A shot saver would have used his feet there.
A shot saver would have used his feet there.
That's some injury list Juve have.
Where's Wanyama? Surely he's better than Dier.
Bentancur making the dive-motion....
Has Gigi chucked one in?
It's doubtful I'll ever watch European football again.
It's possible we seek different things in football, but I reckon continental knockout games have been the best thing on the calendar for a few years now.
It looked like he really badly positioned a wall and let Eriksen hit one low along the ground into the corner. Plus he should have stopped it anyway.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I'm talking Copa Libertadores here, but the stuff on at the moment is alright as well.
They may well be but if they're on BT it's not happening. Radio will suffice for Chelsea games (if we ever qualify again).
There's a load of Asian wank on too.
Asian and South American football are both nonsense, but only South American is enjoyable nonsense.
I see Lewis and Jimmy are still stinking it up in here. The forum kind of dead then or what?
Pretty much. @Hammer is on the case though.
Actually it wasn't as dead as I thought, I was mistaking the thread created date for the latest post date and thought people hadn't been posting in any other thread than this since 2015. Tired.
I'm quite liking this Tottenham side, most of their lads are quite likable fellows, as is their manager. I mean Lamella is a bit of a twat, but Dembele is such a don he more than makes up for it. Eriksen, Kane, Ali and most of rest are all solid. Vertongen and the other English lad that look like he should work in an office are +/-. They have to have enough about them to go through.
Hey Multi.
Sup champ?
Not bad mate. Still patching up all the victims of Swedish migrant violence?
Yeah and barely surviving myself to boot.
Doing my residency in radiology though, so life at work is pretty sweet as far as health care jobs go.
You still in Romania?
Back in Stockholm since 2014, about the same time I started working and stopped posting here. Work at Karolinska Huddinge now, hit me up if you're ever admitted.
Holy shit the board just went up a level.
Have just seen an article using Man City beating the worst FC Basel team in a decade, who also just sold their best defender 2 weeks ago, as a platform to say that we're watching history in the making.
I've really enjoyed watching City this year but I'm slowly coming round to it being much funnier for them to gub it up and Jose Mourinho to lol at everyone.
It's a new sport now. "Pep" has reinvented it.
It's a bit like trying to appreciate the Wermacht, sure Guderian and Rommel were pretty special but it's hard to disassociate them from the regime they worked for.
A nice analogy.
I've no idea what is going to happen tonight. Porto are good at set pieces aren't they? Bodes well.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...P=share_btn_tw
In where someone who gets paid to write about football, questions how sacking the Chairman and the CEO could change football decision making at the club.
What idiot can think this:
'West Brom’s chairman and chief executive have apparently paid for dumping Pulis and replacing him with Pardew without the desired effect, but a new CEO is not going to win matches'
'It is tempting to wonder what difference a rearrangement of suits in the boardroom – the former chief executive Mark Jenkins has been brought back to take over the running of the club – can possibly make to this apparently hopeless situation. When you have just got rid of one of the best firefighters in the business – Pulis probably deserves that billing for his work at Crystal Palace alone – it must be hard to know where to look for another saviour but at this late stage a push for survival can surely only come from pitch level.'
'How many games Mark Jenkins is going to win remains to be seen, though already there appears to be an acceptance that some of them will be in the Championship.'
I mean really. I could quote 95% of the post. Pure idiocy.
Are there any football (or sports) writers who come across as being actually intelligent individuals? Plenty of them seem adept at reading statistics and what is in front of them, but, unless they feel compelled to take a pointlessly short-termist approach to generate clicks and comments, I struggle to think of any capable of extrapolating from that and/or placing things within any sort of wider or long-term context. You get more insight and sense in the Football365 mailbox than from its paid writers.
Football pundits are trash is basically a staple of the board at this point.
I think Rory Smith is quite good at this but the main reason he get's away with it is by never actually concluding anything.
From BTL:
Does anyone else follow anything with the same depth of interest as we seem to follow football? Most political pundits are crap, and most of the rugby coverage I read is pretty naff; but what is the state of this stuff for something like Formula 1 or films or whatever else people like?
AV Club is probably the biggest site for television criticism - their Community reviews used to hit a hundred and thirty thousand comments a week - and it's pretty crap.
Didn't AV Club have a mass exodus of writers at one point? I remember there being a lot of drama around the editorial staff once they got taken over.
Mainstream coverage of F1 is pretty cursory, the stuff on the BBC site may as well not be there. The actual Sky coverage on the day has some good people (Brundle at least) but they fall into the same trap as everyone else so you're more likely to be go-karting with Sergio Porridge than hear a serious question being asked. Contrast this with someone like Joe Saward who writes an in depth blog and magazine, he might be a bit of an arsehole but he certainly knows his stuff.
Danny Taylor is a proper journalist.
Yeah I'd call him an actual journalist rather than a writer.
What's the difference?
An actual/proper journalist uses his Old Trafford sources and press access to report on what goes on, where as a writer writes rubbish opinion pieces about how shelling out agent fees is an affront to the Busby Babes.
One investigates a subject and reports on their findings. The other writes '5 things we learnt' pieces.
It's Nick Davies vs Marina Hyde.
Tennis has a better good to crap ratio, I think. It's less popular so I guess (generally) only the best will get paid to talk/write. Statistical analysis is easier and more suitable. And because there's not so much of a soap opera so you don't get so much fluff. It also seems to produce gold in long-form journalism.
Cricket has the best writing on anything by miles. Historically, anyway. Nowadays the papers mainly employ ghost written toss from Vaughan/Boycott and lazy cunts because there's no money in any sports journalism other than football. There is a lot of amazing writing that gets done though, mostly on the internet and a lot of it from Australia.
Someone like Neville Cardus or CMJ would be streets ahead of anything football has come up with.
Anything good coming out of India?
There are a few good Indian writers, Dileep Premachandran being the best. India also has loads of statistics nerds, most of whom are full of shit or driven by nationalism but at least they're doing it.
Australia has the best writers, though. They have a little known writer called Christian Ryan who I think is the best writer I've ever read of any type, never mind sport.
Osman Samiuddin from Pakistan, too.
Tennis is primarily aimed at smart people, so you'd expect that
Sunday Oliseh has quit as coach of Fortuna Sittard because his own board required him to take part in 'illegal activities', which apparently is match fixing.
Surely Dutch football must be suspended as a result.
Did @Guido ever sign up here? That’s his team.
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I'm a twit
How thick are they to go to the manager (and then sack him)? All you need is the keeper and centerbacks onside and you're sorted.
oooh fuck I haven't watched Liverpool in a game like this since I was eleven years old.
RTÉ showing this bollocks and not Madrid-PSG
It makes sense to show the Irish teams.
That kid in the PSG trackie with a sign asking 'Van Djik' for his shirt has me hoping for a stadium collapse.
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