Updated:08/13/2021 01:42h
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The Premier League, the elite of beautiful and mystical English football, returns tonight and does so with its greatest asset back: the public. In addition, except for the mandatory use of a mask as the only pandemic sequel, fans will fill the old British stands without any restriction. With them, football returns as we once knew it. The boos, the post-defeat funeral silences at home, the chants in unison and the explosions of pure and ephemeral joy after the goal immediately return to the Islands, just when football needed to be something more than a sport again; a fundamental branch in their culture, in their happiness.
You’ll Never Walk Alone will once again be
sung by the 50,000 thousand throats that flood every two weeks Anfield, the corners in favor will be celebrated as goals in St. James Park, just like zero draws with no shots on goal in the old Turf Moor. The English League recovers its aura of mysticism with the fan, the only essential component that was missing to guarantee its success in the short, medium and long term. Because he does enjoy financial health. While European football is going through rickety times, the English competition, supported by an abysmal television contract that has just been renewed until the 2024-25 season, continues to spend millions sufficiently in the transfer markets. In the Premier there is money for everyone; even the smallest of the championship return from the summer transfer window with exorbitant signings. An example is the Aston Villa that despite having sold its insignia, Jack Grealish to the City for 117 million, they have already spent the same on players of the stature of Emi Buendía, Danny Ings and Leon Bailey.
For their part, the big ones, as if it were 2018, continue to invest huge amounts in European whims. Thus, Varane and Jadon Sancho will play for Manchester United, Lukaku for Chelsea or Bryan Gil for Tottenham. Although one of them, the Manchester City, current League champion and top favorite to revalidate the title, has chosen in recent seasons to spend his Qatari money in the Premier League itself, a strategy similar to that carried out by Bayern in the Bundesliga. In the recent past, important players came to the bosom of the Etihad from their direct rivals such as Sterling, Mahrez, Stones and Walker. And in this summer window they have signed the aforementioned Grealish and, according to local media, they are preparing an offer of 150 million euros for one of the emblems of English football, the Spurs forward Harry Kane.
First working day
The first game of this Premier League 2021-22 will start tonight at 9:00 p.m. (Dazn) and will face the newly promoted Brentford with the Arsenal by Mikel Arteta. Brentford is a modest club on the outskirts of London that returns to the First Division after 75 years in the mud of the lower ranks and where the Spanish winger Sergi Canós plays, who in the previous playoffs for promotion to the Premier attended this newspaper.
This team, a pioneer in the application of advanced statistics to its sports model, will be the only team in the competition in do not kneel before kickoff before matches. This measure began to be common since February of this year, when they were still playing in the Championship. The unilateral decision by the club supports the opinion of its star forward Ivan Toney. The scorer considers that personally he has not seen that this movement (favorable to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ initiative) has had a positive impact on changing the situation of black people neither in football nor in society in general, as he recently communicated on his networks social.
— Ivan Toney (@ivantoney24) August 6, 2021
After today’s meeting, the day returns tomorrow with an exciting Manchester United-Leeds(1:00 p.m., Dazn), in the first game in more than a year with a packed Old Trafford. Also tomorrow Chelsea will debut in this Premier, against the Crystal Palace at home (4pm, Dazn), and Liverpool on Carrow Road against Norwich (6:30 pm, Dazn). On Sunday, as the culmination of the first date of the championship, the best meeting of the weekend will take place: the Tottenham-Manchester City (17:30, Dazn).
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