Couple of COVID musings:
* how much does home/away make a difference without the crowds in the stands? (apart from having to travel)
* I hate these artificial crowd sounds.. it's always a few seconds delayed and it is just so fake.. but then, watch a game without it, and it feels like some training session or a closed doors friendly..

Such exciting football from Leeds! Level despite a couple of hard decisions going against them already!

What a goal by Jack 'Bale' Harrison

Sri wrote:)
* I hate these artificial crowd sounds.. it's always a few seconds delayed and it is just so fake.. but then, watch a game without it, and it feels like some training session or a closed doors friendly..

The artifcial crowd sound is appalling, terrible and unacceptable, IMO. I watched CL final without fake crowd and it was actually an atmosphere of intensity, with the staff cheering and clapping.
You knew what was going on, you had a sense of what atmosphere is on and around the pitch, it's important to have that sense to judge the momentum of a game.

Initially, as everyone, I was lured by how well the fake crowd works, how readily we accept it as part of the landscape, (as of course the empty reverberating sound of no fans was sad, and was a strain on our capability to focus and injoy the game.)

But if you pay close notice now, the fake outrage booing after a foul/ref decision, the applause, the chants, when the stands are empty, it's absolutely maddening.
If you want to to feed in just an atmosphere, do that, but don't feed in fucking REACTION noises from a crowd that doesn't exist.
It's like an insult to my sense of what's real and right.

Not even need of put artificial crowd sounds in Premier League, you found silence at the stadium even before Covid.

Robespierre wrote:Not even need of put artificial crowd sounds in Premier League, you found silence at the stadium even before Covid.

ouch

WTF WAS THAT SAVE

Prime Arsenal-esque defending for these teams.. it really is such a strange year!

A proper game Leeds are

2-2 at Anfield in 30'

Amazing scenes this

Great assist from Van Dijk

2-2 BAMFORD! WHAT A GOAL

I really hope Leeds establish themselves and stay in the PL if this is the kind of game they're going to bring

lmao Van Dijk with a Lovren-esque thing , it's random football today

ffs VVD

He is so cocksure in defence at times he screws up in moments like that. What a stupid move.

3-2 ffs

Not sure if PL or La Liga tbh

Salah

No chance stopping that volley.

What a half ffs. Proper curtain raiser for a best league in the world

I repeat, Martin Tyler is a force spent and needs to retire. Insanely overrated commentator as it is. No knowledge outside of the BPL either.

What a game so far...true opening of PL in new special season covid.
Liverpools back line still in pre season mode, spcially VanDjik and Alison would have done better for their first goal in usual circumstances.

Take nothing away from Leeds though

Arquitecto wrote:I repeat, Martin Tyler is a force spent and needs to retire. Insanely overrated commentator as it is. No knowledge outside of the BPL either.

Lol you can tell he has aged.

Still my favourite but it's not the same anymore.

Arquitecto wrote:Salah

No chance stopping that volley.

Salah seems to be at his best with his general play so far and specially in the box. Hope it stays that way throughout

Btw told all the pessimistic Arsenal fans that Willian will be good for you. Already benching Pepe

Preferred Salah's old hairstyle, new one is too generic imo.