How'd you like that Big Fat Sam

Can we talk about what bottle jobs Arsenal are or will that offend some folks?

i don't think anyone can deny that they have bottled it now :laugh:

@zizu @girth

yesterday's game was the ultimate bottle job :laugh:

If Newcastle can win at home tomorrow, then it looks like a draw will likely be good enough at home to Bournemouth for Everton next week to survive.

They saved the season !!

A very young , inexperienced squad who should only get better .


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I'll be surprised if Arsenal come top 4 next year the way they crumbled this season under pressure

Well done to a wonderful City team

Hope you stay up for Dyche's sake

neither leeds nor leicester have performed all season. They are going down

Which relegation hit team has the most desirable players ?

Leicester have at least 2 obvious ones
Leeds have some very interesting youngsters

Everton have Coady and Dwight O’Neil


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Be interesting to see where JWP and DCL go, if they do go

Leicester do have a good team - Maddo, Barnes, Pereira, Iheanacho all good players

Maddo will go Newcastle I expect

Personally I hope Everton can stay up.

everton and forest at least fought to win some games which sets them apart from leeds, leicester and southampton

Dixie Dean didn't play in the premier league

Neither did Lionel Messi.

There has been lots of social media talk this season comparing Erling Haaland with Dixie Desn.

This guy made a half hour video on the subject.

It's a good half hours veiwing. It's not just about Haaland and Dean but about how football has evolved.

I still don’t understand why everything BEFORE the Premier League has been discounted .. they played the same game with the same rules


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it's not comparing like with like, its a simple as that. Different number of games, different level of competition

Number of games has nothing to do with it. Dixie's goal ratio beats any player that's ever played in England's top league.

Level of competition?

In those days, any team could win the league, now, less than a handful can. Far more competitive back then.

Also, defenders could kick the living sh1t out of strikers and get away with it. Now defenders get sent off for making a clean tackle. Far more sending offs these days, which means more space on the field. Not to mention the perfect bowling greens they play on now compared to the mud baths they did then.

Different ball, different number of games, different pitches. They say explicitly in the premier league era, I don't know why that is so difficult to understand :laugh:

Different tactics also.

Teams used to play a 2-3-5 formation.

https://www.footballhistory.org/imag...35_numbers.png

It's where the standard numbering system, and names for positions comes from.

https://www.footballhistory.org/formations.html

Essentially it’s still same game .. wasn’t there was a crossover when the same players played with the same teams under the same rules moving from the old way to premier league over the summer ..

It’s not like comparing cricket with 20/20 cricket


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