January Football: it's just the way we play, mate

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sounds like that Kvaradona guy is going to be off to PSG. Shame as it would have been good to see him in the Premier League rather than have him disappear forever into the Bois de Boulogne.

City have also casually spunked €40m on some defender from Lens.

Lens bought him for just £83k a year and a half ago.

[Foe]

Lens was a really interesting place to see in euro 2016.

Like Victoria park in Dingwall hosting if Scotland were.

[Spikey M]

Tamworth - Spurs should be good fun. Spurs are playing a strong team, but as always with them you never know if they're going to win 6-0 or lose 2-0 in these games.

[Gray Fox]

Spurs going to Tamworth today and facing Tom Tonks. Watched him turning out for our local side here and while he doesn't move all too well about the pitch he was the set piece specialist, with a knock off Delap throw in.

They're going to get just the way we played though.

[niko_cee]

Tommy Tonks is a very magic of the cup name.

[-james-]

I'm smelling 0-6.

[niko_cee]

They've done well to get it on, pitch must be like concrete, or is it artifical?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's artificial, 3G.

The ground is peak FA Cup.

[-james-]

:lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

An IT software manager and a Zara shop assistant fixing the net.

MAGIC OF THE CUP.

[Spikey M]

Nice to see that Werner is shit even at non-league level, as he loses the ball 3 times in 10 minutes.

[Spikey M]

Now that would have been the magic of the cup. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Now that would have been the magic of the cup. :D

If it had gone straight in with no touch it would have been a goal kick sadly.

Would have been funny though.

[Spikey M]

If it had gone straight in with no touch it would have been a goal kick sadly.

Would have been funny though.

Really? What a weird rule.

[niko_cee]

You can't score directly from a throw-in was always one of the first weird football rules you'd learn as a kid.

[Spikey M]

I have a very strong childhood memory of Teddy Sheringham scoring direct from a throw in at a pre-season friendly against Southend. My brain has presumably made this up.

[Kikó]

Harold on steroids. .

Lewis?

[Gray Fox]

I think I remember Delap chucking a couple directly in for Stoke. None counted sadly.

[Shindig]

The famous one is Enkelman's own goal.

[niko_cee]

This kid is running Porro pretty ragged.

[Spikey M]

Southend beat these mugs 2-0 3 months ago. :cool:

[Danny]

I have a very strong childhood memory of Teddy Sheringham scoring direct from a throw in at a pre-season friendly against Southend. My brain has presumably made this up.

Sheringham taking a throw in is the most unlikely part for me.

[Spikey M]

Just checked with my uncle, who thinks I'm mental for remembering this for all these years, but it did happen. The goalkeeper fumbled it, so it counted. It probably went down as an own goal.

[Danny]

In that case, yeah, own goal.

"Do you remember when Sheringham scored a throw in against us? I need to shut up some dickheads on the internet"

[Spikey M]

I asked for my own sanity.

[niko_cee]

Got to love the size/shape of non-league players. That Creaney is a right unit.

[Spikey M]

Someone spare us extra time please

[niko_cee]

Tottenham trying their best to lose.

[Spikey M]

To highlight how bad this Tamworth team is, Chris Wreh, who they have just brought on, was playing in the same league as Taz 2 years ago.

[Manc]

Pedro Porro fighting for his life.

[Giggles]

Didn't know these finished on the day now, that's a bit of a jip. When did they bin replays?

[phonics]

To highlight how bad this Tamworth team is, Chris Wreh, who they have just brought on, was playing in the same league as Taz 2 years ago.

Tbf he was also playing for Arsenal 20 years ago.

[Gray Fox]

Didn't know these finished on the day now, that's a bit of a jip. When did they bin replays?

This season. Obviously at the behest of the PL teams.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's such bullshit.

[Giggles]

Tbf he was also playing for Arsenal 20 years ago.

I was thinking the name was familiar.

[Spikey M]

They tried to placate the lower league teams by coming up with a new competition where they'd play the U21 teams of the bigger clubs.

This managed to only piss them off further and most of them have refused to take part.

The magic of the cup.

[niko_cee]

Is that the actual Chris Wreh or is it his son?

[Spikey M]

I was thinking the name was familiar.

You've probably heard it while driving home for Christmas

[Spikey M]

Is that the actual Chris Wreh or is it his son?

Son. And nephew of George Weah

[Danny]

Ah yeah Ali Dia's cousin

[niko_cee]

United and Arsenal should both be thrown out of the cup for their kit choices. Well, maybe just Arsenal, even if this is one of those knife crime things.

[Danny]

I can understand us wearing the blue because red and white kits are probably too close to their home kit. As nice as it is not sure why they are in all white.

[phonics]

There's a certain irony in this anti-knife crime message kit results in us getting murdered every time we play in it. Lost every time we've worn it.

[phonics]

We love the low ball into the middle. However, I have never seen us actually make the run across to get on the end of it.

[niko_cee]

I still don't understand that 'played at the ball therefore no offside' rule. 99 times out of 100, to borrow from Arne Slot's phrasebook, the alleged playing at the ball only derives from the presence of the offside player in the first place, so it should be offside.

[Manc]

Both these teams are desperate for a number 9.

[niko_cee]

Nigh on 5 minute break there for ostensibly no reason.

[Lewis]

Lewis?

Harold Bashup.

[niko_cee]

lol at Fernandes getting booked for being obviously taken out.

[randomlegend]

Lol at Jesus injuring himself in the process. Hope it's serious.

[phonics]

This is an appalling game, we have no attacking threat and neither do they. It's just passing backwards.

[randomlegend]

Git fucked.

This Arsenal side are the most unbearably unlikeable side I can remember.

[niko_cee]

That's a cracking finish.

+1 attacking threat

+1 for finding this whole Arsenal set up top tier unlikeable.

[Lewis]

I would love it if all of this new system bollocks makes Harry Maguire the main man.

[phonics]

Fucking hell Havertz. Following up Sterling hitting a volley backwards. Forward line is on fire.

[Ben]

The lack of VAR is so refreshing.

[phonics]

That's a mental thing to do on a yellow.

[SvN]

The absolute state of Arteta sprinting off the bench.

[niko_cee]

Not sure 'winning the ball' necessarily saves Dalot there. Not winning it certainly didn't help.

[Ben]

The absolute state of Arteta sprinting off the bench.

Horrible little rat isn’t he.

[phonics]

Our best striker is a fucking centre back.

[niko_cee]

Why are United playing their retarded second choice goalie again?

[Manc]

This is peak Barclays.

[phonics]

Why are United playing their retarded second choice goalie again?

I'm not sure the mental capacity of the first choice goalkeeper is the difference maker there tbf.

[niko_cee]

That's not really a penalty.

[Ben]

That’s shocking. :D

[phonics]

That's never a penalty. Refs once again prove how poor they are.

[niko_cee]

Hopefully the penalty is missed and Maguire goes full Keown.

[randomlegend]

That's so fucking soft it's insane.

[Manc]

:rasta:

[Lewis]

Is that his first ever save for United?

[randomlegend]

Lmfao.

We'll still lose from here but lmfao.

[SvN]

Of course he saves it :D

[Ben]

Hopefully the penalty is missed and Maguire goes full Keown.

Shame. Thought he’d have it in him.

[niko_cee]

Is that his first ever save for United?

:D

It was a superb one if so.

The whole extra time business makes this largely mission impossible for United though.

[Ben]

The whole extra time business makes this largely mission impossible for United though.

Pathetic from the FA to cave on that.

How much money has it cost Tamworth? Must be upwards of a million.

[Gray Fox]

Amad to win it and Arteta to seethe himself out of existence.

[Ben]

Amad to win it and Arteta to seethe himself out of existence.

After a blatant foul on Rice in the build up that this shite referee misses. :drool:

[niko_cee]

An obvious offside missed leading to a goal would be the perfect icing on the cake here.

[phonics]

If anyone would like an update on how Sterling’s Arsenal career has gone. This is the best 45 minutes he’s played so far.

[niko_cee]

Roll back onto the pitch!

[niko_cee]

How has he missed that?

[phonics]

Christ.

[Giggles]

Is there not a rule that numbers have to be visible?

[niko_cee]

For fucks sake Zirkzee release the ball!

[Danny]

An obvious offside missed leading to a goal would be the perfect icing on the cake here.


Amad to win it and Arteta to seethe himself out of existence.

Zirkee times that a little better and it was on

edit: Niko beat me to it

[niko_cee]

I must have missed Raheem Sterling's electric final 20 minutes there.

[phonics]

I must have missed Raheem Sterling's electric final 20 minutes there.

If that’s a comment towards me my point was just accentuating how poor he’s been generally so just managing to beat a man twice is incredible.

[phonics]

Another Arsenal game where there’s 8 billion xG and we draw 1-1.

[Ben]

Havertz, couldn’t happen to a nicer lad.

[randomlegend]

Havertz :D

Useless, cheating cunt.

[Ben]

I’m sure we’re about to hear about this Mitre ball not being up to snuff.

[randomlegend]

Satisfaction.

[niko_cee]

If that’s a comment towards me my point was just accentuating how poor he’s been generally so just managing to beat a man twice is incredible.

Nah, the BBC studio crew were purring over it.

Quality penalties and nice for Zirkzee to hit the winner. Amad and Yoro are quality.

[niko_cee]

Bollocks, was hoping for a nice low profile home game at Brighton to take the kids to. First bit right, second bit wrong.

Liverpool and Everton also drawn consecutively but not in the same tie. Sack the drawers.

[Shindig]

Fantastic for Miley and Osula to get off the mark today.

[Luke Emia]

In a flashback to Prime Barclays if his name was Michael Archer he’d be managing Bolton.

[Kikó]

United can beat the big teams again. As long as we avoid playing at old Trafford again this year, we are back.

[Spikey M]

The stabbing kit :cool:

[Lofty]

Didn't expect much, somehow losing 2-3 players a game through injury. Not the end of the world going out of the FA Cup but if the daft cunts don't sign some decent players sharpish they'll be out of a lot more sharpish.

Spurs are going to have a field day.

[Shindig]

A field day of missed chances, aye. :D

EDIT: Ah, Solanke might put one away. I'll be fair to him.

[Gray Fox]

As always with Spurs, that game could end 5-0 either way and I'd believe it.

[niko_cee]

United can beat the big teams again. As long as we avoid playing at old Trafford again this year, we are back.

Isn't this back to the Ten Hag keep it tight and play on the break/game raising wanker business?

Arsenal will ruin Spurs 1-0 off a set piece in the week. They laboured past Tamworth ffs.

[phonics]

We’ve scored about 4 goals off 25 xG and conceded 10 off 1xg. It’s mental.

[Kikó]

Isn't this back to the Ten Hag keep it tight and play on the break/game raising wanker business?

Arsenal will ruin Spurs 1-0 off a set piece in the week. They laboured past Tamworth ffs.

No. Ten Hag only did this in two fixtures against anyone decent and that was in the FA cup last year.

[Waffdon]

Barcelona are an odd one this year. Absolutely smashing Real Madrid again but 6 points behind Atletico in the league

Raphina has been incredible for them this year

[Dquincy]

Apparently he had the same flu as Szoboszlai at the start of the week. Slot says he would have started otherwise.

I'd like to see more of Danns up against stronger opposition.

Agreed on Danns, looked a handful(against a low level team) . I'd give him a go instead of Nunez. :uhoh:

[Dquincy]

Lol at Jesus injuring himself in the process. Hope it's serious.

A doctor everybody.

[randomlegend]

A doctor everybody.

This is about the 4th time you've made the same post.

[Manc]

Reports suggest he may have done his ACL. Hope you're happy, Randrew.

[niko_cee]

Probably saves Arsenal's season.

[Shindig]

Oh, cool. That'll make Isak's phone busy. :moop:

[AJ23]

Arsenal are heavily reliant on the Odegaard - Saka combination which destroys most teams. When one of them is injured, they revert to Paella Pulis tactics.

Liverpool have players who just step in and feel the process in the same manner when someone is out of the team.

Forest lost their key midfielder Danilo in the first game of the season with a broken ankle. Others just stepped in. Same team spirit feeling.

Newcastle lost Tonali early season but he's come back and is looking a million dollars. Bet365.

I'll be surprised if Arsenal can keep this up. They're crumbling. Another trophyless season for Arteta?

[Gray Fox]

In today's twitter rumour that will make Bazs head explode, Michael Edwards has apparently been personally working on shipping Nunez out to Saudi. An opening offer of £70m has been turned down as he wants £85m for him.

[niko_cee]

Sounds extremely likely.

[Ben]

I know the Saudis don’t really care about value for money, but surely they’re not about to hand over £85m for Nunez?

[niko_cee]

Yeah, that's never happening.

Best bet to get any sort of value for him would be as some sort of financial shenanigan makeweight into a less competitive Southern European league, probably Italy.

Although I hear Arsenal may be in the market for a number 9. Maybe they'll come in 1p over the Saudi offer.

[Luke Emia]

If we've turned down £70 million for that shower of shite someone at the club needs to get off the crack pipe.

[Lofty]

Arsenal agreed to sign Zumbimendi in the summer apparently :moop:

[niko_cee]

Early contender for football headline of the year (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c30dp1r73e4o).

[-james-]

The 56-year-old was suspended by the club in 2021 for performing a fascist salute at the end of a match against Inter Milan.

Bernabe was filmed making the salute and chanting "duce, duce", which translates as "leader, leader" and is commonly associated with former fascist Italian leader Benito Mussolini.

"I did it and I don't regret it because I admire Mussolini, he did great things for Italy as Franco did for Spain," Bernabe said in 2021.


Most normal Lazio fan.

[niko_cee]

They're not called SS Lazio for nothing.

[Spikey M]

I've never understood the admiration for Mussolini. He got cucked in Africa and had to be carried by Hitler for most of WWII. Geezer was a waster.

[Manc]

Bro invented fascism.

[Spikey M]

Then ended it by being a little bitch.

[-james-]

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Excellent.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Has he done any acting? Seems pretty good as a presence.

[Spikey M]

As long as he doesn't try management again.

[phonics]

Has he done any acting? Seems pretty good as a presence.

He was in one of those Guy Ritchie ones.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn4m2n1zl8jo

Villa have signed Donyell Malen for some reason.

[Waffdon]

Josh Acheampong becoming a first team player :cool:

Chelsea have produced Ola Aina, Reece James, Tino Livramento, Josh Acheampong, Alfie Gilchrist (wasn’t gonna include him but he starts every week for best defence in championship) and Tariq Lamptey all in the past 10 years all in one position. Cobham is ridiculous

Gets even better when you start including centre halves and left backs

[Luke Emia]

And managed to keep the only one who is never fit.

[niko_cee]

Lamptey is also rarely fit and Livramento blew his knee up.

Throw Broja into the mix and they've got a never ending stream of extremely fragile talent.

[Luke Emia]

Nunez not in the squad.

[niko_cee]

Settle down, he's suspended.

[Waffdon]

That Chelsea goal is utter filth from Jackson and palmer

[Luke Emia]

Settle down, he's suspended.

Fuck it.

[Waffdon]

Jackson has been utterly brilliant tonight in all the build up and pressing but has went badly to missing sitters. Two so far tonight and at least one in every game since the bad run of Chelsea form

[Waffdon]

One of the more one sided halves in the first. Que Chelsea giving away a penalty out of nowhere 2 mins into the half. The story of last season is slowly creeping back. Dominant, missing chances to end the game and gift goals away

[Waffdon]

And now the referee has been called to VAR for a red card incident after a clothesline and gives a yellow. Didn’t even think they could do that. Assumed it was either red card or nothing

[Manc]

Liverpool getting bullied.

[Luke Emia]

Slot needs to realise very quickly that against this teams that sit back you can’t play Diaz as the forward. He needs someone up there against the defenders not someone dropping off.

[Waffdon]

Could not have handpicked an easier run of fixtures after getting themselves into second place and a point behind Liverpool and are in absolute free fall. The curse of the second half strikes again. They need to invest in Liverpool’s peds and not kids from all over the world

[Luke Emia]

I noticed that they seem to be looking as if they are going to churn through yet more ‘player trading’ this month. They really could do with a transfer ban and just let the manager work with what he has got for a year. Then once he’s got a more settled team build on the obvious weaknesses.

[Waffdon]

That bald fraud doesn’t help himself. Taken 80 mins to bring an attacker on when 2-1 down at home to Bournemouth

[niko_cee]

Proper superkeepering here.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I accidentally found myself at the Gtech tonight. What a miserable watch City are. Should have lost about 6-1 but for Brentford being incredibly naive on the ball and a couple of miraculous goal line clearances.

Whoever that is in goal for City should be shipped off back to wherever he came from. Genuinely have no idea who it is except that it's not Ederson and he can't keep goal to save his life.

[AJ23]

Whereas the Forest goalkeeper was like superman in the second half.

Also, Murillo is a joy to watch. World class and at times mental. He's like someone went in a lab and put the DNA of Roberto Carlos and Fabio Cannavaro together.

I've heard Real Madrid are looking to put in a bid. Can see that figure being around £100m.

[Spikey M]

.
Whoever that is in goal for City should be shipped off back to wherever he came from. Genuinely have no idea who it is except that it's not Ederson and he can't keep goal to save his life.

On that subject.

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:D

[Jimmy Floyd]

There was a moment when he came rushing 30 yards out of goal and Mbeumo (who I loved watching, great player) beat him to the ball by about ten of those yards. Proper risible display.

[Luke Emia]

On that subject.

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:D

Everyone has probably lost count of how many times they have said it but fucking hell he is a weirdo.

[niko_cee]

I'm sure Ortega was the 'second best goalkeeper in the league' behind Ederson, natch, or somesuch at some point? Maybe it was best second choice? Anyway, I can only assume he's gone off the cliff due to adopting the Spanish naming protocol on the back of his shirt.

[Gray Fox]

Speaking of Ederson, why isn't he playing him? Is there something wrong with him, or is this Guardiola trying to prove a point?

As for our game, I've seen the highlights and it seems to paint the picture of us again being shite in the first half but dominating the 2nd. Sels putting on something of an FM'ing by the end. I would have taken a point before the game so I'm not too unhappy with the result.

[John Arne]

If it's true that we've turned down 70m for Darwin "Darwin" Nunez then everybody at the club needs beating over the head with a spade.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Also - and this is probably a bland point for those who go to games a lot - but I haven't been to much PL since say the pandemic, and my god it's a different game to watch live now that the goal kicks all go backwards. It all looks so much more pre-programmed. Each team has maybe one or two players who have licence to think for themselves, the rest are just pressing and cut inside drones. I'm not saying there isn't a beauty in trying to break the press, but that's literally all they do. Brentford did so in a much more direct and therefore varied way and were therefore much the better team to watch.

Back in the day when I used to go a lot (pre-2012, let's say) sure there would be a tactic or a system, but the players would all be making it up as they went along to some degree. Absolutely not the case anymore.

[niko_cee]

100% agree, watching Brighton, if they can't pass the ball sideways from the goalkeeper then they have literally no idea what to do and the game almost grinds to a halt. It's bizarre to watch when teams, it was Brentford last time, don't press them.

[Yevrah]

Also - and this is probably a bland point for those who go to games a lot - but I haven't been to much PL since say the pandemic, and my god it's a different game to watch live now that the goal kicks all go backwards. It all looks so much more pre-programmed. Each team has maybe one or two players who have licence to think for themselves, the rest are just pressing and cut inside drones. I'm not saying there isn't a beauty in trying to break the press, but that's literally all they do. Brentford did so in a much more direct and therefore varied way and were therefore much the better team to watch.

Back in the day when I used to go a lot (pre-2012, let's say) sure there would be a tactic or a system, but the players would all be making it up as they went along to some degree. Absolutely not the case anymore.

This combined with VAR has really killed my interest in the sport.

[John Arne]

I think people have underestimated VAR to this extent, too. Watching a game without VAR now is so, so refreshing.

[niko_cee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c4g9l45ppzqt

This has got to be one of the best footballer names ever:


The newly promoted side took the lead through a brilliant finish from Shuto Machino into the top corner after 27 minutes.

[Pepe]

If he's not an FM legend then that game is ruined beyond repair.

[Danny]

https://youtu.be/pMV6QefSGGM?si=oztGy_H8Kgyy1wOr&t=56

Instantly made me think of this. That link is supposed to start at 55 seconds.

[Waffdon]

Arsenal scoring from a corner? Woah!

And of course it’s baldy with the whistle missing the obvious double deflection for the corner

[Danny]

Terrible defending for that second. Two of them just jogging along with even thinking about closing him down.

[Gray Fox]

Say the line, Bart!

[Waffdon]

Seen poppadoms with higher resistance than the keepers wrists

[Dquincy]

This is about the 4th time you've made the same post.

You're mistaken. Or a liar.

[phonics]

If you get a backpass and clearly bat it down with your own hand isn't that a penalty?

edit: Oh it would be an indirect free kick no?

[niko_cee]

Nah, it would be an indirect freekick for a handled/picked up back pass. Unless it's not the goalkeeper doing it.

But there are also other weird rules about back passes that are never enforced - ie something like if you head it back to the goalkeeper, but the pass you headed it from was played by one of your own players then it still counts as a back pass, I think.

[phonics]

I don't have much reason to look at the bottom half of the table. Southampton have 6 points? Fucking hell.

[Shindig]

Derby's record is under threat.

[Waffdon]

Nah, it would be an indirect freekick for a handled/picked up back pass. Unless it's not the goalkeeper doing it.

But there are also other weird rules about back passes that are never enforced - ie something like if you head it back to the goalkeeper, but the pass you headed it from was played by one of your own players then it still counts as a back pass, I think.

I wish that was a rule but I’m not so sure unless FIFA (or whatever it’s called now) don’t enforce it on their games. Nothing worse than someone time wasting by chipping it from their defender and then heading it back to the keeper

[niko_cee]

I interpret that to be the case from this rule:


An indirect free kick is awarded if a player:

initiates a deliberate trick for the ball to be passed (including from a free kick or goal kick) to the goalkeeper with the head, chest, knee etc. to circumvent the Law, whether or not the goalkeeper touches the ball with the hands; the goalkeeper is penalised if responsible for initiating the deliberate trick

Now, on the face of it you could say this is just to stop players flicking it up to themselves and then heading it, but the inclusion of the free kick and goal kick bits surely allow for another player to be 'initiating the trick' otherwise those would both just be offences of kicking a free kick twice or whatever. I have no idea though and I doubt it has ever been enforced in the way I describe. Or does it mean you can't get down Vialli style and header a free kick to the goalkeeper? Which seems an even more bizarre interpretation as there would be literally no reason to do that or legislate for someone doing that. Also, deliberate trick is obviously a high enough bar that it would never actually be provably intentional.

[phonics]

And people say football has lost what it’s alll about when we can have discussions like this after a north London derby.

[niko_cee]

Surely only an actual sadist would have watched that game.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've had a sudden epiphany about attendances recently. 29,766 watched Leicester lose 2-0 at home to Palace tonight. 28,242 saw them beat QPR 6-2 on Saturday and progress in the cup at the same venue. Why? The missing 1,524 need banning orders.

[Yevrah]

There’ll be massive discounts on the cup ticket prices so in reality you’re looking for a lot more than 1,500 people.

[Gray Fox]

Someone I work with took his lad to that cup game. Said it was no bother getting a ticket. Maybe all the fog at the weekend didn't help?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think the cup attendance is perfectly explicable, I just don't get why there are more people for a dismal midweek league game as they slide towards doom.

[phonics]

I think the cup attendance is perfectly explicable, I just don't get why there are more people for a dismal midweek league game as they slide towards doom.

Season tickets are included even if they don't turn up and cup games aren't included in the season ticket.

[Danny]

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[randomlegend]

That is spectacular :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:lol:

[niko_cee]

These two games just sound like the death of football.

[Gray Fox]

Just checking how close they are to the bottom 3...

[Luke Emia]

United are BACK.

[Yevrah]

It's all absolutely rotten isn't it. If it wasn't for the vestigial respect teams still hold for them they'd be going down.

[Manc]

Yeny Loro may not recover from this.

[Gray Fox]

Antony with an elite pass back to Ramsdale under pressure.

[Waffdon]

That smallbone looks like Russian spy that was poisoned back in the day

[Gray Fox]

Amad keeping them up by himself.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Diallo is a King.

[Manc]

Bro is him.

[Gray Fox]

Some implosion from Southampton this.

[Dan]

:harold:

[Kikó]

Come at us now haters.

[Gray Fox]

Haaland has signed a 9.5 year contract at City, which has removed all the exit clauses he got into the last one.

[Ben]

Well if anyone thought there was still any possibility the Premier League would relegate them, there's your confirmation.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Got my first watch of him live the other day, he really is one of a kind. He didn't do anything particularly great in this game but the physicality and general menace of him is so far above other forwards.

[SvN]

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[Spikey M]

"That's mint, I'll post that".

[niko_cee]

This Haaland contract, going off the length alone, sounds like the first step towards American sports style contracts.

[Manc]

£525k per week. Fair play.

[Lofty]

Has anyone calculated the price per touch yet?

[Dquincy]

Most normal Lazio fan.

This is the chap, and one of the photos he shared.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/13/94166023-14292193-image-a-6_1737033819612.jpg

[SvN]

"That's mint, I'll post that".

You're telling me you don't think it's laughably retarded? Fair enough.

[Manc]

This is the chap, and one of the photos he shared.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/13/94166023-14292193-image-a-6_1737033819612.jpg

This story ends with the eagle flying away cock in mouth.

[Spikey M]

You're telling me you don't think it's laughably retarded? Fair enough.

It's a meme intended to express exactly that sentiment, old boy.

[Dquincy]

This Haaland contract, going off the length alone, sounds like the first step towards American sports style contracts.

Pards was the trailblazer for this with his Newcastle contract.

[igor_balis]

https://youtu.be/It4h3fpffZc?si=ZLbZ8DOM4S-fXj_L

Welcome home, boss.

[niko_cee]

[Only] €70m for Kvara to PSG, Osimhen out on loan at Galatasaray, is Di Laurentis losing his touch?

[Gray Fox]

I think it's more he missed the sellers market chance to get £100m+ for each. Instead, each player he had basically zero leverage on by the time it came to getting them out of the door.

[Spikey M]

Wait, why is Osimhen going to Turkey? Admittedly I haven't been paying attention, but last I heard was Taz wanking over him being the best striker in the world.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They tried to sell him in the Summer to Saudi, everything was agreed and then Napoli pushed the price up and the Oil barons said no and bought Ivan Toney.

Chelsea then tried to sign him but that fell through.

They had at that point unregistered him from the team for the league and given his shirt number to new signing Lukaku.

As he couldn't play for them in the league they loaned him to Gala in the Summer.

[Lewis]

Tony Mowbray is younger than I thought.

[John Arne]

This Kerkez is a proper tidy player.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I suppose that's the end of Newcastle's title challenge. Two-horse race between Liverpool and Bournemouth now.

[Gray Fox]

Jota injured again :moop:

[Danny]

Dont forget those tricky trees

[niko_cee]

:D

I did lol a bit when the lady football pundit on the BBC livetext said Newcastle were in the title race when it was 1-1.

[John Arne]

Trent ahead of Bradley again :/

[Shindig]

Well, those wheels came right off.

[niko_cee]

So many wasted opportunities. Van Den Berg winner off his arse.

[Gray Fox]

A competent central forward here and we're about 4-0 up.

[Danny]

Jota injured again :moop:

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He even has the app open on his phone :D

[Gray Fox]

For the love of god someone slap Diaz and Gakpo. This should be out of sight.

[Waffdon]

It’s hard to get excited about Liverpool not putting chances away as you just know Mo Salah will be on hand to score the most disgusting tap in your life has ever seen

[John Arne]

Fuck me, we are shit at corners. 20 so far... all bollocks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If more than 30,000 are at the King Power today I'm going to be seething.

[Waffdon]

I have a horrible feeling Arsenal win this league. Liverpool already starting their usual slight drop off in form when in a title challenge. A month or so earlier than usual.

Salah doing nothing in another big away game in the second half of a season? Not so much.

[Gray Fox]

If more than 30,000 are at the King Power today I'm going to be seething.

31,500 sell out apparently.

[Waffdon]

If more than 30,000 are at the King Power today I'm going to be seething.

Obviously there will be. League games are always more attended through all leagues. Only exceptions are tiny clubs at home to a top league side

[Jimmy Floyd]

I know. I'm calling for change in the face of these completely guileless relegation seasons that promoted clubs seem to enjoy having.

[Mike]

Nuuuuuuuuuuunez!!

Phew!

[Waffdon]

Home cup games for the most part are some of the most boring matches you can attend.

[John Arne]

Always said he was great.

May not be true.

[Gray Fox]

I've gone mad.

[Luke Emia]

Sticks another 10 million on for when the Saudi’s come calling.

[phonics]

'They should get ex-pros to be refs'

I just saw 5 Villa players appeal for offside from a throw-in.

[Ben]

Baz

[phonics]

100 goals in 400 appearances seems low for a man I remember as a god.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Watkins has done well, people don't normally get away from Partey that easily.

[phonics]

The rapist massively out of position again. I can't wait till he's gone.

[phonics]

Nice to see that Ozempic Rick Wakeman has a job in football.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Havertz :lol:

[Luke Emia]

Good Ebening. Arsenal really are Mentality Midgets.

[Gray Fox]

Wonderful day of Barclays.

[phonics]

Good Ebening. Arsenal really are Mentality Midgets.

This stuffs so dumb. If the ball had hit Havertz stomach instead of his arm (still not sure why this rule exists btw) then would they be mentality monsters?

[Lofty]

Good Ebening. Arsenal really are Mentality Midgets.

Or is it more the bench was so rancid Partey couldn't be hooked and the man charged with changing the game was Raheem Sterling.

At least when Liverpool rang the changes they brought on a striker they'd just turned down £75m for.

[Luke Emia]

This stuffs so dumb. If the ball had hit Havertz stomach instead of his arm (still not sure why this rule exists btw) then would they be mentality monsters?

What not being allowed to score with your hand. I mean more the letting the two goal lead slip than anything else.

[phonics]

That’s my point. Shit happens. It’s not something about ‘mentality’. Partey is just not very good.