The Premier League Thread

We'll just have to be the ones to beat them then

 

Tonight actually suits us. FA cup weekend, so they rest everyone, then they play whu mid week before us. That will sap their energy a bit, and hopefully lose someone else to a knock or pull like Mane. Then we go there and clean up, and bask in the glory.

 

This positivity lark is catching.

 

Ings to score the winner at his old club

 

Mane has done his hamstring...let's hope he doesn't recover too quickly.

 

Mane does his hamstring after I triple captain him.

 

This is such a boring title race. Liverpool had it sewn up months ago and so every week is just another chance for the media to cream over them. The points gap is so big it's not really worth reporting it every time Liverpool extend it by another couple of points, but they do anyway. Yes I'm bitter and I don't like them. Yes they have been outstanding and outstandingly consistant. But I'm incredibly bored about hearing about them.

 

I was thinking last night that now it must be boring being a Liverpool fan. You win every game, you play well. What is there to moan about? What is the point of supporting your team if you don't have the occasional 9-0 loss and blow a 2 goal lead every now and then? So boring.

 

Its funny, but for me its true. Winning grants you this strange immunity to everything else. You need to keep winning to get the same feeling, and even then the edge is lost. They need to lose soon for their own sake. Waiting for 30 years to win the title, then have it handed over with such ease sounds good, buts its not inkeeping with the reality of the last decade. The bar is too high, even after winning the trophy the only way is down. The only real way they are going to treasure this is to lose a few, and for once, I'd like to help them with this quest.
A loads of bollocks or quite profound, just an opinion.

 

Lol a bit of both and quite true

 

On a different level, its been similar for us as well. Remember that down and out feeling against Watford? We were so bad, we were staring down the barrel, and truly got out of jail with JWP's freekick. And that high was fantastic, then the Norwich game gave us a platform. Really massive results. But once we started this recent run, there's not the same 'everything riding on it' reward, so the more you win, the less you get. I'm not trying to downgrade or take anything away from our achievements, I much prefer winning and the safety of it (rather than libbys danger)......but the sheer adrenaline of results like the Swansea all or nothing don't compare to anything else. Its why I've always loved being a Saint, and never understood the ManU or Chelsea fans, it really must be rather boring.
Anyone else get that?

 

Yep deffo. That Swansea game for instance brought me to tears after the final whistle - such was the tension. Nothing does that like football and Saints!

 

And had we been languishing in 18th today, I wouldn't have been brave enough to write that. I wouldn't admit to it either, hell I might even fake to myself that I don't believe it!
Football is a funny old game, stirs stuff like nothing else.

 

Yes it is. But, the other 19 places are more unpredictable than I can ever remember, especially since the emergence of the Big 4/6 in the 00's and 10's.

 

I agree, the rest of the league is much more interesting. And yet all I ever hear about is Liverpool.

 

Come on. Thats clear hyperbole.

 

Also, it does kinda merit headlines when they're almost two-thirds of the way toward the best season in the top flight in the history of English football. That's a bit of a story!

 

I only read the BBC Sport website for football news. They currently have a grand total of one story about Liverpool (the match review vs Wolves). Man Utd however have three.

Man City have one. Spurs have two. Newcastle have one. Northampton, Sheff Wed, Arsenal Women, PSG, Birmingham/Coventry all have a story. The headline article is about Dortmund.

 

I used to say that if Wayne Rooney picked his nose just outside the penalty area [whether or not there was a match being played] then that would generate more news than if Saints won 2-0 against ManU's rivals, ie Man City or Liverpool.
And that is how skewed football news is. Although you don't hear so much about Rooney anymore. His news day is pretty much done

 

Cheering on the Hammers while willing them to lose.
Hoping they put up a beast of a fight while taking nothing away.
This shall be one heck of a conflicted nights football, but I'm
really looking forward to it! Come on medical staff, busy night please.