English premier league 2023/24

Fiddlesticks wrote: Perhaps the PL is what happens when you take inclusivity too far, and money corrupts the rest.

Not entirely or there would be fewer English players in the EPL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown_Player_Rule_(England)

 

 To each their own...

 

Brighton are a well run club who have managed to identify talent at the low end and sell said talent on at the high end and are riding the creast of that wave at present, the same wave that Leicester rode within the last decade to League and FA Cup triumphs and a Champions League Quarter Final, logic suggests eventually the wave will dump them just as it did Leicester, as the vultures with deep pockets will continue to pick at their squad (see MacAllister and Caicedo this summer) eventually the flow of talent, as with Leicester, will be greater out than in.

Although I'll be very glad if I am provem wrong on this, as it is good to see a small club flying high and the way the game is at present, with the "big 6" being able to dominate the way they do cannot be good for the game long term.

Manchester City 5 (inc a hat-trick to Haaland)

Fulham 1

Burnley 2

Tottenham 5 (inc a hat-trick to Son Heung-Min)

Quite contrasting form.

Lets not also forget the big one of the day, Chelsea 0-1 Nottingham Forrest.

Everton also grabbed their first point and goals with a 2-2 draw at Sheffield United.

Elsewhere, Newcastle got back on track defeating Brentford, Fulham got the points by the same score against Luton, Man City and Liverpool both won 3-1 away at West Ham and Wolves respectively, Brighton matching that score at Old Trafford against the missing mans team.