Where the fuck has this year gone?
What's happening this month? Club World Cup and Premier League memes I'm assuming.
Where the fuck has this year gone?
What's happening this month? Club World Cup and Premier League memes I'm assuming.
God damnit.
Justice 4 Ian.
At least I gave him a month off.
Took 2 minutes to trigger bruh.
I demand a referendum on the creation of the monthly football threads.
Adama's lack of running off the ball is embarrassing. A Right wing-back in Doherty is more of a threat running into the box, compared to Adama.
Alright my epic V League OP will have to wait until January.
Pleb has put the appropriate amount of fixtures in the OP though so credit for that.
Apparently the Ballon d'Or results have leaked already and will be:
1. Messi
2. Van Dijk
3. Salah
Yeah, Fox, you fucking idiot. There's only like six things on the internet at a given time I can't believe you missed it.
That's my worst poster nomination sorted.
You should nominate him for his pessimism regarding Liverpool tbf as it's getting a little annoying. We've been as good as we have been in my entire lifetime and yet he still can't seem to enjoy it. I found him insufferable at times in last months thread. I remember Hodgson, Konchesky, Poulsen and co. Nothing will ever be as bad as that period.
Winning an award.
Smiffy for biggest 6 year old
Did Messi even play well last year I really have no idea.
If by play well you mean scored more goals than anyone else, then yes.
Messi probably does deserve it, but I can't state enough how good Van Dijk has been. Salah in 3rd does raise some eyebrows. It does show how much sway winning the Champions League has on this though.
People say that these digital companies are entering the network and forcing fans to buy yet another subscription for no reason at all. Ignoring all the innovation that the Silicon Valley mindset can bring.
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Savage AND Sherwood? Praise Jeff Bezos.
So it's like NFL Red Zone except with a bunch of people who think we want to hear about their opinions
Considering most of the names from 20-11, Mahrez still being in the top 10 of this is confusing.
Boston or Rochdale at home. I'm happy it isn't Notts Forest or Leicester.
The last time we had an FA Cup draw that wasn't at home to a Championship side was 1967/68.
2nd Merseyside derby in 3 years in the third round.
Meanwhile City get a walk in the park against some lower league muppets.
Plus ça change etc.
It's getting harder to say that it's not a fix. I don't remember a top team playing a top team on the first day of the league my entire life. It was always, more than likely Title winner v promoted team and some no mark matches. Now we've had Arsenal v Liverpool, Arsenal v City, City v Chelsea, United v Chelsea etc. The fixture computer is not neutral.
Yep and they never play each other on the last day either (I think 88/89 was postponed).
We had United this season, write your own joke here.
I'd love to know they come up with it. Like, what actual things do they consider when putting it together. Atos also handles the Aviva Premiership fixtures as well. I'm guessing there's policing considerations and good old capitalism involved.
Lifted straight off the Premier League site.
Producing the full Premier League fixture list for 2018/19 is no random draw.
It is the result of a meticulous and painstaking process that lasts almost half a year and involves the scheduling of 2,036 matches across the top four divisions in England.
The man behind the list is Glenn Thompson, of Atos, a veteran compiler who has collated about 60,000 matches since taking on the role in 1992.
He explains how the list is compiled.
When does the work on the next season's fixture list start?
Glenn Thompson: At the start of the year. That's when I get the playing dates from the Premier League.
The whole thing is built up putting in the international dates from FIFA, then the European club competitions, then the Football Association adds in the dates for its competitions and what you are left with are the dates when you can play league and League Cup matches.
What is "sequencing"?
That's the methodology we use which is all about breaking the season down into a number of constituent parts, which are called sets. We break it down into five sets, which are reversed in the second half of the season.
Are there any rules you have to adhere to?
There are the "golden rules" of sequencing. In any five matches there should be a split of three home fixtures, two away, or the other way around.
Wherever possible a club will not have more than two home or away matches in a row, and will be home and away around FA Cup ties.
We will also strive to prevent any club from having to start or finish the season with two home or two away matches because it would be unfair for a team to finish with two aways, especially if they are looking for points.
Around the Christmas period, if you are at home on Boxing Day you will be away on New Year's Day, or the equivalent date. And we will also try to maintain a Saturday home-away sequence throughout the season wherever possible.
Do clubs from the same area play at home on the same day?
Most clubs will have a partner club they cannot clash with. There are the obvious ones – Manchester United and Manchester City, Liverpool and Everton – and then when you get into London it gets a bit more complex and less obvious.
What happens next?
Around March, the Premier League sends to each of its member clubs a form asking them to fill in three things: 1) Are there any dates you wish not to be at home? That is answered in conjunction with the local police. 2) Which club do you want to pair with? 3) Are there any teams you do not wish to play at home on Boxing Day?
Can you satisfy all of the requests?
From looking at the sequence we know how many of these dates we can meet. When we can't, the Premier League will ask the club which of the requests are most important.
We cannot accommodate everything but, on average, we satisfy higher than 85 per cent every year.
And that's put into an algorithm that then generates a random sequences which they then spin until they get the one they want.
It's not that bloke picking the games every year
Arselol against Leeds?
Memes.
Is the football on Amazon solely for December or is this now a permanent thing?
I think they have this set of midweek fixtures and then the Boxing Day ones this year. Got it on now, can’t fault the picture quality!
They bought a couple of packages as a foot in the door, but they can blow everyone else out of the water financially to such an extent that it wouldn't be surprising if they took the lot.
I'd missed Andre Vilas Boas taking over Marseille. Wasn't he a rally driver last year?
I thought as much as I could only see those fixtures. I like the fact you can click through stats and analysis whilst watching, see player information, starting line ups and hopefully the highlights tab is for replays that can view during the games. It all rests on the common potato's at this point as I much prefer streaming than finding a TV.
I clocked that whilst reading something on Marseilles improvement lately. I had no idea where he went after Spurs but to learn it was to Russia then China then France is a bit of a weird movement and he's still so young he could have at least another 15/20 years globetrotting.
Peter Drury and Jim Beglin on comms. Shades of the lesser of two Champions League semi finals on ITV 15 years ago.
Alright, the Pro Evolution Soccer dream team. At least until John Champion came along and ruined it with his shouting of the players' names.
Gabriel Jesus....what a cunt. I backed him in the Brazil/Argentina match and he missed a penalty, perhaps one of the most shittest penalties of the year. Tonight, I thought fuck no am I getting on him as FG so of course he goes and scores a right proper goal.
It has potential to kick off this match.
That's some hit by Rodri.
Aye but it was just your standard 'thump'. I only value such goals if a) it's from us and b) it's at least 40+ yards out.
Palace winning with ten men to climb to 5th place is perhaps the biggest WTF moment of the evening.
Chelsea to catch Villa off guard.
Leicester to beat Watford in a tighter match than expected.
Tottenham to absolutely rinse Man United with that line up.
Southampton to come unstuck to plucky Norwich could and probably should see another managerial change.
Wolves to continue their good run of form with a 2-0 win against West Ham.
Liverpool obviously to take a point in a drab 0-0'er but it would be funny if we scored early and battered them thus meaning Silva leaves and Everton go back in for Moyes.
Sherwood sitting there talking about players hitting other players with "diags".
Fuck off.
I reckon United will win tonight.
I just seen that run of fixtures that Everton have...ouch.
And I've seen out line up.
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