Premier League Thread

An absolutely staggering decision by the FA not to punish that thug Callum Mcmanaman. Apparently it is more important to be nit-picky about the technicalities of the rules than to make it clear that potentially career ending tackles will not be tolerated. Un-fecking-believable.

Couldn't agree more, mpc. The whole country sees a player get away with what could be a career threatening foul and the FA "can't" do anything about it. Of course they can.

I was watching it live and couldn't watch the replays because it made me feel sick.

And what message does it send to any kid watching?

Paolo Di Canio is the new Sunderland manager. I see that it has led to David Miliband resigning his role at Sunderland.

Mi piace calcio wrote:

Paolo Di Canio is the new Sunderland manager. I see that it has led to David Miliband resigning his role at Sunderland.

Nothing to do with the fact that he is resigning as an mp to take up a role in New York with a charity at a salary of a reported $280,000 then?

Or am I being cynical?

My thoughts exactly. He wouldn't miss the chance to pretend that he is doing it for his beliefs though.

Another stoppage time winner from Cisse. He is getting good at that trick!

Mi piace calcio wrote:

Another stoppage time winner from Cisse. He is getting good at that trick!

Haha, can Burnley have him?

Mind in their last three matches they have drawn (scored 92') drawn (conceded 98'!!!!!!) and won (scored 91') although they were 2-1 up already in that.

Mi piace calcio wrote:

Another stoppage time winner from Cisse. He is getting good at that trick!

Some crazy scenes at the end.

Your game v Sunderland next week should be a cracker.

forzaitalia wrote:

Mi piace calcio wrote:

Another stoppage time winner from Cisse. He is getting good at that trick!

Some crazy scenes at the end.

Your game v Sunderland next week should be a cracker.

Yep. I can't wait to see what kind of mickey taking our fans come up with regarding Di Canio!

Well the derby game was a bit depressing. Di Canio's arrival had the desired effect for Sunderland.

Mi piace calcio wrote:

Well the derby game was a bit depressing. Di Canio's arrival had the desired effect for Sunderland.

Not to mention the trouble from the fans.

Despite Di Canio being a Laziale it makes a change to see someone with that passion on the sidelines.

This is getting ridiculous. A 6-0 defeat to liverpool. We are 5 points away from the drop zone and all the four teams below us have a game in hand. We have to get some points from our games against QPR and West Ham. We have Arsenal on the last day and I dont fancy our chances if we are still needing a result from that game to stay up.

I think you'll stay up, but yeah it's clear you're in a big mess at the moment. 0-9 aggregate score in your last two home games.

Do you think Pardew can sort it? I'd imagine there's plenty who wouldn't mind seeing the back of him particularly after the last few weeks (two decent efforts v Benfica aside).

Villa and Sunderland tonight. What are the chances of 22 staying on the pitch?

^ Good prediction, Sessegnon sent off as Villa win 6-1 haha.

Newcastle down to 17th on GD now (massive swing in GD between them and Villa this weekend). Looking bleak for Wigan, which is a shame as I want them to stay up.

I don't think it is Pardew's fault to be honest. I think we really overstretched ourselves with being in the Europa league. I'd rather we had been knocked out of the Europa league early and been further up the Premier League table than the situation we are in now. Sunderland didnt help us by losing to Villa last night either. It is going to be a nail biting last three games!

Only signing one player last summer wasn't a good idea either. Although that said, a lot of your worst performances have come recently after all the Frenchies joined in January...

Wigan 2 - 3 Swansea. If Wigan had won we would have have been in the bottom three. It is ridiculous that we are having to rely on other teams to do us a favour at this point of the season. We still aren't out of the woods yet. We need to beat QPR away in our next game.

Well mpc if you can't do that.....................

Quite. We couldn't have asked for an(on paper at least) easier game in which to save our own skin so I guess we will only have ourselves to blame if we dont do it.

Wigan are banking on Norwich now IMO........surely Newcastle and Sunderland will get at least a point this weekend, taking them to 39. Can't see Wigan getting anything at Arsenal so think they'll only get to 38 max.

Wigan will have to hope Norwich lose at home to West Brom and Man City and that they can beat Villa on the final day to go above Norwich.

They're up against it now though. Big opportunity missed last night.

We are safe!

Aye, QPR are horrific though haha. Wigan have surely had it now, they gotta beat both Arsenal and Villa. Would be awesome if they could pull it off, especially after winning the cup on Saturday.

Roberto Mancini has been sacked by Man City.