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the team that wins the title is the best team, i agree that the table doesn't lie. just saying i've watched them a few times this season and was never blown away by the football they played. it will be interesting to see how they fare if salah drops off, or picks up a serious injury. their squad is clearly a lot better than ours but i think our first choice midfield is better than theirs. we're not a million miles behind them. there have been other title-winners in the past where you just turn up against trying to keep the scoreline respectable. we competed well in the home draw against these and thoroughly outplayed them in the cup final. it was only the away game where we failed to turn up. that's one of the final monkeys howe needs to get off our back - winning away at anfield.

As said in the other thread, football gets away with murder especially the heavily weighted modern rules in place and selective punishments, they can fuck right off tbh. (And as also stated, the media will become the three monkeys as it benefits them to keep the status quo).

They were worthy winners but the bar wasn't as high nor the jeopardy. Think Ferguson's last title they were very average for a title winning side compared to recent years to that win.

Honestly don't think you need to be a Star Wars fan or anything to enjoy it. Really good.

At the stage they'd won the league they were 15 points clear in April and had lost two games all season. Not having a challenger may have taken the excitement out of it but they were very worthy winners.

Agreed. It's fucking scandalous.

Honestly the Premier League need to fuck off. The stuff they're letting Chelsea and others get away with and basically zeroing in on a team that doesn't have enough friends among the other 19 to vote their way out of a problem.

Meanwhile Chelsea….

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Scored a fucking cracker against Feyenoord

Is that Tesla's new truck?

He's said as much. He basically said that it would feel wrong to leave City at a low point and wants to leave on a high. Not an unreasonable point of view. But the next manager best want the same players or its pointless. The new sporting director Hugo Viana has a huge task ahead of him. He could cover himself in glory, or, well i don't want to think about that.

I’ve got a hunch that Isak, Joelinton and Trippier might all play on Sunday. They’re all carrying niggles rather than serious injuries and Howe has been holding them back for the game where everything is on the line. Big Joe apparently had an injection. You don’t do that to a player whose season is over 4-3-3, score the goals to win the game in the first half, calm the crowd down then a second half party in the bank holiday sunshine. 3-0 to us

Premier League have referred Leicester City to independent commission over alleged financial breaches.

I'm amazed he's stayed on given the level of rebuilding needed. I know it's his club and he doesn't want to leave anyone in the lurch, but starting a rebuild and trying to hand it off to someone who might not want some of what's been built seems an odd decision. Pride and ego is probably playing a part too tbf...

i think next season City will be in transition so possibly not a threat. this season wasn't transition. this was the realisation that the squad is too old. that coupled with an injury nightmare and the squad needs a refresh, possibly a complete overhaul. we're also getting closer to new manager territory as next season maybe peps last.

i think man united in 2011 were pretty poor champions too. they would play awful but still sneak a result. they finished on 80 pts, 9 pts ahead of chelsea on 71. at least this liverpool team are a decent unit, if unchallenged. i remember having these chats with a red in the office and he agreed. Darren Fletcher played a lot of games that season. Taking off my blue specs a moment, that man should be nowhere near a man united squad.

How fucking dare you? Maybe if you broadened your horizons you'd have a broader friendship group.

Let's hope everyone's off the boil again next season and we can have a season like Liverpool then. I'd definitely take a league win like theirs.

agree with that. they're the least impressive league winners in a long time. winning a lot of games without playing massively impressive football and benefitting from a late-career golden season from salah. i wouldn't be surprised if they drop off next season as the teams in the pack below improve and age catches up with some of their senior players who are now sitting on massive new contracts.

Sunderland used to be top side & they produced a lot of the top English talents + players who’d go on to have success with other clubs. However they were kicked under the bus when the mens team started to fail. Durham Women are the university team so are very well off funnily enough.

Saw Dyche being interviewed by Neville and his gang and they asked him "VAR yes or no?" and he said for him it's a yes. He said it's not a yes for the fans, cos he understands that it's not a great experience, but he said pre VAR no one can tell him that the big teams didn't get all the decisions. He was saying he saw it at Burnley but he'd also watch games and think there's no way we are getting that decision at Burnley. There's still bias in VAR, but I think it's definitely helped a bit in that regard. Anyway refreshing to hear someone in the game say it instead of just toe the line.

It all adds up, yellow cards not given which would've produced a second yellow and a red etc and is a another small reason why certain clubs have done so well over the years, now you've also got ridiculous differing payments from UEFA for finishing in the same positions based on old seasons past, where is the meritocracy or fairness in that? I genuinely don't know how it's not called out more but broadcaster and the media in general are complicit.