Premier League 2021/22 Thread

[RowlattsFox]

You can just about accept playing twice in 3 days when its the same for both sides but its a joke that some are now playing against sides that haven't played 2 days before. And injuries shouldn't count towards any requests for postponements. I know we did this by the way. 

 

Not fair competition currently. 

[weller54]

2 minutes ago, lanefox said:

Kloppy got his wish then, 6 day break before they plays us and (checks notes) one day rest for us 

I still live in hope that it will be off..

Cmon Omicron!!

[KFS]

Funny how the ‘big three’ have powered through this whole covid spell and everyone else has had to forfeit things. Just look at their squads. They’re stacked to the brim and every other pauper club is ducking out of it all. I’m sick of this ****ing league and these three nonsense money grabbing, lifeless shit clubs. 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Tbf we can moan but since we last played prior to Liverpool we had 9 days rest, whereas Liverpool played on the 16th and the 19th, yet we still couldn't manage a win We only have ourselves to blame, even when we get a massive advantage (and a two goal lead), we can't get the job done.

[CosbehFox]

10 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Tbf we can moan but since we last played prior to Liverpool we had 9 days rest, whereas Liverpool played on the 16th and the 19th, yet we still couldn't manage a win We only have ourselves to blame, even when we get a massive advantage (and a two goal lead), we can't get the job done.

Works in swings and roundabouts. A good chunk of our squad were only recently out of the COVID clink. Kelechi played he’d eaten ten Christmas dinners in that isolation spell

[CosbehFox]

18 minutes ago, KFS said:

Funny how the ‘big three’ have powered through this whole covid spell and everyone else has had to forfeit things. Just look at their squads. They’re stacked to the brim and every other pauper club is ducking out of it all. I’m sick of this ****ing league and these three nonsense money grabbing, lifeless shit clubs. 

You counting Chelsea in that ? It’s clearly affected them 

[Stadt]

26th of December, 29th of December and  the 2nd January of January would be fine as a schedule. TV companies scheduling games whenever they want is more of a problem - funnily enough I don’t think I’ve ever seen players/coaches take aim at them 

[jammie82uk]

46 minutes ago, Stadt said:

TV companies scheduling games whenever they want is more of a problem - funnily enough I don’t think I’ve ever seen players/coaches take aim at them 

They don’t take aim at them because that isn’t the case, the tv companies buy packages with predefined parameters that the premier league has assigned to the packages 

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, Finnegan said:

Listening to Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea players and coaches use COVID as an excuse to harp on about player welfare is no different to seeing the Super League clubs use a global pandemic as an excuse to try and push through their money grabbing agenda. 

 

It's self serving shit. As others have said before, nobody forces Klopp to play 100mph football all season or Guardiola to only register 5 subs because he doesn't want to call up any youth players. 

 

Don't get me wrong, the players shouldn't be being asked to play right now in the middle of a pandemic, sure. They should have called the festive calendar off purely on those grounds. 

 

But using it to push the same old shit about how they play too much football which coincidentally just happens to lead down the path of us losing domestic competitions so they can magically play more European games (which is make no mistake what's behind this shit) is purely bollocks. 

 

Cry more, Jordan Henderson, and look a little closer to home. 

Festive though, innit. There’s nothing more xmassy than a load of sour whine from Liverpool or Manchester’s best bitter.

[RowlattsFox]

I think players have a point of the amount of games some are playing and the calendar around Christmas is unnecessary.  Also have sympathy in the summer when they aren't get required rest periods. But from the outside I don't think its a good look for them to be continuously moaning about being 'over-worked', 'not looked after' and all this no-one cares about us attitude. You only have to look at the NHS for what over-worked and not looked after is really like. And yes I know, its not a comparison but you're average person will make that comparison and footballers don't come out of it looking great.

 

Yes the calendar can be rubbish and needs changing at times, but its upto the clubs to manage their players successfully, its why they employ so much specialist staff, ease off on the training during the season, rest players where necessary etc. 

[Super_horns]

Poor Burnley - had 4 games called off through no fault of their own .

 

Probably motivate them even more when they do play those games .

[dsr-burnley]

26 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

I think players have a point of the amount of games some are playing and the calendar around Christmas is unnecessary.  Also have sympathy in the summer when they aren't get required rest periods. But from the outside I don't think its a good look for them to be continuously moaning about being 'over-worked', 'not looked after' and all this no-one cares about us attitude. You only have to look at the NHS for what over-worked and not looked after is really like. And yes I know, its not a comparison but you're average person will make that comparison and footballers don't come out of it looking great.

 

Yes the calendar can be rubbish and needs changing at times, but its upto the clubs to manage their players successfully, its why they employ so much specialist staff, ease off on the training during the season, rest players where necessary etc. 

No need for the PFA to get involved, though.  Henderson and his overworked cronies have two options.

 

1.  Make it a union issue so that all players go on strike and demand equal rights such as equal matches played, equal medical considerations, and equal pay.  I don't think Henderson wants this - he wants his own conditions to improve but doesn't care about 4th division players.

 

2.  If we assume the top players don't want equal pay, then it's a matter between themselves and their clubs.  If the players of Man United and Liverpool and the rest want to go on strike against their own clubs, then so be it.  It's their own clubs making them play too many matches.  Neither Sean Dyche nor Brendan Rogers have any influence at all over how often Klopp picks Henderson to play.  If Henderson feels so strongly that Liverpool are being unfair, let him and his friends strike against Liverpool and see if they cave in when they have to forfeit a few matches.

[dsr-burnley]

2 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Poor Burnley - had 4 games called off through no fault of their own .

 

Probably motivate them even more when they do play those games .

Specially the Watford one!  

[Corky]

The domestic schedule has been the same for 25 years. 38 Premier League games, 6 FA Cup games (discounting replays which are now not applicable), 6 League Cup games if you're in Europe.

 

So what has changed? Europe and International football. Surely, then, they should be refusing to play in those games if there is a strike?

[mozartfox]

Glory be to God -  Kloppers gets his day off tomorrow.  So we will face a nice fresh Team and a bent Ref on the 28th.  Need Hamza for this one to carry some rash tackles.

[The Bear]

3 minutes ago, mozartfox said:

Glory be to God -  Kloppers gets his day off tomorrow.  So we will face a nice fresh Team and a bent Ref on the 28th.  Need Hamza for this one to carry some rash tackles.

I hope you smash them!

 

Or either team gets a few Covid cases so it has to be called off. 

 

That would piss him off I bet. 

[Aus Fox]

Here’s a theory of players are playing too many games:

Make the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference a two legged knock out tournament.

Each competition could start with 32 teams (after qualifying) - reducing games straight away - no dropping into the other competition when you lose.

Allow games from other competitions to be played on the same night - who cares if Norwich v Everton is on at the same time as Bayern v Barcelona? 
This would allow more mid week match weeks across the whole season.

[iancognito]

Palace v Spurs latest one to be called off

[UniFox21]

10 minutes ago, iancognito said:

Palace v Spurs latest one to be called off

Where have you seen that?

[jammie82uk]

11 minutes ago, iancognito said:

Palace v Spurs latest one to be called off

 

[jammie82uk]

4 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Where have you seen that?

I assume it’s this 

 

 

[UniFox21]

Just now, jammie82uk said:

I assume it’s this 

 

 

Seems massively conflicted rn, seeing both yes and no banded around. (tweet above your post for instance)

[iancognito]

A few Spurs fans were sharing bits on Twitter similar to those tweets above. I thought the PL clubs were bubbling and going back to last season's restart protocols but it doesn't seem to be stopping infections and large numbers of staff & players dropping with it.

[jammie82uk]

Just now, UniFox21 said:

Seems massively conflicted rn, seeing both yes and no banded around. (tweet above your post for instance)

Agreed apparently palace have 5 cases if you believe twitter, at least 2 of them are staff member going by the above tweet 

 

 

[UniFox21]

Just now, iancognito said:

A few Spurs fans were sharing bits on Twitter similar to those tweets above. I thought the PL clubs were bubbling and going back to last season's restart protocols but it doesn't seem to be stopping infections and large numbers of staff & players dropping with it.

Clubs can control everything within their grounds etc. But players have lives outside of those areas where they likely don't stick to all the rules