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local rivalries and history are key, so my picks off the top of my head:

Arsenal & Spuds obv
City & Utd obv
Everton & Accrington Stanley
Saints & Pompey
Forest & County
Toon & Sunderland
Blackpool (sob) and Bolton
Wednesday and Blades
Wolves and Villa
West Ham and Chelsea, I guess
prob find room for Leeds because everyone hates them though..

But yeah, the whole reason the league is such a brilliant model is there are so many "deserving" of a place and so many different narratives / rivalries.

blues villa surely?

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btw quick shout out to whichever regs itt mentioned Peaky Blinders a while back. I finished the whole thing the other night and found it moderately entertaining if a little silly at times, but it was raised to almost elite level by the use of Radiohead's Amnesiac (most criminally underrated album OAT) as the soundtrack. Bonus points for a Nick Cave title track too

i recommended this to everyone i could. but the latest season i just cant get into for some reason. just keep falling asleep

03-23-2017 , 04:30 PM

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mw828

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i also thought this season was boring af. i couldn't get through two episdoes, whereas the previous seasons i couldn't wait to finish them.

03-23-2017 , 04:38 PM

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yeah I knew Alfie was coming back in s3 (Tom Hardy absolutely killed with his portrayal in s2) so I persevered more than I might otherwise have done, but his role was so lolstupid that I felt dumb for looking forward to it. S3 definitely the weakest of the series. But LIFE IN A GLASSHOUSE to close it out, and all is forgiven.

03-23-2017 , 04:49 PM

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For me, the soundtrack felt pretty out of place considering the settings, yet it had so much great stuff on it I didn't care at all.

03-23-2017 , 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by LostOstrich

Do Chelsea even have a rival? They seem to hate Spurs but Spurs don't really care about them. Fulham? but for some reason I don't think they are either.

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Originally Posted by royalblue

Arsenal
ManUnited
Liverpool
Chelsea
Tottenham
Newcastle
ManCity
Everton
Villa
West Ham
Stoke
Sunderland
Southampton
Bolton
Fulham
Blackburn
Portsmouth
QPR for the lols
West Bromwich
Middlesbrough

Leeds are a must.

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Peaky Blinders is awesome

03-23-2017 , 05:14 PM

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The inclusion of all three sides from the North East in any given season should be prohibited under Premier League rules. No more than two at once should be permitted.

03-23-2017 , 06:02 PM

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Chelsea have only been in existence for fifteen years, not enough time to get a rival

03-23-2017 , 06:02 PM

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Nottingham Forest vs who Derby or Notts County?

Lol if it's the latter

03-23-2017 , 06:14 PM

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Forest - Leicester

03-23-2017 , 06:36 PM

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Elrazor

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Originally Posted by royalblue

Arsenal
ManUnited
Liverpool
Chelsea
Tottenham
Newcastle
ManCity
Everton
Villa
West Ham
Stoke
Sunderland
Southampton
Bolton
Fulham
Blackburn
Portsmouth
QPR for the lols
West Bromwich
Middlesbrough

Yeah some terrible picks in here - Fulham? Ahead of Leeds?? Stoke/Brom don't have nearly as much history as Derby or Forest. I'd also have both Sheffield clubs in there ahead of Portsmouth and Soton.

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Nottingham Forest vs who Derby or Notts County?

Lol if it's the latter

Derby, ainec. They really hate each other.

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03-23-2017 , 06:43 PM

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Any of you irish guys know the best way to try and get tickets for Ireland - Wales tomorrow?

Atm we're just going to the stadium and see if someones selling since there's nothing available on the internet as far as I can tell

03-23-2017 , 06:49 PM

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Have never seen Leeds, Forest or the Sheffield clubs (I think) play in the PL and only know Derby for being the worst ever PL team before Burnley came along. Whereas Fulham have kind of a cool stadium. So there.

03-23-2017 , 07:25 PM

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1h into the soundtrack is awesome

My biggest learn from it was that the wives and girlfriends did the qualifying timings using handheld stop watches. Must've been a busy weekend for them what with the cooking, cleaning and BJs.

03-23-2017 , 07:40 PM

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Brom don't have nearly as much history as Derby or Forest.

that Master's certainly wasn't in history

03-23-2017 , 07:50 PM

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The club was one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888 and have spent the majority of their existence in the top tier of English football.

They have been champions of England once and have been runners-up twice. They have won the FA Cup five times.

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The club was one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888 and have spent most of their existence in the top two tiers of English football.

They have been champions of England twice. They have won the FA Cup once.

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The club joined the Football League in 1891 and have spent most of their existence in the top two tiers of English football.

They have been champions of England once. They have won the FA Cup twice.

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03-23-2017 , 07:58 PM

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blues villa surely?

maybe, but although all clubs have their ups and downs (Everton excepted?) villa have mainly played in the top division and blues in the second one, so my (third-party) view of that rivalry is that the blues fans are/were vaguely resentful of villa but know/knew their team is/was worse while the villa fans don't/didn't really think of any of the other midland clubs as their equals.

west brom think of their local rivals as villa - (some fans maybe would say wolves) - but again, I'm not sure villains really bite on that.

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03-23-2017 , 08:04 PM

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On the plus side, it saves you a trip to Northampton.

sacrilege - there's ENERGY in Northampton

03-23-2017 , 08:16 PM

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Quote:

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Therefore all your PL opinions are invalid

03-24-2017 , 02:43 AM

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Elrazor

losing momentum

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tchaz

that Master's certainly wasn't in history

You seem to have missed Forest's two European Cups.

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03-24-2017 , 03:18 AM

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If Fulham still had the Michael Jackson statue they'd be towards the top of the draft.

03-24-2017 , 04:11 AM

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Fulham/Watford/Palace should all be banned for not bringing enough spite. Palace are also banned for the ultras **** that they try and pull.

03-24-2017 , 05:14 AM

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sixfour

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Our season ticket prices frozen

03-24-2017 , 05:22 AM

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Hoopie1

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Our season ticket prices frozen

Our season ticket prices have also been frozen, but I suspect the reasons for that are somewhat different.

03-24-2017 , 07:03 AM

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Tall Paul

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Friday quiz time!

I got 14, but kicked myself on at least a couple I got wrong.

03-24-2017 , 07:20 AM

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ZAIDS

it’s coming home again

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16; probably should've been 18

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