Oktoberballfest: Woops, forgot about this

[Giggles]

Better than none.

[Kikó]

It really isn't.

Lincoln city's chairman on project big picture:
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[Giggles]

Noiseless soccer is shite.

[Spikey M]

Then get a Vuvuzela band in.

[Giggles]

Can’t, covid.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Canned noise and no noise are two cheeks of the same flabby arse - both are devoid of the real emotion which makes football worthwhile.

What they're doing at the moment is purely keeping the show on the road for money and it shows up in the stupid scorelines and complete lack of focus of the teams and players.

[Don]

Fake crowd noise is for the real simpleton's simpleton.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Incidentally, I live right next to a non-league ground and this afternoon my road was absolutely crammed with cars belonging the maximum 600 supporters allowed to attend matches at that level. Really is stupid that even a limited number aren't allowed to go to professional games.

[Giggles]

Canned noise and no noise are two cheeks of the same flabby arse - both are devoid of the real emotion which makes football worthwhile.

What they're doing at the moment is purely keeping the show on the road for money and it shows up in the stupid scorelines and complete lack of focus of the teams and players.

‘Football’ will roll on and the longer this lasts the more they’ll realise that fans are more a hindrance than anything. We’re really into the television age now.

[Kikó]

Not a chance. Fans make the clubs and the suits know that. Great opportunity to sell the brand to your foreign investors and wealthy customers.

[Giggles]

Incidentally, I live right next to a non-league ground and this afternoon my road was absolutely crammed with cars belonging the maximum 600 supporters allowed to attend matches at that level. Really is stupid that even a limited number aren't allowed to go to professional games.

That’s actually one of the main issues with the mentality around all this. Not everything has to match the wrong thing just because the wrong thing is being done. The issue isn’t nobody at pro games, the issue is that 600 at a shite game. Getting them stopped should be the mentality.

[Spikey M]

‘Football’ will roll on and the longer this lasts the more they’ll realise that fans are more a hindrance than anything. We’re really into the television age now.

Absolutely no chance. If anything this has shown how much the atmosphere contributes. We're due 38 rounds of pre-season friendlies here. Some of them costing £15 a pop. If it were to carry on the sport would die.

[Giggles]

Not a chance. Fans make the clubs and the suits know that. Great opportunity to sell the brand to your foreign investors and wealthy customers.

Asians can buy jerseys and jackets the very same with no fans or with fans. The trick will be getting a robust enough mechanism so they can exclusively stream in those countries the way they used to do the whore friendlies there.

[Kikó]

You underestimate the match day experience and the lore around going to watch live sport which TV has no way of replicating.

[Giggles]

Maybe before this, but people will adapt and the business will see a new opportunity in the new ways.

[Kikó]

Majority of the football pyramid cannot survive without fans in the stadium. It's just not going to happen.

[Spikey M]

https://youtu.be/4BFSZ8XzWOM

Man Utd vs Brighton

[Giggles]

Majority of the football pyramid cannot survive without fans in the stadium. It's just not going to happen.

The majority of the pyramid doesn’t need to survive. We’re at the turning point now, Covid or not.

[Don]

The MOTD reaction to Aguero's hand on the shoulder :D

Edit:

Woof at the comments :happycry:

https://twitter.com/DrRosena/status/1317564155990335490?s=20

[niko_cee]

I sort of understand the broken logic that gets to that Mané decision, but something has surely gone wrong, or am I just being obtuse?

They've had to change the handball rule to remove the upper arm for the (idiotic) strict liability goal ruling out rule, yes, but that doesn't mean you can actually, legally and intentionally play the ball with your upper arm, does it? As in, say, you can't intentionally block goal bound shots on the line with your bicep [or the correct part of your elbow], can you?

[Spikey M]

Chelsea were allowed a goal with upper arm used in the build up yesterday, but then again there was the Newcastle penalty for Diers 'handball' so who knows.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, and Havertz had one earlier in the season (and Jota?) where the ball simply touching the upper arm wasn't deemed sufficient to invalidate a goal, but there is a difference between saying something isn't handball and that that part of the body is now a part you can intentionally play the ball with, isn't there?

If that is the rule, then instead of doing that weird hands behind the back thing there's surely a niche for players who can stick their upper arms out whilst folding their forearms behind them in some sort of contorted chicken pose?

Dier's one was because the upper arm was above the head. Fuck knows why, but that was the justification wasn't it?

[Spikey M]

It's all mental regardless. I know we all moaned about the errors, but VAR has just made things more frustrating and there's atleast one manager / fan groups sent off the deep end every weekend now.

Reset the game (world?) to 2016 please.

[Baz]

Is there anyone in football who looks thicker than Phil Foden?

Similarly, is there a footballer who looks less like a footballer than Matt Targett (https://s.hs-data.com/gfx/person/l/332287.jpg)? Looks like the special lad who cleans up for blokes who fits windows.

[Kikó]

Var solves no problem and just creates more while killing the game.

Did they review the Newcastle goalkeepers position yesterday on the penalty? Wasn't he further off the line than de gea was the other day? Is there any reason for these stupid interventions that no one asked for?

[Waffdon]

£15 for two teams who’ve lost all their games so far :drool:

[Shindig]

VAR brings that armchair debate onto the pitch which is not what you want. You want accuracy in decision making and I do not see Liverpool's offside as accurate. He's level, it's on. Pickford's lunge I can go either way on. It's clumsy but, as a goalkeeper, it's something you can get away with.

If you're splitting hairs, you shouldn't make the decision. Especially if you're super-imposing lines on to a pitch with no real consistency. The NFL gets that stuff right for first downs because their cameras are level. Hawkeye the entire pitch and we're golden. Until then, you'll have this.

[Lewis]

This watch story is a bit of absolutely classic Wayne Rooney news after a few years of him seemingly becoming sensible. Captain, Horologist, Legend.

[Don]

After my belting sensor solution, I also wonder if making the defender's line the same thickness as RL's girth would sort this out too. Obviously however thick the lines, there will always be marginal calls but presumbaly the linesman flags obvious ones that go beyond the (slightly) thicker line so it should lead to less marginal calls.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol at Mitrovic missing a penalty and then giving one away.

[ScousePig]

Incidentally, I live right next to a non-league ground and this afternoon my road was absolutely crammed with cars belonging the maximum 600 supporters allowed to attend matches at that level. Really is stupid that even a limited number aren't allowed to go to professional games.

Which one?

Stalker alert.

[Serj]

Var solves no problem and just creates more while killing the game.

Did they review the Newcastle goalkeepers position yesterday on the penalty? Wasn't he further off the line than de gea was the other day? Is there any reason for these stupid interventions that no one asked for?

Isn't the rule that one foot has to be on (or behind) the goal line when the penalty is taken? I think he kept one foot behind the line.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Which one?

Stalker alert.

Molesey, think they're in the Combined Counties.

[ScousePig]

That puts you close to where (I think) Parkrun originated.

I was assuming you'd be naming a team a couple of tiers up the pyramid with that sort of crowd. That's the level I used to watch, and my team got about 100 per game.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd be surprised if they actually got more than 100 in normal times, but maximum 600 are allowed, so for clubs like that it's business as usual. In fact they might be getting more attendance than usual due to displacement from other games and just the general lack of things to do at the moment.

[Kikó]

Isn't the rule that one foot has to be on (or behind) the goal line when the penalty is taken? I think he kept one foot behind the line.

I have no idea, it's a shit rule anyway.

[randomlegend]

That's what I heard the rule is as well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dunk taking out Cahill.

[phonics]

After yesterday’s result I’m rebranding as a Women’s Football fan.

Arsenal currently beating Tottenham 6-0

Edit: 6-1

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pleased to report that Sir Henry Winter has finally peaked:

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[Don]

I'm tellin ya man, 15/1 for Spurs for the title is tasty.

[Reg]

Dunk taking out Cahill.
Shocker.

What a dull first 80 minutes and then not bad, loved the equaliser, although thought it was straight in with no deflection.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mourinho taking Spurs to Premier League glory would simultaneously be the best and worst thing that could possibly happen. A real mind-bender.

[Lewis]

He would have to retire on the spot with the best promo you've ever heard.

[Waffdon]

I'm tellin ya man, 15/1 for Spurs for the title is tasty.

Their team really is very decent. Bale to come in with Bergwjin and Lucas as back up. They’re back to having four really decent full backs to choose from and the midfield has looked good, especially with Ndombele finally getting game time, who is absolutely brilliant.

Maybe lacking in centre half but Mourinho in charge sorts that for the time being.

[niko_cee]

He would have to retire on the spot with the best promo you've ever heard.

:drool:

I can imagine the celebration being one that could rival that thing Madrid did when he won the league with them.

Well, I could, covid notwithstanding etc.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Full on knee-slide in front of the empty Clock End or whatever they have now at the goonerdrome. Maybe wave a copy of Wenger's book at the camera too.

[phonics]

David Moyes has been back in charge for 10 minutes and they’re 2-0 down.

[Don]

Ndombele is unadulterated filth. Like a Pogba who can be arsed.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ndombele is unadulterated filth. Like a Pogba who can be arsed.

I don't understand why Mourinho hated him so much last season.

[Giggles]

I don't understand why Mourinho hated him so much last season.

He was probably just like a regular Pogba.

[Spikey M]

I don't understand why Mourinho hated him so much last season.

Because he was fat, lazy, wouldn't track back and was French about it when it was pointed out.

[Bob Sacamano]

The Bundesliga loses all of its allure without fans, I've subjected myself to Schalke vs Union Berlin and its actually League 1 standard stuff.

[Trancemeister]

Holy fucking shit what a strike that was.

[Danny]

What a hit.

[John Arne]

Ooof.

https://gyazo.com/31a8085cc6e0ad72a8c3ecc046922c9c.gif

[John Arne]

The Bale effect.

[Lewis]

Did Mourinho do that thing he does protecting the lead and blowing it?

[SvN]

Liquid football.

[Shindig]

What a dumb season.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a hit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A lovely assist by Harry Winks too.

[Byron]

Not enough :harold: out there.

[Giggles]

Dark horses for the league :harold:

Did everyone forget who they’re talking about?

[phonics]

Crown Tottenham champions... of being a fucking joke.

[Don]

Theres a geezer on the 8 game BTTS accy about to do himself in because Arteta was too worried aboutusing Just For Men to coach some sort of attacking plan into hisplayers so just calm down.

[mugbull]

Crown Tottenham champions... of being a fucking joke.
:harold:

[phonics]

:harold:

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:harold:

[Giggles]

1317873447142293506

[phonics]

1317856006605541376

[Shindig]

Is the rest of the thread going to be like this because it's only the 18th.

[phonics]

"Shindig... It's Spurs."

That quote and Chiellini saying "It's the history of the Tottenham" just so much disrespect, I love it.

[Lewis]

They went to town on that Alex Ferguson quote the other week as if he had personally handed over all his titles before they left the ground.

[Waffdon]

Can’t believe Aston Villa and Everton are the new Man City and Liverpool

[phonics]

Just realised that Aubameyang hasn't scored since he 'signed da ting'. Fuck me, it's Ozil all over again.

[Don]

Cash may be a doubt but there's got to be a serious argument to have that Villa back four as the England back four. The CBs are a given.

[Giggles]

I hope Danny Murphy is having a long lie down today.

[mugbull]

Rent free in phonics' head etc etc

[Spikey M]

Expecting fans not to enjoy a rivals embarrassing collapse is a bit odd.

[Lofty]

That's all Spurs have had to enjoy since that Worthington Cup win isn't it?

[phonics]

Lofty that's mean, remember that 2 year period where they had a good manager gave him no money to spend then sacked him the moment they almost achieved something and gave Jose Mourinho 30 billion a year? Good times.

[Lofty]

Insert Levy with Calvin Candie's face meme

[Spikey M]

We are edging towards "rent free" territory a bit now.

[Lewis]

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[phonics]

Fucking hell. Get a grip.

It's Neymar dying in 2014 all over again.
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/08/21/Neymarr-5.jpg

[Shindig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atPh0aEL2oo

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Black armbands and a minute silence for the rest of the season.

[Shindig]

They're doing a minute's silence for the first goalless draw of the season first.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wolves in their Portuguese kit :drool:

[Don]

Leeds' dominance :drool: they're producing without doubt the most entertaining brand of football going.

[Waffdon]

I went back on the stream and it was 0-0. How the fuck did they manage to find a way to chop that goal off? He volleyed it in from 18 yards didn’t he?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Podence was just offside in the build up.

[Bob Sacamano]

This is a bit sobering for Leeds

[Waffdon]

How’s Jimenez got away with that? :lol:

[Alex]

Every time a commentator addresses "Conor Coady" by his full name it registers in my head as one word, Italian style. Connacodi. Like "Costacurta" or something.

[Alex]

This is a bit sobering for Leeds

I wouldn't go that far. They're a good side. We dominated in the first half too, we just didn't make it pay.

Bamford was really quiet through the middle tonight. We also need to find a way to become more consistently dangerous from out wide, both in open play and (especially) corners. We control possession so much we end up with a shit load of corners and do nothing with them, it was the same last season. I've certainly no concerns in general though.

[randomlegend]

Utd line-up:

De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Tuanzebe, Lindelof, Shaw, Telles, Fred, McTominay, Fernandes, Martial, Rashford

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

4-1 psg.

[Waffdon]

Mason Mount starting on the wing again. Fine someone that loves you as much as Lampard does him

[phonics]

Petr Cech has been put in Chelseas 25 man squad for the Premier League :cab:

[Waffdon]

Petr Cech has been put in Chelseas 25 man squad for the Premier League :cab:

It’s in case of a Covid outbreak. If one keeper gets it you’re probably all going to get it. Happened to St Mirren and they had to get an emergency goalkeeper for their game as all three keepers were self isolating or injured.

Youth players don’t need to be registered. He’d probably still be better than all their keepers they have anyway. Kepa has conceded more in his last 6 games than Cech did 2004/05 PL.

[Don]

My mum just text me to say Pellistri is on the bench and the old slag ain't wrong.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We should have chucked Makelele in for good measure.

lol at the twitter outrage whenever a big team names a lineup, it's the new transfers.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ferencvaros just scored a lovely goal but sadly it was ruled out for offside.

[Ian]

Lol at kicking the ball out of play because Di Maria is "injured."

[Ian]

Also lol at this fucking shirt. Is it the worst United have ever had?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Penalties :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bruno :face:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Var!

[Giggles]

This has to stop.

[Lewis]

He's been figured out. Get him and his melted face sold.

[randomlegend]

Stay furious, gimps

[Lewis]

Alex Telles has put more decent balls in in five minutes than the rest of the club has since Dire Maria left.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We are getting roasted, in a goalless fashion. Giroud will probably come off the bench and scuff in the winner.

[randomlegend]

This ref is absolutely donning PSG lmao

[Lewis]

These corners pissing hell. Alex Ferguson baiting Liverpool into buying Charlie Adamesque.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I have the Spanish radio on (because our radio is obsessed with manyoo, and also my Spanish needs to improve for work so I do things like this quite often) and the level of excitement they show at the most minor things is ridiculous. Every time Sevilla get in our half the comms shit their pants with excitement and it sounds like they've scored. Then they went back to the Barcelona game and I found out what actually happens for a goal which is some dweeb going GOLGOLGOLGOLGOLGOL at the top of his voice for five minutes. Change the record, this is how Francis Drake got you.

Meison Munt sounds like a player, though.

[Raoul Duke]

Also lol at this fucking shirt. Is it the worst United have ever had?

The grey Southampton thing probably beats it.

It looks less shit with the black shorts but they've had to wear the white ones and it looks like a zebra in a blender

[Ian]

They grey kit was ugly but this has about five different sets of mismatching stripes and I hate it very much.

[randomlegend]

That was filthy from Mbappe

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What the fuck?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Did he forget that he was defending?

[Ian]

Martial might as well have gone the whole hog and attempted to bicycle kick that in.

[Raoul Duke]

Just closed his eyes like a fanny

[randomlegend]

That tackle from AWB was absolutely bonkers :D

[Bob Sacamano]

We really need to start banning Russian/Ukrainian clubs from the competition, they are useless.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pique is an idiot.

[randomlegend]

Errr changing to 4 at the back here is BOLD.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Tokmac Nguen donning Piqué into a red card at the Nou Camp, hope they pump those scenes into the covid vaccine efforts.

[randomlegend]

Tuanzebe is better than Maguire.

[Ian]

Errr changing to 4 at the back here is BOLD.

Telles was so far forward I thought we were effectively playing a back four anyway.

[Ian]

Our decision making in and around the area has been shit.

[Lewis]

If he isn't completely finished Cavani will have benched Martial within a month.

[Ian]

Yeah Martial's been absolutely useless. But sadly Solskjaer fucking hates substitutions.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Spanish commentators keep calling Dembele 'El Mosquito' interchangeably with his actual name. If that happened over here they'd be in a racism court in approximately 20 seconds.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rashford :drool:

Fuck the frogs.

[Waffdon]

That’s about the only thing Rashford is good at outside campaigning about skint parents

[randomlegend]

That’s about the only thing Rashford is good at outside campaigning about skint parents

Scoring excellent goals?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Surely Jean Reno or whoever manages PSG these days needs the tin tack? They seem a right shambles.

[Waffdon]

Pretty much. Smashing the ball at goal really, really hard.

Man Utd should smash Chelsea at the weekend too as they’ll just let the latter have all the ball and hit them on the counter

[Don]

Ole prolonging the misery :drool:

[Shindig]

Tuesday is bin day!

[Kikó]

United are back.

Psg were dreadful mind. Passing and work rate both 5/10. Better finishing/decision making and we could have been out of sight

[phonics]

Attention @Don (https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/member.php?u=69)

This entire blog was made for you. AWB pulling tick tings, balancing 3 of them at once, and then telling them to fuck off, his various kinks, etc.

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/2997076/man-united-player-exposed-by-side-chick-for-not-wanting-to-father-the-kid-of-his-other-side-chick-promptly-dumped-by-longtime-girlfriend

[randomlegend]

Attention @Don (https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/member.php?u=69)

This entire blog was made for you. AWB pulling tick tings, balancing 3 of them at once, and then telling them to fuck off, his various kinks, etc.

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/2997076/man-united-player-exposed-by-side-chick-for-not-wanting-to-father-the-kid-of-his-other-side-chick-promptly-dumped-by-longtime-girlfriend

https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/aaron-wan-bissaka-on-first-man-utd-goal-v-newcastle-17-october-2020

United's use of this headline was a bit unfortunate.

[Don]

Sucking out his jizz after he bust in her is a real alpha move, got time for that.

Edit: fuck sake that ain't even about him. What is it with twitter breaking the comprehension skills of people?

[niko_cee]

I see 'as long as Matip is fit it'll be fine' has lasted zero games. :cab:

When push comes to shove just stick Grujic back there. He looks tall enough and has being a shithouse built in through his nationality. Shit, he went to Porto?

[Baz]

Bring back Coady.

[Ian]

Wijnaldum said: “We are still devastated and I think this was different from normal. The way it happened was really hard for us. Everyone still has a really bad feeling about it. When we were speaking with the players after Saturday none of the players had slept because of what happened with Virgil and, as I said, the way it happened. It is a really hard one to take and a hard one for the team.

Jesus Christ.

[Spikey M]

:D

[phonics]

Watching this man get angry about it was so funny.

https://media.balls.ie/uploads/2012/11/sounesstackle2.gif

Just an embarrassing lack of awareness.

[Don]

Hahahaha mates worrying about their mate :D :D

Niko, fear not, we'll unleash that Big ***** Bastard who bought some 17 year old's passport soon.

[John Arne]

Step forward Nat Phillips.

Slow and can't pass... But tall.

[phonics]

Tuanzebe is a Guinness World Record Holder in Hungry Hungry Hippos...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/44885706

What a guy.

[Lewis]

That brass has probably been left unusable, so you can understand the reaction if that's her living.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ornstein is saying van Dijk's injury goes 'beyond the ACL'. What are we talking here, amputation? Short illness?

[Ian]

The real injury is to football itself, Jimmy.

[Baz]

Well that one league title was nice.

[Giggles]

I feel injured just thinking about his plight. Beyond injured.

[phonics]

Jordan Pickford hailed as a hero after they found a tumor in his MRI scan.

[Lofty]

Ornstein is saying van Dijk's injury goes 'beyond the ACL'. What are we talking here, amputation? Short illness?

In Taz terms the injury has reduced VVD's phallus size to that of Harry Maguire.

Özil gearing up the PR war I see, all Arsenal social media comments now flooded with illiterate outrage.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mesut Ozil as a broker in Eurasian geopolitics has been one of the year's more tedious developments. He will get offed by organised crime in the end.

[Lewis]

I take 'beyond the ACL' to mean everything around it is wrecked as well, but he walked off the pitch so who knows. Maybe it is his cock.

[Lofty]

Mesut Ozil as a broker in Eurasian geopolitics has been one of the year's more tedious developments. He will get offed by organised crime in the end.

I like the conspiracy theory that he was binned off due to his China comments despite that being in December 2019 and him featuring regularly until lockdown. It's just he was a 350k a week playmaker failing to create in goalless draws against Burnley, who stands about pulling faces when he doesn't have the ball.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's clearly in deep in something. You don't go palling around with Erdogan if you're just an innocent boy who wants to play football.

[randomlegend]

Ornstein is saying van Dijk's injury goes 'beyond the ACL'. What are we talking here, amputation? Short illness?

He's either done the other ligaments as well, which won't make a lot of difference as the ACL takes the longest to heal anyway, or he's done his meniscus (or all of the above). If he's done his meniscus then that's really bad, depending on the extent of the tear and whether it can be repaired or has to be removed.

[Bob Sacamano]

We really need to start banning Russian/Ukrainian clubs from the competition, they are useless.

:face:

[randomlegend]

Shakhtar have their entire first team either out injured or with covid :lol:

[Shindig]

Man, I so wanted Zinedine to avoid the binman curse. Stop at the top, man. :(

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shakhtar have their entire first team either out injured or with covid :lol:

Marlos, Dodo, Marcos Antonio and Tete are definitely first teamers.

[randomlegend]

Marlos, Dodo, Marcos Antonio and Tete are definitely first teamers.

10 of their first team is what I read. Presumably that means 10 of the first team squad as opposed to the actual first choice as I initially interpreted it. Still...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:face:

Probably right with your first take.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You can accelerate through a decade and ravage the squad with infectious disease, but Andriy Pyatov is somehow still there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's surely offside.

Vinicius is right in front of the keeper.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

How is that not a foul on the keeper in the build up?

Gundogan stamped on the keeper's ankle.

[Boydy]

Where's good for streams these days? Givemereddit keeps fucking me about.

How do I do that IPTV shit?

[Waffdon]

He’sgoal but might be in foreign.

Still have no idea how Trippier is in this Atletico side. Absolutely bogging

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Papu Gomez with a stunning strike.

https://streamja.com/ewnNp

[phonics]

Where's good for streams these days? Givemereddit keeps fucking me about.

How do I do that IPTV shit?

soccerstreams, has all of them.

IPTV is 20 quid a month, you can find it at the same place as IPTorrent

[Mike]

My IPTV was £60 for the year.

[phonics]

All I remember was donating 20 quid, I was very drunk and looking for a Superbowl stream at the time.

[Don]

Yep, Fabinho is the 3rd best CB in the world after Matip. Doing the job of Gomez and Adrian.

Don't understand what's happening in Watford, Harvey starts but they're 2-1 down.

[phonics]

1319003256736129025

[Kikó]

My IPTV was £60 for the year.

Yeah this.

[Giggles]

Is it still shite?

[Ian]

A Spanish journo has compared Ansu Fati to a "black street vendor" running away from the police.

As a compliment.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:face:

[niko_cee]

Having no real interest in La Liga and such anymore I'd completely missed the fact that Hazard is injured again. That transfer has to be approaching Coutinho levels of bad now. £150m for some 22 (mostly ineffective) appearances to date. Sale of the century.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We've done unbelievably well out of Hazard. Six years of largely brilliant performances and then a massive transfer fee which has funded the rebuilding of the side.

We will get him back in the end, Real Madrid was always a bad move for him, he's too much of a nice guy to succeed there.

[Ian]

Didn't he call a press conference at Lille to announce a future press conference at which he'd talk about his decision on who he was leaving for? I'd have thought that's the sort of ego that'd thrive at Real if his body didn't keep falling to bits.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Think that was more French agents than him, once he got here he was pretty humble and just got on with it for years. Drifted in and out of some seasons but then who doesn't.

[Foe]

Genuine question here, does anyone else think Eddie nketiah strongly resembles the actor who played marlo stanfield?

It’s the strongest footballer -> other “famous” person resemblance I remember seeing.

[Shindig]

Nope. Ashley Young is closer.

[Giggles]

That’s well deserved for Dundalk for how it’s gone so far.

[Giggles]

:cool:


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[Alex]

Genuine question here, does anyone else think Eddie nketiah strongly resembles the actor who played marlo stanfield?

It’s the strongest footballer -> other “famous” person resemblance I remember seeing.

Definitely! I had this exact conversation with my brother when we had him on loan at Leeds last year. :D

[mugbull]

Nope. Ashley Young is closer.

I always thought Ashley Young was a Marlo lookalike but Nketiah is probably more similar on the whole

[Foe]

Well, that’s promising to know.

Just means I’ll start the old When you walk through the garden,
you gotta watch your back,
well I beg your pardon
walk the straight and narrow track whenever he plays.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nketiah edges it for me. Mah name is mah name.

[Mellberg]

Nine long years since we sat top of the Prem. Look forward to us fucking this up tonight :thbup:

Would be nice though :yn:

[mo]

Oxford v Swindon off due to four confirmed cases and three self-isolating in the playing staff at Town. Dramatically it was off/on/off over the course of the afternoon/evening.

Fucking relieved (providing everyone is ok) as we're shit at the moment and another loss to Oxford would be a weekend-ruiner.

[Bob Sacamano]

Cracking start to this game

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lord Bamford :cool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bielsa somehow turning Patrick Bamford into a good player must be his one outstanding achievement in football.

[Giggles]

Hopefully this means you give him a call up soon.

[Lewis]

He's another one who will melt once a bit of atmosphere comes back. I wonder whether the various transfer committees are taking xBOTTLE into account

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's lovely.

This has been a great game.

[Bob Sacamano]

Fucking hell :drool:

[Luca]

Mings :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That is class.

[Lewis]

Everything I think about this shitty crowdless walking pace football tells me City should be winning every game 5-0, and yet...

[Don]

Bottom half after 5 games :drool:

2nd place is Spurs' for the taking.

[Lewis]

Didn't City have the two best teams in the country a couple of years ago? Looking at their line-up it seems a bit shallow if you factor in Raheem Sterling dropping right off.

[Don]

They've lost at least one top player every summer (to age mainly) and replaced them with latin bumfluff, it really is a dogshit squad in comparison. Aguero may be gone too. Relying on Sterling :happycry:

[Don]

Pep's post-match interview :D

Gone by summer.

[Lewis]

He needs time. It isn't his team.

[Andy]

City just don't look the same side with a right footer at left back and Mahrez out wide.

You need players like Mendy and Sane hugging the touchline, they look ponderous without this setup at the moment.

[Don]

I thought Newcastle fine, he's just back from international break but given he's directly led to marked improvement in both his cameos since and the fact he's one of the world's best, Ole really needs to die in a fire for benching Pogba. DVB too when you're playing James and Mata instead ffs.

Harvey with a goal and assist. Great to see Blackburn back in Prem next season.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ajax thirteen goals to the good this afternoon with all time great Huntelaar helping himself to two off the bench and Lassina Traoré (not that one), a 19 year old Burkina Faso player, notching five.

[thommo]

Genuinely fearing we wont make it past Derby's point total.

[Spikey M]

Hopefully Covid will buy you a few freebie games.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

We beat PSG looking really good and we revert back to this fucking team?

[phonics]

I just want to play on a Saturday. Any time we don’t have a Europa League match we end up on fucking Monday.

[Spikey M]

We beat PSG looking really good and we revert back to this fucking team?

Haven't PSG been shite this tear?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Haven't PSG been shite this tear?

They started badly (losing their first 2 league games) but have recovered since then.

We were playing some nice stuff too regardless of how good/shit PSG were.

Tuanzebe was donning their front line yet he's dropped, Shaw looked competent as a LCB, we didn't have James running as fast as he could into other players etc etc.

[Luca]

Daniel James really looks like a kid who won a Make-a-Wish Foundation appearance with United and who has been kept on to meet some domestic player squad minimum.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For fans of Kurt Zouma and Thiago Silva stabbing it sideways to each other, this has been a real treat so far.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If Mendy had managed to find the bottom corner that would have been a stunning own goal.

[randomlegend]

Mendy :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mendy's positioning for that Rashford save was diabolical. He could have lobbed him ffs. Good boot though.

[Luca]

Reckon Sir Marcus would have scored going near post, actually. Mendy was practically falling over to his right.

[niko_cee]

Given United get penalties for people breathing on their players in the box, how on earth is that not a penalty?

[Luca]

Daniel James really looks like a kid who won a Make-a-Wish Foundation appearance with United and who has been kept on to meet some domestic player squad minimum.

Bless, they have him on one man wall duty.

[phonics]

Ajax thirteen goals to the good this afternoon with all time great Huntelaar helping himself to two off the bench and Lassina Traoré (not that one), a 19 year old Burkina Faso player, notching five.

You forgot the most important part of the result. A player called C. Kum got sent off.

[randomlegend]

That should have been a penalty for Chelsea.

[Trancemeister]

So no VAR on Azpiliculeta but they use it on this? Fucking joke.

[niko_cee]

And lol at VAR actually looking at the one on Rashford, even more lol if they give it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Did they even look at the Maguire/Azpi one? They can't have thought nah, no foul.

[niko_cee]

David Coote was probably checking for offside.

[Don]

Lol at Lampard shitting it and going ultra defensive. Son, Pogba is gonna come on soon, you should have used this chance to put the game to bed not pass sideways and clap the black lad in goal.

[niko_cee]

Mendy's positioning for that Rashford save was diabolical. He could have lobbed him ffs. Good boot though.

Your namesake disagrees, says it was top notch positioning, and Kepa would have conceded in the same situation.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Who am I to question the great man's goalkeeping expertise, or frankly any of his insightful and articulate punditry.

[Ian]

Did they even look at the Maguire/Azpi one? They can't have thought nah, no foul.

Maguire appears to be getting stupider by the game. Which wasn't a high bar to begin with.

[phonics]

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Embarrassing.

[Gray Fox]

They've refused to quote numbers paid too haven't they?

[Luca]

That’s some peak late-90s/early-00s “YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A CAR” nonsense.

[Ian]

https://i.ibb.co/JnxcxKY/image.png

This picture makes it clear to me that what is in fact happening is Azpilicueta is hitting Maguire with the Stone Cold Stunner and should have been sent off.

[Shindig]

Careful. They have TV-detecting supervans.

[Ian]

Fucking hell TWO substitutions before the 89th minute???? Calm down Ole you crazed maverick.