English Premier League thread
 

Didn't want to clutter up the MLS/Sporting thread and thought it would be nice to have a thread to discuss the EPL.

As I said in the MLS thread, I'm a fan of Liverpool.

IBTL

I'm going to start an Australian Rules Thread. WTF

Is there a list of approved topics that I can view before starting new threads?


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Arsenal play Swansea tomorrow (err, next week, apparently). Hopefully, they don't lose again.

I watched the Arsenal/ManU game on Sunday. That was rough.


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You'll never walk alone!

When they sing that at Anfield-goosebumps!

ManU fan here...that game against Arsenal...was amazing. There was more scoring in that game than a Chiefs game.

Man U put a beat down on them!

not that much of a serious epl fan since im real new to soccer but for some reason i always like playing with aston villa on fifa so i guess they're my fav :)

This week's LFC match is on Fox Soccer Plus. I went to sign up and DirecTV wants $15 a month for it. That's way too much. I guess if I want to watch I'll have to find it online. Last time I watched a match online it was in Danish.

I am a Tottenham fan so a bit of a rough start. I am glad they let Eric Crouch go. He never really impressed me besides being 27 feet tall.

Peter Crouch?

US is up 1-0 over Honduras. 58'


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Obligatory Soccer Sucks Post

espinoza looked beast against the usmnt 2day... glad to have him on our local team

Liverpool vs Fulham coming on ESPN 2 in a few minutes if anyone is interested.

When I lived in Marlow I used to follow Leeds. This was in the late 60s. Still have some Subbuteo stuff also.

hahahaha, spurs fans always show their abilities...LMAO

Livi needs this win maan... we need to get back into Champions league contention

Fulham fan here

COYW!!!!!!

Fun game here.

Yup. Pretty exciting fr a scoreless game.

Dempsey. Love it. Deserved.

"All the way from Texas" hahaha

Nice

Deuce Dempsey if you need him.

DON'T TREAD ON ME

No Bundesliga fans here?
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I favor it over the EPL.

My Arsenal is currently imitating my Chiefs. I can't win I tells ya. :deevee:

- Premier League

- Bundasliga

- Italian (whatever called) League

- Spain's pro Soccer leauge (Only because of the Real M./ Barcelona rivalry)

In that order.

Serie A and La Liga.

The EPL is kinda like the NFL in that it feels so lifeless and sanitized at times beholden so much big corporate bullshit.

Bundesliga is a blue collar league with great fans and players passionate about the game. It is also a very competitive league.

Tough loss today. Controlled most of the game just couldn't get it past the keeper.

I think I'm giving up on Andy Carroll.

Been following Bundesliga since the 1990s. Great great teams and rivalries. They have the highest attendance rate amongst all European soccer competitions.

This year, the race is really tight between FCB, BVB, Mönchengladbach and Bremen.

I got a chance to attend a game last September in the Allainz Arena. Great experience.

Germans are ****ing great at playing soccer. You can never count them out until the whistle has been blown.

The problem with the premier league is that you have two teams that are fake in Chelsea and Man City. And they distort the rest of the league. But top to bottom, I still think it's the most entertaining league in the world.

ahh yes, The NY Yankee teams of the EPL. Agreed

Follow the German league and you will realize that people are choosing the EPL because of the high profile teams.

It's fun to watch but lately, the massive spending by Man City and Chelsea is just making it a Daniel Snyder heaven.

I've also started watching South American soccer quite a bit more. I got a bit hooked on it while I was living there.

There are some fun leagues and players.

I do think the Bundesliga is great. You really can't compare the atmosphere there to the plastic fans that make up alot of the premier league. It helps that Germany still has terraces, while the premier league keeps pricing everyone out.

But Chelsea and City have ****ed things up. Hopefully financial fair play helps out...

I root for Fulham because of my man, Clint Dempsey. Other than that, anyone playing ManU.

A dream of mine, I'm jealous.

There's something about EPL I can't get into. I don't know what it is.

Bundesliga appeals to me for family reasons as well as competitive. It's also fun to listen to a Bayern match in German!

I still want to get to Germany to see some games. I've gotten to see Arsenal play a few times, and Barca once at camp nou. I was in SA for Copa America this last summer which was fun too. Traveling around with the South American fans was pretty fun. Also got to see Palermo's last game for Boca, which was pretty fun to be around. And see River relegated.

But I've never been to Germany. Still wish I could have gone to that WC in '06. Still pissed off we don't have a good '18 WC host. I was really looking forward to a Spain, or England, or Netherlands trip. No desire to go to Russia though...

After '14, the world cup doesn't seem very appetizing for a while with Russia and then Qatar or whatever desert kingdom they picked.

Man U is on the verge of getting knocked out of the CL in the group round to FC Basel.

It just went final. Both City and United get knocked out in the group round.

After starting out real shitty, Tottenham is on fire and up to third in the table. Hopefully they can get back into the Champions League, if not contend for the EPL title. Getting rid of Peter Crouch really helped the club.

Yeah, so both London teams advanced and both Manchester teams didn't. Weird.

Been a fan of ManU since the days of Eric Cantona in the mid 90's...yeah ManU is the Yankees of the EPL, but they're the only team I follow that consistently wins championships.

:clap::clap::clap::clap:, if only Chelski did also...

Being a Bayern Munich fan, I take joy in seeing Alex's team not make it. I still have not forgotten the 1999 UEFA championship game.

Did you guys here what happened in the Dutch Eredivisie?

Some fan ran on the field during Ajax vs. AZ.

He attacked the AZ goalkeeper. The AZ goalkeeper fought back and repeatedly kicked the guy.

The ref gave the AZ goalkeeper a red card and the AZ manager pulled his team off the field in protest.

The game is now going to be replayed in its entirety (0-0) next month (even though Ajax was up 1-0 in the 37th minute) with no fans allowed in the stadium. The red card decision has been reversed and the GK can play.

****ing weird.

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that is freaking weird...
So they are going to resume the game from the 37th minute then? at a later day or somethin? and no fans can watch the match in the stadium...
That is completely bizarre

I'd submit that the opening stanzas of KFF [oh-ho-oh-oooooooh] has put a smile on my face more consistently and reliably over the years than any other song.

You just know some funny assed video is about to start.

Nope. 0-0 from the first minute.

I'm more of a La Liga man, but I do like to watch EPL and I usually watch it with a comfortable disinterest in the teams. It's crazy like the NBA to me in a lot of ways (but I have an NBA team. Whatever), which I like. Any team could die in a trailer fire and it would be a good thing to me because it'd just be another crazy event to happen in the EPL.

But lately I've found myself actually rooting for Tottenham. I've been getting my girlfriend into soccer and half-jokingly suggested that she should join the Jew Army and be a Spurs fan (she is Jewish), but now I've sorta' become, well, not a fan (yet?) but someone that wants Tottenham to succeed.

You should root for Fulham.

They have Deuce.

**** Clint Dempsey and his flopping bitch ass.

Keep hating player.

http://backpost.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/deuce2.jpg

I've been a Man-U fan since Giggs was a wee lad, and love watching Nani and Rooney. But I've got to say I've become quite the fan of Fernando Torres, and really come to enjoy watching Chelsea play. Hated Torres in the WC, but the guy hustles like he's the most overperforming scrub on earth, only he's as talented as the best of them when he gets touch.

Torres has been terrible since transfering to Chelsea.

Yeah, I was so excited for him, but he seems like a battered wife or something.

SKC should play Chelsea at arrowhead. Then we can play eminem as loud as we want.

I saw that and was so pist when the goalie got the Red Card. That ref is a ****ing idiot, wish someone would have socked him in the mouth. The manager did the right thing and I'm glad the league is making it right and reversing the red. But you are right that whole thing is bizarre.

Suarez's 3rd goal on Saturday was awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goo1fQEzP00

...gonna lose.

Go Blues!

Record number of viewers expected.

Wouldn't surprise me, they just lost to Everton.

It was a draw.

1-0 city

1-0 city win. So they win their last 2 they are champions

tall order since they play at Newcastle next week. Could be ripe for a letdown

Don't watch a lot of EPL but I wish I had been less busy today to watch this with friends.

ROFL

Sounds like a riveting game.

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wtf is the english premiere?