August football: This was nearly called "Ballgust"

[SvN]

What the fuck is Neville on about? Saying 5 foot 9 Martinez had no chance - the ball was knee height when he hit it, you stupid fuck.

[John Arne]

Martinez looks like a lost little kid.

[Kikó]

Frenkie will be licking his lips at joining this great football club.

[Ian]

What the fuck is Neville on about? Saying 5 foot 9 Martinez had no chance - the ball was knee height when he hit it, you stupid fuck.

Neville has chatted an extraordinary amount of shit today and it's not even half time yet.

[Gray Fox]

De Jong snapping his SIM card right now.

[Yevrah]

I've just promoted the little cry to a massive wank.

[Boydy]

Ahahahaha fuck me

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Horrendous.

[-james-]

:harold:

[Giggles]

That’s some beauty.

[niko_cee]

OK, so what's going on here then?

[Ian]

Can't remember if I posted this in the sad thread but when we got the news about my dad there was about 20 minutes where I'd got there, he was gone and I was waiting for my sister and mum in the room with him and I said "At least you won't have to watch United any more" and fuck me how prophetic that was.

I hope they stick ten past us just to see what happens.

[SvN]

Shaw looked like he had stitch trying to chase back.

[Gray Fox]

This is just spineless. Nothing a manager can do with a bunch of players who either dont want to listen, run, or even try.

[Don]

On holiday so not even able to watch this shit. Have had to tell the missus to stfu now as fivelive is on. Peak days these.

[Giggles]

Can't remember if I posted this in the sad thread but when we got the news about my dad there was about 20 minutes where I'd got there, he was gone and I was waiting for my sister and mum in the room with him and I said "At least you won't have to watch United any more" and fuck me how prophetic that was.

I hope they stick ten past us just to see what happens.

It know it’s sad and all but you really need to send that in to see will it get on the BBC live tracker.

[Kikó]

I thought Christian Eriksen would be the game changer. I'm massively surprised

[Yevrah]

Aw, look at the fans with their Glazers out flag. How cute.

[Ian]

It know it’s sad and all but you really need to send that in to see will it get on the BBC live tracker.

:D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

This team against Liverpool next week...

[niko_cee]

It'll probably get called off due to fan protest.

[Gray Fox]

This team against Liverpool next week...

It'll be fine. We don't like to press or have any forwards that are any good or anything.

[Luke Emia]

Why is Eriksen seemingly the deepest lying midfielder?

[-james-]

McTominay needed at half time imo.

[7om]

Someone explain to me how this Utd defence hasn’t been nuked yet? How has nobody figured out that the likes of Shaw and Maguire aren’t good enough?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

McTominay needed at half time imo.

A bomb would be better.

[Kikó]

Someone explain to me how this Utd defence hasn’t been nuked yet? How has nobody figured out that the likes of Shaw and Maguire aren’t good enough?

It's the keeper. He's basically given them the first two goals and then has zero presence on any set plays.

[Shindig]

Ten Hag must've really made an impression.

[-james-]

Is that three straight defensive swaps?

[phonics]

Imagine a United player ever broke into a sprint.

[niko_cee]

Always good to see your shiny new £60m defensive dwarf hooked after 45 minutes.

Maybe United can take solace from the start Arsenal made to last season.

[Ian]

Imagine a United player ever broke into a sprint.

I'm old enough to remember us having players who ran. In those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. "Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say."

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not a fan of them allowing a tactics board during a water break.

[Spikey M]

Man Utd :harold:

[Shindig]

Apparently we had a legit goal chalked off but I'll still take a point from that match. Brighton created the bigger problems. And that training kit looks shit in action. May we never be forced to wear it again.

[Lewis]

I went to shop at 2-0. It's terminal at this point. They need to sweep half the squad out and finish 11th, 9th, 6th over the subsequent years with a basis of kids who want to play; but they can't afford to, so it's just going to be doing what they perceive to be enough forever.

[Shindig]

They can't afford it? I always figured United were a bit of a money machine. At least in the sense that attendances are always good and the merch always sells. Take the hit, make the purge.

[Yevrah]

On the terminal point I don't think I can ever recall a club full of players with morale this bad.

[Kikó]

We're fucked. The big sponsor money isn't going to renew and attach themselves to a laughing stock. The stadium and training infrastrutture is all ancient and the club still owes half a billion. Fuck the owners, let's go down and end the club.

[Spikey M]

They were on the right track with Aaron Wan-Bissaka, even if he didn't work out particularly well. You buy people excelling at teams below your (perceived) level. But instead they're buying players that can't cut it at the level above them, then standing mystified as to why they've ended up with a team full of lazy cunts that can't be bothered anymore.

[Lewis]

Which also begs the question what the Glazers expect at this point. They aren't stupid, which is why they have always done at least enough to keep the plates spinning, but they are painting themselves into a corner whereby the value of everything starts to tank. Realistically, if Chelsea went for two and a half billion, how are United - worse team, worse ground (or at least equally in need of an improved/new one), worse facilities - worth more than that? And that's before the debt comes into it.

[Giggles]

The lap of honour undoes all the good work a bit.

[randomlegend]

Arnold basically said in that leaked video that the Glazers don't care. If sponsorship money reduces, it'll be the transfer budget that takes the hit, not their dividends.

Having said that, you'd think we are starting to get to the point where it's seriously damaging what they can wring out of the club.

[Lewis]

Didn't he mean that they don't care about the fans hating them, rather than they don't care about the club itself (and their dividends)?

[randomlegend]

Didn't he mean that they don't care about the fans hating them, rather than they don't care about the club itself (and their dividends)?

He asked the fans not to try to sabotage sponsorship deals because it means he can't get a decent transfer budget together, but that the Glazers don't care about the protests.

[Lewis]

There is something off about that bloke. He looks like someone who buys small clothes thinking he will lose weight but never does.

[randomlegend]

:lol:

[randomlegend]

The problem - still - seems to be the lack of a decent director of football. Murtough must be a retard.

There are (or at least were) good players who were attainable this window at reasonable prices. But there's just nobody with an overarching plan.

Ah well. I'm past caring about the results, which is very freeing.

[Ian]

I went to shop at 2-0. It's terminal at this point. They need to sweep half the squad out and finish 11th, 9th, 6th over the subsequent years with a basis of kids who want to play; but they can't afford to, so it's just going to be doing what they perceive to be enough forever.

Yeah. I've already written off this year and I feel that's optimistic. Because....


On the terminal point I don't think I can ever recall a club full of players with morale this bad.

There are some players who, ignore their salaries, are just beyond the point of no return as United players now. Maguire might go and do well at a less shambolic team but he doesn't have it in him to turn it around at United and he's not alone in that. We need to salt the fucking earth of this team, accept a few shit years and go build up a team that ten Hag can do something with. Whether he's the man I dunno but you can't be forever binning managers when the players are clearly needing to shoulder a large part of the blame.

[phonics]

Arteta took over 2.5 years ago. The only people still in the 25 man squad is Saka and Xhaka. We went through half a season with 16 players total last year because he bombed anyone out he didn’t trust. That’s what United need. It’s just been plaster over a plaster for near enough 7 years.

[Don]

8 touches for Haaland. Honestly, how big am I?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

And yet he still got a GOAL CONTRIBUTION.

[Lofty]

I triple captained the trogolodyte it's my fault.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I triple captained the trogolodyte it's my fault.

Triple captaining in a non-double GW :harold:

Great job.

[Spikey M]

This is your annual reminder that nobody cares about Fantasy Football team outside of your thread. Stop it.

[niko_cee]

Apparently we had a legit goal chalked off

Looked soft to me, but the ref blew and the game stopped so hard to call it a legit goal.

[Shindig]

Yeah, it wasn't highlight worthy so I figured there'd be nowt in it. Same goes with the March/Joelinton slap fight.

[niko_cee]

4-0 defeats at Brentford and Brighton [also managing to lose to the latter again in the interim] in the space of what, 6 or 7 games, is a bit concerning for the Manchester United Football Club.

[randomlegend]

I said the same in the terrible transfer window Ole got handed a couple of years ago, but if I were Ten Hag and I didn't get major signings before the end of the transfer window, I'd quit. Set up to fail.

[Kikó]

But he'll get loads of cash hanging about.

[randomlegend]

And then be tarnished with "failing" at United for however long. Despite what this forum seems I think, I firmly believe plenty of actually care about succeeding rather than just earning money whilst losing.

[SincereTheRebel]

Watching motd and I didn't know Eriksen was brought in as starter for Man Utd in a deep role. I thought he would be backup for Fernanj?

[Kikó]

Eriksen probably was brought in to be a challenge to Fernanj but the recruitment has been so poor that's the only option.

I'd love Ten Haag to walk but it wouldn't change anything.

[Giggles]

What is a Fernanj?

[Andy]

Bruno

[Andy]

I think Eriksen would be fine as a deep lying central midfielder if he had a stronger number 6 alongside him. But playing him deep and isolated made no sense at all. Let him sit in the centre of the pitch and ping the ball around.

United need a goalkeeper and a defensive midfielder as a minimum this season. Then ideally two new starting full backs. Which means they'll probably sign a shiny new striker and winger if recent windows are anything to go by.

[randomlegend]

The problem is we also do actually need a new shiny striker and winger.

Our line-up containing only players who are actually good enough on current evidence is something like:

GK
RB
CB Varane
CB Martinez
LB
CM
CM Eriksen
AM Bruno Fernandes
RW Sancho
LW
CF I guess Ronaldo

And even then there's obviously question marks over Martinez's height, Ronaldo being immobile and Varane never being fit.

[Manc]

Martinez is a gift from the gods for proper footballing men.

[randomlegend]

The problem is we also do actually need a new shiny striker and winger.

Our line-up containing only players who are actually good enough on current evidence is something like:

GK
RB
CB Varane
CB Martinez
LB
CM
CM Eriksen
AM Bruno Fernandes
RW Sancho
LW
CF I guess Ronaldo

And even then there's obviously question marks over Martinez's height, Ronaldo being immobile and Varane never being fit.

To add to this, expensive/ players in the squad who clearly don't appear good enough.

De Gea, AWB, Dalot, Maguire, Bailly, (Lindelof? Probably our best performing CB lmao), Jones (yes he's still there), ?Shaw, McTominay, Rashford, Martial. I'm sure I'm missing some.

So grim.

[Waffdon]

Eriksen and Fernandes in a midfield 3 regardless of who the other ‘DM’ is sounds absolutely horrendous

[randomlegend]

Everything about United sounds horrendous.

[thommo]

Having seen Joao Palhinha absolutely boss it in his first 2 games for us, I can't understand why a team like Utd weren't in for him. Especially for only £18m.

[Shindig]

Henderson should get recalled, Greenwood should restart training. :uhoh:

[randomlegend]

He was really hyped last summer and United reportedly looked at him, but the Sporting fans reckoned he'd really fallen off this year and Ugarte was the one to go for.

Sounding like last season was the anomaly.

Genuinely if you just signed players who are good on FM from smaller teams I don't think you'd go far wrong.

[Ben]

Speaking of Greenwood, I was surprised to see they’ve assigned him his squad number again.

[Kikó]

The problem is we also do actually need a new shiny striker and winger.

Our line-up containing only players who are actually good enough on current evidence is something like:

GK
RB
CB Varane
CB Martinez
LB
CM
CM Eriksen
AM Bruno Fernandes
RW Sancho
LW
CF I guess Ronaldo

And even then there's obviously question marks over Martinez's height, Ronaldo being immobile and Varane never being fit.

Even the ones you've listed doesn't fill me with confidence. Fernandes has been so far off the pace for ages now and Sancho barely influences. I struggle to understand how Laird and Garner can't get look ins (we know the standard of Fred, Mctomminay, wan Bissaka, Shaw).

The team is in a very bad way.

[Don]

£50m on his BFF midget and starting that midfield 3 and people trying to defend the paedo :D

[phonics]

Forest are apparently signing Auoar from Lyon to mark their 73rd signing of the window.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Aouar :drool:

They're going to go down in style.

[Don]

Sort of Arab quality that their spine of shit brexit gammons and squadron of BLM acquisitions desperately needs. Could do a number on Southampton still.

[Manc]

The pull of the Premier League is properly mental.

[Baz]

i know I’m late but… United :lol:

[Spikey M]

Forest are apparently signing Auoar from Lyon to mark their 73rd signing of the window.

Isn't he the fella everyone wanted last summer before discovering he spends more time injured than the founding members of the Brittle Bone Disease Foundation?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why don't Forest have a shirt sponsor? I mean, I'm all for it as it makes the kit look swish, but it's surprising.

[Baz]

Why don't Forest have a shirt sponsor? I mean, I'm all for it as it makes the kit look swish, but it's surprising.

Last match the commentator said it's soon to change, so presume they've not found anyone to sponsor them yet, which is a bit smalltime, rather than them choosing to have a nice shirt. Last season they had BOXT.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why don't Forest have a shirt sponsor? I mean, I'm all for it as it makes the kit look swish, but it's surprising.

Apparently they want £10m a season for a sponsor which no one is willing to pay right now.

https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/exclusive-forest-holding-out-for-10m-shirt-sponsorship-deal-after-rebuffing-offers/

[SincereTheRebel]

Only Sean Dyche 3:16 can save Man Utd now

[Spikey M]

Steve Bruce with assistant Mark Hughes.

[Kikó]

He's a decent manager to be fair and probably what we need.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Forest living dangerously.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's a stonewall pen.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This ref is useless, VAR holding his hand all day.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Henderson :cool:

Recall him.

[Giggles]

Sort of Arab quality that their spine of shit brexit gammons and squadron of BLM acquisitions desperately needs. Could do a number on Southampton still.

What are you ever even saying?

[Giggles]

Two days in a row the same token woman on Sky. Will they dare do a game without her at all this season?

[Lewis]

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Could always be worse for United.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Champions of being Small Time.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We still haven't had a decent set piece taker since Zola.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a finish.

[randomlegend]

We still haven't had a decent set piece taker since Zola.

Nobody has. Kicking the ball well is a lost art.

[Luke Emia]

Spurs gonna Spurs.

[Pleb]

Lads it's Tottenham

[Jimmy Floyd]

We've been alright, but they have been absolutely abysmal so far.

[Browning]

I did find it weird the amount of people that were wanking over Spurs signing a back up striker and a pensioner midfielder.

[Lofty]

I didn't realise Forest were owned by some Greek mafia man.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Jorginho is shit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Conte needs to be taken off touchlines, he clearly can't control himself.

[Waffdon]

Anthony Taylor is such a terrible referee. He doesn’t even get near the ball on Havertz 30 seconds before.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He nicked the ball, and it was about 5 years before the goal. The bigger issue was Jorginho fannying around in his own box.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Jorginho instantly subbed off because of his shitness.

Tuchel :cool:

[Giggles]

What was Tuchel the big blouse at there? :D

[Vercetti]

Didn't realise exactly what Tuchel was rocking under that cap.

Just shave it off.

[Waffdon]

Reece James is just it. Doesn’t matter where he’s played he is the best on the pitch

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fair fucks to Sterling for that layoff, many a lesser man would have spaffed it wide instead of seeing James outside him.

[Giggles]

Conte needs to be taken off touchlines, he clearly can't control himself.

I love when this Jimmy comes out. With the Man Utd fans all broken and the Liverpool fans still trying to make everyone think they’ll lose every week you’re the only one who gets properly riled up in the blinkered way fans should be :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I love when this Jimmy comes out. With the Man Utd fans all broken and the Liverpool fans still trying to make everyone think they’ll lose every week you’re the only one who gets properly riled up in the blinkered way fans should be :drool:

Conte is the perfect man to bring it out. I'd have been loving it when he was our manager, of course.

[Spoonsky]

That Spurs shape was :cab:

[Waffdon]

Kante is made of glass these days

[Gray Fox]

I can’t help but find Tuchel a very likeable character.

[Giggles]

Spurs are absolutely shocking. Is that Bentacur lad the same one that was everyone’s first buy on FM about 5 years ago?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shocking from Chelsea.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That all came from Reece James needlessly ploughing into Kane down the flank a couple of minutes before. The thickest bloke in football. We should take him off at 85 minutes any time we're ahead.

[Pleb]

:D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Conte and Tuchel :D

[Spikey M]

Lol.

[Giggles]

This is quality :cool:

[Spoonsky]

Fucking hell :D

Cuccurella really got his hair pulled at the end, didn't he? Just before the goal.

[Spikey M]

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Tuchel needs to be taken off touchlines, he clearly can't control himself.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fucking hell :D

Cuccurella really got his hair pulled at the end, didn't he? Just before the goal.

This was weird. Not a red card, but obviously a foul which should have been a free kick to Chelsea. Is it red card or nothing, as far as VAR is concerned?

[Shindig]

What a powerplay. :D

[Spoonsky]

Yeah, I don't think VAR can just give a foul like that. Play of the game anyways, Chelsea were rattled by it just before that last corner came in.

The level of hatred there was top quality. It's a welcome change from the Liverpool-City love-ins.

[Giggles]

Souness is surely undergoing some equality retraining during the ads.

[Gray Fox]

Souness is surely undergoing some equality retraining during the ads.

There was a good two or three times he mentioned it being a man’s game I picked up on. No doubt he’ll disappear during the next break.

[Giggles]

There was a good two or three times he mentioned it being a man’s game I picked up on. No doubt he’ll disappear during the next break.

You can visibly see the presenters arsehole tighten every time he says it too.

[Giggles]

Tuchel was quality there.

[Lewis]

Graeme Souness is a fucking MAN. I bet he hasn't cooked his own tea in forty years. :cool:

[-james-]

He looks incredible for 70. That's that vegan diet for you. :dc:


(definitely not the plastic surgery)

[randomlegend]

Graeme Souness is a fucking MAN. I bet he hasn't cooked his own tea in forty years. :cool:

Only cus he's too thick to boil an egg.

[Lewis]

He looks incredible for 70. That's that vegan diet for you. :dc:


(definitely not the plastic surgery)

Sandbanks sunshine and never lifting a finger around the house.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My hot take this evening is that if you choose to have long hair, you leave yourself open to it being pulled in the penalty area.

[Spikey M]

And you look stupid.

[Waffdon]

Graeme Souness is a fucking MAN. I bet he hasn't cooked his own tea in forty years. :cool:

He drinks Gin and Whisky in a wine glass. Definitely not

[phonics]

My takeaway from today’s game is that Rajeev Sterling looks 70 years old in the face.

[Lewis]

Taz's booking alias on Adultwork.

[Spikey M]

Indian version of Goodnight Sweetheart.

[Lewis]

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[niko_cee]

Chelsea want to be careful with their no more Anthony Taylor reffing our games line.

Apart from it being a completely unacceptable position to take [although an increasingly common modus operandi among clubs], they might also find themselves beset by even more useless fuckers like Paul Tierney if the policy was ever adopted.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's a load of absolute paranoid horseshit. Taylor is one of the best.

Honestly the thing that turns me off modern football these days is the ridiculous siege mentality from clubs/supporters. Comes from society at large, I suppose. People are in these bubbles/echo chambers and they can't deal with it when anything goes against them.

[John Arne]

I didn't watch the game, but weren't most of the issues VAR-related, rather than the ref, who lets be honest, can't see everything that happens on the pitch.

[Waffdon]

He was staring right at the hair pull thing tbf.

All the referees are just a bit shit.

[Baz]

Apparently hair pulling isn’t a foul unless deemed violent conduct. :cab:

[Don]

That's what I tell the missus.

[Manc]

Could have done without the image of you getting pegged.

[niko_cee]

Both things could have been fouls, but were nothing to do with the goals, so just pointless bleating. On the Havertz fouls Chelsea had possession of the ball again before the goal ffs.

[CJay]

Havertz bleating about not getting a marginal call for a foul when he's missing sitters laid on a silver platter for him by Reece James. :happycry: Chelsea won't have much joy this season if he's their starting 'centre forward'.

[Waffdon]

Not signing Jesus was stupid. One of the only forwards who actually properly fits their style perfectly. Now Tuchel is trying to go back to old faithful with Aubameyang which will never work out well.

Havertz was fine, he was really good yesterday that one change aside. I don’t think he’ll ever be clinical but then who is at Chelsea.

[Gray Fox]

Ruptured Achilles for Diego Carlos. Almost definitely done for the season.

[CJay]

Thoroughly enjoying the Bundesliga highlights show on Sky Sports. Mondays at 11pm. Did they have the rights to German football last season too?

Köln registering an xG of 4.6 (:cab:) in their first game against Schalke (who are now BACK!). Daniel Farke is in charge at Gladbach, following an invasion-disrupted 2 month stint in Krasnodar.

German fans wear their club colours really well. Every game looks fantastic.

[Waffdon]

Adults wearing football tops is a bit noncey

[Jimmy Floyd]

Every German game I've been to (all at Bayern, it must be said) has mainly featured double or triple denim with club badges sewn into it.

[Lewis]

Germany, caught between East and West/North and South as ever, awkwardly tries to both enjoy the game itself but also turn it into a big gay organised chanting festival. Hence the denim and probably massive white trainers as well.

[CJay]

Maybe it's just the good weather has them out minus their denim.

[CJay]

Also, the politicking at PSG is hilarious: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/aug/15/neymar-kylian-mbappe-split-psg

We all know Neymar is nakedly self-indulgent and lazy, but Mbappe sounds like a conniving little rat.

[Ian]

Does Mbappe need to connive now? It's his club.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Neymar's been there five years? Jesus Christ, what a waste.

[Ian]

You, a hater, might call it a waste but he's the one with all those Coupe de Frances' to show for it.

[Boydy]

Thoroughly enjoying the Bundesliga highlights show on Sky Sports. Mondays at 11pm. Did they have the rights to German football last season too?

Köln registering an xG of 4.6 (:cab:) in their first game against Schalke (who are now BACK!). Daniel Farke is in charge at Gladbach, following an invasion-disrupted 2 month stint in Krasnodar.

German fans wear their club colours really well. Every game looks fantastic.
I think BT used to have the rights for it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sky had it last year, seemed quiet on the publicity front though, and a very limited/non-existent production.

[Shindig]

They throw free games out to their youtube channel. Presumably to die. Sorry, 'the'.

[Gray Fox]

Nat Phillips starting games in 2022.

However, Milner starts so the win is in the bag.

[Giggles]

If I make it through this it’ll be the most EPL I’ve watched in a weekend in about five years.

[Gray Fox]

So much better with an attack minded CM/CAM type in there already.

[Giggles]

This is going to be an ungodly bumming.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's a cracking counter attack.

[Gray Fox]

7 games on the bounce conceding first.

[Waffdon]

Beautiful from Eze to begin with

[Vercetti]

To be fair, that pitch is looking a bit too green.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Beautiful from Eze to begin with

He's one of those players I could watch on player cam for long periods. There aren't many.

[Waffdon]

The referees really don’t blow the whistle for any fouls this season so far

[Waffdon]

He's one of those players I could watch on player cam for long periods. There aren't many.

Him and Olise both look like they could be very good. Was a bit worried about the former and that injury but seems alright based on tonight

[Gray Fox]

I have no idea how this isn't about 5-1. Such a confusing game at times.

[Don]

Harvey doing bits. Team also performing well, just a shame we're having to rely on these 2 favela cunts upfront for output, fuck me.

Darwin's ability to stretch the play is gonna be incredible with Thiago back though, not sure why the defender bother following the spastic.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:harold:

[Gray Fox]

What a thick cunt he is.

[Ben]

Great sell from Andersen. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's some finish.

Balls.

[Spoonsky]

You fucking beauty. Forget Darwin this boy's our star.

[Lofty]

You'll never walk alone eh.

[phonics]

That Nunes sending off is hilarious.

[phonics]

Greatest atmosphere in the world is absolutely PUMPING.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Zaha is a twat.

[Waffdon]

Greatest atmosphere in the world is absolutely PUMPING.

It’s so tragic.

As is Olise still being on the bench and Eze being taken off.

[niko_cee]

The referees really don’t blow the whistle for any fouls this season so far

In the Brighton game at the weekend I think I saw something I've not seen probably since playing in U13 football, which was the referee giving an obvious offside whilst the linesman dithered, his brain obviously malfunctioning as to whether this minor passage of play on the halfway line might actually lead directly to a goal.

Good to see Nunez is the right type of Uruguayan forward [although are they all just mental/idiots]?

As someone else said, not sure I thought Nat Phillips would be starting games this season, so that was an interesting thing. Gomez game time as well. Cupboard must be bare.

[Gray Fox]

Greatest atmosphere in the world is absolutely PUMPING.

The same atmosphere your manager specifically tried to plan against in training?

[Boydy]

At least there's a chance of improvement in the next three games without that donkey up front.

[Gray Fox]

Proper head scratcher that.

Moment of lunacy for Nunez aside, the performance was pretty much perfect. On another night there could have been 7 or 8 goals.

[Offshore Toon]

Has anybody done Mr Shaky Hands Man from Bonzai for Tuchel-Conte?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Title over, you don't catch Pep's City from 4 points behind with 36 games to go.

[John Arne]

Love this. Proper man's game.

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[Ben]

Andersen. :cool:

[niko_cee]

Yeah, that fall is something else. Would only have been better if he'd started twitching on the ground.

[Baz]

Should’ve just pulled his hair.

[Kikó]

Expert winding up going on there. Love it.

[Gray Fox]

Worst part for Nunez is that he's just given every centre back the blue print on what to do against him. First eligible game back is against Everton, so I doubt he'll be starting that.

[Manc]

Redemption.

[Don]

He's not gonna do it again, Klopp and the boys won't allow it whereas your favela cunts like Suarez were too big to be told what to do. I'm just pissed that he's got a big-money move and opportunity to spearhead our attack off the back of physical attributes alone but we've fallen for it just because he's white and not the BLM variety.

Mehdi Taremi would have cost a third and been the perfect player but no, he's 30 and a hairy muslim with no tattoos so no, it doesn't make sense. Least it gives Jota a clean run at starting regularly this season.

[CJay]

Worse than the headbutts were the several shanked efforts and just general inability to hit the ball cleanly. Andy Carroll vibes.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I had never seen Darwin Núñez until yesterday and didn't really know anything about him, so had assumed from the name he was a Colombian/Ecuadorean black guy. Turns out he's actually an evolutionary step backwards in the footballing origi(n) of species.

[niko_cee]

Liverpool, of course, famous for their no hairy tattooless 30 year old muslim policies.

[Don]

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Please don't file the body-waxing POS in with us, his time will come just as it did with Salman.

[Shindig]

Yeah, those matching pyjamas deserve a fatwa.

[Lewis]

He looked like he had blond highlights last night, which all but confirms that it was his little cock in those pictures.

[Manc]

Decent game at Ibrox. Sangare looks a gem of a player.

[Giggles]

RTE are showing Rangers. There’s another tick in the ‘I’ll go to jail before I ever pay a tv licence again’ column.

[Shindig]

Up the Ra(ngers).

[mo]

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Oh dear.

Swansea conceding 2 goals in stoppage time to draw 2-2 is pretty lol also, then you see they were both OGs as well.

[Ian]

Ruud. :cool:

[Shindig]

I feel genuinely sorry for him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

To be fair that's a bit unlucky really, unless he was in a terrible position to start with I suppose, I don't really know enough about goalkeeping.

[Spoonsky]

Surely if you have any uncertainty from there you just punch it.

[Spoonsky]

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Oh dear.

Swansea conceding 2 goals in stoppage time to draw 2-2 is pretty lol also, then you see they were both OGs as well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke6cn5lY1Ho

Two quality goals for Swansea and then...

[Shindig]

Surely if you have any uncertainty from there you just punch it.

I can see the logic of holding it. Tipping it over the bar is the safest option but you don't want a 96th minute corner. So he went for the grab in the hopes of going to ground, wasting the last few seconds and seeing the game out.

[Waffdon]

Was wondering why Hearts weren’t playing Zurich in Zurich. Apparently the local council didn’t have much faith in Zurich and the stadium has been rented out for Ed Sheeran amongst other activities :lol:

[niko_cee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62581660


Chelsea's Marc Cucurella says he will never cut his long hair - even though it played a role in Tottenham's late equaliser at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

Apart from the overall lol nature of this story, can we just be clear that it played literally no "role in Tottenham's late equaliser at Stamford Bridge on Sunday".

[Waffdon]

Well there would have been no equaliser if it was given as a foul and that would have been game over init lad

[niko_cee]

Free kick would have been blocked and looped in comically, such is the nature of the infinite possibilities on offer if one decides to meddle with the time line.

[John Arne]

This is nice.

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[Spikey M]

Free kick would have been blocked and looped in comically, such is the nature of the infinite possibilities on offer if one decides to meddle with the time line.

Leave Waff alone, he is absolutely, categorically, not a Chelsea fan.

[niko_cee]

Wait, Hector Bellerin is still an Arsenal player?

[Manc]

I'm all for people having second teams, especially in a different country, but isn't the unwritten rule that you don't pick a giant of the game? How old was Waffle when Roman rolled into London?

[Jimmy Floyd]

My Scottish team is Inverness Caley, so we both spend our spare time supporting a plastic mess that wear blue and can't expand their stadium for geographical reasons.

[Waffdon]

I'm all for people having second teams, especially in a different country, but isn't the unwritten rule that you don't pick a giant of the game? How old was Waffle when Roman rolled into London?

8 during the greatest summer of all. Fat Frank getting 2 at Bolton before KP with his blonde streaks in his hair donning Shane Warne all over the gaff

[Giggles]

Mine have all gone by the wayside these days (Sampdoria, Tottenham, Stuttgart). I'm too old for more than one.

[Foe]

My Scottish team is Inverness Caley, so we both spend our spare time supporting a plastic mess that wear blue and can't expand their stadium for geographical reasons.

How has it taken this long to be flushed out. I thought your second team would’ve been Forres mechanics. Still, :(

[Waffdon]

I have your back. Inverness is a shit away day but Ross County is the best in Scotland. The Mallard :drool:

[niko_cee]

8 during the greatest summer of all. Fat Frank getting 2 at Bolton before KP with his blonde streaks in his hair donning Shane Warne all over the gaff

Aye, 2005 was a great summer.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How has it taken this long to be flushed out. I thought your second team would’ve been Forres mechanics. Still, :(

Could have been Mecchies, Buckie or even Elgin at a push if they weren't all basically pub teams, so Caley it is.

Anything past Inverness makes me remember truly ghastly childhood summer holidays being driven 4 hours up to Thurso and spending 8 hours at Dunrobin Castle, so no time for Ross County I'm afraid.

[niko_cee]

Apparently pulling hair is violent conduct after all. :happycry:

Take that Daniel Passarella.

[Don]

Nunes and that Portuguese front 6 promise a lot :drool:

[SincereTheRebel]

Nunes and that Portuguese front 6 promise a lot :drool:

Its been going on for like 6 years now.

[Giggles]

Extremely small time after a draw, but considering how much it's wound the fuck out of Bohemians fans it's beautiful. Duffer :cool:


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[John Arne]

What happened to Connor Coady? Went from being captain and never missing a game for Wolves to being allowed to leave on loan to a rival. Strange one, that.

[Shindig]

Not Portuguese enough.

[Waffdon]

What happened to Connor Coady? Went from being captain and never missing a game for Wolves to being allowed to leave on loan to a rival. Strange one, that.

Can’t play in a back 4.

[Shindig]

Leicester could be a bit knackered.

[Gray Fox]

Arsenal could hit double figures here if they want.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That is a lovely finish.

[-james-]

I've had to mute this because of that fucking awful Saliba chant they've been singing all game.

[Gray Fox]

Impressive from Dortmund to be 2-0 up at home in the 88th minute and still lose.

[Spikey M]

Arsenal are looking distressingly good this season.