Promoted teams look much better equipped to make a go of it than the last few years. Bad time to get drawn into a relegation dogfight.
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Yeah, Wolves, and Wham in particular have had shocking starts
carolinablue232
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Wolves at least have some fight in them. West ham are essentially playing like the walking dead
Fulham were cheated today, it appears that the pretence of fairness has now been dispensed with in favour of ensuring certain clubs win.
PeregrineT
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I think my favorite thing from the Newcastle Leeds match was when the play-by-play guy clearly pronounced Pope as "Poop". Which I agreed with.
Leeds have scored 1 goal in 3 a hotly disputed pen against guess who and have been knocked out of the Caribou cup. Not a great start.
mmmmsnouts
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Just your typical 90+19’ goal for Wrexham against Millwall. Goalie got knocked out in stoppage time and was down for 10 minutes.
PeregrineT
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Yeah, looks bad for leeds when you take that step back. Other than the one probably-not-a-penalty, 0 goals for and 5 against.
Burnleys only points are against Sunderland.
Sunderland looks good with 6 points...until you notice they have played West ham, Burnley, and Brentford.
Give it a couple weeks and the truth will shake out a little more.
They were the better side against us and managed a draw yesterday.
But still needed a dodgy pen to beat us, out of the cup too, they are finding it hard, up to now to score goals, early days like. You tend to struggle if you don't score many goals as we've found out the last three seasons.
Old Blue 2
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They had the better of the first half, which was to be expected: promoted team, first game at home. They were obviously going to pile into us all over the pitch in the first 45 minutes. Second half, they never looked like scoring until...
Old Blue 2
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It needs a team to do what the Manager/Chairman of a Turkish club did a few weeks ago. Blatant cheating decision against them - everybody off the pitch NOW! If that were to happen in the Prem there would be uproar, but it just might focus minds even more on the cheating that is going on.
Until such times as those responible working on VAR are not sacked instantly, then it will continue. 'Clear and obvious'? Don't make me laugh!
Dwight K Schrute
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We use the phrase 'game's gone' a lot but we are witnessing the genuine dismantling of sporting competition. The transfer antics of the likes of Chelsea etc. allowing them to stockpile players at the expense of smaller teams is bad enough, but the VAR isn't even hiding it now.
I genuinely feel like VAR is helping to make the league like wrestling. Their main objectives seem to be (a) favour the big clubs, and when that doesn't apply, (b) give us a story. Like the pen in our game against Leeds - let's have a newly promoted team beat an established one in the first game.
The league was terrified about losing the treacherous 6, and are doing what they can to keep them sweet now.
I'd quite like to watch Arsenal this afternoon but I just can't stomach watching games at that 'kin shed.
Bryan+
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Arsenal will continue to lose the league and win it before December. They are trying their best but I can’t get the phrase “arteta is still trying to dress up in his mummy’s clothes”. Out of my head when describing building his team with Pep out of sight.
I’ll be very surprised if arsenal get any result there today.
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