June: Boring, modern-day football to resume

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pulisic is class, made the difference against the Villa too.

As if you all doubted the signing this time last year.

[Mike]

@Liverpool fans do you prefer City drop points today or no?

Personally I hate it when teams win the league because their opponents dropped points, and it would be great to win it against them next week.

I’d rather we won it playing, however City having to do a guard of honour would be funny too.

[Smjffy]

:drool:

I'll take today, Spoon. We've waited long enough.

We're now as good as Leicester and Blackburn. :cool: Shit way to finally end the wait but it could have been worse. A null and void season for example would have been too much.

[Don]

Mendy and Aurier really set back BLM's work.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's lovely.

[Smjffy]

He has no equal in the division. Nice.

[Don]

Mon you sherbert looking bastards. Least make that next game a tasty 90 minutes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chelsea are on the ropes.

[Don]

BT are fucking on fire today. Hoddle and Macca obviously consistently top class but old matey boy has come out with these two so far:

"Pep has gone for his summer look which we were all expecting"

[On KDB's goal] "It had a bit of David Luiz about it"

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a clearance that was.

[Waffdon]

That’s as bad as Mount’s. Why’s he just passed it :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Finishing 6 composure 4, love you Chels.

[Don]

The prozzie lover has done fucking well there tbf, ain't no chance you're thinking anyone is getting back for that hence the tapped finish.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was handball for sure.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That should be a penalty goal. Proper joke that rule hasn't come in yet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

How can it take that long for something that obvious?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Right, here comes our oh-so-mature game management phase.

[Don]

Please get 2 late ones now just so I can see those cunts at Anfield weep.

[Spoonsky]

Amazing the number of memes that will die with this Liverpool title.

[Mike]

Said in August this was our year.
https://i.postimg.cc/y60YH4Ms/13-E960-C3-E554-470-D-9-F47-F5-BD7481-E1-DC.gif

[Lewis]

At least it's just memes.

[Spoonsky]

:rave:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Here's to another 30 years.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Right, off all media on the final whistle to avoid scousegeddon.

That was such a huge win for us.

[niko_cee]

A bad night for Manchester.

Get Willian signed up if he's leaving Chelsea.

[Raoul Duke]

Plague, pestilince, war, Liverpool winning the title. That's the full set, correct?

[Pleb]

Jimmy's lot trolling.

Leicester now Liverpool. What a club.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm trying to think what the longest running drought left in sport is. England's major trophies hardly counts. The Guttmann Curse?

[Don]

What the fuck is going on, BT are showing and promoting crowds to gather at Anfield during the game ("can see fans are ready to mingle") and BBC News are talking about "fans heading down to begin the party"). Bruv, open the fucking pubs tomorrow.

[niko_cee]

I'm trying to think what the longest running drought left in sport is. England's major trophies hardly counts. The Guttmann Curse?

Lee Westwood.

[ScousePig]

Said in August this was our year.
https://i.postimg.cc/y60YH4Ms/13-E960-C3-E554-470-D-9-F47-F5-BD7481-E1-DC.gif

:cool:

[Kikó]

Best way if there was one for Liverpool to win the league. Glorified post season friendlies that no one can celebrate for on a night when they're not playing.

Onto next season when hopefully a few teams can be beyond shit.

[Smjffy]

:joy:

I can't wipe the smile from my face. So happy! ARGHH!

[Shindig]

They deserve it but them not being unbeaten takes the shine off. They're the kind of team that should've done an invincible / treble or whatever.

[randomlegend]

What the fuck is going on, BT are showing and promoting crowds to gather at Anfield during the game ("can see fans are ready to mingle") and BBC News are talking about "fans heading down to begin the party"). Bruv, open the fucking pubs tomorrow.

Trying to get rid of a few Scousers.

[Pleb]

England World Champions when?

[niko_cee]

https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?247-Klopp-confirmed-at-Liverpool

Memories.

[Mike]

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[Smjffy]

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[Ian]

Willian: Liverpool's greatest legend. :drool:

[niko_cee]

He's certainly played the long game on that one.

[Baz]

:youpi:

[Smjffy]

1276269049836638208?s=20

:D Awesome

[Waffdon]

I’ve had to mute the ‘Liverpool’ on Twitter. It’s a much better place.

[Yevrah]

Football 'rivalry banter' must be the worst thing ever.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Posting 442oons should result in a ban.

[thommo]

Can we ban Smiffy for a few days if this is the sort of content we will continuously get?

[Smjffy]

Let's just go old school.

FUCK YOU THOMMO, I'M LEAVING!

[Lewis]

City are on course for about eighty points. That is absolutely shit.

[phonics]

City are on course for about eighty points. That is absolutely shit.

People try to analytics football to death and then you see City drop 20 points compared to the season their best player played 3 games all year.

[Don]

As Hansen said, you don't win anything with shitcunts in place of CBs.

[Lewis]

With the benefit of hindsight they completely screwed the summer up. Rodri is crap, David Silva is done, Ederson has been exposed as an absolute pudding, and they've got one good defender (who is injured) to show for spending a billion quid. The core of the ridiculous City side was already there, 'Pep' initially supplemented it well and got his coaching spot on, as he tends to do, but then the old bollocks transfers and shitting about with the system comes into play like when he naused up the best team in Europe trying to fit 'Alexis' and Cesc Fabregas in for fuck knows why.

[-james-]

The Laporte injury ruined their season. Daft as fuck not having a backup in place. It's as simple as that. City at their best are still a level above Liverpool.

[Lewis]

In the medium to long-term City are in the unfortunate position of not having many certified binmen to take over once 'Pep' pulls the ripcord. Vincent Kompany is the best bet, but beyond that they're struggling. They seem to have called time on weirdly trying to get Patrick Vieira over as a significant City figure, so maybe that Chinese investment comes with Sun Jihai attached. If not then Uwe Rosler is next in line.

[Smjffy]

In the medium to long-term City are in the unfortunate position of not having many certified binmen to take over once 'Pep' pulls the ripcord. Vincent Kompany is the best bet, but beyond that they're struggling. They seem to have called time on weirdly trying to get Patrick Vieira over as a significant City figure, so maybe that Chinese investment comes with Sun Jihai attached. If not then Uwe Rosler is next in line.

Shaun Goater.

[Mellberg]

RIP The Graph. Many a good year.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Vincent Kompany managed to come 8th in the Hercule Poirot Superleague this year. A sterling effort.

[Smjffy]

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Funny.

[Don]

Yeah, let's ban him for a week.

[Lewis]

Shaun Goater.

I'm controlling for racism, and it's one thing appointing a slick European black man with an English wife and a few languages in his locker. The Arabs would sooner put a Jewish lezzer in charge than someone who looks and sounds like Shaun Goater.

[niko_cee]

The Laporte injury ruined their season. Daft as fuck not having a backup in place. It's as simple as that. City at their best are still a level above Liverpool.

Maybe in squad terms, but not in starting XI terms. Their defence is absolute gack, they need to go and sign Koulibaly, in addition to the £100m they'll waste on useless fullbacks, which they also need as Mendy is hopelessly error-prone and Zinchenko is pretty average at best. That Liverpool have had something like 8 players feature in 27+ league games (Van Dijk has played all of them) and one of those 8 isn't Alisson is telling and also interesting from the perspective of Klopp getting grief in his early time at Liverpool due to the number of injuries his style of football was blamed for.

I do dislike all the talk of dynsasties. It's such a media infatuation when anyone or anything does something (reasonably) novel. I remember when Hamilton won his first F1 title and all the op ed pieces had him as sports first billionaire (maybe first British/Black billionaire as I guess some of the yanks might have already had that sewn up - Woods, Jordan etc) on the back of 15 consecutive world titles. Took him years to get his second. City will be back in the mix again next season with a couple of signings.

[Ian]

Are they going to sign Koulibali or anybody like that? Pep is firmly in the "What if everything was centre-mids?" stage of his tenure, presumably.

But the sort of wanks who hate football and thought his teams passing it 2 yards for 88% posession was entertaining will still wank themselves into a froth over what a genius he is.

[niko_cee]

Someone's going to buy him and they've been linked, and desperately need him, and are probably one of the few teams who could face down Di Laurentis' price demands.

[Lofty]

Imagine the seethe if we had crowds for these games and rival supporters sang 'you furloughed your staff, we'll never forget' during their guard of honour.

[Kikó]

city have got a pretty huge rebuild job with the loss of their core players that made them successful - Fernandinho (moved to cb?!), Aguero (maybe one more season), Silva, Kompany (already departed). Maybe a fit Laporte will remove the exaggeration but the guys around him are pretty average.

Liverpool could win it for a couple of seasons at least as the rest are still pretty average.

[Shindig]

I do dislike all the talk of dynsasties. It's such a media infatuation when anyone or anything does something (reasonably) novel. I remember when Hamilton won his first F1 title and all the op ed pieces had him as sports first billionaire (maybe first British/Black billionaire as I guess some of the yanks might have already had that sewn up - Woods, Jordan etc) on the back of 15 consecutive world titles. Took him years to get his second. City will be back in the mix again next season with a couple of signings.

I dunno, there's already been a sense of sustained success under Klopp. Even without the four trophies he's won, they had two European finals, a league cup final and a league runners up spot. In the space of 5 years.

[Ian]

Once tackling Sir Daniel Rashford is officially outlawed we'll smash it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I have to say, I was somewhat surprised City fielded Martin Luther King up front against us yesterday, played about as well as you'd expect.

[niko_cee]

If Van Dijk were to get a serious injury Liverpool could easily slip back to where City are now. Whether City can be better than that next season I don't know.

I think you overstate the scope of the rebuild, simply having a top class centreback (and one is available) to play alongside Laporte improves them immeasurably. I suppose it'll be interesting to see what happens with their appeal as I guess a 2 year CL ban would be more of a stumbling block to signing a 29 year old than it would a 22 year old (from the player's perspective).

I saw Liverpool linked with a €60m bid for Koulibaly (that being the amount their president said he wouldn't get out of bed for), can't see it happening but it'd be amazing. That'd be an all-time great back 5. Fuck the Afcon.

[SincereTheRebel]

I dunno, there's already been a sense of sustained success under Klopp. Even without the four trophies he's won, they had two European finals, a league cup final and a league runners up spot. In the space of 5 years.

They had three euro finals didnt they, the lost one to sevilla. Was klopp in charge for that?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Liverpool's success is built entirely on van Dijk, Robertson and Alexander Armstrong (and, I suppose, Alison). The rest are talented accessories.

[Baz]

Liverpool's success is built entirely on van Dijk, Robertson and Alexander Armstrong (and, I suppose, Alison). The rest are talented accessories.

Fuck that noise.

[Kikó]

If Van Dijk were to get a serious injury Liverpool could easily slip back to where City are now. Whether City can be better than that next season I don't know.

I think you overstate the scope of the rebuild, simply having a top class centreback (and one is available) to play alongside Laporte improves them immeasurably. I suppose it'll be interesting to see what happens with their appeal as I guess a 2 year CL ban would be more of a stumbling block to signing a 29 year old than it would a 22 year old (from the player's perspective).

I saw Liverpool linked with a €60m bid for Koulibaly (that being the amount their president said he wouldn't get out of bed for), can't see it happening but it'd be amazing. That'd be an all-time great back 5. Fuck the Afcon.

If Liverpool suffer some key injuries yes maybe. Pressure could also play a part next season as the expectation is for them to win again.

Problem with city is their manager is a bit Wenger when it comes to defenders.

[Giggles]

Liverpool's success is built entirely on van Dijk, Robertson and Alexander Armstrong (and, I suppose, Alison). The rest are talented accessories.

Mane is their most important player after van Dijk.

[Don]

The full backs can be Aurier and Mendy, it's VVD and Alison that allow for that. On the other end, Bobby is special for the big games but the other two get us past the shit that is more important.

[John Arne]

We were lucky really.
Our whole success is built entirely on Alisson, Robertson, VVD, Trent, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Firmino, Salah and Mane.
Without them, we'd be nowhere.

Also, very underwhelming way to win it.

[Kikó]

Who said you were lucky?

[Manc]

We?

[John Arne]

Who said you were lucky?

I did.

City not turning up, other big teams not having a decent season. Can't see us winning the title 7 games early normally.

[John Arne]

We?

Liverpool.

[Giggles]

This country is obsessed with Liverpool and now there’ll be a new breed. Even the dreary evening TV crap (our version of the One Show) has talked about them for the last 10 minutes.

[Giggles]

They’re wheeling out the Sean Cox pictures now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I was listening to the radio earlier and a Liverpool fan said "this will shut Man United fans up". Bless.

[Luca]

Living rent free and all that.

[niko_cee]

Can we reallocate that somehow about thing now as well?

[Lewis]

They’re wheeling out the Sean Cox pictures now.

Anything on that Bulgarian who headbutted a rock?

[Spikey M]

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[Shindig]

First response to that is proof it's been faked.

[Spikey M]

:(

[Manc]

A win for Brentford tonight might initiate the Bielsa bottle job.

[Pen]

For all the lolling at the Henderson transfer we (well the vast majority at least) did at the time, he really has been quite good for them. A deserved title, but at the same time I take great pleasure it came in the way it did. City to win the CL to make this the worts season ever.

[Shindig]

You know how John Terry was lambasted for full kit and celebrating when he wasn't even named in the squad? James Milner and Andy Robertson did the same but they didn't even have a game on. I feel that's worse.

[niko_cee]

John Terry's just an awful, awful human though.

The merchandise people were on it pretty sharpish last night. Think it took about 5 seconds for the 'champions' range to go live on the website and for the players to be kitted out in it.

[Shindig]

To be fair, they've had it sitting in a warehouse for 6 months.

[Spikey M]

To be fair, they've had it sitting in a warehouse for 6 months.

3 years.

[Manc]

30*

[Waffdon]

Liverpool fans trying to set fire to the most prestigious building in their City because it has blue lights is a laugh

[SincereTheRebel]

Villa are so shit. Its just greilish dribbling the ball for 15 seconds while the other villa players stand and watch.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://streamja.com/ZJwJw

Not a bad first goal for Cuisance.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://streamable.com/9nwyfb

This goal > Xabi Alonso's halfway effort(s)

[Bob Sacamano]

Steve Mclaren has been oddly entertaining on the Leeds/Fulham game

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd be more than happy for us to buy Ighalo.

[Luca]

He certainly knows how to bag in a scrappy goal. I’d be happy if he takes a significant pay cut.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Do Cubans still have to defect to play sport abroad? They seem to have to in baseball but that might just be America.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol at that goal-line clearance.

[Waffdon]

Do they not check for offside at all for red cards at all? He might have been on but it looked close. Didn’t even bother looking

[Giggles]

Has the Bundesliga finished Sir Andy Mahowry?

[Lewis]

It feels like without the crowd noise to go off the commentators are talking more bollocks than usual. United should just do what peak Barcelona did with corners and re-circulate the possession because I don't think I'll ever see them score from one again.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Has the Bundesliga finished Sir Andy Mahowry?

It has but I'll be sure to find another league to talk about just for you.

[mugbull]

It has but I'll be sure to find another league to talk about just for you.
Werder Bremen - Heidenheim relegation play offs watch party??

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Werder Bremen - Heidenheim relegation play offs watch party??

Absolutely.

Little annoyed that Werder escaped as I liked Fortuna Dusseldorf.

Fuck knows how Bremen did what they did today.

[Manc]

Penalties should be interesting with Krul and Romero.

[Waffdon]

Fernandes has been horrific

[mugbull]

Absolutely.

Little annoyed that Werder escaped as I liked Fortuna Dusseldorf.

Fuck knows how Bremen did what they did today.

Bremen have got an alright team. Rashica alone is good enough to keep them up

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That ball by Pogba was lovely.

[Manc]

V annoying.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bremen have got an alright team. Rashica alone is good enough to keep them up

They do but they had scored 2 goals in their previous 11 home games. Scoring 6 today was pretty mad.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Team that needs to win vs team that doesn't care on the last day is only ever going one way, regardless of form.

[Manc]

Tell that to Dusseldorf.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They didn't (necessarily) need to win, Werder Bremen it was shit or bust.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dusseldorf would have been playing for a draw as they'd have known that Bremen would have had to win by at least 4 goals.

[Waffdon]

Dundee United is about to appoint Malky McKay as the manager is absolutely tremendous. You’d think he was only caught sending the texts last week and hadn’t been employed by the SFA for four years.

[Lofty]

Dodgy pen :D

[John Arne]

There appears to have been a clear back-pass from Sheff Utd, but for some reason, no replays have been shown yet.

[mugbull]

There appears to have been a clear back-pass from Sheff Utd, but for some reason, no replays have been shown yet.

George Soros!!!

[Lewis]

Sheffield United having their second season collapse within the same season is probably Taz's fault.

[Lofty]

Arsenal defending more contagious than Coronavirus.

[niko_cee]

De Gea would get crucified for conceding that Arsenal goal at the end there. What's the 'keeper thinking?

[randomlegend]

Think he tried to be proactive and close the player down since none of the defenders seemed interested in doing it but it was very rash.

[Bob Sacamano]

The bottle job Hamburg have put in is quite something

[Waffdon]

Gilmour is having an absolute mare :D

Should really be switching positions with Kante though.

[Waffdon]

Jorginho must be on his way out. Hasn’t seen a sniff of play.

[Giggles]

Ben Foster won’t want to see that back. Though looking back Ings probably deserves more credit than Foster deserves criticism.

[Waffdon]

Danny Ings is class.

Ross Barkley would be too if he had half a brain. Has great positional awareness but I don’t think he’s ever made a correct decision if he’s got more than one second to think

[John]

That's some finish from Bednarek.

[Giggles]

That’s a cracker.

[John]

And that's a blinder from Ward Prowse.

[Shindig]

Who's the last player to win and manage at the same club to win the FA Cup?

Also, good job BBC. Make me feel depressed before a ball is kicked. :(

[niko_cee]

Probably one of the Chelsea foreign legion, someone like Vialli or Gullit? If you mean win as player and then manager, but then does being player-manager count for that? Martinez at Wigan?

[Giggles]

George Graham?

[Shindig]

15 men have won the tournament both as a player and as a manager: John Cameron as player-manager in 1901, Peter McWilliam, Billy Walker, Jimmy Seed, Matt Busby, Stan Seymour, Joe Smith, Bill Shankly, Joe Mercer, Don Revie, Bob Stokoe, Kenny Dalglish, Bobby Gould, Terry Venables, George Graham and Gianluca Vialli.

Vialli's the last one.

[Don]

That free-kick for Newcastle...City have a small 2-man wall and their usual high line but leave a massive gap straight through the middle as they focus their men where the cross is going to be aimed at. Newcastle need to have ASM as one of the takers and for his partner to just tap it to him and allow him a free run straight at the City defence.

[John]

Almost half an hour in and Newcastle have completed fifteen passes. :D

[Shindig]

Well, that's that.

[Manc]

Nice of Newcastle to make a game of it.

[Vercetti]

"It's like playing football in a washing machine."

Erm, yeah, Martin.

[Don]

His attempts at drawing chess analogies was peak.

"You could say the full-backs are rooks and this man (KDB), is he the king or the queen?"

Between him, Micah and Shearer, there must be about 20 brain cells that managed to survive the excessive headers.

[John]

Lineker's Cher joke was the worst of the lot.

[Manc]

Of course Shearer sees the takeover as good news. Bald cunt.

[Spikey M]

Lineker's Cher joke was the worst of the lot.

Care to Cher it? :baz:

[Gray Fox]

Only just got properly back online since the title win.

When we're allowed the bus parade it's going to be something :p

[John]

Care to Cher it? :baz:

'If Schär had the chance I think he'd turn back time on this.'

[Spikey M]

Wheeeeey

[John]

Had they not taken off Saint Maximin just now I'd suspect Newcastle were going for some sort of record for most preposterous haircuts on the park at one time.

[Shindig]

Well, there's always next year. I'll be saying that again after a 3rd round exit to Tranmere in January.

[Waffdon]

Atalanta at it again :cool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Non-Chelsea fans haven't cottoned on yet but Frank Lampard is proving himself to be a fantastic manager. On the outside they're looking for wanky tactics truck shit and philosophies mate - and can't get over the fact that he's English - but we haven't had a manager so able to say bollocks to this and positively impact the course of a game for as long as I can remember. We were abject first half today and he won us the game by being far more proactive about changing that (and admitting that the first selection didn't work) than 95% of managers would have been. Great to have him in charge.

[Lewis]

Super Frankie Binman.

[Shindig]

Avram Frank.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Super Frankie Binman.

He is the king of binmen. Just need him to get Didier, Paulo Ferreira etc back involved and we could go back to auto-piloting our way to European finals. As well as him and Jody Morris, we've also got Hilario, Newton (low key trophy winning killer don), and Ashley Cole is coaching the under 15s.

[Lewis]

King of the Binmen sounds like more of a ceremonial role, and United's binman has the superior binman credentials there.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Depends which of Molde or Derby is the cushier gig. Frank had more gifted loan players from the mother ship, so I'd say his was.

[Shindig]

Crown him with a dustbin lid. And adorn the ceremonial bin bag. In all seriousness, I think Ole is King Binman. He doesn't give off the impression he thinks he knows what he's doing.

[Lewis]

Super Frankie Binman is higher up his respective club legend list, but Ole Gunnar Binman has a much, much stronger cultural claim to the crown. There is all the obvious 1999, 'Class of 92', Roy Keane, just enough exposure to Ronaldo to be able to tell stories about his professionalism shite; but most importantly he only played for one manager, so everything he does can be compared with and traced back to 'The Manager'. Super Frankie Binman, what's he doing here? Did he learn this from Jose Mourinho? Is this Big Phil and his Big Tactics? This looks a bit 'AVB' to me... His lineage is all over the place.

[Boydy]

Isn't Lampard actually pretty intelligent (for a footballer)?

[Raoul Duke]

Frank has the potential to be FUTURE ENGLAND MANAGER which adds to his bin man allure (with JT as assistant, obvs)

[Jimmy Floyd]

Isn't Lampard actually pretty intelligent (for a footballer)?

Privately educated, natch. One of about 5 footballers (as of whenever I heard this stat a few years ago) who was.

Patrick Bamford is another.

[Shindig]

Actually, I thought of Ultimate Binman. Tim Sherwood. By miles.

[Kikó]

Lampard's doing pretty well. Him and Ole are the next gen of binmen.

[thommo]

Honestly can see Fulham slipping out of the playoff positions the way we're playing. Added to the fact that Mitrovic is probably going to get a ban, we've still got some tough fixtures left and don't look at all clinical in front of goal.

Steve McClaren was a proper cunt on commentary at the weekend though, felt like I was watching Leeds TV.

[mo]

Privately educated, natch. One of about 5 footballers (as of whenever I heard this stat a few years ago) who was.

Patrick Bamford is another.

Ooh ooh I can add to this - Michael Doughty. A Harrow man I believe. And fucking minted.

[niko_cee]

The League 2 play-off final sounds like it should be a rugby union match.

[phonics]

I was looking up that Darius Vassell taking a power drill to a blister story and got a bunch of "top 20 footballer injuries" and just seen this one:

Milan Rapaic - The former Croatia attacker was waiting for a flight in July 1995 when he poked himself in his eye with his own boarding card. Inexplicable, you might think, but Rapaic sat out a gruelling pre-season trip as a result.

Imagine being so lazy that you put a piece of cardbaord in your eye to avoid a friendly.

[mo]

Feeling quite smug that I predicted a Northampton win and was right, but a bit miffed I didn't put any money on. Exeter struggled through the two legs and Northampton having turned around a 2-0 deficit showed they had the mentality.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/29/groundbreaking-report-reveals-racial-bias-in-english-football-commentary

I'm in bits here. So much to say :D

[Lewis]

I was thinking you could use Football Manager to prove whether it was true, so lol when I got to the skin tone bit.

[SincereTheRebel]

Those light skin drones

[Jimmy Floyd]

Every footballer in the world apart from about ten can be criticised for 'poor decision-making', as it's a game played almost entirely on autopilot.

[Don]

They're fucking falling over themselves to get out the heralded "WE MUST DO BETTER". Are we gonna have some Rooney rule brought in for playmakers even though the Crystal Palace dressing room looks like some cuckold gang scene involving James McCarthy's mother having to do a favour because he didn't pay his drug dealer?

[Kikó]

Sachin Nakrani, a man who has a penchant for showing his penis on twitter as Charlie Clitlicker (https://twitter.com/redissue/status/929125695212675074?lang=en), is a dreadful journalist.

[SvN]

I was thinking you could use Football Manager to prove whether it was true, so lol when I got to the skin tone bit.

I didn't even know it was an actual attribute until I saw that Mantralux increased Bacary Sagna's from 19 to 20 in her "accurate Arsenal" update.

[Don]

:D

He looks like a proper wrongun, too.

[Shindig]

Mantralux has spent big on StarCitizen, it seems.

[Lewis]

https://www.premierleague.com/news/1702359


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[Lewis]

You have to admit, the fact that this only happened after they went for Israel, despite their 'political views' being well known... :gs:

[mugbull]

Seek to “hijack” political causes, hmm

[niko_cee]

I've gone all-in to try and help Brighton in this one, Rashford (c), Fernandes and Martial all in the fantasy team. 'Mon 3-in-a-row.

[phonics]

It sounds incredibly gammon to bang on about players wages but finding out that Ozil has earned 5.5 million quid since he last played a match might have broken me.

I would genuinely prefer him to be out on loan with us paying 95% of his wages than this nonsense.

[Shindig]

Can we swap Saivet for him? I think he's still one of ours.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I fucking love Greenwood.

[Waffdon]

He’s great. Not seen step overs so often like that since Prime Shaun Maloney.

[Spikey M]

It sounds incredibly gammon to bang on about players wages but finding out that Ozil has earned 5.5 million quid since he last played a match might have broken me.

I would genuinely prefer him to be out on loan with us paying 95% of his wages than this nonsense.

What has happened with him? Has he just turned shit somehow? It can't be an effort thing because he was always a bit of a passenger, he just made up for it in moments of brilliance.

It's the same as Eriksen before he left Spurs, except him wanting to leave made him being shit more understandable.

Very odd.

[Lewis]

He'll have 'Tony Martial' at Marseille or somebody shit within a couple of years the freak.

[randomlegend]

Rashford - Greenwood - Sancho will be England and Utd's front line for about 10 years.

Fite me.

[Lewis]

With well past his best Harry Kane in midfield and taking penalties like Wayne Rooney.

[Waffdon]

The absolute state of that goalkeeping. Got caught out earlier when it hit the post in the exact same scenario.

[Shindig]

Nah, Kane would still take one of those slots. Which one of them becomes the recognisable striker? Rashford?

[randomlegend]

Nah, Kane would still take one of those slots. Which one of them becomes the recognisable striker? Rashford?

Greenwood will end up a central striker. That's where he's played all through the youth teams. He's doing the typical start on the wing in senior football before going up front transition.

[randomlegend]

The absolute state of that goalkeeping. Got caught out earlier when it hit the post in the exact same scenario.

It took a massive deflection, it looked like it was going towards the opposite corner before that.

[niko_cee]

The Brighton bounce, such that it was, is well and truly over. God they're bad. Keeping playing out from the back lads.

I like Greenwood with his unexpected shooting, although that's not really an excuse for Ryan letting that first one in. Shit for the second as well although it was a massive deflection. That Shaw overlap was insane, imagine letting that fat sack of shit just coast by.

[Waffdon]

Did they even check that offside? It was probably onside but have they stopped wasting 3 minutes with their lines and stuff

[SincereTheRebel]

What has happened with him? Has he just turned shit somehow? It can't be an effort thing because he was always a bit of a passenger, he just made up for it in moments of brilliance.

It's the same as Eriksen before he left Spurs, except him wanting to leave made him being shit more understandable.

Very odd.

Players just expire. What your asking players like Ozil to do is perform at his own level going on ten years. Your moving onto Messi, Ronaldo, Zlatan levels. That was never going to happen. We all predicted it. Same with Alexis. Mental deals those guys got and it would be foolish of them to move onto pay cuts.

[SincereTheRebel]

Busquests is 31. I expected him to be much older than that.

[SincereTheRebel]

Diego Costa has scored an OG and missed a penalty inside 15 minutes which has to be retaken. Up steps Saul to make it 1-1 vs Barca.

[Luca]

‘Bruno’ taking a risk and shitting in that second goal is so critical.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

We've played some nice football today.

That third is glorious.

[randomlegend]

Bruno is a beast.

[Spikey M]

Players just expire. What your asking players like Ozil to do is perform at his own level going on ten years. Your moving onto Messi, Ronaldo, Zlatan levels. That was never going to happen. We all predicted it. Same with Alexis. Mental deals those guys got and it would be foolish of them to move onto pay cuts.

Sure, but his game seems like one that would have alot more longevity than many. Walking around and picking out the odd (fantastic) pass doesn't require a great deal of youth, surely.

[mo]

Can't stand Utd, but that break away goal was a thing of beauty.

[ScousePig]

Greenwood and Fernandes have been lovely to watch.

[Lofty]

Mantralux has spent big on StarCitizen, it seems.

Where have you seen that? From Wenger's Dream Factory to Roberts Space Industries, quite the decline.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Where have you seen that? From Wenger's Dream Factory to Roberts Space Industries, quite the decline.

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[Shindig]

https://vimeo.com/user3724188

Got to be honest, here. I don't know what GS saw in her.

https://www.f6s.com/ixtechau

[SvN]

She appears to be sporting a Gervinho hairstyle. That's some dedication to the cause.

[phonics]

Ole saw his reputation as top binman falling behind Lampard so did a triple substitute but included the only footballer in the world without a Twitter account for extra credit.

https://i.imgur.com/kVX5FvV.png

[phonics]

She appears to be sporting a Gervinho hairstyle. That's some dedication to the cause.

I think it's a credit to my gene pool that my hairline isn't similar.

[SincereTheRebel]

Messi has just scored his 700th goal.l for club and country.

[Lofty]

I'm sure she had a fringe back when she was properly batshit, god knows what her current mental state is.

[SincereTheRebel]

3rd penalty and its 2-2.

[niko_cee]

Did they even check that offside? It was probably onside but have they stopped wasting 3 minutes with their lines and stuff

Commentary suggested Burn was playing Shaw onside with a 'long leg' although they never did any of the lines that I saw, if you mean for the first goal.

[Waffdon]

Yeah. It looked close enough for them to get their toys out lining up arm pits.

[SvN]

You're funny.
What's that MATE?