Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 34
Days of yore
Back to a relatively bog standard GW, certainly in so much as there are 10 games and every team features just once. Albeit one after the other in this new endless procession of games that we have to endure to please TV audiences. Surely there wouldn’t be an outcrying of grief, even from the woke crowd, if just occasionally they lumped a few together at 3pm on Saturday for old times sake?! Just take a game involving a couple of crap teams who even their own supporters would be glad of a break from and sneak it un untelevised. Newcastle vs Arsenal springs to mind!
But we digress… GW 34 begins on Friday as Saints attempt to exorcise their (one of now many) 9-0 demons vs Leicester.
Man City kick Saturday off for us by no doubt going yet another win closer to the title when they visit Palace at 12:30pm. Brighton & Leeds get the prime ‘Stelling (Jeff)’ spot at 3pm before fellow CL rotatinaires (new word alert!) Chelsea host Fulham at 5:30pm. Everton and Villa see us out at 8pm.
There may or may not be a game on Sunday at 2pm, depending on how quickly we can get ourselves appointed to the PL Fixtures Committee. Man Utd and Liverpool do battle at 4:30pm, in a tribute to by-gone-days, before Spurs attempt to kill off most peoples GW by labouring against an already relegated Sheffield Utd at 7.15pm.
West Brom will seek to find new ways to throw after the safety rope vs Wolves at 6pm on Monday and then Burnley will attempt to see to Moyes’ CL dream at 8.15.
The games in full…
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So when will the MU LIV match likely be played?
Ideally before next Friday and included in this GW as it should be.
I hope so Ivan. Will you be holding on to both Son and Kane?
Every week the choices become harder.
Bees, no one knows anymore. This season has been a travesty.
Don’t know how is over there with you but here things are getting steady back to normal. Let’s hope for a new proper season without all those disruptions and cancelations.
Things way better by us too. Over 60% vaccinated. Don’t have to wear masks outside. Went to a birthday gathering that was so much fun. Just not cut out for the cave life.
Unlikely I guess, United playing Vs Roma?
As GP posted earlier the only space for it is 16th May in GW36. WBA v LIV would have to be moved to 12/13 (DGW35)
A possible solution for Man Utd vs Liverpool fixture rearrangement:
If Man Utd’s game isn’t played tomorrow, their only free slot is FA Cup final weekend (gw36) as they’re playing Roma on Thursday.
Liverpool only have 1 free slot – gw35 midweek.
WBA v Liverpool could go from gw36 to the midweek of gw35. Liverpool would then have a delicious DGW of Sou(h) and WBA(a) in gw35.
Man Utd v Liverpool would then move into gw36.
Used Ben Crellin’s s/s for this.
I think that makes sense
Any ideas on when United and Liverpool’s game will be rescheduled? As if dealing with the doubles and blanks wasn’t complicated enough already
Should have read the post above me before posting lol
I’m expecting some of the GW37 to move to Tue & Thu so if BUR v LIV and MNU v FUL are played on Thu 20th then there is a very very small chance that LIV could have a DGW36. Very unlikely but WBA v LIV could be moved to Fri 14th, MNU v LIV on Mon 17th
Much more likely that MNU v LIV goes to 16th though. Sky Sports won’t accept the 16:30 slot on Sunday being vacant
Yanno I wish we only protested our sports teams here on the left side of the pond. It would be a great day here if the biggest story of the day was thousands of fans storming a baseball game to protest the owners decisions. But then again the authorities here would probably make it worse. Alas… Just play the game!
For those angry at yesterday’s Utd vs Liverpool match being called off, there is a bigger issue here.
For 16 years most United fans have protested peacefully against the ownership of the Glazers.
There have been peaceful protests inside the stadium on match days (green & gold scarves) and on social media and at club meetings with official fan groups.
None of these have proved successful.
The main gripe is the lack of the owners money into the club. They take money out of the club and increase the debt of the club (see table below).
For those that argue United are one of the biggest spenders, they are of course correct- United’s transfer kitty comes from the revenue earned by the club, not from the owners.
There is a detachment between the owners and the club. The Glazers have no love or affection for the club, it is one of their cash cows.
Liverpool and Arsenal fans feel the same dislike of their ownership regime – which is why you would have heard Carragher backing the fans yesterday.
Old Trafford as a stadium is a mess. The roof is leaking, it needs updating, refurbishment, basic maintenance. It isn’t being done as it isn’t being paid for. By the owners. They are scum and don’t care for what they own, rather they use the club to help finance their other operations and pay themselves large dividends.
The Super League debacle pushed United (and seemingly other fans) over the edge to the point of ‘enough is enough’.
Peaceful protests, meetings, petitions haven’t worked.
Was the aim of yesterday to get the game postponed? No. But clearly things escalated to that point.
Is one postponed match an issue or is a massive statement that may bring change (not only to United but to football in this country as a whole) worth it? Of course it is.
Having seen off the Super League in this country, United fans clearly feel this is the time for a football reset. Let’s hope they are right.
Liverpool fans and Arsenal fans should do similar.
Yesterday’s postponed match would have likely affected most if not all our gameweeks, I had 3 players not play (plus Rudiger and 9minute Alonso!).
I don’t care about that.
If yesterday was a step to resetting our game, then it was definitely worth it.
Kane (c) blanking upset me more than Utd Liverpool being postponed
TLDR? Probably.
You are spot on here well said. It’s interesting as well it’s the Chelsea and the City owners that get criticised by everyone and despite having very murky pasts have put their own money into the clubs
Correct Smash. That’s why you don’t hear criticism of City or Chelsea owners by their fans, rather than by opposing fans.
I am not defending their past, their present or indeed how they made their money. That is a completely different part of the discussion.
What the Glazers are doing at United is an absolute disgrace. Drip bleeding the club dry. The root of everything that’s wrong for the game
I watched an interview with one of the fans on Sky news yesterday.
She nailed it “Americans don’t understand football, they have their own sports and should get on with them and leave ours to us”.
Ivan to have nailed it she should have said “The American owners who own these clubs don’t understand football” she could have said Americans or not mentioned the nationality at all because that is besides the point. When I hear comments like the Americans this or Americans that I see as much ignorance in the ones saying it as the owners have of the history of the clubs they own and the game in general.
Mito, that’s true. It’s all down to the owners who have no clue about the game and are only interested in the $.
There are millions of Americans, mostly with Latin American and European ancestors, who are true football fans. Not to mention that MLS is getting bigger and more popular every year.
Agree Mito, I had to have a long discussion with William explaining that we don’t hate American people and that they’re not all bad!!
Hi, Cookie & Ivan,
I’m an 82yr EPL fan from the US & agree that owners of what they call football are continually ruining what I remember as football as a child playing the game. All the rules are changed to increase the amount of scoring per game. Ant time you touch an offensive player it’s a penalty, oh my good if the quarterback is breathed on you may be thrown out. The size of the players is out of control, lineman are twice the size of running back and receivers. I believe that the next steps to increase scoring will be the introduction of flag football where you can’t touch or block an opponent. VAR in the EPL works somewhat, but is subjective to the crew not on the pitch. I hope that no further changes are made the the beautiful game.
This from a former football player who has given up on the NFL & doesn’t watch anymore.
Ivan, how you getting along now?
Hi Mosc, good to hear from you
Things are getting better here and I read that US are also doing well. There is a big chance of us having a normal season later this year, without the disruptions experienced in the last.
Well said Cookie
Good post Cookie.
To be honest, I wouldn’t try to judge anyone for actions they have or need to take to have ‘their’ club run properly – what City, Liverpool, Cardiff or Rangers supporters think is totally irrelevant here.
Some clubs may sympathise of course seeing how they’ve been run, but no one has the right to tell United lads what’s best for United.
Well said Cookie unfortunately we don’t live in an ideal world.Its rare to find owners that are willing to put there money into a club just for the love of it.Football is a multi million pound business and where there is money there are vultures.
On the other end of the scale here at Huddersfield we had a chairman that was in it for the love of the club but who still wanted a large chunk of his money back when he sold up.All the parachute payments from our time in the Premier league have gone straight to him and we have a new chairman who the fans have nicknamed “potless” as he refuses to spend a penny investing in the team.We have just avoided relegation,are playing dour football and have 15 players out of contract this summer.Not sure what the future has for us.Life of a football fan eh ?
Hi Brooky,
100% agree – this is not just a Manchester United issue, this is an opportunity to reset how football in our country is governed.
Some sort of independent regulator that can oversee takeovers and the running of football clubs.
I’m not expert enough to know how that would work in practice but assume it would need government intervention.
Think of all the clubs that have been mismanaged by its owner over the past few years – the list is significant.
Absolutely the rules/laws need changing..They do have the “fit and proper ” test but unscrupulous owners still slip through.What happened to clubs like Bury and Wigan should never be allowed to happen again for a start !
Not massively helpful when I’m in the middle of writing a Fixtures article though is it?!
F*** Glazers.