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

The last time Arsenal lost was in the tie against Manchester City. These are the form guides including that game.

Excluding that game - if getting more points than every other team in your league, bar one, is seen as "bottling" than this is bottling. But not for me.

Arsenal just lack experience, this bottling thing is absolute bollox. It takes absolute perfection in the run in to come up trumps against city. As a Liverpool fan I've watched us go on long runs, finish on 97 and 92 points and still come up short. City are relentless with a ridiculous squad, you can't compete.

Honestly, Premier League officiating doesn’t improve until people within football openly accept that it’s bad and needs fixing.

Keane is just that - a professional troll. After Andy Robertson had his incident with the linesman Keane said “he’s got to stop being a baby” about Robertson approaching the linesman. The same Keane who nearly trampled all over the top of a ref who gave a penalty against Utd at Old Trafford.

I'm sure Keane knows what he's doing, but how sad? Such a great player, he could be a great pundit if he put his mind to it. But he'd rather troll and get his face on the Sky Sports youtube thumbnails for spouting sensationalist nonsense.

If money was only thing needed there would be more teams on 100 points.

Also if you cant recognice the achievement without trying to belittling it ,you should not join the conversation .

Game week 31 Table

And Michelle Smith still holds all those medals but nobody ever lauds her in Ireland or celebrates it 10, 20, 25 years on etc.

Excellent point. She's still officially Ireland's greatest ever Olympian by an absolute mile. Yet, when's the last time anyone has ever heard mention of her publicly? And this is Ireland - a country who celebrates "getting there" as if it's winning. The reason is obvious - everyone knows she was a massive cheat, so her 'official' titles mean nothing.

Would Carra make these points about Leeds having "a kid in goal with no presence who doesn't convince him" if he was English?

The bottom 5 have lost again for the second set of games in a row. Bournemouth and Palace seem to have kicked on a bit.

This was a 3 from 9 conversation, now looking like a 3 from 6.

Leeds United have let their goal difference plummet to -20, now almost as bad as Everton's.

The bookies say 1/12 Southampton, 2/7 Notts Forest, 1/1 Leicester, 11/10 Everton, 3/1 Leeds, 16/1 Bournemouth, 20/1 West Ham.

Yup it's hard to see beyond the current bottom 3 going down.

Another shocking decision at Ellend Road by Craig Pawson. You will not see a clearer handball than that for the opening goal. Pawson looking straight at it. Another useless referee.