Football

There it is. Bullet.

Oof!

Like watching the Sky Train in its prime.

Inevitable, dull, and achieved through questionable means.

Lukaku defending for city. Amazing pinball.

What a save / miss

Ederson Motm, there.

another dogshit final. no surprise. City deserved it though. best team in Europe right now. though let's see how Luton shape up

Ederson had a bit of a mare at the start but pulled off two worldies and another quality save in the first half. Rodri though, top top player.

PL fixtures out later this morning, we'll see if the leak is correct, if so:-

"
Week 1:

Bournemouth vs West Ham
Burnley vs Man City
Palace vs Chelsea
Everton vs Brentford
Fulham vs Arsenal
Luton vs Liverpool
Man U vs Brighton
Sheff U vs Aston Villa
Spurs vs Newcastle
Wolves vs Forest
"

At least a couple of other 'itk leaks' about. All completely different.
For ^that one, don't Luton need to be away for the first few games in order to get their stadium ready?

Yeah, the other one I've seen has the TV schedule and has Liverpool vs Chelsea (and Brighton vs Luton).

Forgot to add the *taps nose* to mine earlier.

I don't see Leicesters name in there?

Arsenal, United, Chelsea and City away in our first six games. Could be worse.

On the plus side at least we won't have to go there at the pointy end of the season. On the down side our owner might try and sack Cooper six games into the season.

Ha.

The other one I saw (with TV schedule) was spot on (although I'd transposed LFC and CFC).

Man City first game. Of fucking course

Obv Villa away first game of the season again. Haven't had an opening home game since 2010.

You need to get Arsenal out of the league so you're first alphabetically.

Arsenal v X
Y v Aston Villa
...

That can't be how it works?

Apparently we requested it this year after all the concerts at Villa Park over the summer. More time to get the pitch right etc.

It was a joke.

The initial draft of fixtures are created by a computer against a huge bunch of rules (such as Fulham and Chelsea can't be at home on the same day, etc). And then they are tweaked by hand to add in The Drama (TM).

Ah - whoooosh! Too much enjoying the Johnson psychodrama to spot that...

@Soul I assume you've seen this
https://archive.is/wPHvm

Mohamed Elkashashy and Chris Farnell seemed highly dubious when they were linked with Burnley.

Unfortunately I have

Leicester appointing Pep is huge.

Pepwish

Martin Tyler out, Peter Drury in.