General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

I’m using this time as a chance to reacquaint myself with La liga and serie A. Extended the now tv sports for €10 a month. Premier league will be back soon enough. It’s the fans who had flights, hotels etc booked to attend games that I feel sorry for.

I was in Old Trafford on Thursday when the news of her death was released. The fans were glued to the news coverage but there was no obvious outpouring of grief or anything. The place was a bit subdued but only for the fact it was all over the screens I wouldn't have known she had died (I only found out from seeing it on one of the screens).

I got there quite early as it was my first time and I wanted to watch the pre-match warm up, etc. We got chatting to some of the stewards and security staff and the general consensus was that there was no way they wanted any matches cancelled this weekend but it was inevitable. Any of the fans I spoke to or I heard talking about it were hoping nothing would be cancelled at all. Anyone who travelled a bit of distance (like myself) were very relieved it wasn't cancelled. We were glad UEFA insisted it went ahead (security told us that the Man Utd officials did ask about a cancellation and UEFA said absolutely not as fans were already on the way to the ground and it was too close to kick off).

The minutes silence was adhered to impeccably and the Real Sociedad fans were excellently behaved inside and outside the stadium.

Any particular reason you hate it? A mark of respect is a mark of respect.

Maybe after a week of mourning, they will realise a week is more than eneogh . She was 96 , lived a long and privelleged life, perspective.

Coffin will still be in Scotland on the Tuesday, so that would explain that.

I can't imagine policing being too much of an issue outside of London given that the funeral's not until Monday.

But will they just postpone the London games or postpone them all?

The minutes applause was brought in to stop drown out idiots. A minutes silence in Ireland was always respected. Then morons began to clap just because British soccer fans clapped. I dislike it because it’s something we do now because morons copied idiots.

Italian soccer was doing before England (maybe not the first) so technically we are copying them.

I prefer the applause despite it's reason for being. It's less weird and morbid than the silence.

That is a pretty impressive attempt to avoid directly answering a question. Fair play.

Games in London, more so.

Don't know what events or planning is going on for Monday week, but whatever it is could impact the ability of the police to assign required resources to police the matches. If that is the case, then the games can't go ahead.

played 19 games in the last 2 seasons, i think I read. so big question marks over his ability to make an impact I would think, but then they had to do something.

Was very interested to see how that other new striker would do as he was a player United were linked with (in case Ronaldo left), shame about the injury.

It's a bloody mess isn't it. They should just play them behind closed door a la Covid time but no doubt that would cause other issues.