The first Premier League weekend is in the books. And what better way to recap it than by going through some of the best pictures across the league? I’m happy to bring back this feature (hopefully on a more regular basis than last year) for the 2025-26 PL season. Okay, let’s get to it:
We should stress it’s difficult to find one or two images/videos from Diogo Jota, who died alongside his brother Andre Silva in a car crash in July. We knew Liverpool’s first home game of the season was going to be an incredibly emotional one. So I’m just posting this one here:
Elsewhere, Jota’s previous club Wolverhampton paid tribute to him with a Tifo of their own:
Jota joined Wolves on loan from Porto in 2017 and helped the club secure promotion before finishing seventh in the Premier League.
Now this is sick.
What a way for Sunderland to reintroduce themselves to the Premier League. Forget the 3-0 win against West Ham (actually let’s not forget that West Ham lost 3-0, lol), this is the highlight of the game:
I did a little digging, and apparently this tifo is in reference to The Lambton Worm, which terrorised the people living around the River Wear.
John Lambton, who had originally caught the then-little worm and then forgot about it, returned to his father’s estate after seven long years to find that it had fallen into disrepair because of the large and angry worm. After conferring with a which, John Lambton confronts the worm and kills it.
Yeah, I’m obviously putting this here.
Your hoddler-in-chief let out a gasp when he saw Richarlison score this worldie, which surely is a lock for goal of the month. Hell, let’s give him goal of the season!
It’s a heck of a start from Richarlison. Let’s keep the man healthy, please.
Fitzie’s track of the day: Straight to Hell, by The Clash
And now for your links:
The Athletic ($$): “Advantage Richarlison in contest to be Tottenham’s first-choice striker”
Alasdair Gold: “Why Thomas Frank shouted at Bergvall, Eberechi Eze and the powerful person sat next to Daniel Levy”
The Independent: “Why Eberechi Eze holds the key to the cruel crossroads facing Crystal Palace”