premier league , utter pathetic

And Ars*nall are supposedly the best team in the league but look like 2009 Stoke and City are too shyte to take advantage. Worst league season in living memory.

Everyone knows this season has been the worse standard of football ever witnessed.

pundits, media, players the lot have criticized the standard, think its fair to say evryone has turned it off now and the Premier league need to have a major revamp, because lots of people I know have stopped watching it

Yony banging his drum

It's a great league, never been better, doesnt
lead to big scores and goals, have a think about it
for once.

Tony, apols

Come off it Donny, you may seem some decent games at SJP but much of the EPL is mind numbing this season, strength and athleticism being prioritised at the expense of a decent spectacle. Most of the media are saying similar, the reliance on set pieces is tedious.

EPL clubs were humiliated in Europe in the week which says it all.

The most boring team in the league are the only team to score twice.

The reliance on set-pieces stems from the lesser teams being better athletically and on the counter and marking man-to-man a lot of the time. Very hard to find space and create overloads high up the pitch, that was the gameplan in previous years, and they are more dangerous if you give the ball away.

Arteta/Arsenal are top because they have cottoned onto this before the rest. Different kettle of fish in europe tho. The top teams can play like that and put it up to you too.

Yes they did today, courtesy of two late defensive errors and neither from set pieces ironically.

I certainly wouldn't say its just Arsenal who are boring, much of the league is as others have opined on here.

The "best league in the world" was rather shown up last week in Europe and our clubs have a mountain to climb to restore that reputation.

I Much prefer watching Zulu

It's been a brilliant season at sjp dixie, but on top of that the other teams are
very strong as you see from euro results.

Everton giving arsenal a good game today, OK Everton ain't the
most attacking team, but why should they be if they find
a way that works. Won 3-2 at our place, infuriating the
way it panned out but nothing undeserved, and another game
full of jeopardy.

I really can't see how anybody that enjoys test match cricket
can fail to enjoy 2 Premier league teams battling for a advantage
to win a game.

If you don't, then stick to highlites, simples

The only team in Ligue 1 who hasn't got a game this weekend is PSG, postponed just because of CL, for one team only. The league is tighter this year, that's why. Last season none of their first XI started more than 25 games and they've only 34 games in their league.

5/6 teams played away first leg. Spurs are not CL quality, they beat 4 teams who finished 31-35th. The other 2 who got whipped played like it was a one-leg tie, pushing their entire 10 outfield players to within 40 yards of goal and getting hit on the break. Clown tactics.

Go away first leg and get a draw or a one-goal loss, esp against Real/PSG. It's a great/not bad result against anyone at this stage.

I understand your viewpoint Donny, but when push came to shove last week and the "proper" competition started in Europe, English clubs tactics were exposed.
You are fortunate to at least see some more open games at SJP, a lot of other grounds have to put up with some dire stuff. It's not just me saying it, plenty agree including many journos.


Test cricket is completely different to any football match. For a start it's played over 5 days rather than 90 minutes ! There is so much more time for fluctuations. different tactics, assessing the match situation etc. If the game isn't going your way you have a lot of time to work out how to turn things around. A football manager can of course change his teams formation if things are not going right or bring subs on but a standard match cannot match the ebbs and flows of a test.

But whatever floats your boat i suppose, we are all different

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Sky championship same yesterday morning

worse season of football ever is this. No one cares about it anymore

12 goals in 9 games this weekend so far.  9 teams out of 18 failed to score.
Best league in the world 

What about the dodgy CL games involving epl sides, pure corruption in last min, reff in on it too, in fact you cannot bet on the CL, the epl isn't far behind but overall best to find another medium to bet on, it's unsafe, too big, too much munee involved.

EPL is just like betting on the donkey derby, they think they cleaver but not many epl football punters left, too dodgy, too many late goals, too much dodgy var calls.

Complete dog ****... Or as the mongs call it, best in wurld.

F  I  L  T  H

Can you imagine running round a field for a full hour and a half busting your guts trying to score a goal and then being told that the goal was disallowed because your mates big toe was in an offside position when you put the ball in the net.

Betting on all six English teams going out here. Could be one of those Black Swan weeks.

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premier league is the shittest league amongst the top 5 leagues

pish poor standard and the worst in 2 decades

Worst in 2 decades if you support Spurs

Spurs have a good team but players can't be bothered because
a lot of the fans are shite

Mar 17, 2026 -- 11:20PM, ----you-have-to-laugh--- wrote:

Spurs have a good team but players can't be bothered becausea lot of the fans are ****

Shut yer mouth.

He is right though,as are chelsea and citeh fans.

Mar 17, 2026 -- 11:20PM, ----you-have-to-laugh--- wrote:

Spurs have a good team but players can't be bothered becausea lot of the fans are ****

Can't agree with the bit about Spurs having a good team...

Agreed, Spurs are not a good side. Even with no injuries we may not be where we are, but we'd still struggle to make CL standard (top 4) with Europa being the only possible route, at a push. Most PL teams are capable of winning that one under the new format.

With the injuries we've had for most of the season, those that are covering are not of a PL standard, as we're all witnessing.

We have a poor keeper, we have erratic centre-halves and without Maddison, we barely have a midfield either with very little creativity. Then we have Solanke and Richarlison as our front two. Experienced yes, but top quality? Far from it.

I believe you need to rethink that statement yhtl, although the bit about the fans does have some relevance

Spurs just won europa league with a clown managing them

Players won it by taking over, of course they are a good team.

Maybe a bit surly this season, and suffering for it, and such
negativity from fans, (and some horrendous injuries)

Need to ask why some of us are negative. Levy not improving the side over the summer and especially stuttering on Eze when there was no need to. That left us weak with (known) injuries and it was clear, from August, we were never going to compete with what we had. Then they got rid of Levy and we were told by the new board that they would be looking to improve the team. Can't blame them for the summer, that was solely down to Levy, but by January, unsurprisingly, we were already heading in the wrong direction, which was clear to fans and neutrals alike. They didn't act at all. The front line needed improving so they brought in Gallagher, a midfielder, who nobody really wanted AND a defender, that at the time we didn't need. Not one improvement to the front line, NOT ONE!

Romero recognised this, as did the rest of us and he let them know, the fans followed suit... he was right!

Now look at us. I'll say what I said to lapsy a while back... is this the fans fault?

I should add I didn't want Levy to go. I was really peeved at Eze, as I was with Fernandes (Man Utd)... look what he's doing now and we had him. Grealish was ours for circa £25m, Levy backed away and he was sold for £100m... and this is just a few of many more mistakes by Levy. The fans had had enough and wanted someone who could deliver.

Personally I felt he was keeping the club strong, but he was stupid, because there was no medium between him and the fans. It was all for the growth of the club (and ENIC), not the team. The fans, the LOYAL fans, kept turning up, kept buying merchandise and kept seeing us fail. Something had to give.

Sadly, as it now appears, it is out of the frying pan...

I don't mean the armchair fans aspro, that's pretty
much expected and can't really do much else.

But those in the stadium are where I'm aiming. Not
great. Even away support was quite a few decibels down.

I haven't been for a while (as you know), but the fans have not always been the greatest. I recall a Liverpool game I attended in the mid 2000's I believe, first game of the season if memory serves. We had around 6 newbies playing and came away with a 1-1 draw against a decent side. I enjoyed the game, we put up a good fight and the newbs played their part, but at full time they were booed... that did rile me as it was totally undeserved given all the circumstances. It was embarrassing tbh.

They can be a little headstrong at times, and wrong from my perspective, but their moans over the past few years are starting to prove justified. The team "appears" secondary and for a club of our stature, that is simply not acceptable anymore.

So yes, to a degree I agree with your evaluation of the attendees, but now I'm edging towards agreeing with them a little, especially after this and last season.

I might agree with them too, but for 90 minutes
you can support your team, or it goes wrong.

Players, in general, respond to support, they love it.

I completely agree with that, their negativity doesn't help the players, especially Vicario who was also booed for his mistakes. Not needed, because it simply doesn't help.

I would not single out Spurs’ fans, all the English clubs in Europe are embarrassingly outshone by away fans.

It depends on the turn of the game if course but generally, if things aren’t going to plan, support for English clubs starts to sound thin and reedy after 20 minutes, and then the % of petulant whining ticks up by the minute. All forgiven, of course, if the English club reaches a position of safety:- then the fans are oohing and aahing indulgently like Grannies at the circus.

It is a shame that Galatasaray fans are banned from Anfield tonight because Liverpool fans -despite their reputation - are among the most fickle.

Turkish fans are very loud. Not just Gala

Not many barca fans turned up at sjp

1600 for last 16,less than 1000 league phase.

PSG fans loud too, but they have drums.

Just looked up that Liverpool game and it was 2004/05 season it appears, first game of the season. Memory still working

It was your team yhtl who knocked us out of the FA cup in the 6th round too with Kluivert scoring in the 5th minute then holding on

Kluivert such a typical NUFC signing of the era
no doubt some folk were well paid.

I think away supporters are an oddity in Spain

And next week when you do unders……..goalfest

Arsenal's need to cash in this season before their "bodyline" type of anti-football is dealt with.

honestly the most sub standard premier league in 2 decades. the weakest set of teams ever

only arsenal fans wanting some admiration for their team will say different. another english team getting spanked - the facts are there, all that money spent and due to the poor stadard of football being dished out, theyre getting spanked all over the shop

honestly how can any mug argue...... psg 8-2, real 5-1, barca incoming 10

Nobody had more money. Nobody wasted more money.

Look where we are now:- relying on Arsenal to deliver their brand of anti-football.

unless your a fan of the title winners there's little difference in coming 1st or 5th at the present timebiggest competition is to get the 5th spot

Cannot deny Arsenal their title: - others have been so weak.

arsenal deserve it..... this season has been so weak. if anyone goes on to say its a great team like that twit piers morgan, we only have to point to 8-3, 8-2, 5-1 and whatever spurs record agst europe elite

liverpool and arsenal havent played the elite yet in knockout football

FC Barcelona has successfully refinanced €424 million of its Espai Barça debt by issuing new bonds!

Rest of the 2 billion kicked into long grass, some of it past 2050

Epl clubs combined  nearly 5B behind 8 ball

More to do with complete mug tactics than the euro sides being better. Real and Barca aren't on the level of PSG/Bayern. Atletico are a step down from them.

In Turkey the gov ordered the banks to refinance the club's such is the disparity between income and debt.

Football is bankers bingo now imvho.

Mar 18, 2026 -- 8:38PM, lurka wrote:

More to do with complete mug tactics than the euro sides being better. Real and Barca aren't on the level of PSG/Bayern. Atletico are a step down from them.

nothing to do with mug tactics. exposed as sub standard when u need to win to go through.

just outclassed in quality... When a water carrier like Rice is lauded as the premier leagues player of the season, it defies the lack of top quality attacking players

Mar 18, 2026 -- 9:02PM, BULLET TOOTH TONY wrote:

just outclassed in quality... When a water carrier like Rice is lauded as the premier leagues player of the season, it defies the lack of top quality attacking players

Agree,

I like Rice but his limitations would be obvious if he had to mark a world-class player..

I thought rice did well v real last season, just about
MOTM x 2 in 1/4 final.

Psg were on a wave in semis

Rice is a lovely player, can do anything, maybe 6 isnt
his favourite position, but paucity of quality 6s that
are not burnt out in 2 seasons sees him utilised there.

Last evening commentators were elevating Rice to World’s best at what he does, whatever that means.

I like him but he isl not that player.

I'd pretty much agree with them, there may be a couple
or so better destructive 6s, but he isnt far off and better
on ball than any of those so he probably is about best at what
he's tasked to do.

Win league early (?!!) , get a rest and hopefully see how he gets on
in champs league and then World Cup.

Mar 18, 2026 -- 12:02PM, unitedbiscuits wrote:

I would not single out Spurs’ fans, all the English clubs in Europe are embarrassingly outshone by away fans. It depends on the turn of the game if course but generally, if things aren’t going to plan, support for English clubs starts to sound thin and reedy after 20 minutes, and then the % of petulant whining ticks up by the minute. All forgiven, of course, if the English club reaches a position of safety:- then the fans are oohing and aahing indulgently like Grannies at the circus. It is a shame that Galatasaray fans are banned from Anfield tonight because Liverpool fans -despite their reputation - are among the most fickle.

Liverpool’s fans now in full cry, singing to Steven Gerrard in the studio.

Party mode now their team is safe. Pretty quiet before.  Bears out everything above.

Listen to all the Music Hall oohs and aahs now their team is safe ..

Rice is a very good player..... but it tells u what the premier league has become that he is regarded as the league best player. The flair and flamboyance and impact players have been eliminated from the premier league.

its the sad state

Change the record BTT, stop being so borimg.

If the EPL was to stop being so borimg then BTT would doubtless change the record

He'd change the record if it didn't look like Arsenal winning the league and Spurs getting relegated in the same season.

Doesn't realise getting relegated from worst ever Premier league
isn't clever.

cant help pointing out its a terrible league and one that is shared by all bar arsenal fans

Highest xG by sides in the #UCL this season:

◉ 31.96 - Liverpool
◉ 31.02 - Bayern Munich
◉ 29.79 - Real Madrid
◉ 27.68 - Newcastle
◉ 27.59 - PSG

Newc and PSG played 2 extra games. Over a quarter of Newc's xG came in the Qarabag games where they scored 9.

Engerland clinch 5th ucl spot for next season.

yep could have 8 teams in ch lg,if villa,foret,l,pool were to win european trophies

Forest? You don't get a CL place for winning that comp

Sorry I was thinking of Palace in the ECL. But Villa and Forest can't both win in europe. They're in the same comp.

sorry 7 teams

utter drivel, i want a falkirk 3 rangers 6 kind of match

You've just had one.