Premier League 2019/20

[Gazz]

2 minutes ago, Colly said:

Because Man Utd are apparently now a schoolyard 6 a side team.

I've put Ollie on penalties for this season because Sonnie skied the one he took in our friendly on Saturday.

[Baddar]

[Colly]

VA fucking shite more like.

Also does that mean they are allowed to stand outside the door shouting as long as they don't go in?

[Gazz]

Bloody EU, coming over here and telling us we can't have handball or bendy bananas.

[MDK]

What a tool 

[Adam]

Tremendously ridiculous, really.

Even taking away the complete lack of correlation between international politics and the laws of football  the body that makes up the laws of the sport, IFAB, is made up of five members...four of whom are the home nations.

What a total moron Holloway must be.

[Colly]

I miss the days when he just did casual misogyny. 

[FestiveJack]

Halloway has always been a twat, he just got away with it because zany.

[lanky316]

It takes a lot to come across as the biggest idiot on a program that regularly have Paul Merson as a guest but he found a way last night.

[TCO]

Gordan Strachan equating being abused for being black to abuse for being a nonce is still the one to beat.

[Lineker]

Quote

Liverpool have confirmed they are to abandon current plans to redevelop Anfield in favour of a more ambitious scheme that will increase the stadium’s capacity beyond 60,000.

Liverpool’s owners, Fenway Sports Group, have been reconsidering existing proposals to rebuild the Anfield Road end for several months and on Thursday the club announced that: “ambitious new plans now under active consideration.”

Under the existing planning application, submitted as part of the redevelopment of the Main Stand at Anfield, Liverpool can add an extra 4,000 seats to the Anfield Road end, raising overall capacity from 54,074 to over 58,000. Outline planning permission for the Anfield Road project is due to expire next month.

With demand for tickets to see Jürgen Klopp’s European champions far exceeding supply, Liverpool will allow the planning permission to lapse in September as they work on alternative designs for the Anfield Road end. A planning application for a larger redevelopment will be submitted to Liverpool city council in due course.

Andy Hughes, Liverpool’s chief operating officer, said: “The progress that has been made during ongoing feasibility studies has resulted in us being in a position to allow the outline planning permission to lapse.

“We are committed to working with local residents, planning officials and others as we now focus on the detail behind any proposed redevelopment for Anfield Road. Throughout this process we have been clear that our objective is to find the best possible solution for Anfield Road and that remains the case.”

Liverpool’s new Main Stand was opened in 2016 following a lengthy and controversial process that angered many Anfield residents. It was funded by a £100m loan from FSG and, as well as increasing capacity by 9,000 seats, has had a significant impact on Liverpool’s corporate and match-day revenue. In a statement confirming Thursday’s decision, the club said it was: “committed to engaging with the local community and other key stakeholders while pursuing a vision in keeping with the club’s aspirations.”

The Anfield area is continuing to undergo much-needed regeneration and Liverpool will have to overcome transport infrastructure issues with a planning application for a new and increased Anfield Road end.

[DavidMarrio]

Transport links will be a key issue in getting any go ahead. Theres been rumours of Merseytravel looking at disused stations nearby and potentially reopening them. 

Hopefully the club can be more sensitive as well towards the local residents. Wasn't exactly handled in the best of manners last time. 

Overall, exciting news. The club really does need to expand the ground as the demand is absolutely ridiculous especially considering the season ticket waiting list has been shut for decades and is into the tens of thousands. 

[MDK]

What a disgrace. Should be a small, minute tax put on the players wages to give the non-playing staff a proper wage, or something like that. Even Dulwich Hamlet pay their staff the London living wage. Chelsea, West Ham and even the Scousers, who can peel an orange in their pocket , pay the damn living wage.

[stokeriño]

Honestly, the amount of money it costs to put staff up to the living wage is ridiculously tiny compared to basically any kind of Premier League expenditure.

That article cites cleaners being paid £7.80/hr, £1.20 beneath the Living Wage. Say, for the sake of simplicity, that a club employs 100 such people and they're all working 40 hour weeks.

The cost to raise those to the Living Wage? A whopping £4,800 per week. Otherwise known as about two-thirds of what Alexis Sanchez earns if he ever sits down to watch Avengers: Endgame.

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Points on the board!

[Colly]

 

[stokeriño]

Pedro injured in the warm-up. Sigh.

"Youngest Chelsea starting line-up in the Premier League for 25 years." Blimey.

TAMMY~!

Oh for fuck's sake.

[stokeriño]

Twice in the first half-hour we've taken the lead and thrown it away...

[Szumi]

That was far too easy for Norwich. Limp wrist by Kepa and in behind too easily

[Cymbols]

Big Tam! Really want to see the lad do well (apart from when we play them).