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Season starts on Saturday 30 July with the Community Shield between Manchester City and Liverpool...earlier than normal?

got to make a space for a mid season international competition somehow

Huddersfield vs Burnley on Friday night. Two teams who'll be looking to get up this season.

automatic lifetime bans for pitch invaders who get recognised from this season..... good luck with that at lower league games, but at least they're finally talking a bit tougher than simply telling away teams to bring their own stewards with them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62293635

Liverpool beat Manchester City 3-1 to secure the first trophy of the season.

Arsenal - Palace tonight. Reckon Arsenal will be top tonight!

Anyway here's my end of season league table prediction

Liverpool
City
Chelsea
Spurs
Arsenal
Utd
Villa
Newcastle
West Ham
Everton
Forest
Leicester
Palace
Brighton
Wolves
Fulham
Brentford
Southampton
Leeds
Bournemouth

I'd be delighted with 8th.

I'd like a tilt at winning the league cup, instead of putting weakened teams out. Come on Eddie... be brave. The manager who delivers a trophy to Newcastle will become a legend.... which is why I've never understood why successive managers have always ignored silverware. Not even a final since the two FA cups at the end of last century

has there been a semi final?

semi final FA cup 17 years ago.... 17!

footie season has started

wonder if it'll be as good as the women's football

confident start from Newcastle, but there will be sterner tests in the next few weeks. The away games at Brighton and Wolves will tell us a fair bit more than the season opener

Gingerfinch wrote:Arsenal - Palace tonight. Reckon Arsenal will be top tonight!

Anyway here's my end of season league table prediction

Liverpool
City
Chelsea
Spurs
Arsenal
Utd
Villa
Newcastle
West Ham
Everton
Forest
Leicester
Palace
Brighton
Wolves
Fulham
Brentford
Southampton
Leeds
Bournemouth

Manchester United sixth? After losses to Brighton and Brentford, I think they're relegation zone material.

bottom of the league atm

everyone wishes they could play them next week

Newcastle have got the wrong Manchester

I watched the highlights of the 4-0 drubbing and they were utterly dreadful, which I quite enjoyed, in truth, because for much of the Fat Lad era it was only ever Newcastle who were that shambolic

Tuchel and Conte both get sent off with two yellow cards for calling each other names and flapping their hands at each other like a couple of big jessies..... twice

the big daft to$$ers

they'll probably claim it was just passion

w@nkers