# Premier League 2020-21 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-soccer-fifa\ **Created:** [September 12, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444 "2020-09-12T18:15:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/1 "2020-09-12T18:15:36Z")
I don’t see a thread on this, so I’ll start one. Leeds United look like they belong. Fulham not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/2 "2020-09-12T18:20:27Z")
Two gifted penalties for Liverpool - very annoying. Leeds only have themselves to blame for that second one though. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/3 "2020-09-12T19:11:34Z")
A little trivia… Jack Harrison, who scored the opening Leeds goal, won the Gatorade National Player of the Year while attending high school in the States. Only the 2nd winner to play in the Premier League, after US International Claudio Reyna. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/4 "2020-09-14T13:58:56Z")
I am hating that NBC Sports in US is sending a number of games to their streaming Peacock service, which I don’t really want to get. I don’t think it works on Roku either. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/5 "2020-09-14T14:08:52Z")
I use Roku and I’m sure most of the top matches will be on Peacock. Which in terms of growing the game in the US is a shame. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/6 "2020-09-16T07:16:12Z")
And it’s a double shame because what else are they going to show on Saturday and Sunday mornings? Fuck Peacock. They’re sending Chelsea v Liverpool there?? ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/7 "2020-10-04T20:22:11Z")
What an afternoon of games! Can’t believe that Villa result!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/8 "2020-10-04T20:24:38Z")
Flipping between the French Open and EPL today, the scores were identical at one point. 6-1, 5-2 in both. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/9 "2020-10-05T13:57:10Z")
Crazy weekend of games. Great entertainment for the neutral, as the saying goes. On Saturday evening I poured scorn on the idea that Everton would finish in the top 2 this season. At the time the best price on them to do so was 25/1. By Sunday evening they were a little shorter than 7/1! ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/10 "2020-10-06T02:55:54Z")
ManU is my top tier team (let’s go Sheffield Wednesday! ), so I’m a little disappointed that we only signed Telles and a bunch of 2nd squad wingers today. We needed a holding midfielder and a CB without question. The signing of the young wingers makes me question if they will persure Sancho next year. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/11 "2021-02-03T00:22:11Z")
Southampton lost 9-0 _again._ Happened only once in the first 27 years of the Premier League and now they’ve been on the end of it twice in 16 months. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/12 "2021-02-03T08:28:15Z")
I didn’t see the game, but according to the BBC report, the player sent off in the second minute has only just joined the club - it was his first appearance - and not long before it his agent was spreading transfer rumours. Apparently the challenge was an obvious red card as well. Weird situation. A fellow United fan has commented that it’s interesting that Pogba was not involved. I’m still undecided on whether he is trying to call the shots by only switching on when he feels like it, or whether he was just suffering a poor run of form. I think he’s been pretty good recently. Time will tell I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/13 "2021-02-03T14:55:34Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > I didn’t see the game, but according to the BBC report, the player sent off in the second minute has only just joined the club - it was his first appearance - and not long before it his agent was spreading transfer rumours. Apparently the challenge was an obvious red card as well. Weird situation. I was watching the game in the background. The guy sent off was Alexandre Jankewitz. The announcers said that it was his first premier league start. Checking some more, he had was in a couple of games recently as a sub. Looks like he played on Southampton’s U-21 team too. The foul was an easy red card. Hard foul with studs straight to the mid-thigh. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/14 "2021-02-03T15:53:07Z")
Thanks for the extra info. Maybe he felt he wasn’t introduced to the first team quickly enough? What a muppet. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/15 "2021-02-03T18:13:40Z")
Meanwhile David Luiz got a red card for running in a straight line. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/16 "2021-02-04T04:41:08Z")
Sancho hasn’t had a great year, if they do pursue, I bet it’s for 30M less than they were debating last summer. I haven’t watched 10% as much BVB this year as last year so I don’t have an opinion on the cause of his regression. However, if last year wasn’t a fluke I think you sign him regardless of other wingers on the squad. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/17 "2021-02-04T08:23:03Z")
I thought there was something at the beginning of the season with Sancho, like an ankle\* issue, but my not only is my memory pooched but google is also failing. Would certainly be surprised if his low quality of play lasts for the rest of the season. One would have hoped his play would have at least been somewhat elevated by Haaland’s superlative season, replete with several instances where the young Norwegian would dish it off to Sancho inside the 18. Wondering, if, ultimately (when everything’s all said and done - who knows) Sancho’d end up getting paid more if going to Man U, or not. \*As in - recently re-injured. It’s been a problem in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/18 "2021-02-04T18:12:49Z")
Hopefully this is the only “separted at birth?” post I’ll ever resort to, but seriously… [Bordeaux keeper Benoit Kostil](https://www.google.com/search?q=benoit+costil&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA835CA835&sxsrf=ALeKk02xbslI_dzeWW_inS7IydkLgPNsnQ:1612461575989&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7_sy759DuAhUOqp4KHV_fDGwQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=953&bih=650) and [Giroud?](https://www.google.com/search?q=olivier+giroud&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA835CA835&sxsrf=ALeKk01Uqn2k-4I4yTCrKt4-WaupiWcSjg:1612461626598&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwij9N3T59DuAhVVpZ4KHfH8DAgQ_AUoAXoECBUQAw&biw=953&bih=650)? I mean - _come on_. bloody ridiculous ---
**Author:** ![michaelwilson777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@michaelwilson777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/michaelwilson777)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/19 "2021-02-15T16:52:32Z")
I guess Man City won’t have any problems winning a championship. But it would be quite interesting looking at other teams competing for CL. Would be interesting! ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444/20 "2021-02-16T00:15:59Z")
David Moyes is doing a great job this season. I love a redemption story and given how sour his career turned after getting the opportunity of a lifetime to take over from Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, taking West Ham to the Champions League would be phenomenal. If they beat Tottenham at the weekend I wouldn’t be surprised if Jose Mourinho is fired. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premier-league-2020-21/920444.md?page=2)