Premier League — Matchweek 1

I've just read some comments from Bournemouth fans, none of them seemed to be a worried about the players they've lost as everyone in the media is making out.

They've sold 3 of their starting back 4 from last season, but they seemed very confident in the management of the club to have replaced them with equal quality.

I'm not myself as I've very little knowledge of their new signings, but it seems like a lot to change in one summer and they start their season away at Them tonight!

I hope they get a result tonight, obviously, but I don't overly like Bournemouth due to some of their fans. One of them referred to us as a "nothing club"...and they've never won a major trophy in their entire history.

Hope they go down, tbh.

So do I Lee, as it’s too bloody far to travel! 😄😄

They are making Leeds favourite, 6/4 Leeds 2/1 Everton 9/4 draw which home advantage is the difference really.

It was always going to be a tough ask with it being their first home game in front of their barmy supporters. Who knows what will happen, we are weakened by injuries but much strengthened by Dewsbury-Hall & Grealish in particular.
I think those two are going to be huge for us if they can stay fit.

The betting is about right I'd say but let's face it, it's impossible to call.

Leeds leak goals like a sieve so I hope we can improve our conversion rate as even with Myko fit our defense has looked suspect.

Lee, I have a lot of respect for Bournemouth. 115 years to make it into the Prem, zero tradition, twice into administration, far from any urban center and not much economic base, yet they've stayed up and built a sustainable business model.

Hopefully this game doesn't become a showpiece for the Leeds new lads especially
DCL.

It would just be like Everton to fall victim to that scenario especially with Branthwaite missing.

Moyes really has to have a solid plan to deal with the intensity Leeds will have.

RS fans showing their true colours once again, as a racist comment is aimed at Semenyo, causing a brief pause in the game.

Also noted on the Live Forum, Rob!

I can’t see anyone stopping the rs from repeating their title defence this season. Makes me sick

Unfortunately the RS have goals in their team and even when not playing well can score at any moment.

Almost the complete opposite of us.

I thought Sly Stone passed away a few months ago but he appears to be playing RB for the sons of Satan

The Live Forum is lively tonight.

Klopp is on these Trivago adds here in the USA as I speak and I guarantee 99 percent of people have no idea who he is

Colin

I don’t the RS will win this year. They’ve held into Salah and VVD too long. Not convinced by the newbies despite early success. I reckon Chelsea or City

Trivago Turkey Teeth

Their new striker is as behind Moise Kean at PSG and Wurtz 130 million for what? A poor man’s Pierre Litbarski. Remember how poorly they ended the season

Maybe, Kieran. They still have the refs and media on their side though.

Any chance of us getting Iraola next season as our manager?

Get innnnnnnn!!!!

What a goal

What a player that Semenyo is!!

2-1 up and they've got everyone forward? Madness

I've been watching this gsme thinking 'the RS are all over the place defensively'. And Bournemouth have proved it.

They can still score at any moment though. The twats.

Looks like a season too far for Virgil Venereal Disease

I watched the second half of the charity shield, Kieran, and my overall impression was that Liverpool, are very good if you play an open game, but are not so good when you close the space and keep them playing in front of you?

Very fast on the counter attack, but they are also exposed to this tactic because they play such a high line, and they are also a team that I’m sure can be bullied.

Even Slott has alluded to this by saying that he thinks they are the most honest team in the league🤦‍♂️ as-fucking-if🤷‍♂️

What Lee says at #1
Clubs at this level are expected to have a plan. The plan is long dated - we lose this player we bid for these players.
Everton haven’t had any long term/transitional planning forever.

Iraola is doing some job at Bournemouth, I was really surprised Spurs never went after him

In league with the devil

Regardless of this Fluke. No way this Shambolic outfit will win the League

They must definitely sacrifice their "first born"

a last minute winner? for Liverpool? with their reputation?

Rosemary's Baby bastards

10pm on a Friday night and I'm sick of those fetid red feckers already

Maybe the Premier League should check them for three sixes the sign of the beast.

They are that evil they have 4 sixes

Why anyone would watch the shower of shite. I don't understand?.

Anyway Wigan got beat in rugby. That's all that matters.

Paul 35, intensity, speed and strikers. And Bournemouth were very good too.

Puking time

Semenyo looked a handful, not just the goal. He roughed up kirkez, and had the beating of him.

Bournemouth looked poor at the back. Keeper was no where near the goals. Difficult opening gane with 4 of last years back 5 missing.

So the media darlings scrape another jammy win. Bournemouth deserved at least a draw but as usual their intimidation of the media, the officials and the opposition gives them the there points.

I watched them last week because I wanted to judge them for myself Paul, and without watching them tonight, I was actually beginning to think I had helped to jinx them, (something I’d written on another thread) until I suddenly saw “in league with the devil”, suddenly pop up from Liam.

Any team with goals in them will win a lot more than they lose, so I’m just hoping that Liverpool end up coming up a little bit short defensively🤞

David (37) Bournemouth had them on the rack at 2-1 and deserved a draw at least but THEY never stop playing and got two late goals at the time when it was anybody’s game.

Van Dijk was past his best last season so another year older isn’t going to help him or Liverpool.

Jay, what rubbish. There simply a better team than most in this league.

They should be sponsored by Tampax. Jammy c***s.

Salah, unfortunately, looks as good as ever. Made a goal for himself by being prepared to chase a punted ball to no-one in particular well into added time.
Van Dyke is definitely on the wane.

I never watch that lot. This was a 5am kickoff so I had no intention of seeing any of it. But I woke up and, against my better judgement, turned it on.

This has served as a reminder of why I shouldn't watch them.

Yet, Oliver

Scott 44. Apparently the red sh*te are having Hartley's sponsor their fkg breakfast's.

What happens when you make a deal with the devil. Sloth will ruin Klopps team (I hated that gonshite but only cos he was good) but they’ll somehow get lucky like they always do. Rushie and Kenny at brainwashing. Chief hires. Absolutely fucking horriblist shower of dirty cheating lying shithouses in world sport ever. Vile.

Bournemouth made a fist of it and were worthy of a point, but then the inevitable happened.

Liverpool looked less than convincing at the back, but applied one of the basic principles of football. Stating the obvious, but if the opposition score, go and score more than them.

Despite the usual help from the three Macbeth witches around the cauldron at the death, I'm glad I watched the game.

The RS will concede goals this year, especially against teams with pace down the flanks. Bournemouth were poor at the back and made mistakes for nearly all the goals. They missed the calm presence of the lad who has gone to Madrid. Their new CB, Diakité, who they paid Lille around £30M for, looked like a rabbit in the headlights. With a bit more nous at the back, they'd have at least got a point.

Managers will be watching that game (and last week) and creating tactics to exploit the RS weaknesses.

Has anyone identified the racist Everton fan who was wearing a RS top and had borrowed a wheelchair. ?

Villa vs Barcodes, maybe it's endemic but the number of simple mistakes, poor passes, wayward shots, and generally shite football in this first half belies the "fantastic Premier League season" hype somewhat. Early season cobwebs?

Maybe I'm just too critical, need to work on my mental attitude, learn to appreciate the subtle skills on show, and the tremendous lives of dedicated effort and untold sacrifice these instant multi-millionaires have suffered?

Nah...

Just watched the first half of the Villa-Newcastle game and what an awful game of football. Villa seem to be relying on long balls down the channel to Watkins while at best Newcastle seem to have little more than get wide and cross.

The only thing to learn from the game so far is that goal kicks to somebody standing next to you in the 6-yard box is an utter waste of time and ends up with somebody wellying it long under pressure which could have been done more accurately in the first place.

Gordon at the 10 looks like it isn't going to work. Onana was largely anonymous. The all out press is no longer used. Also, Villa looks to be really slowing it down to almost intternational mode.

That's all I learned from that.

Probably good that they give a red card for that.

Even if Gordon was as weak as piss and collapsed like a Nottinghamshire cooling tower.

Any links to live football streams for today's 3.00 kick offs??

Richie scores first for Spurs

Good finish

Meant to have played well vs PSG.

Amazing what happens when you get minutes and faith.

MK #57, I thought it was poor given Gordon's propensity for falling down.

A mate I was watching it with is of the "it's a foul so he's entitled to" opinion but I reminded him of the '60s and '70s when the striker would have shrugged it off and went on to score. How the game has changed.

I just hope it sets a consistent precedent and any such contact results in a red card. I won't hold my breath.

Yea, exactly, Eric.

These days, it's the consistency — or lack of it — that is the big issue.

And this time-wasting bollocks. Let's give the VAR just 8 seconds to make their call, eh? Not gonna happen.

Richy on fire. Two worldies.

What a goal from Richarlison!!!

Silencing the doubters.

Would’ve loved to see him back in a blue shirt.

Good luck to him at Spurs. Maybe this will be his season to push on, stay fit and score a shedfull.

I fear West Hams brave experiment with the Premier League may be drawing to a close. Claret and Booze may be forced to turn (again) on the manager.

Burnley be looking to bring Dyche back soon

Some of these Burnley players are quite skilful. Dyche would hate them.

West Ham will either get rid of Potter pretty soon or get relegated. He must be one of the most over-rated managers in football. Yet, there are plenty like him that people would have here over someone like Moyes. Strange.

WHU used to be everyone's favourite second team in the days of Moore, Brooking, Devonshire, Martin etc…

Since the spivs took over, and they moved to their soulless stadium, they are not what they were.

Kieran(#13); Trivago with that lot are a good fit as Trivago were fined for showing the hotels that paid them the most commission rather than the cheapest.

Richy : what a start for him. Two goals and MOTM.

Best not to mention Villa v Newcastle- dreadful game and I thought our passing was poor till I watched this.

Also watched Spurs last 2 games. Richy back to his best. Scored an absolute belter for his second today.

Richi's 2nd goal already goal of the season contender. Potter happy with his hammer buys, 3-0 Sunderland, could be first casualty of the season.

Sunderland 3 - 0 West Ham Utd

A lively start for the Black Cats, blowing the bubbles away.

I think Potter will be sacked inside the next 8-10 games.

They've had a proper go today, have Sunderland.

West Ham look awful.

Fulham equalised in 96th min

Brighton couldn't clear a routine corner and blew the win.

Colin (71) That was because West Ham were noted for playing good attacking football Colin in those days which is always appreciated by football fans all over the world.

Here’s a bit of useless information that has stuck with me since those days—— when West Ham won the FA Cup in 1964 they had seven players whose name began with the letter “ B”
Bond, Burkett, Bovington, Brown, Brabrook, Boyce and Byrne.

Not sure if it was the same season that West Ham knocked Everton out of the cup with a Johnny Byrne penalty, might have been a year later.

Good news..no Savinho in line up for City. I was afraid that Spurs at the last minute could nab Dibling. Only really Brentford or Wolves could afford him now of the teams that don't have their ducks in a row so wouldn't fancy them to splash out that much and wouldn't fear them even if they could.

I am hoping no one comes in for him so Saints will have to drop their demands

Sunderland have real pace. It makes all the difference, especially when most of your attacks are likely to be counters.

Good day for the Mackems & the Spuds too...& Brighton throwing away their lead bodes well for us next weekend!

Let's get off to a flier,eh lads on Monday night!!...COYB

We moan about our Moyes but thank goodness we don’t have Potter. What a shite manager he is

that's a nice little kick in the bollocks for Brighton before their trip oop North.

Love that, Dave.

Dibling back in training and may play tomorrow for Saints.

Used to be, Ryan, that Potter was the answer. He's not!!!! His luck has run out.

Always said Potter couldn't defend. Modern day Bobby brown shoes.

Ian 88. Probably harsh on Martinez. At least he got to, and won, a cup final with Wigan and got to a couple of semi's in the same season here.

Grant (89) - With the way we played in his first season, I got a few semis too TBF…

Does anyone else get this Fubo from the USA?

So far, after the last game, we have gotten 6 repeats from the other lot v Bournemouth, no explanation.

Scott 90. lol

Reijnders putting on a master class for Man City.

Isaac Price scores a brace for West Brom.

Dave @80, yes, interesting bit of info about the 7 Bs at West Ham. We can potentially better that as some ToffeeWebbers probably think we have at least 11 players whose surname begins with S and ends in T.

Dave 80, they were always a good watch and Alf Garnett was their #1 fan.

I've watched 2 matches today, different divisions.

Wrexham v West Brom and currently have Wolves v Manchester City on.

Both hosts playing their first home games of the season. The opposition rode the initial and inevitable storm, took the sting out of the game and took control of the game.

Note to Everton for Monday.

That Man City player Reijnders, his mom at the christening wanted to call him Rudolph but the priest told her to fuck off!

Paul (98), That’s very funny but it wasn’t a priest it was a city slicker!

Ian (95),

Very true — and that's when they are being polite!

Nick 48.

"Absolutely fucking horriblist shower of dirty cheating lying shithouses in world sport ever. Vile."

So you ain't a big fan then?

ps: I dare you to ring talk TalkSport when they are having a red love-in, and say that, Pleeeeease!!! Pleeeeeease!!!😁

On Potter, I mentioned this a couple of years back when there was talk on these pages of him being Everton manager.

It just wasn't for me. Call it a hunch, but I saw a manager that was at a well run provincial club and the expectation was primarily remain in the Premier League and anything else was a bonus.

I always thought that if and when he stepped onto a bigger stage, he wouldn't meet the expectation, which so far has been proven at Chelsea and, yes, West Ham. The latter may raise an eyebrow, but they are a big club. Not always successful, but over the years have prided themselves on their footballing pedigree and what we now call an academy. Their supporters don't take prisoners. Ask Allardyce and Moyes. Neither were popular.

We may have been starved and deprived for decades, but Everton is a far bigger stage than Brighton and the supporters remain way more demanding.

Rightly or wrongly, and maybe harsh, so feel free to shoot me down, but when his name was called on these pages, I instantly thought of Mike Walker, who came on the back of achieving great things at Norwich.

Wow, a screamer from Eze.

Disallowed. A Palace player was part of the Chelsea wall, and shoved a defender out of the way.

As an attacker, you are not allowed to be part of a defensive wall. Think it's classed as offside.

I think thats a shocking decision to disallow that Eze free kick

I called that straight away... Guehi was within a metre of the defensive wall when it was taken.

Pretty silly from the Palace man.

What is the point of watching Premier League football any more with that level of corruption?

VAR check badge is back, I see! No way that would even have been looked at if it was the other way around.

Are you not allowed to be within a metre of the opposition wall, Ernie?

I've never heard of that.

Maybe, Peter, maybe. But the fact is that's 100% an indirect free kick for Chelsea. Palace have zero argument against it. It's a rule that they should all know and is very easy not to fall foul of.

I thought the rule was an attacker could not be part of a defensive wall, or stand in front of it, but they can stand alongside it. I don’t think the distance makes any difference.

I think it's been like that for a few years, Liam.

Remember when attackers used to try to get in the wall?

In fact I’d even say it’s a foul by Guehi. He literally shoved the Chelsea player to the floor when trying to create the gap in the wall. Definitely the right decision.

Is that a recent rule or a longstanding one?

I seem to remember teams used to put me on the end of opposition walls? Was it to stop that?

Not 'me'...'one' !

Cheers Ernie

If Palace can hold on to their players (and that's a big if), then they have a cracking team. They are playing some great stuff

What a shame that anyone out of the Sky favourites need to sell their best players and can't then challenge the top teams.

Clear defender arm contact changes direction of the ball away from attackers in scoring positions.

No penalty. Even with VAR. "Would be given in Europe" What the Fuck???

I don't understand this game anymore.

Will Hughes is underrated

Great ball in from Gibbs-White, great header from Ndoye, Forest 2-0.

Rob 117, I was thinking the exact same thing.

Palace build a team to challenge and go head-to-head with top teams, but will just have best players cherry-picked.

Forest look much better than Brentford who seem to have lost some defensive shape and composure, and are struggling to get forward.

Forest cruising 3 nil

Brentford look shot

Could be a real struggle for Brentford this season, and I'd even say their manager, Keith Andrews could be a leading contender for the first managerial sacking of the season.

Never could understand why Brentford went for him, because as far as I know he's not been a manager anywhere else, though I could be wrong on that one.

Brentford along with WHU, Burnley, Leeds, Sunderland and, possibly, Wolves (in no particular order) will be my pick for bottom 6 this season.

I think the ref told Guehi that only one step is a legal clearing of space in the wall. He made three, which was a foul.

That should have been a pen near the end of the half. Guehi flicks it on and the keeper punches him in the back of the head.

Even in boxing, that's a foul!

VAR is so inconsistent. There were a few given for that last year.

I reckon Potter will be one the first sacked. West Ham fans aren’t known for patience!

I think youre right Rob. He was porromoted from set piece coach.

On the Eze free kick. The rule is that opposition players must be one metre in front of the defensive wall until the ball is in play.

Begs the question why didn't the ref intervene and move them before it was taken?×

Romario looked like he wanted to get on the pitch, and probably could contribute.

I'm impressed by Forest again, Brentford look like they could be coming to the end of the little era of entertainment in my opinion.

My man Wood nets two again, I really wish cheddar head Dyche had pursued Wood when he was out of favour, given he worked with him at Burnley back in the day.

Honestly think we've missed a striker in that mould for years now.

Doing well so far this season - we are still 13th !!!! :)

Muembo head and shoulders above all the United players, must be wondering why he's gone there now.

Despite losing at the moment, I can’t see us finishing above Man U again. They look like they have turned a corner.

For the last two seasons I’ve been saying we should put in a bid for Casemiro and was told he’s too old, too slow etc.. Today he’s showing he’s still class and would start in most teams.

Colin # 135, why would Casemiro leave Utd and his £350k p/w wage behind to join Everton?

United's keeper flapped and the defence was bullied.

It's way too early to predict where anyone apart from the obvious are going to finish. If I recall, the league table never used to get published until 3 games in.

Having it after one makes no sense or context.

United keeper is poor. If they go with him, they'll do nothing

They’ve been trying for ages to get rid of him, Robert. Looks like Amorim trusts him more than his predecessors.

De Ligt is going to get so exposed at CB for manure