly serious. What a piece of work he is. That’s one of the most ludicrous, not to mention hypocritical statements made by any manager all season. Let’s just completely disregard the VAR if it means the wrong decision goes in your favour, eh? We’ll see how happy he is to ‘trust their decision’ when it goes against him, the crying twat. 

 

How come Lacazette is only on the bench these days? He’s lost his place to that Eddie Nketia kid, which seems odd as it’s not like Nketia is some wonderkid is it? He’s alright but he’s not that good. Obviously Lacazette isn’t either. He should be so much better than he actually is. He’s underachieving massively, so he’s at the perfect club really.

 

Arsenal’s midweek game at City was then postponed because some of their players quarantined themselves amid fears they’d contracted corona virus. I know this isn’t a joking matter but I’m not even joking when I say if you’d told that there’d be one team unable to play a game because of a situation like this, then Arsenal would have been number one two and three on my list.

 

Someone probably sneezed at training and before you know it Mesut Ozil is like the fucking ‘boy in the bubble’. Turned out the players were all fine but Arteta has it, which was a bit random like. 

 

Several players throughout the league have since tested positive for it, which seems a bit disproportionate doesn’t it? There aren’t THAT many cases nationwide, yet there are about half a dozen premier league players / managers with it. Kind of suggests that football is quite high risk, yet they don’t seem to want to put the league on hold for $om£ r£a$on.

 

 

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[alles ist gut]

Top, top massive ballbag analysis there, Dave.

[Anubis]

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The Blues though, fucking hell. You can tell they’ve got the derby coming up because none of the cunts even broke sweat, let alone put a tackle in. All their focus was on next week’s clash with us and you know they’ll be all self-isolating and hiding away like a bunch of shithouses, the fucking phoneys. Richarlison is probably sat on his arse on the carpet, having fallen over, as I write.

 

Fixed it for you.

 

[sir roger]

Some belters there Dave. Nearly crying imagining Ozil in that Travolta film.

[DaveT]

'For once the horror show involving Ederson had nothing to do with his face.' Love it. 'Diega Cosat, the Elephant Man' got a brief airing the other night. All a bit uglyist, I know, but you just can't help but crack a smile.

[Frank Dacey]

Your contempt for Moyes would have deepened if you realised he'd just described Martin Atkinson as, 'one of the best referees in Europe'. David Moyes is a football genius indeed.

[johnsusername]

Great write up, very funny. Cheered me up amongst all the virus stuff. 

[Peter Cormack]

Spot on about united crowd‘s boring  chanting Dave. It goes back a long time; those as old as me will remember a united game at Anfield in the early 70s they were dreadful, Busby‘s side had broken up and been replaced by shit; we won 1 or 2 nil. However for 90 minutes their deluded fans chanted „Champions of Europe“ non stop, either Feyenord or Ajax were Champions at the time.