[FOOTBALL] Midweek Fixtures - FA Cup 3rd Round Replays (16-17 January)

[Reg]

19:45 unless stated.

Tuesday
Leicester City v Fleetwood (BT Sport 2)
Mansfield v Cardiff City
Sheff. Wednesday v Carlisle
West Ham v Shrewsbury
Reading v Stevenage - 20:00

Wednesday
Chelsea v Norwich City (BBC One)
Swansea City v Wolves
Wigan Athletic v Bournemouth

http://www.live-footballontv.com

[phonics]

This threads going to be pumped full of action.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Quite want Cardiff to win their game and set up the Warnock v Guardiola clash of the titans that football has been waiting for.

[Pleb]

I'm assuming this VAR thing is being used this round?

[phonics]

Don't think it can be as only PL teams are set-up for it and you can't not use it in the last game and then use it in this one.

[McAvennie]

Waiting to see if West Ham reserves can be instructed to be any worse by moyes today

[Magic]

The Vardy Derby. :sick:

[Jimmy Floyd]

As long as you don't cup-tie Andy Carroll.

[phonics]

Who's McAvennie again? Martin?

[Giggles]

Who's McAvennie again? Martin?

Frank.

[McAvennie]

Frank.

:)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Don't think it can be as only PL teams are set-up for it and you can't not use it in the last game and then use it in this one.

It's in use tonight.

[CJay]

Not like Phonics to be misinformed.

[Magic]

The VAR being used correctly to allow a goal. :drool:

Oh my word this could revolutionise football. Desperately needed in the Championship and even more so in the SPL. Hard to see how it could be afforded at lower levels?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Very much doubt it will ever be introduced below Premier League level, for cost reasons, which is ironic as that's the only level where Trevor Kettle isn't free to extend his reign of terror.

[Magic]

Don't really see why cost would be an issue, it can't be that much for a guy to sit and watch on a TV. All Championship teams broadcast their own games abroad so they have the capability.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You'll know better than I what it costs to pay mugs to install rudimentary communications equipment in shit tips across the UK, but you also have to pay for the infrastructure, wages of the extra 12 highly qualified refs that therefore aren't being deployed reffing a game, and no doubt 5 other things I haven't thought of.

Also bear in mind most Championship games only have a few cameras at them currently.

[Magic]

Get rid of the fourth official. To be fair you don't need to be a top, top ref to watch a replay back. Ultimately if there's any doubt the referee actually watches it and gives it based on the video itself.

As I said all Championship clubs televise their home games abroad.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yeah but what does televise mean, a grainy three-camera feed on Bet365 with none of the reverse angles that you need to have a decent VAR?

[Magic]

Certainly at home it's actually decent. Away I think you have to bring your own camera unless you're watching via the 'away' club because at Ipswich the corrugated roof was filmed more than the game. On reflection, that was maybe a good thing.

[Pleb]

Oh my word this could revolutionise football. Desperately needed in the Championship and even more so in the SPL. Hard to see how it could be afforded at lower levels?
You forget. Non-League Football doesn't exist according to Martin Tyler.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Unlikely, seeing as Martin Tyler has been a non-league coach for decades.

[Lewis]

The lower leagues could have it all centralised, like the NRL BUNKER, which was brought in to aid consistency and somehow just gets even more stuff wrong.

[niko_cee]

They'd have to find somewhere suitably mundane to headquarter the bunker.

Chippenham's going to want to take a look at that.

[Samadini]

'Kenedy' is such a little tramp. He's got to be related to Rojo somehow.

[John]

Di Maria got the final touch on a Neymar chip that was going wide earlier, after which Neymar didn't celebrate and had a go at him for nicking his goal. He's such a hateful little shithouse.

Expect Di Maria will be sold in the next week.

[John]

Ampadu should have his wages withheld until he sorts out that barnet. He looks like the kid in the Bomfunk MCs video.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a scummy little shit Pedro is.

1-0 up against Norwich at home and he's diving to try and win a penalty.

[mo]

Pedro's dive was so offensive I think it merits a red.

[Waffdon]

Danny Drinkwater is so, so shit :D

[Samadini]

Ban him for the rest of the season.

[John]

Of course Kenedy has tattoos on his head. Of course he does.

[Waffdon]

Conte hates youth players more than Mourinho.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Morata is properly post-op now. They must have a collection of pickled penises that once belonged to strikers behind the bar in the Kerry Dixon suite.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:lol:

[John]

What a ball that was. Corking header too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Should have been easy to defend but David Luiz ballwatching as per. Ship him to China.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The referee should lose his wife for that decision.

[SvN]

What's the point in VAR if you're not going to use it for decisions like that?

[Pen]

What happened?

[SvN]

Willian was brought down in the box and got a yellow for diving.

[Samadini]

This Todd Cantwell gimp looks way out of his depth. Hope he scores the winner.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Not a clear and obvious error. Just a clear and obvious pillock.

[John]

Nice of Morata to put that effort in the one place the keeper could possibly save it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shearer seething at VAR :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Conte's achilles heel is the same as that of all Italian managers - too conservative. Presumably it's because they grow up under mental presidents who go through six coaches a season.

[phonics]

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hahahahahahahaha.

[Lewis]

That and he has been MIND GAMED to bits.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you dive in your own box, is it a penalty?

[SvN]

If you dive in your own box, is it a penalty?

Indirect free-kick.

Source: http://www.asktheref.com/Soccer%20Rules/Question/28971/

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pedro :harold:

I've stuck £7 on Norwich to qualify.

[Lewis]

That and he has been MIND GAMED to bits.

Notice that he has a hat on because his hair has fallen back out.

[John]

Conte looked like he might punch Pedro to death on the touchline there.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'Pedro' is a rat faced bastard.

[SvN]

I did ponder whether Angus Gunn is any relation to Bryan, and it turns out he's his son.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Morata :lol:

[Lewis]

lol

[John]

Morata has gone down easily there but that's a penalty.

Referee is a whopper.

[Spoonsky]

holy shit...

[Jimmy Floyd]

The end of this referee's career and the end of VAR.

[Giggles]

How was that not a penalty? That's a joke.

[SvN]

Fucking hell this game has been pure comedy :D Watch Chelsea gypo a penalty win now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The ref just hates forrins.

Surprised he didn't give Willian a second yellow there.

[phonics]

Chelsea are down to 9 men. Just a reminder that a worse version of the Arsenal team that lost to Forest beat this shower.

[SvN]

Poor lad just got Chadwicked.

[Reg]

That's the first second yellow for dissent I've seen in yonks.


Conte's achilles heel is the same as that of all Italian managers - too conservative. Presumably it's because they grow up under mental presidents who go through six coaches a season.
I've missed most of tonight and only just turned the game on, but I would have thought you'd have some done well with Willian and Pedro and the lineup looking more positive. The 3-5-1-1 or whatever he usually plays now is so negative considering your players are much better than the bulk of the league's. Spurs did a similar thing, went through a dodgy period and now they're back to playing positively and doing much better.

I can't believe Willian and Pedro are barely getting a game really. They're two brilliant players.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Was it two yellows in two seconds? Hopefully the second one was for calling him an iguana faced cunt who touches kids.

[phonics]

That's the first second yellow for dissent I've seen in yonks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjM827E4_k0

[Dark Soldier]

Fair play ref, fuck that scum royally.

[John]

Not really for dissent, is it?

[Spoonsky]

Don't think it was a pen nor a dive, but fucking lol.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Norwich to win on penalties, Delia to come celebrate on the pitch and Conte to windmill the fuck out of her.

That would be the perfect ending.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Jesus even the fat red faced bloke is on the pitch, things must be serious.

[phonics]

Not really for dissent, is it?

He wasn't given a yellow for pushing the ref over, he was sent off for bitching at the referee trying to kick him :D

[phonics]

I'm actually turning on this game just to watch the pens so I expect Chelsea to smash it. The Norwich goalie looks a bit like David De Gea.

[Giggles]

What happens if the video replay thing overturns it and gives the penalty (how the fuck did it not do that anyway?) then does he have to let Morata back on?

Or does the var have to bottle it so as the situation doesn't crop up?

[John]

Why have they gone back to the old penalty order? Every element of officiating in this match has been a farce.

[Dark Soldier]

The ref's been great, not taking any shit. Morata flung himself like a bridge jumper and Willian was already going down, the big fanny.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's the best penalty thus far.

Fuck it up Hazard.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thought he was going to miss with that gimpy run up.

[phonics]

That pen from Murphy is fucking sex. Love a top corner pen.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Kanté's penalty a proper Afcon effort. Fuck off back to East Anglia you farmer pricks and take the ref with you.

[Spoonsky]

Hazard and Willian take the exact same penalty every time and somehow no keeper ever goes the right way.

[John]

Conte should have decked the ref and stood over him like Ali.

[Dark Soldier]

Never change lads :thbgrin:

[Giggles]

Never change lads :thbgrin:

If they weren't playing some championship backwater your eyes would actually be open.

All the Chelsea players should have just slapped the ref as soon as the last penalty went in.

[Dark Soldier]

If they weren't playing some championship backwater your eyes would actually be open.

All the Chelsea players should have just slapped the ref as soon as the last penalty went in.

I'd be woke as fuck if it was versus Swansea or something mate, definitely. If it'd been the same decisions the other way round I'd be thinking the same ffs :happycry:

Good to see a ref with some bottle for once.

[Giggles]

I'd be woke as fuck if it was versus Swansea or something mate, definitely. If it'd been the same decisions the other way round I'd be thinking the same ffs :happycry:

Good to see a ref with some bottle for once.

He made an absolute cock of the Morata thing. Yeah, shit refereeing is brilliant stuff.

[Mazuuurk]

What does "woke" mean?

I've seen it on Twitter and I'm intrigued. Seems twatty.

[Dark Soldier]

He made an absolute cock of the Morata thing. Yeah, shit refereeing is brilliant stuff.

Dissent should be carded way more often than it is. Its fantastic watching players rush the referees every single match.

[Dark Soldier]

What does "woke" mean?

I've seen it on Twitter and I'm intrigued. Seems twatty.

It is.

[Giggles]

Dissent should be carded way more often than it is. Its fantastic watching players rush the referees every single match.

Dissent. There's one yellow.

It's the other yellow and the turning down of the penalty he made a cunt of. Which led to the dissent anyway.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm sure you were screaming that at the TV when your darling Manchester United heroes were doing it throughout the Fergie era.

I do like the double yellow flash though.

[Dark Soldier]

Dissent. There's one yellow.

It's the other yellow and the turning down of the penalty he made a cunt of. Which led to the dissent anyway.

Player didn't shove him, literally laid an arm on him and Morata's flung himself. They still won and they can have Carroll up front on Saturday.

[Dark Soldier]

I'm sure you were screaming that at the TV when your darling Manchester United heroes were doing it throughout the Fergie era.

Generally yes, if it was a yellow I'd say so. Easier to imagine spittle and a burst blood vessel though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Roy Keane and Gary Neville would still be doing time for accumulated bookings now.

[Giggles]

Player didn't shove him, literally laid an arm on him and Morata's flung himself. They still won and they can have Carroll up front on Saturday.

It's not 1973, was a clear penalty.

[Mazuuurk]

It is.

Googled it. I fucking love Urban Dictionary.

"A state of perceived intellectual superiority one gains by reading The Huffington Post."

[Dark Soldier]

It's not 1973, was a clear penalty.

We can agree to disagree then, I've gotta go bed in about ten minutes :(

[Lewis]

Stay up and keep going, DS. I'll write you a note for work.

[SvN]

That's what happens when you become a useful member of society. No time for internet arguments.

[igor_balis]

neymar is a wank

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't know what he thinks he's doing. No one cares how many goals you score past the cast of Allo Allo. To win the ball of gold, you need to win the World Cup, easily, as top scorer and failing that you need to move to a big league again.

[Lewis]

He would win it if he won PSG the Champions' League.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Depends how rigged the voting is. Messi must get about 40% of the vote just for being Messi.

[Shindig]

We could do with that ref watching over the next round. "I know what a dive looks like." Aye, sure.

[Spikey M]

He would win it if he won PSG the Champions' League.

Only if he consistently bossed it in those matches. It’s all well and good sticking 4 past a load of Vineyard workers, but nobody gives a fuck.

[CJay]

Morata and Willian’s were both penalties in my opinion. It’s strange how the defender can blatantly hold someone back as they go past them (Zimmerman) yet when the attacker goes down the defender loses it and screams in his face.

Be interesting to see where that ref gets posted next.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's ridiculous, apparently people's innards could be strewn all over the penalty area but it wouldn't be a spot kick if they 'went down easily' or 'fell into the contact'.

Didn't help that yesterday everyone other than Chelsea fans would have been rooting for Norwich I suppose, apparently including the referee and VAR.

[Jimmy Floyd]

In happier news, a former team mates has claimed Sean Dyche has a gruff voice because he eats worms. I really hope that's true.

[Lewis]

Only if he consistently bossed it in those matches. It’s all well and good sticking 4 past a load of Vineyard workers, but nobody gives a fuck.

Yeah, but for PSG to win it they will need that from him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They've drawn Ronaldo haven't they? If they lose that, watch him claim an 'injury' until May.

[Mazuuurk]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42727194

I have such mixed (bad) feelings about this. On the one hand I can admire the PSG crowd for sticking up for Cavani against Neymar, since Neymar is such a cunt. But then again, it takes a right special lot to start booing your biggest star for taking a penalty when you're up 7-0 and he's scored 3 already, so for that they are massive cunts.

And the whole thing is made worse somehow by the fact that Cavani looks like the saint in all this, when I just know he's a bit of a fucking cunt as well. He just is you know.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The French boo people crossing the road with the wrong type of bread, I'm not sure it's that big a story.

[Mazuuurk]

It's not a big story at all, it just pisses me off that so much cuntery can go on at once.

[Spoonsky]

It seems like literally everyone involved with PSG is a bit of a cunt (except possibly Mbappe), so situations like this are inevitable.