The Barclays Premier League Thread 2014/2015

[King Ellis]

It's great for letting you nick celebrations from obscure Polish teams.

[Cheeky Hughes]

It's great for letting you nick celebrations from obscure Polish teams.

LET'S ALL DO THE LEGIA WARSAW

LET'S ALL DO THE LEGIA WARSAW

NA NAAA NAAA NA

NA NAAA NAAA NA

[Jimmy]

Great for a rabona, too.

My problem with it is the same as everyone else. I don't like the group stage, and I hate the CL teams dropping down. I'd rather keep the group stage, than teams dropping down, it's just a bit rubbish. But I love that I get to watch Spurs twice a week, and I hope we give it a good go next year. I wouldn't mind playing some more youngsters in the group stage, though.

[Dan]

I'm starting to wish we'd got relegated so I can banter with Myke, Niner, Thrilla and Matt instead...

MY TEAM IS SHIT TOO!

[Gazz]

Not that fucking far, Christ, that's practically the pub leagues.

[Dan]

Orient are down here with us again

[Lineker]

The Guardian have done a nice piece on Julian Speroni, who has his testimonial today. Temuri Ketsbaia will be there!

[Noah]

I miss the cup winners cup.

[Lineker]

The Football Association charge Hull forward Abel Hernandez with violent conduct for an incident with Manchester United defender Phil Jones. The incident, which was not seen by the match officials but caught on video, occurred in the 70th minute of Sunday's Premier League fixture. Hernandez, 24, has until 18:00 BST on Wednesday to reply to the charge.

[Matt]

West Ham won the fair play league so will be in the Europa League qualifiers

[Lineker]

West Ham will be among 104 teams whose European campaigns will begin with the first qualifying round on 2 July, with three rounds to negotiate before August’s play-off round determines the 22 teams who come through the qualification process and advance to the Europa League’s group stage.

The draw for the qualifying rounds will take place as follows:

UEFA Europa League first and second qualifying round draws: 22 June

UEFA Europa League third qualifying round draw: 17 July

UEFA Europa League play-off round draw: 7 August

UEFA Europa League group stage draw: 28 August

Cripes, such an early start for whoever the new manager is.

[Lineker]

And West Ham are lucky, this is the last season that they could have done this:

As of the 2015–16 season, Fair Play will be assessed on three categories: overall fair play, year-on-year fair play and spectator behaviour, with each association being scored and an association being declared the winner for each category. No association can win more than one category, meaning that on receiving one category award, an association becomes ineligible to win either of the other two, with the three categories being ranked in importance so that it can be determined which category takes preference. As of 2015, Fair Play no longer grants entry to the Europa League, instead only netting the victorious association a cash prize to be put towards "fair play or respect-themed projects".

[DavidMarrio]

Are we in the playoff or the third qualifying round as it stands?

I'm sure if Arsenal win the FA Cup we go into the group stage which would be a hell of a lot better than two away trips to some random Eastern European team

[Baddar]

Huge news for Liverpool fans...

Kolo Toure and Andre Wisdom have signed new contracts.

[Rafael]

Wisdom is quite decent. Touré, well....

[DavidMarrio]

Toure had Ronaldo in his back pocket.

[stokeriño]

Chelsea's goal of the season... The vine doesn't have the more impressive-looking angle, sadly.

 

[Jimmy]

Would be shocked if this isn't ours.

Edited May 26, 2015 by Jimmy

[Lineker]

Pretty sure Jimmy is still erect from that one.

[Jimmy]