Not sure if the FA Cup belongs in the EPL thread but sod it.
It is one of the most exciting semi-final lineups for years. But it will be weird to see them both played at an empty Wembley Stadium. I reckon it’ll be Man City v Chelsea in the final (unfortunately).
From what I’ve seen from Lewandowski this season, I’ll say he’s right up there with DeBruyne and Mbappe.
Missed edit window. Speaking of Bayern’s Lewandowski - this Canuck is proud of Edmonton’s Alphonso Davies, whose torrid season has earned him rookie of the year. Kudos to the Bayern Munich scout who saw him as a Vancouver Whitecap.
Shaping up to eventually rule Canada in footy accomplishments.
Fantastic season, and even if you don’t rate the Bundesliga as much, he’s clearly the top striker of this year (and in the conversation for his generation). If Bayern go on to win the CL he should win the Ballon d’Or.
Considering a number of posts here (like mine) have been about other leagues altogether, I’m figuring that’s an ok thing (so, thanks to Dale_Sams and this forum mod for being cool with that).
Thus, the annoyingly Ramos-led Real Madrid looks to be taking a foothold over Barcelona for the league title with their four point lead. At least it was nice to see Roberto yesterday putting in a fine turn with Barca, but I’m not holding out hope for them catching the Blancos, despite the latter having a more difficult remaining schedule to contend with.
First of all, let me say that I really enjoy your posts. But I didn’t quite understand this one - “torrid” means awful, bad, terrible, miserable - I assume you meant the opposite? I don’t follow the Bundesliga so I don’t know the context I’m afraid.
Thanks for your tolerance of my posts!
Doesn’t torrid also mean hot and dry? Thus, a hot spell? I’ve certainly heard “torrid pace” used before. I could be wrong on this, but I think in Britain it has a more negative meaning, like “problematic”, I believe.
On a completely different note, I’m we glad don’t have to look at Joachim Low anymore, reaching down the back of his pants and then sniffing at whatever he happened to pinch at.
Just saw a pvr’ed game of the Saints taking it to the visiting Man Citizens, who’ve lost three straight previous on the road - a first in Pep’s managing career. Ederson was caught asleep, too far off his line, when Che Adams blasted a 40-metre curler over him. On the other end McCarthy made numerous great saves, especially from close in.
Despite this was nothing important, standings-wise, still nice to see Southampton beat the giants after they were emasculated on their home turf 9 - 0 by (I think) the Foxes near the beginning of this season.
Very entertaining 1-0 game, with City having almost 75% possession, and lots of scoring chances set up by their onslaught of awesome attacking sequences.
I’m ok with canned cheering.
ETA: With the Saints currently nine points behind Wolverhampton - fuhgeddaboudit
Well, I did what I should have done before making my previous post, and looked it up. Google says:
So I apologise - the way you used it could certainly make sense under meaning 3, which being British I didn’t know. Indeed, you could perhaps say “Davies’ had a torrid [3] game giving his opposite number a torrid [2] time”. Ignorance fought once again, thanks!
Sheffield United are having a wonderful season. Today they are systematically dismantling Chelsea. They deserve European Football next season.
I’ve only really watched Chelsea when Pulisic plays. They’re a weird team to watch. Some individual offensive brilliance and then a lot of awful defensive lapses. Lot of offensive talent coming in over the summer too, I imagine they’ll have a couple shootouts next year.
Fucking Leicester throwing away their Champions League place with lazy and undisciplined play at the pathetic Bournemouth. Why cant good teams learn what happens when they take lesser teams lightly? 
And now 4-1. Bournemouth with 4 unanswered goals in about 20 minutes.
I dunno - Bournemouth have been long overdue some good luck, I don’t think they deserve to be where they are in the league and I still have hopes they will overtake Watford (they’re not my team but a close friend is a lifelong fan). And I’m not sure Leicester took them lightly, rather it was a series of catastrophic mistakes in a period of about 3 minutes.
I like Leicester and I’m hugely impressed that they have continued to challenge at the top of the table, proving that their miracle season in 15/16 wasn’t just a lucky one-off. But as a Man U fan I’m happy to see them drop points at the moment. Even better of course if Chelsea drop out of the top 4 and/or Man City are kicked out of the Champions League (decision due in a few minutes from now).
Man City’s ‘ban’ from European football has been lifted. Money can buy anything.
I hate them more than Man U
Not a surprise but still disappointing - and I say that not so much as one of their rivals, but for the future financial stability of football.
Its as if an evil wizard has transferred the identity and personality of Arsenal pre covid 19 into Liverpoo. 
The evil wizard is that Peacock crap that NBC forced on us today. I went to my favorite bar to support them and couldn’t see the game
It was free on Peacock. You could have watched it on any of your devices.
Interesting tie-break situation shaping up for the coveted 4th Place position. If I have it correct, even if Leicester lose by 2 goals today, and the red hot ManU (Bruno Fernandes has transformed this team!) win by 2 goals mid-week, Leicester would still take the 4th spot at the end by beating ManU at home next weekend. This is assuming that ManU doesn’t score a massive amount of goals mid-week vs. WHU. BTW, ManU hasn’t lost a game in any competition in almost 6 months!