Weekend Football: the Liverpool derby and the Pep-Mou Classic

[Jimmy Floyd]

English football - Friday
nothing much really. Sheff U v Bristol City on Sky

Saturday
12.30 West Ham / Chelsea on Sky
15.00 Burnley / Watford
Palace / Bournemouth
Huddersfield / Hove
Swansea / West Bromwich
Tottenham / Stoke
17.30 Newcastle / Leicester on BT
A full Football League programme

Sunday
12.00 Southampton / Arsenal on BT
14.15 Liverpool / Everton on Sky
16.30 Manchester / Manchester on Sky

Football in the Common Market
It's actually a crap selection, with the possible exception of Juventus v Internazionale, so you can look it up yourselves and besides, who cares.

Meanwhile, news emerges from the bunker of yet another stupid kickoff time idea that will fail: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42278119

[Pleb]

Good enough excuse for the likes of Netflix and Amazon to stick their noses into it. Might as well just lift the 3pm embargo and get the BBC/ITV to show one 3pm game per week.

Probably not going to happen.

[phonics]

Ugh, I hate 8:45 kick-offs. It's nearly 11pm before I've even left the pub let alone getting home.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Good enough excuse for the likes of Netflix and Amazon to stick their noses into it.

I was thinking that, it's a crap time for Asia so they must be thinking about American social media giants.

[phonics]

I really don't understand why Netflix and Amazon are trying to get in on Sports. They destroyed the idea of 'Appointment TV' which is why the prices of live sports went up across the board because it's the only thing people will crowd around at specific times which makes it good for advertisers.

But Netflix and Amazon don't have ads.. How many subscriptions do they think it'll sell because it'll be way under what BT gets and they can barely keep their heads above water.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I really don't understand why Netflix and Amazon are trying to get in on Sports.

Loss leader probably.

[Giggles]

Good enough excuse for the likes of Netflix and Amazon to stick their noses into it. Might as well just lift the 3pm embargo and get the BBC/ITV to show one 3pm game per week.

Probably not going to happen.

They're showing 3pm's here again after a long break of not, and it's great for a boring Saturday.

[McAvennie]

It really is time for me to bin my sky sports and bt subscriptions - the top of the table is dull as crap these days and watching West Ham is like having my scrotum slowly basted in acid, but with less anticipation.

And I don't watch much NFL these days either. Waste of money habit that needs to go before this next round of tv games comes in and there's even more for me to aimlessly subscribe to

[Pleb]

They're showing 3pm's here again after a long break of not, and it's great for a boring Saturday.
Shame our FA/Premier League doesn't share that motion.

[Kikó]

We're going to get pumped I think. Mourinho will probably call the ref out on something and Fellaini sent off.

[-james-]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/08/peru-paolo-guerrero-world-cup-drugs-test-fifa-year-ban

What a diddy.

[phonics]

Banning Peruvians for taking cocaine isn't on.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The 3pm blackout is great. I realised this when I went to a Peterborough game earlier in the season. It was a good crowd but at least a third of it (including all the kids) would be watching Man Yoo at home, given the option.

[Pleb]

If the likes of Amazon and/or Netflix do decide to jump on board with this shitfest, I'd imagine they will take Package C and let Sky and BT lol themselves to death with the other packages.

[phonics]

The 3pm blackout is great. I realised this when I went to a Peterborough game earlier in the season. It was a good crowd but at least a third of it (including all the kids) would be watching Man Yoo at home, given the option.

They probably wouldn't.

[Spikey M]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/08/peru-paolo-guerrero-world-cup-drugs-test-fifa-year-ban

What a diddy.


Surely it just soaks into you over there? It’s like when Asians smell of Curry or Northerners smell of poverty.

[Giggles]

The 3pm blackout is great. I realised this when I went to a Peterborough game earlier in the season. It was a good crowd but at least a third of it (including all the kids) would be watching Man Yoo at home, given the option.

Yeah well that's probably a better way of looking at it. It would seriously diminish attendances in the lower leagues if there was a proper game on telly at 3pm (which there would be if the channels were scheduling them, as opposed to Stoke vs West Brom).

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is the order of interest in any football ground:

1) Away fans
----enormous gap----
2) Local tragics over 50 (and women of all ages)
3) Kids who are well into it
4) Sexually frustrated men between 18-50 who shout YOU FUCKING CUNT REF a lot for no reason
5) OAPs and the disabled
6) Kids who are there to shout 'waaaaay'
7) Day trippers
8) Kids forced along by their dads
9) Dads forced along by their kids

I reckon 6 downwards would be seriously at risk if you cancelled the 3pm blackout. It's always people who don't go to games who call for it.

[Baz]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/08/peru-paolo-guerrero-world-cup-drugs-test-fifa-year-ban

What a diddy.
So it wasn’t a funky cup of tea, like he first claimed?! :rolleyes:

[phonics]

If you're using it for sugar things could get funky.

[Spoonsky]

What's the 3pm blackout?

[Kikó]

We don't televise games at 3 on a Saturday.

[Mike]

What's the 3pm blackout?
They can’t show 3pm kick offs on TV.

[Reg]

"Ho-o-ove, Ho-o-ove!"

Manchester will beat Manchester. With Pogba I think it would have been a great game, without him I'm not so sure.

PS The 3pm ban is great, but it'll be gone within ten years I suspect.

[Ant]

Can see a 1-0 win for City. Hoping they win anyway

[Giggles]

Was going to watch this but hadn't realised O'Dowda wasn't playing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

"Ho-o-ove, Ho-o-ove!"

Manchester will beat Manchester. With Pogba I think it would have been a great game, without him I'm not so sure.

PS The 3pm ban is great, but it'll be gone within ten years I suspect.

I just feel Brighton takes too much of the credit for what is only half hers.

[Offshore Toon]

Apparently Lascelles is back which is sorely needed.

[Pleb]

Saturday
12.30 West Ham / Chelsea on Sky
15.00 Burnley / Watford
Palace / Bournemouth
Huddersfield / Hove
Swansea / West Bromwich
Tottenham / Stoke
17.30 Newcastle / Leicester on BT
A full Football League programme

Sunday
12.00 Southampton / Arsenal on BT
14.15 Liverpool / Everton on Sky
16.30 Manchester / Manchester on Sky

Swansea-West Brom will probably be a shite 0-0.

[Lewis]

I am quietly confident about Sunday, by which I mean a classic 0-0 is very much on the cards.

[McAvennie]

I just feel Brighton takes too much of the credit for what is only half hers.

Have you ever been to Hove? brighton are underselling themselves if they only as for 90% of the credit

[Lewis]

Brighton is an absolute toilet.

[Waffdon]

Can see a 1-0 win for City. Hoping they win anyway

Mental Ant, is that you?

[Samadini]

Apparently Lascelles is back which is sorely needed.

Atsu as well. Murphy looks like he might be alright, but Atsu is one of the few players in the squad who is actually a proper premier league level player (you could easily argue even he isn't tbf).

Think it will be a comfortable Leicester win anyway. Our fullbacks are hopeless, Mahrez will bum them.

[Baz]

The contrast between the Saturday and Sunday games is ridiculous. Despite having nothing better to do I don’t think I’ll bother finding a stream for any of the Saturday 3PM games.

[Reg]

They are obviously very good, and with the spending power that they have got, every year they get closer, but still United, with the record that they have got, to go with the top manager and the top players, are still on top, but the gap is closing.

One more 'top' would have made it.

[Giggles]

We have Totteringham and Stoke on the 3pm's. Spurs would be half watchable but they're at Wembley so it'll be a dour 1-1.

[Kikó]

One more 'top' would have made it.

Can't think why giggs hasn't got a top job yet.

[Giggles]

Chelsea game is on Mix which should be free for all.

[Giggles]

Jaysus that's not good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Now Moyes has gone there I think he's taken the 'otherwise disappointing Everton strikers' with him.

[Waffdon]

Cahill is shite.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That start all came from Crappatoasta being a defensive calamity down his side.

Oh and a brilliant block tackle from the ref to get them on the counter for the second week in a row.

[John Arne]

Oh and a brilliant block tackle from the ref to get them on the counter for the second week in a row.

I'm seeing this more and more. In Liverpool games, the referee's are so central, they are constantly getting in they way.

[Giggles]

Chelsea don't look full of ideas to get past this wall.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Whoever this proper football man on co-commentary is, he's excelling himself and that Batshuayi hot water bottle was superb trolling of him.

[Lewis]

I've got nothing against the hot water bottle, but you think there would be something a bit more advanced these days.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is one of those games you can see coming a mile off where the home team are game raising wankers first to every ball. We'll lose 1-0 and Alonso will be sent off.

[Waffdon]

Fucking hell, Cahill, mate.

[-james-]

Chelsea should ship the murderer off and replace him with Masuaku in January.

[Waffdon]

He has looked a bit good this year.

Edit: stating with three at the back is mental

[Jimmy Floyd]

Our squad is a midfielder short for sure, particularly as it now turns out that Bakayoko is shite.

[Giggles]

This is bobbins.

[Jimmy Floyd]

When the stats come out for this game I think there will be some incredible feat of blocking shots by West Ham. We haven't been too bad tbh but they're far more determined than any team we've played this year.

[Lewis]

That elite David Moyes mentality coming through already.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's a good siege mentality manager I think. Completely unsuited to Manchester United, or nothing clubs like Sunderland where no one has tried hard for more than 20 years, but here he could keep them up.

lol at Sky saying our title chances are being hurt. If we win this and every game for the rest of the season we still wouldn't win it.

[Lewis]

In terms of his next job, which other clubs fit the Everton/West Ham chippy little 'Big Club' nobodies (who would be top six if the actual Big Clubs didn't get all the decisions) profile? Nobody in the Premiership as far as I can see, so he might have to drop down and manage Leeds.

[niko_cee]

The Villa?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Newcastle maybe? Although that has been a graveyard ever since Bobby Robson left.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ah, Moyesy. I felt quite happy for him with that double fist pump there. I just hope he isn't under the impression that Arnautovic will try hard again until the next time they're on telly.

[Lewis]

[The] Villa have always seemed to me to have taken their fall from relevance a lot better than the other clubs mentioned. I don't know why. Possibly because it was so fleeting in the first place.

[Giggles]

Ah, Moyesy. I felt quite happy for him with that double fist pump there. I just hope he isn't under the impression that Arnautovic will try hard again until the next time they're on telly.

Any happiness for him is eroded once you see shots of the owners and fans.

[niko_cee]

Chelsea doing a good job at binning the lolndon derbies this season.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It kind of illustrates what our weakness is, which is we play too much like an Italian team who need loads of time and space to be properly effective, which you don't get against chip-on-shoulder teams away from home. The reason for that is that Fabregas is a wandering minstrel, Kanté does his best to add some dynamism (and without him we'll lose as much as we win) but we need a second busy bee in there to buy time for Fabregas/Hazard, and Bakayoko has been very poor. I don't buy that we shouldn't have sold Matic, though. He was as slow and lazy as it comes and wouldn't have improved this team in the way he may well have helped improve United.

[Giggles]

Stoke are deep and Tottenham have the pace and urgency of a slug. As expected.

[John Arne]

Spanish teams don't half shit the bed against Barca and Real.

[Mellberg]

[The] Villa have always seemed to me to have taken their fall from relevance a lot better than the other clubs mentioned. I don't know why. Possibly because it was so fleeting in the first place.

Because it had been coming for five years and the season we went down it was obvious from about the fourth week. We were proper, proper shit.

Only decent bit of that season was Newcastle turning up looking for revenge from when we sent them down. What they found was a daft party atmosphere and we 'won' out first point in 10 games and ended up taking them down with us :cool:

[Reg]

None of Knockaert, March or Izquierdo started this match for us, but wingback (and part-time winger) Schelotto did. I worry that's Hughton getting scared after we got thumped last week, and we're going to get more and more defensive as the season goes on until we're making West Ham's performance against Man City look like Cruyff's Holland.

[Bob Sacamano]

None of Knockaert, March or Izquierdo started this match for us, but wingback (and part-time winger) Schelotto did. I worry that's Hughton getting scared after we got thumped last week, and we're going to get more and more defensive as the season goes on until we're making West Ham's performance against Man City look like Cruyff's Holland.

Didn't Hughton do the same at Norwich? It was 9 Defenders and Cameron Jerome.

[Giggles]

I misjudged how bad Stoke are.

[Reg]

Didn't Hughton do the same at Norwich? It was 9 Defenders and Cameron Jerome.
Yeah, the consensus from their fans was that he was good for them but the football wasn't the most enjoyable.

[Samadini]

Because it had been coming for five years and the season we went down it was obvious from about the fourth week. We were proper, proper shit.

Only decent bit of that season was Newcastle turning up looking for revenge from when we sent them down. What they found was a daft party atmosphere and we 'won' out first point in 10 games and ended up taking them down with us :cool:

Love villa for winning the league for us last year though, that was brilliant. :cool:

[Shindig]

I don't know where our points are going to come from.

[Max Power]

7th and probs Europe is ours for the taking. Another classic Shinji moment as he, terry butcher bandage donned, fails to finish and induces a comedy OG to win the game. Love him.

[Spoonsky]

MLS CUP is on in half an hour, between super-clubs Toronto FC and Seattle Sounders.

[mugbull]

I'm watching that shit for sure. Seattle all day baby

[Spoonsky]

Jozy Altidore and Michael Bradley, biggest cunts on the fucking planet. Rate MLS Cup more than the World Cup.

[Pleb]

We are so fucked tomorrow :drool:

[mugbull]

Jozy Altidore and Michael Bradley, biggest cunts on the fucking planet. Rate MLS Cup more than the World Cup.

What are they supposed to say lmao

[Spoonsky]

Oh I didn't see any interviews with them, was a general comment that I'm still mad (and probably will be for 4 years).

[Giggles]

Phil Neville reckons that Swansea need to score more goals. I hope the BBC are paying big money for such insight.

[ScousePig]

I went to watch us at Wolves yesterday, expecting a bit of a pasting. They probably just had an off day but they weren't great. Ivan Cavaleiro was their best player. How much did they pay for Helder Costa? He was on the bench.

[Mike]

Big wins for Liverpool and City today then.

[Baz]

Benteke is such a mug. :lol:

[Giggles]

Only seen the Defoe goal now. If that was a player at a big club, etc.

Magic stuff.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol.

[randomlegend]

I've a horrible feeling we're going to get boomered today.

[Waffdon]

I’ve got Man Utd winning. That and a Wayne Rooney winner are what dreams are made of.

[Waffdon]

That Liverpool team :D

They’ll still romp it

[Byron]

Never underestimate Big Sam and his ability to Respect The Point.

[John Arne]

Danny Ings is BACK.

[phonics]

One day we'll beat Southampton away. One day.

Edit: 2 wins in 8 away games truly is piss poor.

[Waffdon]

Giroud is a don.

[phonics]

A dangerous Arsenal counter attack defended expertly by Ramseys hamstring there.

[Lewis]

I never realised how black Oumar Niasse is. He looks like a nineteenth century drawing of a black person.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sammy Lee is a real Gareth.

I'm the assistant manager of Everton
Assistant to the manager

[Boydy]

Rooney looks like he's absolutely hating this.

[Boydy]

Liverpool could do with Coutinho on here to lash one in from 30 yards.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pawson is ruining this game, the ultimate first rule referee.

[Waffdon]

How the fuck isn’t that a booking?

[John Arne]

Pretty sure Pickford keeps handling the ball when his kicks it out of his hands. He get so close to the edge of his area.

[Waffdon]

Rooney will be in a heap soon with all this chasing back.

[Yevrah]

Rooney looks like he's absolutely hating this.

Where's Allardyce playing him? Is he pissing away a spot in midfield?

[Boydy]

Where's Allardyce playing him? Is he pissing away a spot in midfield?

Yeah, seems to be down the right. He's spent most of his time in his own half and is doing shit at protecting his full back.

[Kikó]

Rooney being undisciplined in midfield? That's a turn up.

[Boydy]

Fuck's sake, Salah, just swing your right foot at it for once.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, seems to be down the right. He's spent most of his time in his own half and is doing shit at protecting his full back.

As much as we enjoy getting the bunting out over Allardyce, that's two games now where you have to ask what the fuck he thinks he's doing ref: Rooney.

[Waffdon]

Rooney being undisciplined in midfield? That's a turn up.

Your hatred for him is beautiful.

[phonics]

Stretching the use of the word 'we' Yev

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's a lovely finish.

[Waffdon]

No idea how Martina is a professional footballer.

Everton will never win at Anfield again.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Deserved, that. Everton far too negative and look a very poor side.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Koln were winning 3-0 at home against Freiburg.

They just lost 4-3 after a Nils Peterson hattrick with 2 of them coming in injury time.

[Waffdon]

Someone needs to do a Funes Mori and break Salah.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol at Mane.

[Giggles]

Someone needs to do a Funes Mori and break Salah.

:yn:

[Kikó]

Dortmund appointed the bottom of the league sacked Cologne manager today. Bizarre.

[Waffdon]

:yn:

Hopefully Rooney does it if they go 2-0 Down.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dortmund appointed the bottom of the league sacked Cologne manager today. Bizarre.

What happened to that Dutchman?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

'Stoger was sacked by Cologne last week.

Cologne are bottom of the table and have not won a game in the league all season, but finished fifth last term having been promoted under Stoger.'

:cab:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What happened to that Dutchman?

Sacked today after yesterdays loss.

[Lewis]

All the pre-match derby day talk, with the FORM BOOK well and truly OUT THE WINDOW, seemed a bit out of place when Liverpool are clearly about fifty times better than Everton.

[phonics]

And they haven't beaten them in about a decade so it seems the form book stays firmly on the windowsill.

[Reg]

Thank jebus for that Salah goal, even the diehards in the crowd were going to sleep.

After Alan Smith bigged up Pickford's kicking it has been absolutely dreadful.

[Waffdon]

It’s a pathetic performance so far. They genuinely can’t even pass.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

De Gea: Valencia, Smalling, Rojo, Young; Matic, Herrera; Rashford, Martial, Lingard; Lukaku

That's a pretty positive side.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It’s a pathetic performance so far. They genuinely can’t even pass.

It's classic Allardyce negativity, his grubby mitts all over this. You can't get away with it when people expect more than a 17th place finish.

They were timewasting in the first ten minutes. Very, very lucky it's not a seven or eight goal scoreline.

[Reg]

De Gea: Valencia, Smalling, Rojo, Young; Matic, Herrera; Rashford, Martial, Lingard; Lukaku

That's a pretty positive side.
Bloody he'll, it is isn't it. Can't rule out a back six yet.

[Waffdon]

Ronald Koeman deserves to choke to death on his Christmas Lunch for handing a three year deal to Martina.

[Lewis]

I suppose you can't really counter-attack without Paulp Ogba (or even Fellainimania's chest), so it was either set up for the 0-0 or whatever that is.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ronald Koeman deserves to choke to death on his Christmas Lunch for handing a three year deal to Martina.

Was it even Koeman doing the recruitment? I guess it was with all the random Dutchies coming in.

There is the basis for an Allardyce side here. Sigurdsson can do the set pieces, and Jonjoe Kenny is channelling J'Lloyd Samuel quite well.

[Lewis]

VINTAGE Wayne Rooney.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fucking lol, Lovren should be sacked for that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lovren is brainless.

[Lewis]

A very, very clever dive as well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:drool:

[Boydy]

Fuck's sake.

[Jimmy Floyd]

A very, very clever dive as well.

Wasn't really a dive, since the Yugoslav mong decided to run into him.

Great penalty as well.

[Lewis]

He never even challenged him. The Everton player shoved himself off him.

[Waffdon]

This is some performance from Martina.

[Disco]

Fucking lol if this stays level, get in Sam.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Who is talking to him through his earpiece?

Klopp taking Salah off looking a great shout currently.

[Waffdon]

Who is talking to him through his earpiece?

Klopp taking Salah off looking a great shout currently.

Craig Shakespeare.

[phonics]

Cisco Martina still getting games due to scoring a worldie against Arsenal 3 years ago earns him true Platinum-level Chancer status.

[Reg]

He pushed him in the back. Lewis

After watching Juve-Inter last night and this game, the Manchester derby better be 7-6.

[Baz]

F off Lovren. Such a bellend.

Robertson - Matip - Gomez - Trent

Should be the back four.

[Giggles]

Lovren :cool:

[John Arne]

The commentators talking about Rooney as if he actually played well. He was fucking useless.

[John Arne]

I'm still not convinced it was a dead cert pen. DCL slowed down and basically tried to bump into Lovren. Still, Lovren shouldn't have even gave the ref the decision to make.

[Lewis]

City need to do something about Noel Gallagher. Every time he is wheeled out as their most high-profile affiliate it sets the project back eighteen months.

[-james-]

Girlfriend has just informed me that her family are having an "early Christmas dinner" in a bit (some of them will be abroad for the actual one). She was only told about it this morning.

It's twenty minutes before the BIG GAME so I told her nah. I think I'm well within my rights but it's fucked me off that I'm being made to make the decision and bear the guilt.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

City need to do something about Noel Gallagher. Every time he is wheeled out as their most high-profile affiliate it sets the project back eighteen months.

Better than Mike Summerbee setting them back decades.

[Lewis]

Somebody like Colin Bell could be there topping us his pension pot for Christmas. But no.

[Giggles]

Man Utd look like us playing someone good like Georgia.

[randomlegend]

We're going to get bummed here. Without Pogba we aren't even close to City.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol at Martin Tyler still believing that the reason that Hart hasn't had a chance under Pep is because he can't pass.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is quietly descending into a shitfest. Needs a goal.

[Ian]

There's just no excuse for us being this toothless. Anywhere, let alone at home. That we've not let them have a proper chance won't matter when they eventually score anyway.

[Pen]

Who is talking to him through his earpiece?

Taunting Chico Flores.

I think most of you saw the Jesus dive quite early in the game. Surely he’ll get a three match ban for that as there was zero contact? I don’t remember the Niasse incident anymore but surely zero contact is the only way the bans get given.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lukaku is shit.

[Ian]

Great little header from Lukaku there for the assist.

[Giggles]

They could get 3 or 4 here on the break.

[phonics]

That pass from De Bruyne :D

[Pleb]

Woof.

[Ian]

So undeserved but who cares.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rashford though :wub:

[Giggles]

Well that wasn't coming at all. Then again, I've been underestimating the chances for City defensive shitness.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Both games today showing how having possession is COMPLETELY meaningless if your defenders are error prone.

[phonics]

Ederson is far too wide there surely?

[Waffdon]

They’re lost without Pogba but could still quite easily win this. Martial needs to stay on the left.

[Lewis]

That shit is the most frustrating aspect of Lukaku's game. He must be the biggest/heaviest player in the league, and he lets people half his weight push his about. You could almost live with his crap touch and finishing if he used his power occasionally.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ederson is far too wide there surely?

Reminds me of the goal Willian scored against them last season when Claudio Bravo left that whole side of the goal open. Although I guess it all happened quite quickly after Delph missed the ball so he probably had no time to line himself up.

[Ian]

Hold the fuck on, they've got Liam Gallagher in as a pundit?

Jesus Christ.

[Waffdon]

He did look like he fucked his angles up but Rashford should always be scoring there anyway unlike that Willian goal. Bravo gave him an empty net.

[niko_cee]

I think most of you saw the Jesus dive quite early in the game. Surely he’ll get a three match ban for that as there was zero contact? I don’t remember the Niasse incident anymore but surely zero contact is the only way the bans get given.

Not seen it, but I think you only get done if you successfully con the ref, which would, on the face of it, appear to be a fairly big hole in the theory that it'll stop diving.

[Pen]

Ah, I didn’t know you needed to be successful with your dive. That kind of explains why you never see retrospective bans.

[Ian]

Thank goodness Lindelof is on.

Also I didn't realise the rule is that the dive has to be successful to get a retrospective ban. What a waste of time.

[Mike]

Hold the fuck on, they've got Liam Gallagher in as a pundit?

Jesus Christ.

Better than Henry ;)

[Ian]

An empty chair would be better than both.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The reason Henry is bad is because his English isn't good enough. I don't know why they didn't think of that before hiring him.

Have to say, I'm happy with Morata over Lukaku at the moment.

[Waffdon]

Lukaku hahahahaha

[Ian]

Are they just attacking Lukaku at set-pieces? If so it's working.

What an arsehole.

[Spoonsky]

Lukaku :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just fuck right off Lukaku.

[Giggles]

That two assists for Lolkaku now?

[niko_cee]

Thank goodness Lindelof is on.

Also I didn't realise the rule is that the dive has to be successful to get a retrospective ban. What a waste of time.

It might not be, but it only seems to come up in the context of the ref having been done (and the offence is worded something like 'deceiving the ref' not sure if there is an 'attempted' aspect).

[phonics]

City scoring two set pieces versus the taller team in the league will have Jose FUMING. :drool:

[Ian]

That two assists for Lolkaku now?

He's a creative dynamo.

It's a pity we're going to lose when City have looked like classic Guardiola piss and wind against any sort of organisation so far.

Imagine if United were any good.

[Lewis]

Everyone else has done their jobs perfectly. Lukaku is just a retard. I bet he misses a late sitter as well.

[Lewis]

They won't ever be able to get rid of him as well. It's an actual disaster.

[Ian]

Has he actually touched the ball outside those two goals? It just seems to be him moping about while Martial, Rashford and Lingard attempt to do the legwork.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's pointless.

[Ian]

And he finally does get the ball and even when the chance has gone he just fucking shoots anyway. He has zero interest in holding up the ball.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ashley Young is by far, and I mean by far, United's best (outfield) player.

[-james-]

939907862180057088

Stunning seethe.

[Lewis]

https://s7.postimg.org/oamexeojf/Untitled.png

[Giggles]

939907862180057088

Stunning seethe.



Very little of his stupid shit-eating grin in that one :drool:

[randomlegend]

If that was two separate incidents Silva could easily have been sent off.

[Reg]

Rashford: "Hey guys, remember that freekick Young scored really, really recently? Well I know he's on the pitch, but I'm the best guy to take this one because I watched the tape back really closely."

[Jimmy Floyd]

If I had the chance to kick Herrera I'd do it properly and end his season.

Oh god, here comes the most boring player on the planet.

[Jimmy Floyd]

lol at Herrera. Nastiest little shit in the league absolutely bang to rights.

[Ian]

I like Herrera as a player but he's a snidey little dickhead.

No further comment on Lukaku. :moop:

[Ian]

Useless twat. Kicked it right at him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck off Lukaku.

[phonics]

That's for last week.

[Waffdon]

Fair fucks to Ederson getting up so quickly.

[Bernanke]

:lol:

[Danny]

Everyone else has done their jobs perfectly. Lukaku is just a retard. I bet he misses a late sitter as well.

:moop:

[Jimmy Floyd]

The goalkeeper saved it with his face, I'm not sure you can blame Kakkers for that.

[Ian]

I love it when the ball is kicked directly at the goalie and the pundits shit their pants with excitement.

[Lewis]

How did Chelsea fans get through three years of Fernando Torres? I suppose if he scores a lol goal to put Barcelona out the of Champions' League you could forget a lot of this shit, but that seems unlikely.

[Ian]

It would have been less annoying if City had actually had to play particularly well to beat us there.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How did Chelsea fans get through three years of Fernando Torres? I suppose if he scores a lol goal to put Barcelona out the of Champions' League you could forget a lot of this shit, but that seems unlikely.

After about a year you can move onto ironic support, and then full-on cult hero.

[Magic]

:harold:

[Lewis]

After about a year you can move onto ironic support, and then full-on cult hero.

Fellainimania is there for most, but he was never this useless. If Ron Atkinson lets rip on MUTV I'll start a Patreon for him.

[Reg]

Fifteen wins and a draw from 16 games is a ridiculous record.

A real shame Pogba was out. Last season he was invisible against the big teams (while on the pitch) and this season he's on great form but happens to have been injured or banned against all the best teams.

[Baz]

I love it when the ball is kicked directly at the goalie and the pundits shit their pants with excitement.Prior to Stefan Postma filming himself shoving a tin of beans up his bum, he had a game against Arsenal where they had about 15 shots straight at him and everyone was raving about it, even on TTH. I remember Davgooner had my back though. :cool:

[Lewis]

You would think it was 6-0 if you tuned in five minutes ago. Other than the Lukaku assists they created one decent chance ('KDB' getting a save from Dave Gayer), so what am I missing other than POSSESSION?

[niko_cee]

Re: team selection, I can only assume Jurgen got confused and thought this was the FA Cup tie.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nice for Mister Clattenburg to get a namecheck.

[niko_cee]

You would think it was 6-0 if you tuned in five minutes ago. Other than the Lukaku assists they created one decent chance ('KDB' getting a save from Dave Gayer), so what am I missing other than POSSESSION?

You're missing City being the greatest team since sliced football.

[Samadini]

Henry shouldn't be on TV.

[Lewis]

Maybe I'm just SEETHING. Half the bastard family being here doesn't help matters, otherwise I would be in the garden chucking bananas at the fence and screaming.

[Shindig]

Klopp's laugh was a bit sinister. Could've steered all that talk into how his side couldn't finish instead of dwelling on the decision.

[Samadini]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7Zd8o6vBM

My favourite seethe of recent times. Seething so hard he can't even speak :D

[randomlegend]

939907862180057088

Stunning seethe.

What a prick.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fucking hell, Jurgen. Going properly native.

[Samadini]

Fuck me, I'd only seen the first minute or two, just watched it all. That is properly mental. What a baby.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's cheered me up a bit.

Mental bastard.

[Byron]

The best thing about this is it reminded me of Rawk Meltdown and it seems the bloke has come back. Some proper comedy gold there.

[John Arne]

Just noticed that Burnley have scored 15 goals in 16 games. Seventh in the league :)

[Baz]

Just noticed that Burnley have scored 15 goals in 16 games. Seventh in the league :)Aye Sean Dyche didn’t fancy the MASSIVE step down to manage Everton. :harold:

[phonics]

Apparently it all kicked off after the game because Jose got annoyed at the 'excessive celebrations' :D

What a giant fucking baby.

[Ian]

United were upset at what they viewed as an excessive City reaction to Sunday's 2-1 win

Heaven forbid a team be happy to win a big, important game.

Idiots.

[phonics]

The man who made his name with this sort of shit while the games going on.

https://media.balls.ie/uploads/2014/04/mourinho.gif

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2enqm94.gif

http://i.giphy.com/nU5RoOucaMrPq.gif

Is angry about 'excessive celebrating'

[Jimmy Floyd]

Last year he had a tantrum about Conte whipping up the crowd during the 4-0 win at Stamford Bridge. I think he's slowly losing his marbles.

[CJay]

“Mourinho is said to have accused Ederson of play-acting to waste time and then reverted to English, screaming “you fucking show respect. Who are you?”
...
Once everything had calmed down, Mourinho went into the referee’s room to voice his complaints to Michael Oliver about the incident when Ander Herrera was booked for going down under a challenge from Nicolas Otamendi in the penalty area.”

:lol:

What a dick. How can he even complain about that incident?

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you see the replay, Otamendi's foot doesn't reach him and Herrera just dives over it. He had to actually propel himself forward.

[Ian]

Last year he had a tantrum about Conte whipping up the crowd during the 4-0 win at Stamford Bridge. I think he's slowly losing his marbles.

He was losing his marbles during the second Chelsea stint.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He was. It all started about halfway through the season we won the title.

How long the corporates are prepared to put up with him at United (if Pep is beating him every year) who knows.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That said, after coming up with images like this for a December league win, they'd better be sure they don't blow the title:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/624/cpsprodpb/16F5D/production/_99154049_citytunnel.jpg

[John Arne]

Champions League Last 16.


Juventus v Tottenham
Basel v Manchester City
Porto v Liverpool
Sevilla v Manchester United
Real Madrid v Paris St-Germain
Shakhtar Donetsk v Roma
Chelsea v Barcelona
Bayern Munich v Besiktas

[Jimmy Floyd]

Five easy wins for our boys, and one of RM/PSG gone already. Rule Britannia.

[Giggles]

The Londoners out, the other 3 to walk it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We'll murder Barcelona. Messi may be widely seen as a decent player, but not against N'golo Kanté. Maybe look at bringing Bosingwa back in January just to make sure.

Can see us having to play Liverpool in the semis or final, which is a shame.

[phonics]

After all these relatively straight forward draws I'd almost put money on Arsenal getting one of Dortmund, Napoli and Atletico Madrid.

[Reg]

I like that draw. The latter rounds are due a shake up.

My guesses:

Juventus v Tottenham
Basel v Manchester City
Porto v Liverpool
Sevilla v Manchester United
Real Madrid v Paris St-Germain
Shakhtar Donetsk v Roma
Chelsea v Barcelona
Bayern Munich v Besiktas

[phonics]

Borussia Dortmund v Atalanta
Nice v Lokomotov Moscow
Copenhagen v Atlético Madrid
Spartak Moscow v Athletic Bilbao
AEK Athens v Dynamo Kyiv
Celtic v Zenit St Petersburg
Napoli v RB Leipzig
Crvena Zvezda v CSKA Moscow
Lyon v Villarreal
Real Sociedad v Salzburg
Partizan Belgrade v Viktoria Plzen
Steaua Bucharest v Lazio
Ludogorets v Milan
Astana v Sporting
Ostersund v Arsenal
Marseille v Braga

[Bernanke]

If I know my FM-saves correctly, Arsenal will win the shots on goals stat with about 35-9, and still lose 0-2.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Arsenal will win that trophy easily, so the league doesn't even matter. Well done Arsene, four more years.