We Go Again! The 2014/15 Premier League Thread

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Dirty, scheming, diving sh!thouse.

[mystiroakey]

you are getting to autistic about the matter Hammersmith.

Shall we get back to football the sport of KING.

Fifa - blaah what sort of game is that.

SKYRIM and Fallout 3 for me at the moment.. I cant wait for Whitcher 3

[FootballLight]

Then surely it has to be split into 2 different categories?

Sport and Gaming. One definition for Sport and another for gaming and then you can categorize it all you like as to what fits where. Football, Rugby, Cricket etc are in the Sport category. Darts, Gaming, Snooker etc are Gaming.

Gaming has more intensity. :Doh: The last I knew video games like Fifa and Football Manager were just another activity for anyone who has some spare time. Frankly, I still think (and most would agree) it is. You stop to make drinks in a video game, I do. You can have a break but keep it open, I do. I don't really chat to anyone.

So if I am having a game online with a friend on Football Manager, I physically exert myself more for 5 minutes on 1 game than having the stress of my career to think about, people to see and (as you say) at least 8 hours of stressful work to attend to where in that time I have to get up, see people, go to people's offices whereas I'm sat starring at a screen wanting a few homographic/dots to pass a ball into a net. I'm sat down and relaxed. No heart rate or physical activity involved in that whereas there is much more at work.

I for one don't slowly type at work. I actually have WORK to do and I would much rather speed up my typing and talking skills at work than pile an extra hour onto my workload at home. I do 9 hour shifts per day (apart from weekends) and yet I still don't get my daily work done there. I have deadlines to meet, people to see and courses to attend to, I don't have the time at work for anything else.

And for whoever said you're not a "professional gamer" , give me strength. A professional gamer doesn't mean playing against a professional CPU on Fifa you know. I'm not quite sure what it means actually.

[hampo17]

Quite simple really but you seem very ignorant on the subject, a professional gamer is someone who gets paid to travel the world and compete in gaming tournaments, most have sponsors as well.

[Hammersmith harrier]

You're definitely a WUM FL, on FIFA 13 I did enter preliminary tournaments that enable you to progress into the big events shown on those backstreet channels nobody has heard of, needless to say I didn't get very far. Virgin media do a lot of sponsoring on the EA games tournaments and aside from the monetary games they set up they do 'sanctioned' tourneys, still not a sport though.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

I think half the limits here are that your knowledge of "gaming" is FIFA and FM.

[mystiroakey]

I get spanked at Battlefield

I just can not play it any more.

I have all the help in the world(150mg fiber optic connection, insanely high powered PC, can run the game at 90 fps , ultra graphics on 1440k)

I still average 1 kill to 10 deaths. Its demoralizing.

Goldeneye N64 was the game I was boss at.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Onto the football....

Villa to beat Liverpool today. Lambert has Rodgers's number

[GSC]

There's more football today?

[Fernando]

Leicester XI: Hamer, Simpson, Morgan, Wasilewski, Konchesky, Knockaert, Drinkwater, King, Schlupp, Nugent, Vardy.

Stoke XI: Begovic; Bardsley, Wilson, Wollscheid, Muniesa; Whelan (c), Nzonzi; Arnautovic, Bojan, Moses; Walters.

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Swansea XI: Fabianski; Tiendalli, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor; Carroll, Sigurdsson; Dyer, Oliveira, Routledge; Gomis.

Chelsea XI: Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Luis; Matic, Fabregas; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa.

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BURNLEY XI: Heaton, Trippier, Shackell, Keane, Mee, Boyd, Marney, Jones, Arfield, Barnes, Ings.

CRYSTAL PALACE XI: Speroni, Ward, Dann, Delaney, Kelly, Puncheon, McArthur, Ledley, Zaha, Sanogo:TANK, Gayle.

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QPR XI: Green, Isla, Dunne, Onouha, Hill, Vargas, Henry, Barton, Fer, Zamora, Austin.

Manchester United XI: De Gea, Jones, Evans, Rojo, Valencia, Carrick, Mata, Blind, Rooney, Di Maria, Falcao.

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Aston Villa XI: Guzan, Hutton, Okore, Baker, Cissokho, Sanchez, Westwood, Delph, Cleverley, Agbonlahor, Benteke.

Liverpool XI: Mignolet, Can, Skrtel, Sakho, Markovic, Moreno, Lucas, Henderson, Sterling, Coutinho, Borini.


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Tottenham XI: Lloris; Walker, Dier, Vertonghen, Rose; Dembele, Stambouli; Chadli, Kane, Eriksen; Soldado.

Sunderland XI: Pantilimon, Jones, van Aanholt, Brown, O'Shea, Vergini, Larsson, Rodwell, Johnson, Fletcher, Defoe.

[Fernando]

Swansea 0-1 Chelsea - Oscar

[Fernando]

Tottenham 1-0 Sunderland - Jan Vertonghen

[Fernando]

Burnley 1-0 Palace - Ben Mee
Burnley 2-0 Palace - Danny Ings

[Guest]

Pardew lol

[Fernando]

[Fernando]

Swansea 0-2 Chelsea - Diego Costa

[hampo17]

Villa 0-1 Liverpool, Fabio Borini

[Fernando]

This is no time for jokes Hampo

[Fernando]

Burnley 2-1 Crystal Palace - Dwight Gayle

#Ain'tNoSanogo

[Fernando]

Tottenham 1-1 Sunderland - Seb Larsson

[hampo17]

Decent finish as well to be fair to him, cross from Henderson and he took it on the volley while sliding.

[Fernando]

Swansea 0-3 Chelsea - Diego Costa

[Fernando]

Swansea 0-4 Chelsea - Oscar

[Guest]

post bony doesnt look too rosy

[Fernando]

I called this a few weeks ago

[Mad for Chelsea]

doing our goal difference some good here

[mystiroakey]

Palace playing a 4-4-2

why the heck have we started sonogo- gayle took his chance really well. Zaha is smshing them up providng chance after chance for sonogo. get murray on- sonogo off.

[hampo17]

Sanchez just nearly scored from about 30 yards, ball barely moved until about the penalty spot when it swerved to the left, Mignolet nearly fooled by it.

[Fernando]

There is always 1 that sinks like a stone...That being said im going for Swansea with Bony at the ACON

Barring the Man Citeh switch i weren't that far out

[Guest]

why the heck have we started sonogo-

get murray on- sonogo off.

pardew's amazing signing, thanks for taking him

[hampo17]

Cleverly should have scored there, strangely Skrtel and Agbonlabor seemed to be hugging on the edge of the box as he went through on goal.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Phil Jones is taking corners

[Fernando]

Phil Jones is taking corners

You cannot be serious

[mystiroakey]

This game is end to end. high quality entertainment. shame we are 1 down but still. Anything could happen. This is as open as it gets.

[Hammersmith harrier]

This is painful yet again, ditch the bloody 3-5-2, it is not working in the slightest, Rooney in midfield also isn't working, he's too deep to impact the play and Di Maria is too far forward and with no service offers nothing.

[Fernando]

Barclays Premier League
HT Aston Villa (0) 0 1 (1) Liverpool
HT Burnley (2) 2 1 (1) Crystal Palace
HT Leicester City (0) 0 0 (0) Stoke City
5.30pm Newcastle United v Southampton
HT Queens Park Rangers (0) 0 0 (0) Manchester United
HT Swansea City (0) 0 4 (4) Chelsea
HT Tottenham Hotspur (1) 1 1 (1) Sunderland

[westisbest]

Onto the football....

Villa to beat Liverpool today. Lambert has Rodgers's number

So far he doesn't.

WE WANT LAMBERT OUT
WE WANT LAMBERT OUT

[compelling and rich]

See our captain fantastic doing so well again in the midfield role!! Hasn't passed to a red shirt yet!! But of course that's just because I'm anti Rooney

[Guest]

This is painful yet again, ditch the bloody 3-5-2, it is not working in the slightest, Rooney in midfield also isn't working, he's too deep to impact the play and Di Maria is too far forward and with no service offers nothing.

starting to have doubts now about magical LVG. Pretty clueless in how to set this team out, playing too all your negatives really. Wasting talent, if this was Moyes, it would be carnage. United look awful.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

This is one of those games where I don't mind the 3-5-2. 3 back to deal with Austin and Zamora, Valencia and Blind (I think) making the small pitch as wide as they can and the best players working centrally. You're right though, I have no problem with Rooney in midfield but Di Maria is wasted up top and Rooney will be smarter in tight marking against the backline. Di Maria up top only works in a counter attack

[hampo17]

Falcao should have put United one up, shocking miss for a striker of his calibre.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Told you guys weeks ago this 3-5-2 rubbish doesn't work. Just don't have the defenders to make it work (need to be good on the ball United's aren't)

[Hammersmith harrier]

This is painful yet again, ditch the bloody 3-5-2, it is not working in the slightest, Rooney in midfield also isn't working, he's too deep to impact the play and Di Maria is too far forward and with no service offers nothing.

starting to have doubts now about magical LVG. Pretty clueless in how to set this team out, playing too all your negatives really. Wasting talent, if this was Moyes, it would be carnage. United look awful.

Pinpointing issues is different to criticizing for the sake of it which is what you do Liam.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Fellaini coming on at half time

#moyesindisguise

[Fernando]

Fellaini for Mata
Caulker for Dunne

[Fernando]

Burnley 2-2 Crystal Palace - Jason Puncheon

[Fernando]

Now there's the Borini we all know Hampo

[kingraf]

It is only slightly short of remarkable to buy a player for £60m because of his exploits in the middle of the midfield, and then spend an entire season playing him everywhere accept there.

[hampo17]

Thought you stopped the game for head injuries? Sanchez has just accidentally booted Sterling in the face with Clattenberg standing no more than 5 yards away, just let the game go on.

[Hammersmith harrier]

Falcao has shown twice this game why he's not been getting the minutes, two guilt edged chances missed now and he's not been good enough.

[Ent]

He wants to use him like he did robben in the world cup.

I think it's the 3rd game he has tried it (could be wrong) so ge hasn't had long enough to make it work or see if it doesn't.

Personally I don't think it will, but I can see the method behind the madness.

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