And ArsenalOriginally Posted by phonics
And Arsenal
Is there no ball this weekend?
FA Cup. We have a nice rebound game against the Peterborough United.
Our game on Friday against Hibs is meant to be heading for over 19k. Pretty impressive
That makes sense. I was wondering why Sky were showing their next live games as the following weekend. Is the FA Cup still on BBC/BT?
Quite enjoyed that, albeit Chelsea were wank.
We could do worse than giving small pockets the England job when Southgate inevitably muffs it.
Conte really requires concentration to understand.
Nowhere near as fun as Man City v Chelsea when City went with a back 3 but crazy higher wingers (3-2-4-1 or whatever). When teams actually match systems (close enough tonight) it's usually nowhere near as entertaining.
Been playing it for a while now, domestically at least. Pocc seems reluctant to explain why.
They were hardly shown up by City, and I'm not really sure the games up to and including the Arsenal one are relevant.
If a team lost all their games to the rest of the big four or five, but won all the rest, would they win the league?
If you won 28 games and lost 10 that would be 84 points, which is often a title-winning score.
More than likely.
Take out the games against the rest big 4 (so 3 teams 6 losses) and you have 32 games left. Win all those and you are on 96 points. That would have won you the league every year since football began in 1992 (Chelsea with 95 is the record)
Take out the rest of a big 5 (4 teams 8 losses) and you end up on 90 points and would have won the league all but 6 seasons (assuming the link below is accurate still). 2 of those would then come down to GD.
And then Jims Scenario. Which according to to the below link means you would have lost atleast 10 title races.
http://www.express.co.uk/pictures/ga...sportgalleries
United only picked up five points of the other members of the BIG FOUR (halcyon days) in 2008/09, where as Liverpool got fourteen; but United beat everybody else, and 'Rafa' was too busy having a MELTDOWN over the winter.
Liverpool were still well in it in the spring, until Lucas gave away a late penalty to draw at Stoke and Federico Macheda did his bullshit goal. I fucking hated Lucas back then. Little did I realize that eight years later he'd be the only remaining member of that squad.
Was that when we lost/drew with Newcastle on the opening day and then bummed everyone else into oblivion? It was something like 'we beat everyone outside the top 6 home and away (apart from that first result).
As a wise man once said: "you've got to beat The Shit"
Feghouli's red card rescinded, Fernandinho's upheld. https://www.theguardian.com/football..._b-gdnfootball
Yeah. They got five points from the opening four games, managed to get back into it in time for Liverpool and Chelsea fell to bits as soon as it got dark, and when they came back from Japan they dropped seven points from the next sixty-six.
Is this 99/2000 you're talking about, @Lewis? For the Club World Cup thing? I remember that tournament quite well: it was my first time watching it and it felt weird and exotic. Quentin Fortune being United's best player and playing up front.
That one was Brazil wasnt it? And long before Rafa
2008/2009 is what hes on about.
Yeah, 2008/09, when they also went to Japan off the back of 2008. I think Ronaldo missed those first four games with the surgery they made him get to annoy Madrid, and then he was in a mood until about February. That was the year Ryan Giggs won Player of the Year on the sympathy vote, when Nemanja Vidic was the most blatant winner in the history of the award (maybe not, but he was robbed again in 2011).
Ah, I didn't take in the Rafa mention. I don't think I watched that one.
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