[FOOTBALL] FA Cup 3rd Round Weekend (Friday 5th - Monday 8th January)

[Reg]

http://www.live-footballontv.com

Friday
Liverpool 19:55 Everton BBC One
Manchester United 20:00 Derby County

Saturday
Fleetwood Town 12:45 Leicester City BBC One
Middlesbrough 13:00 Sunderland
Ipswich Town 15:00 Sheffield United
Watford 15:00 Bristol City
Birmingham City 15:00 Burton Albion
Aston Villa 15:00 Peterborough United
AFC Bournemouth 15:00 Wigan Athletic
Coventry City 15:00 Stoke City
Bolton Wanderers 15:00 Huddersfield Town
Yeovil Town 15:00 Bradford City
Brentford 15:00 Notts County
Queens Park Rangers 15:00 Milton Keynes Dons
Exeter City 15:00 West Bromwich Albion
Doncaster Rovers 15:00 Rochdale
Blackburn Rovers 15:00 Hull City
Cardiff City 15:00 Mansfield Town
Manchester City 15:00 Burnley
Wolverhampton Wanderers 15:00 Swansea City
Stevenage 15:00 Reading
Newcastle United 15:00 Luton Town
Millwall 15:00 Barnsley
Fulham 15:00 Southampton
Wycombe Wanderers 15:00 Preston North End
Carlisle United 15:00 Sheffield Wednesday
Norwich City 17:30 Chelsea BT Sport 2

Sunday
Newport County 12:00 Leeds United BBC One Wales
Shrewsbury Town 14:00 West Ham United BBC One
Tottenham Hotspur 15:00 AFC Wimbledon
Nottingham Forest 16:00 Arsenal BT Sport 2

Monday
Brighton & Hove 19:45 Crystal Palace BT Sport 2

[Lewis]

Erm, what are the BBC playing at?

[Shindig]

We must avenge Gateshead.

[Pleb]

Exeter v West Brom surely should of got picked as a televised matchup purely because they haven't got an actual stadium to sit/stand away fans

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Leicester game was always going to be picked due to Vardy.

[Baz]

League Two’s Coventry to do Stoke and Wolves to absolutely trounce Swansea? :nod:

[Jimmy Floyd]

The preponderance of the BBC only to screen ties in the North West (close to its Salford studios) is getting as bad as the United thing. First round this year they showed Hyde, second round Macclesfield, and now in the third round they've gone for a trio of Liverpool, Fleetwood and Shrewsbury.

[Shindig]

Exeter v West Brom surely should of got picked as a televised matchup purely because they haven't got an actual stadium to sit/stand away fans

Do they not build temporary stands any more these days?

[wullie]

I thought there'd be more interest in Stoke visiting but we've only sold 11000 which will still be the biggest attendance so far but it's a third of the stadium. It'd be nice to get Mark Hughes fired, but my big hope is to see Peter Crouch marked by one of the Kelly-Evans twins who are about 5'6". Worth the ticket price alone.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How many do you get for, say, Chesterfield in a league game?

[wullie]

Beat them on Monday, 7400-something there which seems to be the rough average for the season so far too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

lol, I just plucked them out as a random team.

I can't think of a worse atmosphere to have at a club than quarter-filling a cavernous megadrome on a weekly basis.

[wullie]

It's one that we're still not entirely sure we'll be playing in come August too. If we don't get out of this division at the first try I think that might be it for a lot more people, which is lovely for traffic but shit in every other possible way.

[SincereTheRebel]

League Two’s Coventry to do Stoke and Wolves to absolutely trounce Swansea? :nod:

Ill be at the wolves game living it up.

[Waffdon]

This must be the first time in a decade Man Utd aren’t televised for an FA Cup game.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's the first time since that game against Exeter when someone nutmegged Ryan Giggs.

[niko_cee]

First time since they drew with Exeter, so get on Derby to do something and heads to roll.

[Waffdon]

It's the first time since that game against Exeter when someone nutmegged Ryan Giggs.

12 years. Fucking hell. Strange one too, as I bet this will be a better game than a large majority of the shite they’ve televised.

[phonics]

This must be the first time in a decade Man Utd aren’t televised for an FA Cup game.

12 years.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They got pilloried for televising them vs Reading last year, but that's more Reading's fault for being the single most boring club in the Football League.

[Disco]

It's the first time since that game against Exeter when someone nutmegged Ryan Giggs.

Dean Moxey. :cool:

[Magic]

Looking to do Newport over and then get a huge game in the 4th. No doubt it'll be a humiliating 1-0 defeat and will ruin our season.

[Dave.]

It's the first time since that game against Exeter when someone nutmegged Ryan Giggs.

Wasn't it Ronaldo that got nutmegged by Scott Hiley?

[Jimmy Floyd]

You are correct.

[Lewis]

'Has Alex Ferguson lost his touch?'

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm pretty sure the 17 year old me would have been making arguments on here that Ronaldo was all style, no substance and would go the same way as Carlos Marinelli.

[Baz]

Is Boom-Boom still about?

Edit: no, his last post was 2015 in the recently resurrected darts thread. RIP.

[SvN]

Weird, looks like he was posting really regularly too, and then just suddenly stopped. Definitely dead.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ice Carim did that back in the day. Loads and loads of posts a day and then suddenly never visited the board again, let alone posting.

[niko_cee]

Nice to see both Liverpool and Everton fielding proper sides.

[John Arne]

Liverpool

Liverpool: Karius, Gomez, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Milner, Can, Lallana, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mane, Firmino.
Subs: Ward, Wijnaldum, Lovren, Klavan, Ings, Solanke, Alexander-Arnold.

[niko_cee]

"The one thing we won't be doing is playing open, expansive football."

*Z-Cars theme plays*

[Pleb]

Do they not build temporary stands any more these days?
Not that I'm aware of.

Apparently Exeter asked the FA for limited tickets due to not having a stadium which they bizarrely granted which means West Brom is probably going to have an allocation of 5% or something stupid as that. I must stress this is Westcountry football we're talking about here which doesn't exist.

[Waffdon]

Imagine not loving Andy Robertson :wub:

Hope they get pumped right enough.

[John Arne]

Calvert-(DCL)-Lewin is going to be a very decent player if he carries on progressing as he is. Seems to get better every game.

[John Arne]

That was a soft pen.

[Lewis]

Come back Lukaku. Some is forgiven.

[John Arne]

How on earth has Holgate not been booked for that? He could have even seen a straight red.

Let’s hope Firmino just spat at him, and didn’t call him a ‘negrito’ or something.

[Boydy]

How on earth has Holgate not been booked for that? He could have even seen a straight red.


Yeah, mad that.

[Lewis]

I reckon Paulp Ogba is about five more missed sitters away from putting a transfer request in.

[phonics]

Best fans in the world

949383649677533191

[Lewis]

He's right Walter Mitty him.

[phonics]

A basic Wiki does not help me understand the point.

[Lewis]

The person posting that stuff is probably about seventeen, like all of those agent accounts that mentalists frantically re-tweet.

[John Arne]

Moronics :face:

[Giggles]

Did Can not leave?

EDIT: Well obviously not, but did something fall through in the last couple of days?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lingard :drool:

[John Arne]

Did Can not leave?

EDIT: Well obviously not, but did something fall through in the last couple of days?

Off on a free in the summer.

[Lewis]

This is like when Lee Hendrie was suddenly amazing for two months.

[Mike]

Money well spent eh

[Boydy]

http://i66.tinypic.com/bfnrdt.png

:drool:

You big beautiful Dutch bastard.

[Giggles]

Does the goal paint over the half arsing for Everton's equaliser then?

EDIT: Well I'd say it does for Boydy anyway :cool:

[CJay]

Was that first ruling from Madley, Jim? Or just plain incompetence?

Rooney was a total liability tonight. Lost his head from the minute the game began.

[Magic]

http://i66.tinypic.com/bfnrdt.png

:drool:

You big beautiful Dutch bastard.

Surely worth a fiver ya tight git.

[Boydy]

Surely worth a fiver ya tight git.

Calm down, we can't all be Mr Big Time like you.

[Magic]

Winning a bet is so fucking good. It's like injecting an overdose of Fentanyl and crack straight in to your nucleus accumbens.

[Lewis]

949406710149632000

:lol:

[Lewis]

Mason Holgate has deleted his Twitter because Liverpool fans found tweets he sent when he was fifteen with 'faggot' in and said he shouldn't cry about being racially abused. The MELTDOWN is going to be amazing if their man ends up getting suspended.

[Boydy]

Where did the racial abuse thing come from? There seemed to be no mention of it during the match.

[Boydy]

This (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jan/06/roberto-firmino-liverpool-everton-mason-holgate) seems to imply that Firmino said whatever he said after he was pushed into the advertising hoardings. Was the referee not close enough by at that point to hear it?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I go out for one evening, there's a race row on Merseyside and Mourinho has self-combusted. Ffs.

Dear old Jose is Chris Finch, isn't he.

[Baz]

Holgate’s a bellend.

[John Arne]

Really hope that Firmino hasn’t said anything stupid - if he has - he should be punished.

I am surprised by the lack of outrage at the push that led to the incident... it was incredibly dangerous and so fucking stupid - (un)fortunately for Firmino though - he wasn’t hurt - so it appears to be completely forgotten about.

[niko_cee]

You can clearly see Firmino ends his tirade with 'puta' - a fairly standard latin term of abuse (whore/bitch?) - so unless people on the game are a protected minority these days there's nothing in it. Holgate was such a pleb for doing that. Waz the spaz should probably have been sent off too.

It's funny that, had Holgate (or Fimino) done a similar shove in the aftermath they probably would have been at least booked so christ know what big fat bob was doing giving nothing for it.

[niko_cee]

Also, nice to see some proper trolling of the good old boys in the press corps from Klopp regarding the 'penalty'.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ex-Icelandic right back Gretar Steinsson is the director of football at Fleetwood, that's a random one.

[Giggles]

Whatever about Firmino saying anything, the Everton lad needs a hefty ban for a start. Flying over them hoardings could be very nasty.

[Bob Sacamano]

Atletico/Getafe is an absolute shit show, classic Spanish wankery.

[Lewis]

lol Jamie Vardy isn't even playing. The BBC must be fuming.

[Ian]

Ex-Icelandic right back Gretar Steinsson is the director of football at Fleetwood, that's a random one.

I'm sure everybody else knew this already I was surprised to learn yesterday that Harry Kewell is managing Crawley.

Surely he could be earning some daft wage managing a pointless club in some sham of a league or another?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I love it when commentators decide that certain (always foreign) players are rubbish and need to be slated in a way British players never would be. Jonathan Pearce HATES Islam Slimani.

[phonics]

I'm sure everybody else knew this already I was surprised to learn yesterday that Harry Kewell is managing Crawley.

Surely he could be earning some daft wage managing a pointless club in some sham of a league or another?

He did a really interesting interview about it. Came across as a proper human being interested in working his way up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The commentating here is absolutely atrocious.

[igor_balis]

absolute state of the fleetwood supporters

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Leicester City, the Premiership Champions...Of two years ago

Fucking hell.

[igor_balis]

Dan...a man, who knows a thing or two about pizza? Did he just say that?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Official attendance today, 5001
lol, who's the 1?

Pearce is fucking tragic.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He said 'Dan, a man who knows a pizza or two'. Margherita and American Hot, perhaps?

[igor_balis]

shrewsbury isn't in wales

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

To VAR or not to VAR

I don't think he has a filter, if something pops in his brain he'll just say it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This game has been genuinely awful. Leicester with about six substandard players and zero teamwork (James/King in midfield is tragic), Fleetwood as you'd expect just a very poor outfit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'They give him a job and he done it'. Hopefully black women pundits of the future will be better than Alex Scott.

[John]

Leicester have the Sultan of Brunei's nephew on their books. I wonder how long it'll be before he buys them and demands his kin plays all positions.

[Samadini]

lol at the commentator in the Atletico game, he couldn't decide what he wanted to go with, so just went with both.

"The COMPLETE...Costa...package. RETURN. GOAL. RED CARD!! You couldn't write this script. We all read it before the game"

Alright mate.

[Shindig]

'They give him a job and he done it'. Hopefully black women pundits of the future will be better than Alex Scott.

She sounds like she's reading off a script.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Stoke should sack Mark Hughes so quickly that he isn't even able to get into the tunnel after full time.

[Adamski]

Minutes silence for Dundee Utd please, lads.

[Magic]

Mark Hughes you scum cunt. :harold:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dujon Sterling has made our first team bench, what times.

[CJay]

Is Bakayoko being ironically cheered by Chelsea fans when he successfully makes a pass, or is it the Norwich fans?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mourinho should claim that Conte is trying to throw this game.

[Giggles]

Hughes is gone.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42332958

[Raoul Duke]

Surprising news that one...

Who can they get? All the usual suspects are employed :| Schteve?

[Giggles]

Martin O'Neill :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Peter Coates has never made an interesting managerial appointment ever, so it's probably good news for Steve Bruce.

[Disco]

I was trying to think of the most Proper of Football Men that Stoke might go for. What's Mick McCarthy doing these days?

[wullie]

It was ace today. Stoke were so, so shit apart from Ramadan on the left, and we're top on Match of the Day for something other than being relegated at fucking Villa Park at last.

[Shindig]

Aye, Stoke were really piss poor at keeping it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

"Amnesia", "match-fixing", now "little man". Insult-trading between leading managers demeans them and the game. @LMA_Managers mediation needed asap.

It's good to know that even when the giants of the game slip to the most foul modes of behaviour, Sir Henry Winter will always be there as the guardian of all that is good and proper.

[wullie]

I'm glad Shaquiri came on so I could get a proper look at him, he's the weirdest shaped human I've ever seen. He's like those Olympic weightlifters who look like children.

[Samadini]

Stephen Ireland is still at Stoke? :|

[John]

I'm glad Shaquiri came on so I could get a proper look at him, he's the weirdest shaped human I've ever seen. He's like those Olympic weightlifters who look like children.

He looks like Patton Oswalt.

[Shindig]

It's good to know that even when the giants of the game slip to the most foul modes of behaviour, Sir Henry Winter will always be there as the guardian of all that is good and proper.

Let it go unchecked and you'll just have wrestling promos before every match.

[Giggles]

Stephen Ireland is still at Stoke? :|

He's honouring his dead granny. I think the Stoke one is his sixth.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mourinho has cleverly MIND GAMESed a feud with Conte in order to take the attention away from comparisons between himself and Guardiola. When you've had the bugger in charge of your club for two spells you get used to how he works (on this point, the one thing that drives Mourinho's chip-on-shoulder status is his probably correct belief that managers who are ex-players get a much easier ride than he).

[Lewis]

He's proper nobbled him. If this was fifteen/twenty years ago Chelsea would collapse and lose half of their remaining fixtures.

[Baz]

Can I get BBC ONE Wales on Sky?

Google says channel 978.

[Giggles]

Can I get BBC ONE Wales on Sky?

I know when I had UK Sky, all the BBC regions were in the high 900's.

EDIT: 952/978

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/01/bbc-nations-and-regions-on-sky-freesat.html?m=1

[Shindig]

Maybe it's a red button option.

[Baz]

I know when I had UK Sky, all the BBC regions were in the high 900's.

EDIT: 952/978

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/01/bbc-nations-and-regions-on-sky-freesat.html?m=1

952 is the least HD HD channel I've seen in a while. Sorted though. Mon Newport!

[Ian]

Mourinho has cleverly MIND GAMESed a feud with Conte in order to take the attention away from comparisons between himself and Guardiola. When you've had the bugger in charge of your club for two spells you get used to how he works (on this point, the one thing that drives Mourinho's chip-on-shoulder status is his probably correct belief that managers who are ex-players get a much easier ride than he).

How can you be a PROPER FOOTBALL MAN if you haven't PLAYED THE GAME AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL though?

[Magic]

Shite game this. Berardi, who has never scored in his entire career, was more likely to score than any of our shite attacking players. Thankfully that actually happened.

[Weaver]

If anyone has the iPlayer installed on their TV, you can watch the second half on there too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:lol:

Cracking header.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Deserved, Newport by far the better side.

[SvN]

LOL @ Leeds and Magic :lol:

[Adamski]

Falkirk and Newport bringing balance to the force this weekend. Fantastic.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What the hell was he sent off for? Good to see Mike Dean getting around the houses.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Apparently it was for spitting.

Strange that they never showed a replay.

[Giggles]

Think of the children.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Gobbing at someone after conceding the winner worth the 3/5 match ban I assume. Footballers are thick as shit.

[John]

Nacho Novo had a heart attack after the masters tournament in Berlin last night. Bit of a shocker.

[Giggles]

Just seen the Leeds score :D

What division are Newport in?

[John]

League two.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a great chant that was.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Those with BT which I don't have, look out for Kieran Dowell in the Forest-Arsenal game, he's looked an absolutely lovely footballer every time I've seen him. Number ten type on loan from Everton.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

West Ham are so shit.

[Magic]

LOL @ Leeds and Magic :lol:

Disgusting. And our best player coming on to spit on a player earning a fraction of his wage and get a 6 game ban is the icing on the cake. Season over.

[John]

Warburton wanted Dowell on loan when he was with us. I haven't seen much of him but he does look good.

[phonics]

Every time we play a slightly 'obscure' team, Armand Traore is playing for them at left back.

[John]

Could do with a glimpse of Barrie McKay's odd, squat little gait here. Selling him for thirty five pence is probably the biggest fuck up of Caixinha's bonkers reign.

[Adamski]

Every time we play a slightly 'obscure' team, Armand Traore is playing for them at left back.

An obscure team with 2 more European cups than you’ll ever get :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Illustrious names in the Arsenal side.

I don't think Darren Fletcher has actually read the team sheet.

[John]

Reiss Nelson looks like great fun.

[phonics]

An obscure team with 2 more European cups than you’ll ever get :D

I meant it as in a team we wouldn't have played every week. Teams that come up and go back down within a season, FA cup 3rd rounds, Carling Cup 5th round/quarters etc.

Hence the air quotes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol at that defending.

Good ball in by Dowell.

[John]

Dowell assist from a lovely free kick delivery.

Forest will win this three nil. Warburton leaving tends to energise a team.

[John]

Maybe not.

[-james-]

Ben Brereton > Per Mertesacker

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lichaj :drool:

What a fucking volley.

[phonics]

Is that a great volley or did David Ospina fall over?

[SincereTheRebel]

Is that a great volley or did David Ospina fall over?

Ospina should have came for the 2nd ball. The arsenal defender should never have chance to clear a header in his own six yard box. Should have been keepers all day. All goals were poor defending.

[Magic]

Lichaj scoring twice. :harold:

[John]

Newport scoring twice. :harold:

[John]

Brererton looks like a proper player. It could just be Mertesacker having as much pace as Holding has positional awareness making it easy for him to stand out, but he's running them both ragged on his own at eighteen.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Holding :lol:

Brereton has deserved that.

[John Arne]

Rob Holding must be thick as shit - fouling Bereton every time.

[John]

Robbie Savage is every bit as interminable as Niall Quinn. He's never said anything that wasn't immediately proven wrong by a replay, and his anecdotes are always the same sort of humblebrag bullshit Foe pulls when he complains that he has more money than he can deal with.

BT have chosen the perfect clip to capture what a complete arsehole he is on their inexplicable montage of their various pundits telling us which super power they'd like. Savage's contribution is 'did you know Batman isn't a superhero? Just a bloke in a suit innit.'

[John]

That was absolutely lovely from Dowell. He does look a delightful player.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Wenger an absolute fucking retard for this team selection. He should know by now that none of his youngsters are ever good enough.

[Giggles]

Arsenal showing they're still a big club by binning this :cool:

[John]

The Forest team has a lower average age than the Arsenal one, which makes the whole thing a thousand times more lol.

[John]

The fucking state of Mancienne there. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mertesacker looks like he's playing through tar and not on a grass pitch.

[John]

:lol:

[John]

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.

[Jimmy Floyd]

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.

[John Arne]

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).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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.

[mo]

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.

Agreed - general rule of thumb being to go with the opposite of whatever Savage thinks.

[John]

And now Walcott has run into a pole. :lol:

[phonics]

This game is quality.

[Mike]

That Arsenal YouTube should be good later.

[Giggles]

That Arsenal YouTube should be good later.

Would they care all that much about a domestic cup game?

[Mike]

Ah maybe not. :(
They’re a very dramatic bunch on there though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

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.

[Giggles]

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.

[John]

Would they care all that much about a domestic cup game?

It's the only thing they ever win. They'll be absolutely fuming tonight.

[John]

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.

[Pleb]

Is Wenger alright?

[ScousePig]

Those with BT which I don't have, look out for Kieran Dowell in the Forest-Arsenal game, he's looked an absolutely lovely footballer every time I've seen him. Number ten type on loan from Everton.

Did he do anything? You mentioned something similar about Harvey Barnes and I didn't really notice either in the flesh.

[ScousePig]

Every time we play a slightly 'obscure' team, Armand Traore is playing for them at left back.

And he was genuinely awful against Sunderland.

[John]

Did he do anything? You mentioned something similar about Harvey Barnes and I didn't really notice either in the flesh.

Scored one and set one up, along with a load of other lovely touches and passes. Reading the thread is always useful.

[ScousePig]

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.

[Spikey M]

Arsenlol.

[Magic]

Fuck off you boring cunt.

:D

[Lewis]

That Arsenal YouTube should be good later.

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.

[Lewis]

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.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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

lol.

[Lewis]

That away microphone always makes me lol.

[Danny]

The only thing that was missing is Wenger/anyone being called a mug.

[Giggles]

I'd say he's done a good few European café windows.

[Waffdon]

I’m pished

[Jimmy Floyd]

Presumably Robbie (or whatever he's called) must secretly hope that they lose every week for those sweet, sweet hits.

[-james-]

Does he ever say anything, or does he just nod solemnly throughout?

[Lewis]

Says all that needs to be said.

[Spoonsky]

Eric Lichaj. :cool: :cool: :cool:

[John]

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.

[Yevrah]

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'.

[wullie]

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.

[Reg]

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.

[Jimmy Floyd]

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.

[Mazuuurk]

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.

[Reg]

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.

[Magic]

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 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.

[CJay]

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.

Tell me Jonathan Pearce is commentating?

[Reg]

Unfortunately it's BT. But I guess that means Robbie Savage might be commentating...

[niko_cee]

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?

[John Arne]

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.

[John Arne]

Arsenal holding a line higher than their wall :D

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[Baz]

VAR sucks. Was a joke in the confederations cup and did anyone see that Juve goal vs Torino the other night? Goal scored and Torino complained there was a foul in the buildup. Ref watched it back and there was the most blatant foul since Puncheon on De Bruyne, ref ran away from the TV and said his decision was correct and the goal stood. Bollocks, didn’t wanna overrule himself. :rolleyes:

[Lewis]

Yeovil hosting United has BBC coverage written all over it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They'll go Newport v Spurs as they already have the BBC Wales cameras there. It's taken 20 years but I've cracked the code.

[-james-]

Reserves vs reserves in an empty stadium. Good derby, lads.

[niko_cee]

The fact that they've heavily restricted the number of Palace fans can't have helped.

[Reg]

Our season tickets don't include a cup game anymore and people like me will stay at home if it's on telly. I thought it was a crap draw really: we've just played them at home and their fans visiting again after what happened isn't ideal.

[Spoonsky]

VAR sucks. Was a joke in the confederations cup and did anyone see that Juve goal vs Torino the other night? Goal scored and Torino complained there was a foul in the buildup. Ref watched it back and there was the most blatant foul since Puncheon on De Bruyne, ref ran away from the TV and said his decision was correct and the goal stood. Bollocks, didn’t wanna overrule himself. :rolleyes:

Not sure they can disallow for fouls too far back in the buildup. Would be a very slippery slope.

[Shindig]

I might fancy our chances against Norwich. Perhaps.

[Pleb]

That fourth round draw is thrilling to say the least.