It was nice of the Washington Generals to give us a warm-up for the FA Cup final.
Arsenal came out on fire after the break and tied it up 2-2
Arsenal need 1 point from New Castle and Southampton to qualify. Assuming every team behind them are perfect, which they aren’t likely to be.
I think Forest and Chelsea play each other, which means that they are in.
Forest’s owner sure is a fat slob. He should stay off the pitch.
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He’s a cheating scumbag who gambled on surviving a points deduction to be in the Premier League. Nuno is also a conniving scumbag and their team is the dirtiest I have seen Palace play against all season.
Forest used to have a pedigree. Now they’re a grubby little shitstain of a club over whom the media fawns because they were once something - 50 years ago - but have now returned as their evil twin.
It didn’t matter in the end, but it was after only 7 minutes so who knew where the game was going.
This was the image from the automated offside for the first or two Palace goals chalked off by VAR. As the Tik Tokker here asks: “how the fuck is this offside?”
If you mentally undo the parallax view that the EPL - and no one else - uses, there is no way that Mateta can be leaning more into the Spurs half than the Spurs player already standing with both feet in Spurs’ half.
Not looking forward to the fonging Palace is going to get at the hands of VAR next week.
Crystal Palace has a chance to pull off its greatest achievement in over 160 years of existence. So let’s celebrate with an ownership fight on the cusp of final.
I don’t trust Textor as far as I could throw Selhurst Park, but he did strong-arm Parish into hiring Glasner and Parish - arguably the most consequential owner in club history (in a good way) - may feel it’s time to pass the reigns. If Textor gets Harris’ and Blitzer’s shares, it’s over regardless.
It’s just one game…
If you think you’ve seen this guy before - and not from the video he did for the 2016 final - he was an Imperial apparatchik in Andor.
And a hilarious contestant on Taskmaster.
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Fuck Man City.
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This is the goal that gets name-checked in the video.
We beat them 3-2 that day.
In our next trip to the Emptihad, we were 2-0 up and scored a 3rd which the referee ruled out because …
. No, seriously, they retconned some bullshit about a challenge on Citeh’s keeper that never happened - there’s video, you know - and the TV punditry was pretty unanimous in not understanding the decision.
Just watch these TV pundits be unable to contain their disagreement with an ex-ref trying to bail out his former colleague.
Instead, they beat us 4-2 behind an Erling Haaland hat trick which he scored after the referee had declined to send him off for kicking the 6’ 3" tall Joachim Andersen in the head while Andersen was almost fully upright.
https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/football/erling-haaland-andersen-kick-crystal-palace-355927
So a major thumb on the scale by the ref cost us the win this day.
This season up there, we also took a 2-0 lead and were very comfortable. Then Glasner decided to remove Mateta for a holding midfielder and the opened the floodgates. They beat us 5-2, and Glasner has admitted it was his tactical error - a rarity - that caused the game to flip so drastically.
Their bench is probably worth more than our entire squad. But we can beat anyone on a given day in a single game. Saturday may not be that day; but then again, it just might…
75 years of F1 in pictures from the BBC. A fantastic time waster. So much to see in here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/v7yykmbyey/f1-at-75-by-bbc-sport-and-getty-images
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I’m shocked. Shocked!
Well, not that shocked.
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My brain is becoming more and more overwhelmed by the upcoming final.
10:30am (CDT) Saturday morning, ESPN+ only.
There are three of us going over from the informal US-based supporters club. We are to be interviewed by BBC London as part of the build-up. Matt (who facilitates the club) has been asked to vlog his journey by the BBC, and will also be appearing on one of the big fan podcasts post-match.
We will be joining up with my nephews for the game.
I will be in my cups all weekend, quite likely including whilst being interviewed by the Beeb.
Should be fun. Could be epic.
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WOW! That is awesome, cant wait to read your write up from the trip. Good luck!
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Out of not-so-idle curiosity, could some knowledgable EPL fan (@Limey ?) give me a brief rundown on Everton?
Overlooked little brother of Liverpool. Have had moments of success in the past, but are clinging on to EPL status every year now while dodging a string of financial impropriety charges.
Have borrowed a billion to build an enormodome stadium like they’re fucking Barça that may well implode them. If that comes to pass, I won’t be shedding any tears.
IAH is nicer than I remember (on the inside), but still designed by Dr. Frankenstein and everything is a 5-mile route march from everything else.
Lost in the bullshit of the owner throwing a hissy fit on the pitch, was the seriousness of Taiwo Awoniyi’s injury.
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