Premeir League Final Day Open Thread
Exciting final day in the Premeir League. Liverpool and Manchester City fighting for the title. Rivals Arsenal and Tottenham battling for the final Champions League spot. And American coach Jesse Marsh fighting to stay up with Leeds competing with Burnley today for the right to stay in the league next year. Discuss!
Halftime scores: Liverpool 1 Wolves 1
Man City 0 Aston Villa 1
Tottenham 2 Norwich 0
Arsenal 2 Everton 1
Leeds 0 Brentford 0
Burnley 0 Newcastle 1
Spent our first.season in the top tier in forever. Finished in 13th eleven points north of relegation. Onward and upward! Go Bees
As a United fan I liken Liverpool to OSU (always been the biggest rival with a comparable level of history and success) and City to MSU (only been consistently good in the last decade or so with a decent run in the 60s/70s and historically the 2nd or 3rd most important rival). Of course I’m rooting for City today and the one time I support them, they no longer look like an indestructible machine. Fucking annoying as hell.
Well they found that level of dominance for five minutes, at least.
I think a lot of what happened in that game came down to nerves, smart coaching decisions by Gerrard, and a poor game plan from Pep.
I'm just pissed that I gave up on the game after the Coutinho goal. After Aston Villa went up two, I switched over to the Liverpool game to see if they could get the go ahead goal. As soon as I changed the station, City got three quick ones.
Pretentious United fans thinking that the world revolves around them. United are 'Bama. If Michigan equates to any prem team, it'd have to be Arsenal.
United are more like USC than 'Bama. Historically, a powerhouse, had a good run under Ferguson (aka Pete Carroll) and have largely been an afterthought since. Recently hired good coach. Remain a bag of turds.
"City to MSU"
/smh
City has a long history of past success and failure and a far more resilient and long-suffering fanbase than Sparty. Sparty fans are bandwagon at the best of times and sycophant apologists at the worst. This is not a good comp.
I get it. United fans are tired of the constant losing, upheaval, great players underperforming, the drama etc. but no need for name calling.
Looks like Leeds survives by 1 point. If Burnley won today they stayed up, but they fall 1-2 to Newcastle in the ultimate play-in match in sports.
Crystal Palace fan -- we got the win today over United (first time ever in the Premier League at Selhurst Park), and we have more hope heading into next year than anytime in the previous decade of my fandom.
Positive goal differential! EAGLES
I’m a Man City fan, and I thought they had choked the title away like they did that last Champions League game! No one could have predicted them to score 3 goals in 5:36 mins. It was incredible to watch!
Almost as great as Agueroooo!!! Haaland coming in next season, let’s go again!!!!
COYS!
Glory
Everton already avoided relegation. That was settled Thursday, and it was all that mattered to me in closing out the PL season.
Happy to see Sunderland finally moving back up to the Championship. It was a tough run for their fans for the last five years.
And long may it continue.
Lovingly yours,
This Newcastle Supporter
Good day to be a Spurs fan. In to the champions league ousting Arsenal at the same time is pretty, pretty good.
I ended up an Everton fan, playing FIFA with teenage son who would always pick the superstar teams. Everton still had Lukaku so I did fine.
I became an Everton fan during the Lukaku years.
Ditto.
Became an Everton fan when Tim Howard was there.
No reason to switch my allegiance now.
Been an Everton fan only since I read Reborn in the USA by Roger Bennett last summer.
Son Heung Min shares the Golden Boot.
Best Asian player...ever?
All Son's goals came in run of play; no penalties.
Absolutely insane. Can't even say he feasted on lower competition; he was a thorn in City, Liverpool, and Arsenal's side.
Loved watching him score those two goals today! And as above, none of his goals were penalties, which I’m wondering if that has ever been done by a Golden Boot winner?
So happy for Sonny! Spurs fan or not I dont see how you can't be a fan of Son Heung Min. He is legitimately one of the nicest people playing any sport professionally.
Forest also playing Huddersfield Town for the final promotion spot from the EL Championship next Sunday at Wembley. Let’s go Tricky Trees.
Bittersweet season for Arsenal, the youngest squad in the Premiership, making it six straight seasons outside the top four for the first time since the 1973-74 to 1978-1979 seasons. Rising from the ashes after starting the season with three defeats and no goals scored that left them at the bottom of the table on August 28 has to be a modest success, but this season might be remembered more for how this young, injury-depleted squad with their relatively inexperienced manager blew their shot at Champions League by splitting their final ten matches.
Finishing with 13 losses while having no European matches and exiting from domestic cup play after January 20 highlights their lack of talent and depth. Without a substantial influx of talent over the summer in all areas besides first-team players – from management to coaching, recruiting, scouting, strength, conditioning and physical therapy staffs, it may be at least two more seasons before they’ll be steady contenders for Champions League positions, even with the EFL likely having five clubs qualify for Champions League after next season.
Arsenal and Newcastle last Monday is my second-favorite sporting event this past year behind only 42-27. I can't wait to start challenging for Champion's League places, finally. Exciting years ahead!
Oil club
Jealous?
Yes and no. While I don't really want to be team "Blood Diamond" being able to spend like City sure would be fun to watch.
Exactly the place I'm in. There's just too much money involved that you can't have one without the other it seems. I wish every club could be Leicester.
Just started following EPL/the gunners starting this season. What a ride. Pretty low lows and pretty high highs. Proud of the young guns and frankly I think Arteta did pretty well working under limitations imposed by management (winter signing period). That said, it's going to be a very interesting summer, really looking forward to next season!
Pumped for marsh and Leeds
Hoped Liverpool would have won. I’m in love with Klopp.
COYS! Antonio Conte is the manager of the year, IMO, the way he revived and coached-up a demoralized Spurs team from mid-season to today’s placement in Champions League! And he brought in Kulusevski and Bentancor who made such an impact for Spurs’ attack and control of the midfield!
How many times do Coaches like Conte and Ancelotti need to prove themselves before a club will hold onto them?
I mean Spurs are basically begging him to stay. But he needs a financial commitment from the board to spending on the market or I don't know if he will. He likely wasnt staying without a Champions League spot either. I would open up the bank account for both him and a couple summer transfers. There is a window to success with Kane/Son in their prime; may as well go for it now.
Though it is kind of funny how Conte originally bemoaned the signings of Kulu/Bentancur saying the team needed proven players instead of prospects. Then those two basically became 2 of the best players on the squad the last half of the season.