[FOOTBALL] Weekend Football Thread - 12th/15th February 2016

[Weaver]

Premier League
Sunderland vs Manchester United - BT Sport 1, 12:45
Bournemouth vs Stoke City
Crystal Palace vs Watford
Everton vs West Bromwich Albion
Norwich City vs West Ham United
Swansea City vs Southampton
Chelsea vs Newcastle United - Sky Sports, 17:30

Arsenal vs Leicester - Sky Sports, Noon
Aston Villa vs Liverpool - Sky Sports, 14:05
Manchester City vs Spurs - Sky Sports, 16:15

Other Main Televised
Friday: Benfica vs FC Porto - BT Sport, 20:30

Saturday: QPR vs Fulham - Sky Sports, 12:30
Villarreal vs Malaga - Sky Sports, 17:15
Valencia vs Espanyol - Sky Sports, 19:30
Juventus vs Napoli - BT Sport, 19:45

Sunday: AC Milan vs Genoa - BT Sport, 11:30
Augsburg vs Bayern Munich - BT Sport, 16:30
Getafe vs Atletico Madrid - Sky Sports, 17:15
Barcelona vs Celta Vigo - Sky Sports, 19:30
Fiorentina vs Inter Milan - BT Sport, 19:45

Monday: Leeds United vs Middlesbrough - Sky Sports, 19:45

[Spoonsky]

Sunday is disgusting. Three great games, back to back, starting at 5 in the morning. Not quite sure what I'll do yet.

[Giggles]

Arsenal vs Leicester - Sky Sports, Noon
Aston Villa vs Liverpool - Sky Sports, 14:05
Manchester City vs Spurs - Sky Sports, 16:15


Sunday is disgusting. Three great games, back to back, starting at 5 in the morning. Not quite sure what I'll do yet.

:D

[Spoonsky]

You're right. Two great games and another one I'd like to watch (grudgingly).

[Lee]

It's going to be a cracking weekend. I'll not be back home in time for today's early match and might give the Chelsea game a miss too, but after that, starting with Juve-Napoli, I doubt if I've looked forward to a set of live matches more this season.

[niko_cee]

:D

I would have thought Liverpool losing to THE VILLA would be the highlight of your weekend.

[Giggles]

I would have thought Liverpool losing to THE VILLA would be the highlight of your weekend.

See my post you quoted for the idea of anyone losing to THE VILLA. They've had their win to cover a few months now.

[randomlegend]

Good start :D

[Magic]

:harold:

[Byron]

Big Sam :cool:

[Giggles]

Everyone really is painting Leicester as favourites tomorrow and hawhawing at Arsenal. Cue Arsenal walloping them.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Darmian injured? I'm shocked.

[Cord]

Donald Love is a belting name though. Good work getting injured Matteo.

Martial is a such a beast.

[SvN]

What a finish. Martial really is brilliant.

[John Arne]

What a stupid yellow card for Yedlin. Booked for diving at the halfway line.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was lovely from Tony.

[Disco]

Donald Love is a belting name though. Good work getting injured Matteo.

Martial is a such a beast.

I'm sure there was a character in GTA with the same name.

[Magic]

Shite game, though.

[Magic]

Not GTA, and it was Donald Love.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm sure there was a character in GTA with the same name.

There was, in GTA III.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/gtawiki/images/c/c0/DonaldLove-GTAVC.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100806010352

[John Arne]

Well, that should have been a penalty.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ugh, Depay coming on :(

[randomlegend]

It's nice to see how good Martial is after all the initial "What?"ing at the transfer

[Magic]

:drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So very very shit.

[Lewis]

They can drop this one if it helps Big Sam stay up at the expense of Newcastle.

[Lee]

Get in Sunderland. They hold on and we're 12 clear of 5th with 12 to play whatever happens tomorrow.

[randomlegend]

We're so crap :D

I guess having 18 full backs injured doesn't help, but still.

[John Arne]

Michael Owen is with some nice after-eventing there. 'I thought this and I thought that' - you didn't say it out loud, did you, prick.

[Magic]

Get in Sunderland. They hold on and we're 12 clear of 5th with 12 to play whatever happens tomorrow.

Oh shut up.

[SvN]

Memphis Depay must be one of the worst pound for pound signings since Andy Caroll

[Lee]

Oh shut up.

You what, mate?

[Giggles]

Oh shut up.

The fuck?

[Davgooner]

Oi, Lee: cunt.

[Magic]

4th this 4th that.

[Lee]

It's exciting, you retard.

[Magic]

You're title contenders, get a grip.

[ScousePig]

You're aiming a bit higher than 4th now Lee.

Cracking second half performance and fully deserved win. We've looked genuinely decent since these new signing have come in.

[Yevrah]

It was pretty clear what Magic was getting at, 4th already has a fork in it.

[Lee]

There's ages left. We're Leicester City, being a bit disbelieving of the situation shouldn't really be a surprise. Yeah, fourth looks very likely but it's hardly a normal position for us to be in; any Leicester fan who wouldn't be elated with a top four finish is a moron to be honest.

Yes; we are title contenders. So are three others with more pedigree and resource. I'd love us to win the league and all that, but not all contenders do and finishing in the top four would be magnificent. There's a danger in all the talk of winning the league that the size of the achievement of Leicester fucking City qualifying for the Champion's League becomes diminished by the failure to achieve something which I still don't believe to be likely, possible though it is.

[Smiffy]

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[Giggles]

It was pretty clear what Magic was getting at, 4th already has a fork in it.

It's February. Mid February. Absolutely nothing has a fork in it yet.

[Lee]

I'm enjoying it very much, Smiff.

And Giggles is correct.

[Yevrah]

It's February. Mid February. Absolutely nothing has a fork in it yet.

Through a combination of the teams below fourth being too shit to catch Leicester and Leicester still having too much shit to play, it's done.

[Manc]

I read an article in the Guardian this morning about Ranieri. The man's cursed. Pipped on the final day.

[Yevrah]

I'm enjoying it very much, Smiff.

And Giggles is correct.

Well you're bound to say that as there's absolutely no chance you're going to allow yourself to 100% believe you've made next year's Champions League (playoff against goat herders notwithstanding) until it's mathematically impossible that you haven't.

I'm not having a dig by the way, I'd be exactly the same in your shoes.

[Yevrah]

And it's not mid February either, with the FA Cup next weekend and Man Utd losing today, Leicester are all but guaranteed to be 12 points clear of 4th at the start of March.

[Lee]

Well you're bound to say that as there's absolutely no chance you're going to allow yourself to 100% believe you've made next year's Champions League (playoff against goat herders notwithstanding) until it's mathematically impossible that you haven't.

I'm not having a dig by the way, I'd be exactly the same in your shoes.

We won't get goat herders if we finish fourth. We have no European history so we wouldn't be seeded. We are the goat herders.

[Yevrah]

We won't get goat herders if we finish fourth. We have no European history so we wouldn't be seeded. We are the goat herders.

If you do make it, how do you think you'll do? Will your team be gutted in the summer?

It's a shame money rules the world as that aside, I wouldn't remotely consider leaving before the end of next season were I a Leicester player.

[Lee]

If you do make it, how do you think you'll do? Will your team be gutted in the summer?

It's a shame money rules the world as that aside, I wouldn't remotely consider leaving before the end of next season were I a Leicester player.

I don't see any reason for us to do terribly so long as we manage to keep hold of our better players, which I think we'd do if we're in the Champion's League. Even if we did lose (for example) Mahrez and Kante, who I think would be the most likely targets, our scouting set up is excellent and with the pull of European football and Premier League money I expect we'd find competent replacements.

It's a bit of a cop out answer but it would really depend on the draw. Win the league and we are top seeds, so no reason why we couldn't get through the group stage and then it depends on the draw again as to when we'd make our glorious exit. Even if we don't win the league English sides at the minute seem to either just fail to get past the group, or scrape through and get knocked out by the first good side they face. Same for us, I'd expect.

Doing well would be great but I'm really not sure how much I'd care to be honest. I'd be watching Leicester in the European Cup.

[Giggles]

And it's not mid February either, with the FA Cup next weekend and Man Utd losing today, Leicester are all but guaranteed to be 12 points clear of 4th at the start of March.

Not mid February? I know I'm a day early but come on :cab:

As for Leicester playing the shit, I can see an awful amount of draws against that backs to the wall shit.

[Yevrah]

Not mid February? I know I'm a day early but come on :cab:

Have another read of my post and you'll see what I was getting at. It wasn't an attempt to be pedantic over a day.

[ScousePig]

It'd be a travesty if this Leicester team got taken apart, but it probably won't because they seem the very definition of being greater than the sum of their parts. They might do well to hold on to Mahrez, Kante and Vardy but bigger clubs won't be sniffing around Morgan, Huth, Simpson and the like, or probably even Drinkwater and Okazaki.

[Yevrah]

It'd be a travesty if this Leicester team got taken apart, but it probably won't because they seem the very definition of being greater than the sum of their parts. They might do well to hold on to Mahrez, Kante and Vardy but bigger clubs won't be sniffing around Morgan, Huth, Simpson and the like, or probably even Drinkwater and Okazaki.

Yeah, I'd probably go along with that.

There are certain players you know what will happen when they move to a bigger club/get a chance. The Sky wankers were discussing Aaron Lennon earlier and whether he should go to the Euros or not - I can tell you now that if he does his contribution will be the square root of fuck all.

[ScousePig]

Yeah, I'd probably go along with that.

There are certain players you know what will happen when they move to a bigger club/get a chance. The Sky wankers were discussing Aaron Lennon earlier and whether he should go to the Euros or not - I can tell you now that if he does his contribution will be the square root of fuck all.

What would also be quite disappointing is if they brought in a load of mercenaries who disrupted whatever it is they're doing so right.

[Magic]

These results are a total disaster for my FF selection.

[Kikó]

Van Gaal :lol:

[Magic]

Derby. :harold:

[Smiffy]

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[Charlie]

I hope so much that Leicester don't win the title. I'm not just hoping that to be the opposite of everyone else, but I genuinely would hate for them to win it.

[Spoonsky]

Why?

[Charlie]

It's hard to say exactly, but I suppose it tends to be the complete jealousy I would feel should they do it. A team like Leicester winning the league is going to happen once every 100 years, and as Bolton are traditionally a club of similar if not greater stature than Leicester, it suggests that they never will.

[Magic]

Probably create another Derby/Forest shite club with one achievement that they can cling on to forever more despite utter lower league mediocrity since then.

[Sam]

It's hard to say exactly, but I suppose it tends to be the complete jealousy I would feel should they do it. A team like Leicester winning the league is going to happen once every 100 years, and as Bolton are traditionally a club of similar if not greater stature than Leicester, it suggests that they never will.

Wait, what?

[Charlie]

Bolton Wanderers.

[Sam]

Bolton Wanderers.

More stating them as a club similar to Leicester.

Though that could be my utter disdain for Bolton clouding that.

[Charlie]

How are they not? I think you must just be completely overscaling Leicester. This is a team that hasn't even won a single FA Cup.

[Boydy]

'I don't want a little team to challenge the big boys unless it's my little team!'

Sound reasoning.

[Byron]

Probably create another Derby/Forest shite club with one achievement that they can cling on to forever more despite utter lower league mediocrity since then.

Just out of curiosity, when was the last time Leeds did anything of note?

[Magic]

I forgot to add West Ham to that list.

[Lewis]

Leicester blowing it would be pretty lol, but the alternatives being worse keeps me in line. City are just a shithouse club from top to bottom; Tottenham acting like a big club is something we can do without; and Arsenal winning a title would make all football media unbearable for at least eighteen months.

[Max Power]

Good job Newcastle spent a load of money on trash like Andros Townsend instead of some defenders.

[Smiffy]

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[Foe]

Spending nigh on 30 million in January and starting Rolando Aarons at left back. 😖

[Magic]

Lol Shelvers and Towners will prove their worth in the Champo next year. No really, hope they don't get relegated.

[Smiffy]

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[Magic]

Willian on the bench. :drool:

[Foe]

This is a duck hunt in a pond.

This should finish 6 or 7 if Newcastle keep trying to get the assists. Back pass is having a shocker today.

[Charlie]

'I don't want a little team to challenge the big boys unless it's my little team!'

Sound reasoning.

It makes perfect sense really. That's a type of behaviour I imagine you are very likely to come across in the world.

[Sam]

How are they not? I think you must just be completely overscaling Leicester. This is a team that hasn't even won a single FA Cup.

They have a number of league cups on you, a stadium that actual is more then half full and quite a decent pedigree in recent times whereas Bolton have just existed off the back of a bit of bankrolling.

Mind you, should be fading into insignificance in the coming future with all the debts racked up. What a glorious day.

[Waffdon]

Southampton have looked a bit good.

[Sam]

I'm seeing the comedy in Leicester finishing 1st with Spurs 2nd. Arsenal and City claiming the other two spots only for Liverpool and Chelsea to succeed in Europe. :D

Thought Europa win gave an additional spot?

[Kikó]

It does.

[Smiffy]

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[Charlie]

They have a number of league cups on you, a stadium that actual is more then half full and quite a decent pedigree in recent times whereas Bolton have just existed off the back of a bit of bankrolling.

Mind you, should be fading into insignificance in the coming future with all the debts racked up. What a glorious day.

I did say traditionally.

[Jimmy Floyd]

3-0 takes Newcastle back below Norwich on goal difference. McClaren surely has to go tonight.

[Smiffy]

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[Samadini]

For fucks sake.

[Byron]

I forgot to add West Ham to that list.

World Cup Winners mate.

[Shindig]

To be fair, this is a Chelsea with an interim manager. The most dangerous Chelsea.

[Waffdon]

I'll take the DUB regarding mclaren

[Samadini]

3-0 takes Newcastle back below Norwich on goal difference. McClaren surely has to go tonight.

Not sure what the plan would be. They brought Cathro in to take over once McClaren was finished, that would be risky as fuck in this position. It's not even like the players aren't playing for Schteve, there seems to be far less hatred of him amongst the players than there was with Pardew at the end, but then there's a lot less of the French cunts now.

We're just shit.

[Shindig]

McClaren stays until season after next IF he doesn't perform well in the Championship. That's on the assumption that we go down which we probably won't.

[Waffdon]

Pardew in free fall again, btw

[Vim]

Allegri has balls of steel. We've been on a huge run playing mainly 352 and in the most important match, he goes and plays a 442 which we've never tried before.

[Davgooner]

How the fuck have Espanyol not scored there? :D

[Samadini]

Was about the say the exact same thing.

Neville for Newcastle.

[Max Power]

Allegri has balls of steel. We've been on a huge run playing mainly 352 and in the most important match, he goes and plays a 442 which we've never tried before.

Bit strange no? Must not trust the kid Rugani yet.

Looking forward to this game. If Juve win they'll win the league though.

[Spoonsky]

'I don't want a little team to challenge the big boys unless it's my little team!'

Sound reasoning.

I know what he means. I was less enthusiastic about Costa Rica than I should've been during the World Cup, for the same reason.

[Reg]

Good, weird game today. "We score, you score." Neither side could defend.

We're in a really good position and it's comforting knowing our only bad run came when 5+ starters were out injured.

[Samadini]

Hughton and Armstrong back to donning the Football League.

Once we get them back, sign Carroll and switch to 4-4-2 we'll be a force.

[Vim]

Bit strange no? Must not trust the kid Rugani yet.

That is a factor for sure, but mainly I think it's because Cuadrado is physically in great shape, but leaving out a more defensively capable right-back like Lichtsteiner is not an option in a game like this.


Looking forward to this game. If Juve win they'll win the league though.

We'd be 1 point ahead, so definitely no. This match, as hyped as it has been, is not a title decider.

[Max Power]

Napoli will shit themselves if they lose top spot. The team that won the last 4 titles has just peeled off 15 wins in a row? Would be a massive mental victory for Juve.

Poor game though, really scrappy.

[Max Power]

R.I.P GNev

[Samadini]

Oh dear.

[Giggles]

R.I.P GNev

How did he even survive last vweek?

[Magic]

Duarte appeared to be tracked by Siqueira, who just let his man go.
In the end, Duarte headed home for Espanyol right in front of Diego Alves.
A great ball into the box but schoolboy errors in defending from Valencia - which has so often been Neville’s undoing.

:harold:

[Toby]

Hard to believe Chelsea are now within eight points of United.

[Mazuuurk]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35560198

Ranieri is such a legend. Everything he says is just spot on, in one way or another.
We are dreaming, don't wake us up please.


That bit at the end is all kinds of donnage as well :D

[Mazuuurk]

Hard to believe Chelsea are now within eight points of United.

It's not hard to believe. The Premier League has become exactly what football leagues should have always been - a competition where all the 20 teams can realistically beat each other at any point, and where every single game counts. It's amazing is what it is.

[Giggles]

Chelsea for top four :drool:

[Raoul Duke]

This Juve/Napoli game is bobbins. Pogba is about 17 times better than everyone else, but the football is turgid.

[Raoul Duke]

Gary Neville's plain white army are 2-1 up :groove:

[Samadini]

Espanyol haven't got a fucking clue how to deal with crosses. Neville needs to get Moyes on the coaching team.

[Magic]

Valencia's resurgence begins now. They'll finish in the top 2, you heard it here first.

[Samadini]

The scenes if Espanyol score now.

[Lee]

For fuck's sake, there goes Serie A then.

[Raoul Duke]

Crap defending that. So much space in front of the back four.

[Vim]

Zaza. :drool: Fucking get in.

[Reg]

Even if Juventus end up walking it, the remaining CL places should be good fun.

Well and Europa.

[Vim]

By the way, that goal came from Sandro's incredible header, who had just come on. Allegri strikes again.

I seem to be the least optimistic about Juve's chances, of course we are favourites but all it takes is one bad day for Napoli to just get the top spot back.

[Giggles]

By the way, that goal came from Sandro's incredible header, who had just come on. Allegri strikes again.

I seem to be the least optimistic about Juve's chances, of course we are favourites but all it takes is one bad day for Napoli to just get the top spot back.

Any truth in him landing at Stamford Bridge next season? Allegri, not Sandro.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Juve have conceded 6 in their last 16 or something. Nobody will ever live with that.

I'd take Allegri, even though his face screams moron.

[Magic]

http://www.football-italia.net/44233/report-allegri-turns-down-leeds-offer

Those were the days. :(

[CJay]

Do Juventus score after 80 minutes in every game? :cab: Seems like it to me.

[Smiffy]

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[Vim]

Allegri's face does scream moron. You can imagine my reaction at his facial expression during the panic press conference when he was appointed after Conte's shock exit. Our director was trying to list his achievements and he was red like a tomato out of embarrassment ... all the while Allegri was there smirking. Props to Allegri for proving everyone wrong, really.

He's said a few days ago that he's not going to leave Juve, so unless Juve force the change of coach, I can't see him going to Chelsea. He'd probably do great there.

[Jimmy Floyd]

English press were saying either Allegri, or Conte himself after the Euros. Conte's a bit too shady for my liking although he would hardly be alone in that if he arrived at Chelsea.

[Vim]

I think I've said before on here that I can't see Conte managing in a country that is not Italian speaking. Maybe Spain, but even that would be a stretch.

They're both damn good managers, I'd take Conte if the team needs to be rebuilt and to create a tough mentality, but Allegri if an immediate challenge for all titles is the goal.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If they do well in the Euros with the joke squad they have that will be a feather in his cap, although based on those qualities you mention then surely Milan is his next assignment.

[Vim]

He's going to Milan when they sort their finances out. He left Juve because he claimed "you can't eat at a €100 restaurant with €10" so I'm pretty sure he wants to be promised that important investments are going to be made after a couple of years of building a base.

[Lewis]

So he's never going to Milan.

[Magic]

Jesus Christ apparently we've been legally forced to play Boro as Cellino refused.

[Raoul Duke]

So he's never going to Milan.

One of them will get some Chinese mega-finance bonanza and start chucking money around,

[ItalAussie]

By the way, that goal came from Sandro's incredible header, who had just come on. Allegri strikes again.

I seem to be the least optimistic about Juve's chances, of course we are favourites but all it takes is one bad day for Napoli to just get the top spot back.

I'm the same. I had my expectations pegged at third this season. Automatic qualification to the CL was the dream. Actually winning the title would be a pleasant shock.

[Lewis]

It seems that every year some twat (Regista) tips Roma or whoever, and what do you know Juventus win it. You would think they had the best squad by a mile the way they carry on.

[Spoonsky]

When I first started watching Juventus seemed so retro. Now it turns out that Inter was a fad instead.

[Lee]

I can see us losing two or three today. Worst case scenario we go into a two week break ahead of a nice run of fixtures two points clear at the top. If we win I'll spunk all over the sofa.

[Ian]

I had no idea Joe Cole was knocking about at Coventry. Shows how much attention I've been paying.

[Giggles]

I can see us losing two or three today. Worst case scenario we go into a two week break ahead of a nice run of fixtures two points clear at the top. If we win I'll spunk all over the sofa.

Yeah I'm thinking the same. For all this media talk of Arsenal's style perfectly suiting Leicester, lots of Mertesacker lol, etc, Arsenal still absolutely walloped them once this season already. I can see today being similar.

[Davgooner]

The situation favours Leicester but there's always hope we might use a bit of nous and actually counter their tactics.

[Giggles]

Are both teams playing differently now since the 5-2 in September?

[Smiffy]

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[Lee]

Yeah I'm thinking the same. For all this media talk of Arsenal's style perfectly suiting Leicester, lots of Mertesacker lol, etc, Arsenal still absolutely walloped them once this season already. I can see today being similar.

They didn't really, despite the scoreline. We were better in the first half and they were much better in the second. We should have had three in the first forty-five alone though.

We were naive and really went for them as well as playing the attacking full backs we favoured early in the season. Since that game we've had (I think) the best defence in the league and dropped the attacking full backs.

I still think we'll lose today as Arsenal do have the tools to open us up. But that 5-2 was not the thrashing the scoreline suggests. Probably the most entertaining game of the season for us, actually.

[Reg]

I'm going for a Leicester win. Just can't see Wenger being sensible and telling his full backs to sit. Plus Leicester are just really good.


It seems that every year some twat (Regista) tips Roma or whoever, and what do you know Juventus win it.
:D True. My predictions have probably been clouded by my soft spot for Roma. Although this year really did feel like their year(!) when Juventus started terribly, and Roma had made big improvements to their squad.

Trouble is most of those improvements haven't really done anything...

[Waffdon]

Roma are scummy.

[Davgooner]

By the way, that 5-2 could have ended 10-10.

[Davgooner]

Mertesacker starts. :eek:

[Weaver]

Gabriel out with a 'slight hamstring injury'

I reckon Arsenal will win but I'd love Leicester to pinch it.

[Waffdon]

Tottenham and Leicester pls

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is this a 12 start or what? Says so everywhere, but they seem to be in the early stages of warming up at an empty stadium.

[Vim]

It seems that every year some twat (Regista) tips Roma or whoever, and what do you know Juventus win it. You would think they had the best squad by a mile the way they carry on.

I remember I made a post on the old board with some predictions for the season.

http://thedugout.tv/community/showthread.php?t=94925

Actually got quite some things right, except I expected more of Roma (their attack didn't click) and I had Fiorentina nowhere near the title challenge.

[John Arne]

Whenever I see Mertesacker running, it looks like a slo-motion replay :D

[Waffdon]

Albrighton is so good, man. Vardy really needs to go across the goal there

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bellerin is such a catastrophe, defensively. No idea what Wenger sees in him.

[Waffdon]

Lol at Ramsey bottling that challenge.

[Samadini]

Cech was such a great signing, Chelsea are absolute mugs.

Only Ivan Toney has made a bigger impact this season.

[Vim]

That was some save from Cech, and some exit from Schmeichel.

[Boydy]

Bellerin is such a catastrophe, defensively. No idea what Wenger sees in him.

Stylish hair.

[Reg]

Are refs allowed to play advantage and then bring it back for a free kick if the attacking team doesn't benefit nowadays?

We had an advantage played yesterday which seemed a definite case for that rule to be applied if it still exists. Arsenal had similar there.

[Manc]

Leicester. :drool:

I haven't got time to watch the remainder, but some of the passages of play are sublime.

[Smiffy]

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[Waffdon]

Kante is the best player in the world

[Foe]

Kante is the best player in the world

He reminds me of early days Essien. Very little gets past him but you still don't feel hugely comfortable with him pinging the ball around. He's very energetic.

This game is so open though, it's absolutely glorious.

[Smiffy]

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[Smiffy]

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[Waffdon]

Smashing dive. I fkn love that sort of shit.

[SvN]

Vardy with his best Ashley Young impression.

[Shindig]

God, I hate this Talksport commentator's pronunciations. Kossyelny, Fyooks. Stuart Pearce is genuinely irritated.

[QE Harold Flair]

We only get shit refs.

[Foe]

:jayjay:

COME ON!!!

Clumsy from Monorail there.

[Lee]

Well fuck me.

[Pleb]

Stunning shit this.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Very well deserved, they are comfortably the better of the sides and as far as I can see they have the better individuals too.

Alan Smith is absolutely seething (again).

[Smiffy]

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[Kikó]

Don Claudio.

[Reg]

Vardy with his best Ashley Young impression.
Yessir. Morgan's jump on Ozil would definitely have been a free kick if Ozil had gone down.

Can't be too mad though, it's Leicester. They're gonna do it lads.

[Magic]

Incredible scenes. Leicester still looking good for that 4th spot!!!

[Davgooner]

Ref's had a mare there.

Just goes to show the big teams get all the decisions.

[Smiffy]

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[Jimmy Floyd]

Looked a penalty to me. He got the touch on the ball and then the guy impeded his progress, doesn't matter who 'ran into' who. Good advantage played in the build-up as well.

[Dquincy]

Was that more of a clever pen rather than a dive? Loved Koscielny's attempted header in the build up to the pen. :D

This is a great game. Arsenal have been a bit toothless upfront.

[Lee]

Incredible scenes. Leicester still looking good for that 4th spot!!!

15 points clear as it stands mate.

[Davgooner]

Jihadi John, is fucking dead, he had a bomb dropped on his head.

[Smiffy]

.....

[Reg]

Was that more of a clever pen rather than a dive?
Same thing, no?


Looked a penalty to me. He got the touch on the ball and then the guy impeded his progress, doesn't matter who 'ran into' who. Good advantage played in the build-up as well.
I think Vardy planted his leg against Monreal's (who was even taking his own leg back as Vardy did so) - rather than naturally ran into him.

[Magic]

15 points clear as it stands mate.

:harold:

[Sam]

Certain pen that was. It's gonna happen!

[Smiffy]

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[Magic]

Nick ÜTA: Well done Martin Atkinson. Job done.
Dan Tulip: Atkinson awful all game-never a penalty and should have been a free kick
Gary Blay: So Vardy 'being clever' is actually Vardy actually cheating..Morgan jumps on Ozil ten secs before too

:drool:

[Lee]

:harold:

I'll ask you what it was like when we secure qualification.

[Smiffy]

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[Magic]

Sharkastic: Atkinson has had two penalty decisions to make, and he's got them both wrong.
:drool:

[Foe]

It's an odd one really, becuase it doesn't encourage play to continue. Like if a player slides to block a cross, the crosser knocks it past him inside and just decides to trail his feet and run over him.

It's clumsy and stupid from nacho, and he's played the risk.

[Lofty]

Vardy was going down as soon as he realised he had a touch like Adam Johnson.

[Magic]

The Gunners haven't won a Premier League game they've been losing at half-time since October 2011 (5-3 vs Chelsea).

:eyemouth:

[Giggles]

English players don't dive. Obvs.

[Dquincy]

Same thing, no?


The Arsenal fans in the stadium would certainly think so!

[Smiffy]

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[Lofty]

English players don't dive. Obvs.

Exactly, they're just 'clever'

[Lee]

Bollocks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck you Simpson.

[Kikó]

New Man United manager? Wouldn't be a bad appointment on current showing.

There's so much to like about Leicester City.

He's doing better things now. Why would he move to united?

[Dquincy]

Hmmm, can't help think the ref's been influenced there.

Still, sets the game up nicely.

[Smiffy]

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[Jimmy Floyd]

Wasilewski :drool:

[Giggles]

Will get sucked back too deep now. 3-1.

[Waffdon]

Someone has had a word with the referee during half time.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Arsenal players are all gone in the head here.

[Smiffy]

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[John Arne]

The ref definitely got a word from the 4th official to book Kante, then.

[Dquincy]

I still fancy Leicester to get another goal here on the counter.

[Vim]

More than half an hour to go and he goes to fight a guy walking off. What shite mental strength.

[SvN]

I'd absolutely love a stone wall penalty turned down for Arsenal right about now.

[John Arne]

Coquelin surely got booked for that?

[Boydy]

I hope Leicester get another one. Fuck Arsenal.

[Smiffy]

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[Lee]

No way we hold out here.

[John Arne]

Giroud has to be the biggest cunt in the league, nowadays...

[Byron]

Believe in Big Was.

[Lee]

My arsehole isn't going to cope with this.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:(

[Vim]

Why is no one running on the end of that Walcott cross? Have the Arsenal strikers given up?

[Boydy]

Fuck off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I blame the commentators, they were talking about how Arsenal were the only team that could do the double over Leicester.

5 minutes later Simpson is sent off.

[Lee]

Balls. Too early for us to concede as well.

[Dquincy]

1, Did anyone see Walcott get knocked over celebrating? :D
2, Did anyone just see Ramsey roll over 6 times after a challenge and then spring back up?

Both brilliant. :D

Edit: ah, the Ramsey replay didn't look nice.

[Vim]

I hope Leicester do not panic, but this looks difficult.

[Samadini]

Alan Smith is still seething.

[Boydy]

Send one of these Arsenal cunts off.

They're a really unpleasant team these days. I hadn't noticed that before.

[Foe]

That Drinkwater challenge. Jesus.

Schmeichel could've taken Walcott in two at the goal too. If that was a defender he'd have been fucked. There's another red in this.

[Dquincy]

Send one of these Arsenal cunts off.

They're a really unpleasant team these days. I hadn't noticed that before.

They don't seem any worse than any other premier league team.

Sanchez hasn't got his shooting boots on.

[Samadini]

They really are. I could do with Ramsey backheeling one into his own net at the death.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Alan Smith is still seething.

He really is. Amazing how no one picks up on it.

[Smiffy]

.....

[Dquincy]

I thought I saw a dog warming up with one of the players.....I only twigged when it past. :moop:

What?

[Waffdon]

The fucking dog on the advertising board. Fucks with m every time

[-james-]

lol at this wasilewski character. About as mobile as a house.

[Dquincy]

The fucking dog on the advertising board. Fucks with m every time

Ah :thbup: Smiffy.

The BFG missing a sitter. What a shitter.

[Smiffy]

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[Lee]

For fuck's sake.

[Mellberg]

Shot at goal every 30 seconds now. Lap of the gods.

[John Arne]

Schmeichel-esq :drool:

[Waffdon]

In before five or six minutes added.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Wasilewski is giving one of the great substitute performances here.

[Lee]

I'm going to cry.

[Foe]

Lee. :(

[Smiffy]

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck.

[QE Harold Flair]

Oh lol. Fuck you, everyone, and good night.