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Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by FCBurnley » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:00 am

Obviously I have not seen them all but today was the worst I have ever seen by a long way. Both teams were simply awful.
So any contenders for an even worse PL game ?

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Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:01 am

Take your pick from Derbys 11 point season.
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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by FCBurnley » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:04 am

Derby were certainly the worst team but I am talking about both teams playing as badly as they did today. Southampton have lost twice 9-0 but the games were way better than today

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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by jdrobbo » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:06 am

I’ll offer our away win at Bournemouth last season...
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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by elwaclaret » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:08 am

Worst ever was Blackburn vs Leeds. On match of they day they showed the kick off and the ref blowing the whistle at the end. I had gone as a guest, I think we were in Division 4 and even I thought it was shockingly bad.

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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:11 am

I don't know, but it wasn't worse than Huddersfield away in our first promotion season under Dyche, or Doncaster away in Coyle's season.

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Post by Rileybobs » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:12 am

There’s been a lot more worse games than this. There was the drama of the sending off, a penalty review and 3 or 4 unbelievable game-winning chances for the team with 10 men.

One of Burnley’s worst Premier League games ever, could be argued, although on reflection there’s been a lot worse. But for the neutrals, or WBA fans there was definitely some entertainment.

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Post by tim_noone » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:14 am

Our game at Bournemouth Dec 2019 was described as Such....Todays game wins it by a country mile though.

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Post by Devils_Advocate » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:15 am

Gotta be Southampton at home to Fulham in 02/03 season

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Post by tim_noone » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:16 am

jdrobbo wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:06 am
I’ll offer our away win at Bournemouth last season...1C09D11F-DE46-401A-B310-C4826E66FAAF.jpeg
Did we have a shot on target against WBA..?

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Post by tiger76 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:28 am

tim_noone wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:16 am
Did we have a shot on target against WBA..?
1 apparently.

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Post by dsr » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:35 am

Don't forget the black comedy value in watching WBA somehow fail to score from what seemed like vast numbers of open goals, two on ones, and cleared-off-the-lines. We were abysmal but the game as a whole, for a neutral, was far from the worst.
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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by Quickenthetempo » Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:43 am

It was the worst I have seen by a mile. Including all the games mentioned above.
I've never seen pro footballers mis place so many simple passes. Going out of play far to often.

But let's be honest. Dyche Vs Allardyce would be favourite for such a title. There's only Pullis who could throw his name in the ring to challenge them.
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Post by bfcjg » Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:13 am

Worst I have ever seen national league quality and tactics.

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Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:48 am

What made it so much worse was the Mersey derby being played in wilder weather and it didn’t bother the players at all.

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Post by Nonayforever » Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:57 am

I would say it's the worst team performance that I've ever seen. It was as if every single player had the same malaise.
I've seen lots of poor games where at least one or two players have redeemed themselves, but yesterday took the biscuit.

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Post by RalphCoatesComb » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:57 pm

Nonayforever wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:57 am
It was as if every single player had the same malaise.
I'd take Nick Pope and James Tarkowski out of that ;)
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Post by Steve1956 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:11 pm

Nowhere near....the Fulham v Sheff Utd was worse....best league in the World😂 what a joke.

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Post by tarkys_ears » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:11 pm

I think we'd be nominated for more than a handful of the worst ever

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Post by Steve1956 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:16 pm

tarkys_ears wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:11 pm
I think we'd be nominated for more than a handful of the worst ever
Man United & Liverpool have played some dreadful contests against each other in the Premier league....its not just us.

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Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:33 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:16 pm
Man United & Liverpool have played some dreadful contests against each other in the Premier league....its not just us.
This is a good point actually, the top clubs are very afraid of losing against each other so their games are usually quite dull the majority of the time.

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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by jrgbfc » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:37 pm

The better teams may have played out some dull games but there's no way there's be as many basic errors as yesterday. Was like watching a Sunday league game at times.

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Post by Quickenthetempo » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:38 pm

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:33 pm
This is a good point actually, the top clubs are very afraid of losing against each other so their games are usually quite dull the majority of the time.
There's too much money in the league these days. It's not sport or entertainment.

We need to take away points for nil nil draws for a kick off. Then have a look at reducing the league to 18 teams. Too much dross at the bottom.

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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by Steve1956 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:41 pm

jrgbfc wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:37 pm
The better teams may have played out some dull games but there's no way there's be as many basic errors as yesterday. Was like watching a Sunday league game at times.
It was windy 😊

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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by Steve1956 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:43 pm

Quickenthetempo wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:38 pm
There's too much money in the league these days. It's not sport or entertainment.

We need to take away points for nil nil draws for a kick off. Then have a look at reducing the league to 18 teams. Too much dross at the bottom.
I suppose that includes us,the Premier league will be glad when we are not part of it anymore we devalue their product

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Post by Vegas Claret » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:46 pm

in terms of lack of basic quality I'm struggling to think of a worse game. There are plenty of crap dull 0-0's where teams cancel each other out but I've never ever seen a team unable to pass the ball as much as we did.

3 points from home games against Brighton, Fulham and WBA is poor by our standards, injuries are killing us and our season
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Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:47 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:43 pm
I suppose that includes us,the Premier league will be glad when we are not part of it anymore we devalue their product
Not really, we help keep it interesting by picking up shock wins against the big boys.

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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by tarkys_ears » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:49 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:43 pm
I suppose that includes us,the Premier league will be glad when we are not part of it anymore we devalue their product
I used to argue against that point.

Until we ended up with £40m in the bank.



The Premier League PAY us to be in their league in order to provide competetive team and therefore and provide entertainment.

But not us, no. We chose to pay tax on it and use it as payoff money for someone to leverage a buyout of our club and saddle us with debt.

...no wonder they don't ******* want us!

I actually think most of the PL payments should be put into some kind of escrow or trust (whatever) and be taken back if they're not spent.

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Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:53 pm

We do spend it, your issue is you don't like how we spend it.

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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by Steve1956 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:58 pm

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:47 pm
Not really, we help keep it interesting by picking up shock wins against the big boys.
Yes but the big boys dont like that....they want shut....it wont be long the greedy b@stards will get their way in the end.

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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by Quickenthetempo » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:00 pm

Someone has just reminded me of the free kick we had yesterday, in a good position, that was passed sideways straight out of play.

Shudders

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Post by Dark Cloud » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:01 pm

Like others I haven't sat through every single PL game of every team ever to play there, but in terms of us I really do think that yesterday was absolutely the worst 90 minutes I've witnessed us play under Dyche (and under Coyle or Laws in the PL) In certain matches we've had really poor halves or not been on our game or cetain players have had stinkers, but yesterday was so awful it was almost funny because just when you started to think,"well surely it's bottomed out and can't get any worse", somebody would put a 5 yard pass out of play or pass to someone busy looking the other way and it was literally everybody at some stage or other, bar Pope (thank God!). How we got a point is beyond me, but if we end up relegated we'd sadly have to look at a day like yesterday and say we looked anything but a PL side.

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Post by Caballo » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:02 pm

huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:48 am
What made it so much worse was the Mersey derby being played in wilder weather and it didn’t bother the players at all.
I must have missed that game, the one I watched had a significant number of wayward passes and miss-controls. Our game was crap but let's not pretend the conditions played no part and that the Merseyside derby was a festival of football.

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Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:09 pm

Steve1956 wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:58 pm
Yes but the big boys dont like that....they want shut....it wont be long the greedy b@stards will get their way in the end.
The big boys need to realise that the PL sells so well because it's so unpredictable a lot of the time.
With out the smaller teams upsetting the apple cart, the league becomes dull.

Barcelona are probably getting more attention due to their losses than they are for winning at present.

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Post by Burnley1989 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:11 pm

Quickenthetempo wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:00 pm
Someone has just reminded me of the free kick we had yesterday, in a good position, that was passed sideways straight out of play.

Shudders
:lol: I’d forgotten about that, professional footballers.... it was grim was that

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Re: Was this the worst Premier League game ever?

Post by Steve1956 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:12 pm

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:09 pm
The big boys need to realise that the PL sells so well because it's so unpredictable a lot of the time.
With out the smaller teams upsetting the apple cart, the league becomes dull.

Barcelona are probably getting more attention due to their losses than they are for winning at present.
Agreed....but the big clubs simply dont want us around...

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Post by Dark Cloud » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:14 pm

Quickenthetempo wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:00 pm
Someone has just reminded me of the free kick we had yesterday, in a good position, that was passed sideways straight out of play.

Shudders
I think that was the point where I thought it really couldn't get any worse and started nervously, inexplicably laughing!!! :lol: :lol:

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Post by warksclaret » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:19 pm

Dark Cloud wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:14 pm
I think that was the point where I thought it really couldn't get any worse and started nervously, inexplicably laughing!!! :lol: :lol:
...and Corks 3 yard pass to a colleague except he hit it with his studs and it never reached our player. Would love to see the stats for the amount of passes made by us that did not reach one of our players
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Post by Super Teds » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:20 pm

Dark Cloud wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:14 pm
I think that was the point where I thought it really couldn't get any worse and started nervously, inexplicably laughing!!! :lol: :lol:
Same. The absolute nadir in terms of free-kicks.
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Post by Rileybobs » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:24 pm

Nick Pope’s attempt at starting a counter attack would also have been pretty amusing if it didn’t hurt to watch. He smashed a daisy cutter 100 yards up the pitch despite there not being a single Burnley player in WBA’s half.
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Post by Dark Cloud » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:24 pm

Quickenthetempo wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:00 pm
Someone has just reminded me of the free kick we had yesterday, in a good position, that was passed sideways straight out of play.

Shudders
AND if anyone is in any doubt re the question in the OP, just replay that particular clip and all will become clear!!!

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Post by Vegas Claret » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:43 pm

yesterday reminded me of a cup tie against a non league team and we simply couldn't be arsed with it as usual

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Post by Spijed » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:52 pm

In terms of a team performance I don't think ours comes anywhere near as poor as Palace were last weekend.

WBA were ok, considering they had ten men and had two very good goal scoring efforts.

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Post by KRBFC » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:52 pm

I thought WBA played really well with 10 men tbh

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Post by Steve1956 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:13 pm

Arsenal v Man - City......its like watching paint dry.

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Post by Grumps » Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:39 pm

huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:48 am
What made it so much worse was the Mersey derby being played in wilder weather and it didn’t bother the players at all.
Not quite the same... Better pitch and more enclosed stadium

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Post by Rumbletonk » Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:52 pm

The Huddersfield 0-0. That was a stinker

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