Arsenal showing they're still a big club by binning this
Arsenal showing they're still a big club by binning this
The Forest team has a lower average age than the Arsenal one, which makes the whole thing a thousand times more lol.
The fucking state of Mancienne there.
Mertesacker looks like he's playing through tar and not on a grass pitch.
That was definitely two touches. This is the funniest game of football I've seen in years. Possibly since Boubacar Barry started feigning injury between penalties in an AFCON shootout.
Christ, I was having a great weekend anyway but now you've reminded me about Boubacar Barry single handedly winning a major international tournament.
'Not Jon Moss's best moment' says Sir Henry, who's having a great weekend himself. Jon Moss's best moment will be when he retires.
Despite seeing replays (and lots of them), Robbie Savage got the pen call wrong (deffo pen for me), and the double hit (deffo double hit for me).
He's an absolute mong.Originally Posted by John Arne
Agreed - general rule of thumb being to go with the opposite of whatever Savage thinks.
And now Walcott has run into a pole.
This game is quality.
That Arsenal YouTube should be good later.
Would they care all that much about a domestic cup game?
Ah maybe not.
They’re a very dramatic bunch on there though.
Big clubs binning this off is a myth - they usually win it. The real shambles is when nothing clubs having a nothing season bin it off for no apparent reason.
It's just pointless now. Fuck all money and only a route to the Europa. Plus, every man and his dog has had a day out playing at Wembley these days.
Absolute waste of time.
It's the only thing they ever win. They'll be absolutely fuming tonight.
Raul Garcia, one of the most hateful footballers around at the moment, has just done something I haven't seen for quite a long time. Imaginary card waving. I'm sure it still goes on and I've just stopped noticing it, but this horrible greasy shitbag is taking it to new levels. He's just dived to win a penalty then jogged fifteen yards to the referee waving his imaginary card the whole way.
Is Wenger alright?
Did he do anything? You mentioned something similar about Harvey Barnes and I didn't really notice either in the flesh.
And he was genuinely awful against Sunderland.
Scored one and set one up, along with a load of other lovely touches and passes. Reading the thread is always useful.
Fuck off you boring cunt.
Arsenlol.
I've made it through 'Claude' blaming his fellow fans for not getting behind the protests last year, and 'DT' saying that his family and his health are more important than stressing about Arsene Wenger as if he has suddenly seen the light. It's just sad really.
Speaking of which, Wenger is going to have to pull it out the bag now. He probably needs a couple double from here, and if he does it he's a genius.
lol.
That away microphone always makes me lol.
The only thing that was missing is Wenger/anyone being called a mug.
I'd say he's done a good few European café windows.
I’m pished
Presumably Robbie (or whatever he's called) must secretly hope that they lose every week for those sweet, sweet hits.
Does he ever say anything, or does he just nod solemnly throughout?
Says all that needs to be said.
Eric Lichaj.
Nouble looks like one of those pain in the arse players who'll bumble along being completely useless and getting by on physical attributes alone, but one game in a hundred will just utterly dominate proceedings and look like they should be playing three levels higher.
Robbie's a genius frankly. £100k+ income a year to hold a microphone and nod sagely.
The bloke in the white hat might as well have his picture in the dictionary under 'mug'.
Nouble was with us one season, he spent most of it ambling around and then would occasionally go on a run and beat an entire defence to score while not looking like he was in control of any part of it.
Saiz (Leeds) given a six match ban for spitting. Potentially leg-breaking tackles, elbows in the head etc. regularly get three matches. We're a strange country.
I think six matches is about right for spitting, but bans in general are far too short. John Terry and Luis Suarez should both have got life for racial abuse, and the dangerous tackles should be 12 or 14 games.
The reason there is so much bad behaviour in football is there are basically no consequences.
I agree with you in principle. But bad tackles are a slightly tricky one to enforce as there can be some cases where you just accidentally do a really bad tackle, bad judgement call basically (not cynically try to injure someone) - and there's no real way of distinguishing that for sure between a cynical and a very poorly times tackle that ends up very bad.
Both warrant punishment of course but not the same kind as spitting and racial abuse, as they are deliberately unsportsmanlike behaviours.
Our game tonight will be the first time VAR is used in English football for anyone interested. It being Palace might mean we put out a better team than we would otherwise.
I can't emphasise enough about how much of a loss that is. Fucking hell. Manager is such a stupid cunt for bringing him on in that stupid fucking game.
Tell me Jonathan Pearce is commentating?
Unfortunately it's BT. But I guess that means Robbie Savage might be commentating...
There have been plenty of VAR-able things over the weekend, so nothing will happen tonight. Is it on BT?
Goals, penalties, straight red cards and 'mistaken identity'.
I sort of get the remit, but how does the 'goals' one work, in an offside context? I can understand it where the ball goes in and the flag is either up or not and it's all fairly simultaneous (as from a cross etc), but what if someone is put through, flagged offside (but actually on)? Can he carry on, score, and then get the goal via VAR or do you still have to play to the whistle? Seems if it's the former then a rather massive can of worms is being opened, and if it isn't, well, why not?
This is my issue with it. It corrects errors when they have already happened, but of course it cannot correct errors that have stopped something happening.... because play stops.
Arsenal holding a line higher than their wall
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