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Is it too late to get on the bandwagon? I would like to give EPL a try soon. I'm not sure who to root for starters. 

Heck,  is the Irish premier league any good?

 
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wazoo11 said:
Is it too late to get on the bandwagon? I would like to give EPL a try soon. I'm not sure who to root for starters. 
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This is a common question.  There are two approaches to take.

1.  There are many "How to Choose A Premier League Club" articles on the internet.  Each will give you a variety of "reasons" of varying validity for why you might want to choose to support a given club.

2.  You can just watch some games and pick a club that appeals to you.  This is always my recommendation.  One of the great pleasures of choosing to support a team in a country that you have no connection to is that there really isn't an invalid reason to support them.  Maybe you like Norwich's kits.  Or really loved Henry IV, Pt. 1.  Or enjoy Palace's cheerleaders.  Or maybe you just like watching the way a team plays.  One of my better friends supports City because Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher do.  Seems as good a reason as any. 

 
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wazoo11 said:
Is it too late to get on the bandwagon? I would like to give EPL a try soon. I'm not sure who to root for starters. 

Heck,  is the Irish premier league any good?
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A-

1- Watch as many games as you can

2- Start following the team you enjoy watching the most. (Style of play, popular players you know)

B-

1- Start following Liverpool

2- Get ready for heart palpitations all season

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
wazoo11 said:
Is it too late to get on the bandwagon? I would like to give EPL a try soon. I'm not sure who to root for starters. 
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This is a common question.  There are two approaches to take.

1.  There are many "How to Choose A Premier League Club" articles on the internet.  Each will give you a variety of "reasons" of varying validity for why you might want to choose to support a given club.

2.  You can just watch some games and pick a club that appeals to you.  This is always my recommendation.  One of the great pleasures of choosing to support a team in a country that you have no connection to is that there really isn't an invalid reason to support them.  Maybe you like Norwich's kits.  Or really loved Henry IV, Pt. 1.  Or enjoy Palace's cheerleaders.  Or maybe you just like watching the way a team plays.  One of my better friends supports City because Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher do.  Seems as good a reason as any. 
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you can also pick a team that sounds about right based on what kinds of teams you like- soccer aside. 

daddy-warbucks owner who will buy little skippy a new team every year to compete for top? 

stoic, steady but never quite there teams that have tradition and a bit of money?

historically great teams that are a bit under the weather, but might make a fight of it?

gritty teams with spunk that will never finish near the top?

soul-less miserable maroons?

keep in mind, with the bottom 3 teams getting relegated every season, you probably want to pick a team with some legs... or risk the yoyo/hopes following your team down into the lower divisions.

 
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I am use to cheering on loveable loser like teams.  Liverpool or Arsenal seems to fit the bill. 

 
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Barcelona wrapped up business yesterday by signing Paco Alcacer from Valencia to be the main sub up front.  Added a lot of depth to the squad this summer.  

 
Tom Hagen said:
If I had to do it over I would pick Crystal Palace because that is Rebecca Lowe's club and maybe one day we would meet, bond over our shared love of Palace and live happily ever after.  :wub:

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Right there w/ ya...  they'll be my relegation struggle PL team for the foreseeable future.  (I like to have a second PL team that lives near the bottom, makes life fun.) 

 
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Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
FWIW, I'd classify Arsene essentially giving up on Wilshere before giving up on Theo as a mild upset. 
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Am I the only one who really doesn't have a problem with Wilshere?  Is there really not a place for him in this team?  I get that they're relatively deep in central midfield but it's not like they have a bunch of world-beaters at the position.  

 
Steve Tasker said:
Am I the only one who really doesn't have a problem with Wilshere?  Is there really not a place for him in this team?  I get that they're relatively deep in central midfield but it's not like they have a bunch of world-beaters at the position.  
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I would guess that we all like Wilshere and rate him highly... when he's not hurt.

Plus- it seems like it's either him or Ozil on the field. I'm not same phil-ozil that you guys are, but I think Jack has lost that battle. he's still young- get some quality PT somewhere and reinvent himself... he's definitely got the ability.

 
Steve Tasker said:
Am I the only one who really doesn't have a problem with Wilshere?  Is there really not a place for him in this team?  I get that they're relatively deep in central midfield but it's not like they have a bunch of world-beaters at the position.  
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But they have non world beaters there that can actually play and aren't hurt every other week

 
NewlyRetired said:
LA just terminated De Jong's contract basically telling Galatassary "yes please take him for nothing"
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I only saw him play 2 or 3 times for LA... and still pulled the late-tackling goonery. 

given what you wrote there, doesn't sound like there was much more to his game for LA... or was there?

 
Just last season, I would say that I was in the distinct minority in being ready to give up on Wilshere.  I think everyone recognizes Wilshere's natural talent.  He's one of the most naturally talented English players in years.  But I came to the conclusion that Wilshere's injuries aren't just bad luck.  They're a consequence of his worst habit, which is that he holds the ball too long (to be fair, I first heard this critique from Paul Scholes).  The guy invites a lot of late tackles (and gets into his own ill advised tackles) and he gets hurt a lot.  If Jack were still 19, maybe I'd still hold out hope for him correcting this issue and becoming the player I thought he could be.  But he isn't.  The odds that Jack Wilshere becomes the player that we imagined "Potential Jack Wilshere" to be are getting more remote by the year. 

More relevantly, I think it's hard to justify holding on to your 3rd best CAM and your fourth or fifth best CM.  Ozil and Cazorla are better pure playmakers.  Xhaka, Ramsey, and Cazorla offer more in CM (and Wilshere is a disaster as a pure holding DM so I'd rather have Coquelin and Elneny, even if neither are as talented).

 
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