JUNE FOOTBALL: Klopp vs. Spurs Bottle Battle

[Ian]

Forgot to do this this morning so we're a bit late. Bit late for a Champions League final poll.

Obviously tonight we have Liverpool and Spurs providing an important warm-up game for a number of England players ahead of Team Waistcoat bringing the Nations League home after 0 years of hurt so far.

Also the womens World Cup, which I may actually watch some of as Phil Nev's charisma drives us to a presumably ignonimous exist at some juncture.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

3-1 Yids.

[Mike]

Liverpool win.

Getting nervous now though!

[Pepe]

Is the goalkeeping still shit? If so, I might have to watch a bit.

[Baz]

Gonna be the most one-sided Champions League Final in the history of football.

Three or four nil, at least.

Can’t wait. :drool:

[Reg]

3-2 Spuds.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

No penalty.

[SvN]

That's a joke

[Boydy]

That's ridiculous. That wasn't a penalty.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell.

[Magic]

Definitely was a pen. What the fuck was Sissy doing.

[Foe]

Looked like he was trying to tell the other spurs guy to follow any overlap. cross comes in and ricochets onto his arm.

Never a pen for me.

[Baz]

Most blatant pen I’ve ever seen.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A female :hubba:

[Boydy]

That smiley. :D

[Magic]

Two utterly dire finals. Well done England.

[Kikó]

Best league in the world mate.

Been a bit shite so far.

[Baz]

A female :hubba:https://i.imgur.com/zh7mBuF_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

[Yevrah]

Awful game so far. Not an excuse, but a penalty that early never helps.

[Spikey M]

A female :hubba:

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That's got to chafe.

[John]

Vitaly is a Ukrainian name, isn't it?

[niko_cee]

I can imagine this is a terrible game from a neutral perspective. Liverpool haven't turned up and Spurs seem to shit their pants every time they get near the final third.

[Baz]

As bad as the first half has been (but we’re winning so F yeah) it wasn’t as bad as this:

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[Spikey M]

Does anyone advertise on BT Sports but BT Sports? This is prime Advertising slots, surely? Or is it just the YouTube airing that's doing it?

[Mike]

Just YouTube.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Vitaly is a Ukrainian name, isn't it?

I believe it's to do with Vitaly the Youtube PRANKSTER.

He himself has invaded the pitch during World Cup/Champions League games including sliding into team photos. Probably got a hot woman to do it this time for extra views and/or he's banned from these events now.

[John]

Admirable attempt to pretend you haven't just read an article about it.

This has been a complete non event. I don't think a single player has played above a five out of ten.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Admirable attempt to pretend you haven't just read an article about it.

This has been a complete non event. I don't think a single player has played above a five out of ten.

I haven't.

I'm not sure if he's the one that snuck into team photos but I went with it.

I think he's a massive prick and he's been in the news a few times for TAKING HIS PRANKS TOO FAR.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why do BT constantly try to suck 'Dele' off?

He's been horseshit every time I've seen him and yet BT are always talking like he's the second coming and how he's just about to turn the game around despite never doing so.

Cue a 'Dele' hattrick now ofc.

[Spikey M]

I haven't.

I'm not sure if he's the one that snuck into team photos but I went with it.

I think he's a massive prick and he's been in the news a few times for TAKING HIS PRANKS TOO FAR.


I thought that was a French bloke?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I thought that was a French bloke?

Might have been.

I know an English bloke was the first to do it during a Man United match.

[Yevrah]

If Spurs don’t score this goes down as one of the worst finals ever.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:moop:

[Magic]

Damp squib. Thank fuck no extra time though.

[Lewis]

Lads, it's Tottenham.

[Mike]

Easy that.

[John]

This has probably been worse than that famously abysmal Juventus v Milan 2003 final, although given the quality of players on show in that game it's probably still worse in relative terms.

Has there ever been a properly good final of this contested between two sides from the same nation? I remember a Madrid derby one being a bit dull but with a few moments of drama, and I think the Bayern v Dortmund one improved pretty drastically late on, but I can't think of you'd unequivocally describe as a good game of football.

[Yevrah]

Spurs should be embarrassed and ashamed. Absolutely pathetic effort.

[Mike]

Amazing game!! Six!!!

[Spikey M]

Kane has never come back from injury and played well. He needs a few games under his belt.

Waiting for 70 minutes to bring on Lucas is criminal.

Liverpool haven't played that badly all season.

Awful final all round, but, the right team won. Shame.

[Foe]

That really wasn't very good was it?

Andy Robertson played about as well as anyone. Origi misplacing every pass after coming on was a sight to behold. Where's your passing completion stats now opta??

[Yevrah]

Origi can retire tomorrow as a more directly successful footballer than 99% of those that have played the game.

[Boydy]

That really wasn't very good was it?

Andy Robertson played about as well as anyone. Origi misplacing every pass after coming on was a sight to behold. Where's your passing completion stats now opta??

I'd say Alisson was the man of the match.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd say Alisson was the man of the match.

Did he really do anything?

I can only remember a decent save from Son and Lucas.

Although that's more than most.

[Spikey M]

I'd say Alisson was the man of the match.

For what? Bar the Eriksen free kick everything was straight at him. Man of the Match was probably one of the Liverpool wing backs.

[igor_balis]

That was shit

[niko_cee]

The best bit of all of this has been Hoddle (and to a lesser extent Jenas) seething their spuddy little tits off.

lol

[Jimmy Floyd]

Origi's finish was the best thing this season, including all your fancy little comebacks. Fucking clinical in front of his own fans on the biggest stage of all.

[Lewis]

lol at the Tottenham twitter account giving it 'We will be back'. No you won't.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, in some ways they're in a similar position to Liverpool last season (lamenting a bit of a shit showing and some bad luck in a final after getting there against the odds/logic) but you also get the sense they aren't kicking on from here. This is the end of the road for quite a lot of that team, so they'll have to go some to replace whoever leaves with something better. I suppose at least Pochettino hasn't walked off into the Argentinian sunset.

[Pleb]

Nations League next week.

I reckon we'll win it :baz:

[Kikó]

Me and Lee will be there. 🤳

[Spikey M]

RL's working overtime then.

[Shindig]

Strange final, that. Very end of season feel to it with a lot of knackered bodies out there. Right team won, the penalty was a good call and Son ran his legs off tonight. Not really a game to pick performances, though.

[mugbull]

lol at the Tottenham twitter account giving it 'We will be back'. No you won't.

We’ll be back before you will

[Pepe]

That was the worst match of football ever played.

[Pepe]

The beauty of watching on hispanic TV is that once all the post-match wankery was done, they showed the Argentine 2nd division final. I didn't catch the start, so I did not know what they were playing for until the commentator mentioned that it was the final, but you could tell within five seconds that it was something important, looking at every single fucker giving it all. Proper football (PASSION, etc.)

[Spoonsky]

:cool:

Yeah, relative to the stage that was probably the shitest game ever. But fuck it, in 10 years of watching Liverpool I’ve seen them win one trophy until today, I’m not going to complain about style.

[mugbull]

I actually didn’t think the game was as bad as people are making it out to be. 4/10

[niko_cee]

Neymar's comedy year going from bad to worse as he's now been accused of sexual assault.

[niko_cee]

Sorry, rape.

Is it just me or is Alisson getting a lot of praise seemingly on the back on having not chucked any into his own goal last night?

Van Dijk was probably the man of the match, as he has been in virtually every game this season.

[Shindig]

It was one of those matches where doing your job was seen more positively. It was a cagey match. Harry Winks got the big-ups for his passing rate.

[Gray Fox]

Lads.

https://i.gyazo.com/96fda838b48cd79927e065655b9fe06a.jpg

[Smjffy]

Boring final, shit, slow and uninteresting but I ain't even assed. Nice to win something without a heart attack being minute's away but it isn't the same feeling.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Both the finals were lethargic affairs, probably because it's June and footballers should be on the beach by now.

[Kikó]

Wait what?

[SincereTheRebel]

The beauty of watching on hispanic TV is that once all the post-match wankery was done, they showed the Argentine 2nd division final. I didn't catch the start, so I did not know what they were playing for until the commentator mentioned that it was the final, but you could tell within five seconds that it was something important, looking at every single fucker giving it all. Proper football (PASSION, etc.)

Still one of the funniest videos ever


https://youtu.be/854f1UWKiPo

[Manc]

I can't recall a game were the midfield were bypassed as much. Had an international tourno feel to it.

[Mike]

https://i.imgur.com/CsFcywA.jpg

[Baz]

Still wearing their medals. :D

[Kikó]

Why wouldn't you?

Sturridge has now won 2 European cups for two English teams without playing a minute in the final.

[Lewis]

Putting your feet on the trophy like that is a bit scummy.

[Andy]

Selling Coutinho to fund Van Dijk and Allison has to go down as one of the best bits of business ever.

Usually when a club sells a star player for mega money they end up going backwards with the money spent Liverpool really kicked on.

Van Dijk will only get better if Liverpool can get a top class partner for him in the summer. Looking back it's strange no one came in for him sooner, he was fantastic from the moment he made his debut.

[Yevrah]

Putting your feet on the trophy like that is a bit scummy.

That was my first thought.

[SincereTheRebel]

Was Coutinho really there star player though? He was good but he was never the best player at Liverpool. When he was there with Sterling, Suarez and Sturridge, he was fourth best and then Firmino, Salah and Mane outshined him as a four again.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's a mackem who plays for Liverpool...

[Gray Fox]

Captain of the Champions of Europe to you.


I remember being adamant that bringing in Alisson and Van Dijk would not make a difference as I was sure it was a style rather than personnel issue. I'm so happy to be proved wrong.

[Lewis]

I think Alisson gets too much praise for just not being shit, but Virgil van Dijk is immense. Ten years ago you could watch United field all manner of shit across the rest of the pitch, but if just one of the main centre-backs were playing you knew they would be alright. That's what it's like watching him. If he got a nine month injury next week on international duty Liverpool would have to write all of next season off.

[Gray Fox]

He's also finished the season having not been dribbled past once in 64 games. There's no going through him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's also finished the season having not been dribbled past once in 64 games. There's no going through him.

Seems a weird one that because people have pointed out Rashford running past him but technically it doesn't count because Van Dijk didn't attempt to make a tackle.

Easily the best defender in the world right now though.

[Waffdon]

He's also finished the season having not been dribbled past once in 64 games. There's no going through him.

It’s a load of bollocks. No idea what hey base it on. Sane won a penalty off him for one.

[Baz]

A good twitter thread for pics: https://twitter.com/pbear90/status/1135144218874302469?s=21

[John]

The biggest issue with that Henderson picture is the way Lallana is sitting.

[Giggles]

Never seen a minute of it and, like 2005, I never will. It's all immaterial until they win a league anyway. Good cup team again.

[Reg]

I'd give Salah man of the match because a) he scored a penalty in the biggest pressure situation of the game, and b) nobody did anything that was genuinely better than quite good.

One of the worst matches I've seen this season and one of the worst finals ever.

Tottenham's players, if they ever watch that back, will think 'what the hell were we doing?' That's a once in a lifetime chance for most, if not all, of them and they put in the most lethargic performance imaginable.

[Gray Fox]

It didn't help either team that is was in pretty much Madrid summer, 3 weeks after their last competitive games.

Spurs scoring may have woken our attacking side back up, but in truth maybe 3 shots troubled Alisson and we were comfortable otherwise.

[Reg]

Yep, the heat must have made it tougher, but I don't think ~30 degrees is enough of an excuse for such a poor performance.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think they were just scared and didn't want to lose rather than win.

[Mellberg]

That explains the first 22 seconds, but what about the rest?

[Kikó]

The Harry "Can't drop him because he's Wayne Rooney" Kane effect didn't help them much.

[Boydy]

It didn't help either team that is was in pretty much Madrid summer, 3 weeks after their last competitive games.


The commentators kept going on about this but it's not like they've been sat off for three weeks eating pizza and playing playstation.

And surely they were in Spain (or somewhere hot) for at least a week beforehand to acclimatise?

[Spikey M]

The first month of any Premiership campaign is enough evidence to prove that training, and bullshit friendlies, are nothing compared to competitive games. Plus, I reckon you could force me to live in a Sauna for 2 weeks and I'd still struggle to cover 12km in 33 degrees. Even if I wasn't a fat cunt.

[Pepe]

Tottenham were just completely small team about the whole thing. 'Lucky to be here' and everything. How the fuck did they manage to get that far?

[Shindig]

If I remember rightly, Spurs trained in London and then traveled up.

[Mike]

Tottenham were just completely small team about the whole thing. 'Lucky to be here' and everything. How the fuck did they manage to get that far?

I posted about it, turning up in suits like it’s a huge special day out and event for us. Just the next game for Liverpool until the final whistle where we let in what a big game it was.

Worked well
https://i.postimg.cc/fTmFPM92/E66-B949-F-B4-B2-4-DAB-81-D5-DFBA2-BC4628-D.gif

[Ian]

Not even bright white suits, like the sort you might wear for a really big game like an FA Cup final.

[Mike]

The glory days of football. Been downhill since.
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article5869758.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Worst-dressed-Sportsmen.jpg
All that money on suits and couldn’t afford proper cups to drink from.

[Pleb]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48498010

Amazing.

[Lewis]

Speaking of which:


https://i.postimg.cc/fTmFPM92/E66-B949-F-B4-B2-4-DAB-81-D5-DFBA2-BC4628-D.gif

Disgusting Holocaust trolling.

[bruhnaldo]

It really fucks me off Henderson has his feet propped up on the trophy like that if I'm being very honest. I realize that's likely the point of such an exercise but idk man it just really rubs me the wrong way.

[Spikey M]

I really can't imagine caring.

[niko_cee]

The gimpy way he lifted the trophy was worse.

[Manc]

Trophy lift was class you mug.

[Queenslander]

Rumour has it we will be invited to play in the 2020 Copa America.

[Shindig]

That's sounds a bit Eurovision.

[Queenslander]

That's sounds a bit Eurovision.

Poking our noses all over the place.

[Ian]

I know there are invited teams this year. Is this year the first time?

[SincereTheRebel]

I think they had it last time too. Women's world cup starts in a few days. I watched parts of the last one and it was decent. It made me finally understand the hype behind male international football before the 1990s

[Ian]

Apparently in an interview with FourFourTwo Maradona has said he should be the next United manager.

That'd be a laugh.

[Pepe]

I know there are invited teams this year. Is this year the first time?

Nah, they have been doing that shit for a while. For one, Mexico has been invited for decades. I think the US was there a few times too, as well as other NA no-hopers.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I won it with England once on FM, so anything is possible.

[Lewis]

Alright Indoctrin.

[Cheddar]

Never seen a minute of it and, like 2005, I never will. It's all immaterial until they win a league anyway. Good cup team again.

Give me the biggest competition you can win in club football over the league any day.

[Giggles]

Give me the biggest competition you can win in club football over the league any day.

Nah. It's a great achievement and I hate seeing a club like them win it but the Premier League is what they really want.

[Smjffy]

It's the only one an entire generation has yet to witness. Win that dodgy cup in December then those my age will have seen us win everything except the league. Four Champion's League finals, six Europeans finals in 20 years? That's not too shabby.

[igor_balis]

Prem vs champs league is an interesting one and I can't quite figure out which is worth more. I lean towards prem, but that's probably just cus I've been brainwashed by sky and because champions league seems like some intangible abstract concept as a West Brom fan who didn't have BT sport until this season.

I'm not sure if I'm alone, but I basically opted out of caring about it for a few seasons and didn't miss it at all. I remember Atletico lost (?) against Real in a final at some point and Leicester got to the quarters after they won the title (??), whereas I've always been vaguely invested in the league even when my fandom was at its lowest.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think it largely depends on the club.

I'd imagine that the Champions League is more valuable to Man City whereas the league is viewed higher to Liverpool.

[Lewis]

It depends what you're already winning. City would have happily switched places with Liverpool this season.

[Shindig]

When we slipped out of the league picture, Europe became so much more important. Plus it was still exotic in those days.

[niko_cee]

Is the commentary a bit ahead on the Sky coverage of this Portugal game?

[phonics]

It depends on so much, clubs history, it's league position, past form in the competition, quality of the games etc.

If I were to do a Premier League Years of any year we won, it'd be alot of blurs and '3 months later' whereas 13 years later I can still name where I was, what happened, starting XIs etc of that Champions League run in 2006. Those memories make you want it again. Whereas City fans have spent their most successful period, in their history, getting knocked about in Group Stages of Death due to co-efficient or getting beaten by domestic rivals in the quarters so they pretend they don't care about it. You need the narrative to be written before you care enough to be hurt by it not coming true.

Whereas Liverpool have had the domestic title just out of their grasp for longer than a growing majority of their fans have been alive, so that's what they crave.

Chelsea are probably the most interesting case as they seemingly keep winning whatevers going on. When they win they're convinced they're happy with what wins, when they're miserable and want to burn the club to the ground, they win so they just keep on trucking.

[Waffdon]

Kiko isn’t too happy about the English fans kicking off again.

[phonics]

Kiko isn’t too happy about the English fans kicking off again.

My Twitter did the reversal back to 'Top Tweets' and the first thing on there was @Kiko calling them a cretin. The algorithm has a way to go.

[Giggles]

That's some load of bollocks. Show him a video and he still hasn't a clue.

[niko_cee]

lol at that penalty decision.

VAR's here to sort out these contentious issues boys. Erm.

Meanwhile, in North Africa . . .

[Giggles]

Why are England fans in Portugal when Portugal are playing Switzerland?

[Disco]

Because they're playing Holland tomorrow.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We're playing Holland there tomorrow.

[Giggles]

If there's still a Porto left.

[niko_cee]

We're playing in Guimares I think, if that's a place in its own right.

[Waffdon]

My Twitter did the reversal back to 'Top Tweets' and the first thing on there was @Kiko calling them a cretin. The algorithm has a way to go.

Same as mines the last few days. He’s FUMING.

[phonics]

Same as mines the last few days. He’s FUMING.

Press the little star thing at the top to turn it back to normal.

[phonics]

We're playing in Guimares I think, if that's a place in its own right.

If they aren't that stadium carved in the side of a cliff face, does it really matter?

https://image.redbull.com/rbcom/052/2016-01-05/6a55ada7ae402b8ad022a9c6ca18a4ee/0100/0/1/braga-stadium-gettyimages-50974541.jpg

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

2-1 Ronaldo doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol.

[Giggles]

2-1 Ronaldo doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Make it 3 :cool:

[randomlegend]

Fucking Ronaldo. He's just unreal.

[Lewis]

He's not actually slowing down, is he? Okay, he needs ten games off a season; but he's thirty-five next year. He could be leading Juventus in that chump league for another five years.

[Baz]

Still couldn’t outscore the Quag man in the league this season. :harold:

[phonics]

Still couldn’t outscore the Quag man in the league this season. :harold:

Wasn’t he banned for the beginning of the season or was that just the CL?

Had a peek and he played 31 games. Tbh, It’s a testament to the mans career that scoring 21 goals in a new league gets a :Harold:

[phonics]

He's not actually slowing down, is he? Okay, he needs ten games off a season; but he's thirty-five next year. He could be leading Juventus in that chump league for another five years.

Every muscle in his body looks like it’s a millimetre from tearing apart but it never does. When he retires he should be killed and studied for medical science. I'm sure whatever Reals definitely above board doctors put in him helped but it can't be all gas.

[niko_cee]

Neymar injured and out of the Copa. He's a modern day Faust.

[SincereTheRebel]

Will the brazilian starting eleven, hold up a shirt in his honor at the start of games again?

[Jimmy Floyd]

He is why South American teams always lose. Star worship is in their blood in a way it just isn't in Europe. Brazil will probably win it without him.

[phonics]

Star worship is in their blood in a way it just isn't in Europe.


Lol fuck the fuck off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It is. All this 'number ten' shite. Do some reading or just genersl observation.

[phonics]

Yeah no-one does star worship over here. Just absolute nonsense informed by your weird penchant for national stereotypes.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Not in the same way. In South American football they start with the diez and build around them. There's a reason they all shat the bed when Neymar got injured in 2014, they are culturally and emotionally rooted to this concept.

Star worship over here is opportunistic and circumstancial, rather than structural.

None of the great German/Italian/Spanish teams of the past or present have had an Anointed One at their heart. France have more of a tradition of it with Platini, Zidane and I suppose Pogba.

[Spoonsky]

The Portuguese get star worship as fuck with Ronaldo. Not that you’d blame them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Portuguese do it with wingers, oddly. Poor old Rui Costa.

[SincereTheRebel]

Dealing with that rape charge is too much for any man.

[Smjffy]

The rape accusations make me feel uncomfortable because you actually have no clue which side is telling the truth. I couldn't imagine Ronaldo for example needing to rape someone but equally I can't imagine he's been spurned too often and would see it as a slant.

[igor_balis]

Jim's definitely got a point.

[bruhnaldo]

Great, now I have to go back to page 3 to remember what his point was.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's true of all my posts so you don't need to worry.

[Pepe]

Didn't England play Rooney until he was on a wheelchair, even turning him into a 'number 10'?

[Giggles]

Better than when Man Utd tried to turn him into a '4'.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That midfield 3 is special.

[Pepe]

I thought 3s were fullbacks.

[Giggles]

Aaron Connolly is such a tidy player.

[Pleb]

Why is Delph in the starting 11? :cab:

[Giggles]

Ricey belting out the anthem :cool:

[Mellberg]

We're losing this in central midfield. Not strong enough.

[Pleb]

What a MELTDOWN

[Disco]

De Ligt my balls.

[Pleb]

Well that was a shit penalty.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rashford is a pretty decent penalty taker.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Well that was a shit penalty.

:cab:

He tucked it nicely in the corner sending Silly Son the wrong way.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

De Ligt is having a mare.

[Pleb]

If we're not careful we're going to lose this in the midfield (that is if we have one).

[randomlegend]

Sancho is fantastic, he's going to be a star.

Barkley and Maguire are both dreadful. If we end up panic buying Maguire for £70m I think I'll be sick.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why do England (and Everton) still persist with Pickford?

He's fucking horrific.

[Pleb]

Because he's our only number 1.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dumfries is amazing.

[bruhnaldo]

Do you guys actually care about this or is it just a "what else am I gonna do?" type of thing?

For example when we do the Gold Cup I really couldn't be bothered whatsoever.

[randomlegend]

How does a Dutchman end up with a name like Dumfries though?

[randomlegend]

Do you guys actually care about this or is it just a "what else am I gonna do?" type of thing?

For example when we do the Gold Cup I really couldn't be bothered whatsoever.

The teams seem to care which makes it pretty watchable.

[John]

How does a Dutchman end up with a name like Dumfries though?

By being from a Dutch colony in the Caribbean.

[Mellberg]

Do you guys actually care about this or is it just a "what else am I gonna do?" type of thing?

For example when we do the Gold Cup I really couldn't be bothered whatsoever.

I'm watching it at home, which you'd never catch me doing for any other England/Villa semi final, but I was bothered for the penalty and I was definitely bothered during the group stages.

[SincereTheRebel]

By being from a Dutch colony in the Caribbean.

At least come correct. Replace the word colony with slave for a more accurate explanation

[Giggles]

Don't go there, they don't like that talk.

[niko_cee]

At least the Dutch rightback can look forward to a witty banter show with Gorgeous George if this whole football thing doesn't pan out for him.

[Pleb]

Thought Kane was injured :|

[mugbull]

Don't go there, they don't like that talk.

Your victim mentality is creeping back in

[niko_cee]

They should change the rule about touching the ball in your own area from a goalkick to make it an indirect freekick or something. In the modern age of fannying about at the back it's an easy way to diffuse a dangerous situation when your pillock 'keeper drops you in it.

[Pleb]

Depay :D

[randomlegend]

They should change the rule about touching the ball in your own area from a goalkick to make it an indirect freekick or something. In the modern age of fannying about at the back it's an easy way to diffuse a dangerous situation when your pillock 'keeper drops you in it.

They are removing the rule entirely. Ball can be played within your own box from next season.

[Mellberg]

Will change football as we know it, that one.

[randomlegend]

De Jong is a joy to watch.

[Lewis]

De Ligt is having a mare.

Head's already at Old Trafford. :cool:

[Giggles]

Your victim mentality is creeping back in

Sorry Winston.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

John Stones is a shambles.

[Pleb]

De Ligt my balls.
:drool:

[Lewis]

Remember when Phil Jones was a properly shit-hot nineteen year old?

[randomlegend]

I reckon Pickford has an IQ of about 70.

[Mellberg]

Mandzukic warming up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Messi Lingard does it again.

[Pleb]

What scenes.

VAR!!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol.

[Pleb]

Amazing.

[Pleb]

:D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

John Stones :lol:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Any legitimacy this tournament had was lost when I realised that in the choral bookends on TV, they are actually singing: 'The Naaaaaaaaations Leeeeeaaague.'

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Does Johns Tones even know how to mark at corners?

He's been beaten every single time.

[Lewis]

Gareth Southgate responds with his trademarked standing there looking like a gorm.

[randomlegend]

To give Pickford his dues he's made two amazing saves there.

[Mellberg]

I'd be subbing Stones at this stage. Just because he's a centre half doesn't make him exempt from the hook.

[randomlegend]

Johns Tones


Sounds like how deaf Harry would pronounce it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

To give Pickford his dues he's made two amazing saves there.

And he would have made a third to stop the goal if Walker hadn't monged his way into the picture.

[Pleb]

Pickford has been a bit suspect at times.

The rest of the squad needs shooting.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Look at Southgate with his arm round Stones.

[niko_cee]

Playing it out from the back with Stones, Caveman Harry and Walker is definitely a winning formula, particularly when there's no one to pass it to.

I was going to say £60m+ for De Ligt is a fairly unnecessary gamble for anyone to take, but then, what did City pay for Stones?

I missed the beginning of the second half, was there a reason cancer Kane came on for Rashford? Bit sad for Lingard having that one ruled out. He's generally not very good, but he's an awesome finisher. Took it brilliantly.

[randomlegend]

Rashford took a knock.

I agree with someone on Reddit that the offside rule needs reviewing now VAR is a thing. It was designed to stop goal-hanging, not to rule out goals where the attackers toe is a cm ahead of the defender

[mugbull]

Rashford took a knock.

I agree with someone on Reddit that the offside rule needs reviewing now VAR is a thing. It was designed to stop goal-hanging, not to rule out goals where the attackers toe is a cm ahead of the defender

And how would you change it?

[randomlegend]

I've heard Chilwell is really highly rated and on City's radar. He looks like a complete retard. Brainless pace merchant.

[randomlegend]

Idk really, wasn't it a thing for a while that there had to be daylight between them? I don't think that'd be an unreasonable change to be honest.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Great way to end it.

[Pleb]

The MELTDOWN is real.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Idk really, wasn't it a thing for a while that there had to be daylight between them? I don't think that'd be an unreasonable change to be honest.

I think it was just something people said rather than being the law.

[Lewis]

Everton.

[Waffdon]

Hahahahaha

[niko_cee]

And how would you change it?

Daylight!

Obviously there are margins on whatever line you draw, so there's not much point. If you wanted to go mad you could go hockey style and only have it in the final third or something (rather than the opposing half).

[randomlegend]

Barkley looks like a fan who won a competition to play a game for England. He's AWFUL.

[Pepe]

I have never heard of that 'daylight' shite, so I assume that it is something that your media made up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Everyone bang up for the third place playoff against Switzerland?

[niko_cee]

I look forward to the hand-wringing about how shit we are again, there aren't any age groups for us to win coming up are there? (I know there is)

Quite like this Dutch team. They're a bit of a ragtag bunch, to say the least. Ryan Babel still getting a game.

Donny van der Beek or whatever his name is looks like a blonde Denny Landzaat regen. Same weirdly flat face.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I have never heard of that 'daylight' shite, so I assume that it is something that your media made up.

As if your TV pundits don't just sit there going 'Luche del día, hombre' and pull another cigar from their sombreros. Would still be a better level of discourse than ours.

[Manc]

Angry on a Thursday night. :moop:

Rated the performances of Chilwell and Rice. Waker needs to fuck off forever. Arrogant cunt.

[Kikó]

Hopefully all the English plebs fuck off away from Porto for Sunday.

[Manc]

The offside was a fucking joke to boot. Through balls will become non existent.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The offside was a fucking joke to boot. Through balls will become non existent.

Because if it happened the other way you wouldn't have thanked VAR for the correct decision...

[Pepe]

As if your TV pundits don't just sit there going 'Luche del día, hombre' and pull another cigar from their sombreros. Would still be a better level of discourse than ours.

Shouting and cringeworthy banter for 90 minutes.

[igor_balis]

im glad all 3 of the ex pros are absolutely no selling the "PLAY IT LONG!!" narrative the host is trying to push on behalf of the imagined plebs at home. carragher spot on that it isn't a problem of playing out of the back and it's just stones shitting his pants.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Martin Tyler was having a bit of a meltdown with the playing it out from the back stuff. I like to imagine him on the Woking bench shouting AWAAAAAYYY for 90 minutes.

[randomlegend]

"If in dooot, kick it ooooot"

[Manc]

Because if it happened the other way you wouldn't have thanked VAR for the correct decision...

Dutch cunt.

[Pleb]

If we're not careful we're going to lose this in the midfield (that is if we have one).
:chief:

[randomlegend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeoIxqTWfK0

Daniel James is actually unbelievably fast.

[SincereTheRebel]

Merking the championship means little. I watched Adama literally run circles around players like he was on the school playground. There is more hope for James though. He cant have less of an end product that Adama. That would be impossible.

[SincereTheRebel]

Also the new barcelona dutch player. (de roon?)His disguised reverse balls last night where crazy.

[Danny]

De Jong is the new Barcelona one.

[Bam]

Hopefully all the English plebs fuck off away from Porto for Sunday.

For someone who used take an interest in this shite, even getting matey for a few informal beers and the odd away day with the fake hoolie Manc Sean, this seems a bit odd.


Anyway they'll all probably fuck off back to Manchester now.

[Kikó]

It's incredible how much you can't get wrong in such a small amount of words. My problem is with the small minded knobs who follow England and hark back to ww2 and IRA songs. Portugal is a great place for a football away and could be enjoyed without the complete helmets behaving like they are.

[Giggles]

Welcome to Brexit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm starting to think we need a little holiday from European/international football again. Five more years should do it.

[niko_cee]

Such is the balance of power and money now that is never going to happen, certainly not at club level.

[Ian]

Coventry ground-sharing with Birmingham because the owners can't sort out a disagreement over the stadium with a rugby club from London.

So for the second time SISU are having to have them play in other places.

What a shambles.

[Giggles]

Sick to the teeth of the Danes and I can't see that changing tonight.

[Giggles]

Shane Duffy is a beast of a man.

[John Arne]

Vietnam v Curacao in the King's Cup Final...live!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHLH4exhB4

First time since 2011 that Vietnam have played a team from outside Asia. Mozambique, previously.