Has he got out of Josh Cullens pocket yet? :henn0rz:
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Has he got out of Josh Cullens pocket yet? :henn0rz:
A symptom of the entire team playing like a group of piss heads rather than him specifically. The entire team bar maybe Cavani are desperately out of form.
Yep. Groundbreaking. Dubravka's that big for us and Norwich are scrambling out the bathwater.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
We were good yesterday so I think we'll be fine. We had a lot of chances and were ultimately let down by Darlow, Lascelles and Joelinton (who was MOTM aside from falling over) being a bit useless, but that won't happen every week.
United laying De Gea 300k a week has to be the worst contract of all time surely.
Sanchez and Ozil have to be up there, and we should never forget the real pioneer in the field, Winston Bogarde.
Ozil is close but he has the advantage of him being shit isn’t a goal.
Hasn't De Gea been mixing up horrible errors with being their best player for most of the season?
Conte-ball about to arrive with a pumping with Raphinha and Bamford out.
Shambles.
Rangers :D
Imagine losing 3 goals to Hibs in half an hour
Very well deserved goal for Leeds, much the better side in this half.
Your power is unrivalled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
I don't know, I reckon if dullards stopped posting BBC live text updates of what actually happened, we might have a competition :eyemouth:
Spurs lacking ambition and required quality tbf but you really have to go some to concede against this Leeds side.
Spikey in the mud, video-calling Kiko for support. You hate to see it.
As tap-ins go that was a brilliant goal by Reguilón. Proper steamed through the lines like an NFL running back.
Don't sub@ me you maggotQuote:
Originally Posted by Don
How did he know about our support group though?
Just seen that ‘The Conte era is up and running’
I fucking hate football punditry. I think I could make a career never watching a single game and just looking at the results and no-one would ever know.
Mans out here giving you all the inside scoop 3 hours early, come and kneel at the altar.
How many mans?
The way he was celebrating at the final whistle you'd think that the Conte era was climaxing with a 12-0 World Cup triumph.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
I was waiting for the trophy presentation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
This James Horncastle who goes on the Italian football coverage is a guaranteed wrong'un. In fact, that whole 'set' of people give me very weird vibes.
I feel this way about pretty much everyone who joined James Richardson on the Football Weekly mutiny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Italian football brings it out of them. We lost Paulo Bandini to it.
Ducking hell the graphics there.
I'm no fashion expert but the quartet of long hair, beard, suit and polo neck, all black, is at least one of those things too many.
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Don
Payet is after getting a good clatter of a bottle going to take a corner.
I will never understand how Julien Laurens is a journalist. He has never said anything insightful, amusing or intelligent in his life.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
I quite like Honigstein and Alvaro Romeo though.
Has something gone on with Marseille this season?
Didnt Payet get hit by something earlier in the season also?
Everyone hates Marseille. It’s basically the chav capital of France and no one looks down on people like the french.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manc
L'empire Contre-Attaque.
Why is Conor Coady doing MOTD2, he can't be skint while still playing, surely?
You do.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Stones. Glass houses.
Nah. French judgement is all snide and snooty. My judgement comes comme de white van-man.
I’m Swiss. We pretend we’re neutral but if you PayPal me a fiver I’ve got your back.
Old but gold.
Went to FSV yesterday Vs probably the best followed team in this division, Kickers. It was actually pretty decent albeit freezing.
Even got you a goal
(The previous tweet even has me holding a sausage for the pandas amongst you)
Southgate has renewed his contract with England until 2024. Wonderful news.
Heard that Palace have conceded 9 goals from set-pieces in the league. If that's true that's pretty horrendous.
It's what happens when you make your managerial appointments based on diversity.
I thought Crystal Palace were doing well on the whole aren't they?
They are 10th which is pretty good for them. Should have appointed Lampard like Taz wanted.
10th is about as good as they could ever dream of you'd think.
Possession-based expansive football is what these black managers use to cover their shortcomings. You wouldn't get set-piece frailty with a proper English manager who knows the game.
Doesn’t help both their centre halves are tiny
Van de Beek starting? Ole will be taking back all those nice things he said about Carrick.
Forgot we were the early game. How painful has the display been thus far?
Same turgid shite. Being outdone by the simplest pass and move :D
We're gonna get the ball any minute now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
I mean if you were expecting big changes from one of Ole's main coaches taking charge then you're retar...never mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
Donny's out of retirement and is starting over the gyppo who you've stopped sharing tweets about as quick as those formatted tables of goalscorers, you're still banned from football discussion for eternity, please adhere to it.
:moon:
Cracking save from De Gea there.
This is looking like 1-0 to Villarreal.
At least this answers whether Carrick is shit or useless.
Why not both?
Yeah, but in terms of how involved he actually was. The 'revelations' since have said that Ole Gunnar Binman just picked the team and left the coaches to it, which would suggest more shit than useless.
Paul Scholes has said they should all be flushed, which is quite big of him.
I don't understand how he's come out of toe-gate so unscathed.
lol.
Mahow, mate...
That's Carrick sorted as permanent manager then.
1-0 Ronaldo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Better. Don't make me remind you next time.
Don't say it. I know they're thinking it but if we just don't say it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Adramelch
I mean the results speak for themselves, he's clearly the best man for the job. :sorry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
If he goes on a Solskjaer run, the cycle continues.
Get the contract out, put it on the table, let him sign it, let him write whatever numbers he wants to put on there.
Sanchoooooo.
CarrickIN.
Jason Dancho. :cool:
Sancho has been excellent tonight and was one of the only bright spots at the weekend. He is class.
I don't know what more you lot are wanting, as Robbie Savage has pointed out, the gameplan has been spot on. They have a plan. They have an identity. Fred and Sancho are on fire. The club jacket is out. This is it. He deserves at least till the end of the season. Please.
Mans had that saved in his drafts for 3 months :happycry:Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
The cycle continues :drool:
Listen to the fans singing Ole's name.
Look at the connection he has with the players. Hugging them and everything, this is the English Klopp being born before our very eyes. Rio's summed it up perfectly, great discipline on show.
Steve Bruce has a regen. This Reich shall last a thousand games.
But could he get Messi, Neymar and Mbappe playing on a cold Wednesday night in Paris?
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Originally Posted by Don
Also what you on about "formatted tables"? I literally just put a list.
You didn't 'just' anything, you hideous drivelling waste of space. You fucking made your four poster bed with Egyptian cotton sheets and boy will you be made to sleep in it until I deem it appropriate.
:harold:Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
They don't just care more about United than they do Liverpool, they care more about me.
Double-posting. On the ropes.
9 minutes sweating over the keyboard for that zinger.
Nothing sweeter than Juve and a seething Bonucci being on the wrong end of a tight refereeing decision.
Thiago Silva has just died doing an epic goalline clearance as well.
I've always thought Carrick was the brains of the operation. Finally he gets his chance.
Kante isn’t half broken. Gets injured if he plays twice in a short period every time
Ye it's about time that his role in this season's results is properly recognised.
RL v Don might be the most underwhelming feud TTH has ever seen.
It's more like Taz vs RL vs TTH, but Taz has had one too many chair shots and RL has been put through the colour commentators desk.
Smiffy is the Special Guest Referee and Yev is the fit bird distracting him from the real action.
My heart's not in it I'll be honest.
Juventus being absolutely taken apart here. Thrashed out of sight and without mercy.
Reece James could play in an position and be the best player on the pitch. So fackin good
RL should be posting about James and Transfermarkt soon.
No Chelsea youngster will ever be short of a ride with Waff around.
4 past the defensive masters.
Weston McKennie is the footballing personification of wishful thinking. Dreadful player, should be on the bench at Milwaukee Mailhawks.
I’m always correct. Reece James will go down as England’s greatest ever full backQuote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
I really don't think Trent is going to be that special in midfield to overwrite his history at full back.
He can’t even surpass Kieran Trippier ffs
Trippier has never taken a corner quickly.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
:thbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Or pestered a pregnant lass for nudesQuote:
Originally Posted by Gray Fox
Reece James is even more impressive in the flesh.
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Originally Posted by randomlegend
Get the fuck outta here until you're informed the ban has been suspended.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
Exactly. He needs to up his game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
This is probably your worst line of posting ever, which is some achievement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
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Originally Posted by Gray Fox
Excited to see how Liverpool line up tonight, do we keep the full team out or rest and let some of the squad have a run out?
I hope that’s a fake account with that spelling.
Carn Ange!
https://youtu.be/etg4JTyMFMw
Seen that Morton kid might play so hopefully the plan is to troll 'Atleti' out of the tournament and repay Porto for letting us shoe them in any meaningful games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
Has that Carragher tweet just completely copied what James said, was James quoting/paraphrasing Rio or is there some other angle I'm not getting here?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59399701
Seems a bit shit how he avoids prison for that.
Yeah it's the Rio quote from the "Ole's at the wheel" bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
They're both a reference to what Rio (maybe?) said about Solskjaer when he was first in temporary charge.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
This post is a reference to Baz's one above.
I reckon we'll go half-strength. Something like...Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Alisson Becker
Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Andrew Robertson, Neco Williams
Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Tyler Morton
? (salah or mane), Takumi Minamino, Divock Origi
A win pays for a month of Salah's new contract.
Klopp after the previous game was stating how much the club needs money you get for winning group games so there will be no resting. If that's not just a bit of MIND GAMES, that's a bit of a concern.
Fully expect to see Konate, Milner and Minamino tonight. Morton and Williams would be nice too but I don't see him changing that much. I also think you'll see a rare rest for Virgil.
MK boy Chilwell with possible cruciate ligament damage, what a belting piece of news, not only for title-race and fpl reasons but also because he's probably a horrendous human being too and fully deserves it.
FFS if I have to watch Marcos Alonso up and down that flank for the next six months.
Maybe they can chuck Robertson into the swap deal for Mason Mount.
Be more than 6, unless you don't plan on watching next season I guess. Probably would make him a doubt for the world cup, although I don't know if he features in the dear leader's thinking given his somewhat inexplicable policies regarding fullbacks.
6 takes us to May, can't see myself cheering on my azure heroes in months 7, 8 or 9 unless they moonlight as county cricketers per the good old days.
Chilwell has the key disadvantage of not being a right back.
I've also heard these rumours of Mount-ing a bid for Chelsea talent. I'd love to see what Klopp could get out of Mason if I'm honest.
More like a year out though, probably more for him given not playing for England in the summer seemed to wipe him out for a few months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I thought Jimmy was just trolling me. If that cunt with his bumfluff chin is pictured in a Liverpool top I'm done with the sport.
Strikes me as a Klopp type player in terms of being hard working and could probably slip into the three in midfield in place of Chamberlain/Keita seeing as at best one of them is injured at any point througout the season.
I'm not sure who Morton is, but he'll have his work cut out lining up next to that bald fraud.
He's no fraud but he's not done it for us for various reasons so I wouldn't be too fussed if he left as was rumoured recently.
Nor is he bald.
Who are you on about?
Thiago, I presume.
He’s just scored an absolute belter as well. He’s a good player and he’s something that we don’t have in the rest of the midfield. But he’s got no legs at all and I just don’t see how he fits into the team.
Is Wayne Rooney working miracles at Derby, or are they all just trying really hard and it will all fall apart by January?
Dortmund not going through from a group of Ajax, Sporting and Besiktas is quite the feat.
When everyone wrote their obituaries the other day I thought it was very premature. 15 points isn't that much to make up if he has got something going.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
It’s surely worth losing a month of Salah’s wages to throw our last match in the interest of seeing Atletico crash out. :drool:
If they win they are through regardless and if they don't they are out, I am pretty sure. Your game only affects them in terms of 3rd/4th.
Edit: Ah nevermind, I forgot that away goals in the head-to-head matches are not a tie-breaker anymore.
The biggest football news today is (for @SincereTheRebel anyway) that Tony Hibbert has come out of retirement to play in the French lower leagues
Gahahah. Man posts a football opinion for the first time in years and that's it. Weasel :harold:Quote:
Originally Posted by Manc
The angle from behind from the frauds goal was fucking stunning.
Henry's reaction :D
NS Mura 2-1 Tottenham FT
lol
As someone who watches Mura every week that is some result. :drool:
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Originally Posted by AyDee
Slovenia eh. How's it going?
Scotland v Wales and Italy v Portugal assuming all seeded teams win :drool:
That is the best draw ever, unless it ends up being Ukraine v Austria I suppose.
Atleast one of them will find a way to fuck it up, sadly.
If we beat Ukraine we face Wales or Austria at home. Slightly annoying, think I’d rather face Austria since we’ve already beaten them but they’re probably a better team.
Ukraine also don’t lose very often but we should have enough at home for these. Couldn’t think of much worse than losing to Gareth Bale again
The other group is just the most generic set of play off ties ever. Scotland, Sweden, Italy for me, Clive.
I’m glad we avoided everyone in that path B. Would have fancied us more against Portugal or Turkey than Poland, Czech’s or Sweden
I think on balance I'll take Portugal over Italy. The latter have the greater overall potential for histrionics and sense of entitlement, even if C.Ronaldo ups the former's quotient by 1000%.
Don't mind which of Scotland/Wales qualifies, but Ukraine/Austria can get fucked.
If it leads to Ronaldo crying and Jota getting a rest, I'm all for it.
Ronaldo's last Internatinal Tournament, surely? Him getting retired by a qualifier would be amazing.
He can definitely make it to the next Euros if he fancies it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Hopefully Scotland, Sweden and Portugal go through.
I do fear it’ll be Ukraine, Russia and Italy.
I think Scotland and Wales will fancy their chances. We're guaranteed one big nation out, at least.
:cool:
Weirdly I read an interview with him the other day (Secret Footballer or somesuch), then saw the news he'd been sacked for not playing the owner's son. Waterford can't seem to stay away from dodgy owners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Absolute mess of a club, I hadn’t actually realised that Power had fully sold. The son is absolute muck by all accounts too.Quote:
Originally Posted by mo
They scored a few minutes ago and all went his direction.
Just watched the whole of West Brom v Nottm Forest. Weekend isn't coming back from this.
Hate to say that based on an early sample, football media are really struggling with the word 'Rangnick'. I'm not really sure why. It's a very easy word. Rang Nick. They all seem to want to put a Y in it.
I'll just unironically call him 'Ralf' like I'm his mate.
https://youtu.be/EJ7zEahtgpA
It won't be as fun seeing an educated and credible man who knows what he's doing crash and burn but I'm sure I'll get over it.
:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pen
Ok, I stand corrected, what a man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
Some not at all fixed football from the Indonesian Liga 3
Without sounding like a sexist pig... Why do all female football presenters absolutely cake themselves in make up? Half of them look like clowns.
I doubt they are responsible for their make-up.
It's just looks so uncomfortable (for them).
Genuinely don't think that's a sexist comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Arne
Most male presenters are also caked in makeup.
Aye, that too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
Also, would be nice if BT moved their microphone away from the screaming kids.
Newcastle have been camped in their box for the entire half and then Aubameyang goes and misses an open goal from a yard out. So annoying.
What's your take on Auba Phonics?
I swear the anniversary of Gary Speed’s death is every few months
I’ve deleted like 3 posts in reply to the question which kind of sums up my issues. I’m never a big fan of players that don’t get involved in play but also if he gets a 1v1 I expect him to convert it but then we don’t create enough of those situations.
I go back and forth basically.
Someone’s going to try sign this kid for a billion quid and I’m going to be sad. Shocking from Dubravka though.
I LOVE Martinelli. He’s pure class.
Every Arsenal player to ever grace the planet is pure class
Getting on with it early today. I like it.
Dunno what some of you dislike about him. Thiago is utter quality. Guess he does get booked a fair bit.
If Alisson cuts out those weird passes to the oppo, he would genuinely be one of the best keepers ever. So fucking good. /mantralux
Alisson is also very considerate. He tends to squeeze his seasons quota or errors into one disastrous game.
Mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
Yo
Jürgen Locadia still exists, and he is still not very good.
Proper Brighton 20/21 showing, this. Leeds injury time winner is nailed on.
In not at all dodgy scenes in Portugal, Benfica were due to play away at Belenenses tonight. But Belenenses had a COVID outbreak. Turns out they got told tough shit and have named a 9 man team, with no subs and 2 goalkeepers in it.
Benfica currently 3-0 up.
Make that 5.
I wish I had known earlier as I'd have gone in on a high handicap.
That's farcical. 5-0 now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gray Fox
Could they not go full Brammall Lane and abandon it by getting 3 players sent off?
Games shouldn’t ever be cancelled for covid so tough tit.
7-0 wasn’t bad in fairness.
40,000 tickets sold for the cup final here tomorrow. The two perfect teams playing and lots of post lockdown action but still it’s great to see. I hope it’s not a shitfest with so many eyes on it.
First half overs is always the one in these situations. Quite often players will go down injured until they only have 8 so it gets ended early. Overs that have won get paid in those cases whereas handicaps are void.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
I remember finding this out when being on a -3 handicap in a game that got called off at 17-0 in around the 86th minute. Denise voided me as the result of my bet was "undetermined".
Belenenses player has taken a seat in the centre circle about five seconds into the second half.
Yep all done. Ridiculous fixture.
https://comunicados.sporting.pt/comunicado/91116
Sporting have taken tonights events well.
Scorchio.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gray Fox
:lol:
:harold:
It's a double whammy, he is in decline and the system doesn't give him as much service as it should.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Saka and Smith-Rowe are genuinely excellent but will be lolled at as Mantralux wet dreams until they sign for City in record deals and do the business. Martinelli looks decent but needs minutes.
Watching Livingston v Rangers and a home goal was met with silence/groans, and looking around the entire ground appears to be filled with Rangers fans. Is this normal for Old Firm away games? I can't say I've noticed it before.
It's not just the old firm, I went to Partick Thistle - Kilmarnock a while back and it was probably 50/50 at best.
Burnley against Spurs has been postponed because of the snow. :cab:
I thought they all had heated pitches these days?
Either way, a bit pathetic. It's not exactly the Arctic Tundra.
It'll likely be for conditions outside the ground and not in.
"Concerns with the playing surface and surrounding areas" is the official line.
Dyche was out there in just a shirt and tie too :D
But yeah they really should have the undersoil heating at this point.
Livingston, yes. They’ll happily give up most of their ground to any team and just take the one stand. Livingston is full of people originally from Glasgow. It’s probably the least supported team in the top two leagues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Probably a better trip/story than watching them draw 1-1 at Turf Moor.
I don't understand how Andros Townsend can kick a man flush in the face and not even get booked. 'He was trying to clear it' - so what?
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Be funny if the Man City game was abandoned. Can’t tell if my stream is making it look worse though
Everton under Benitez going absolutely nowhere. If ever there were a case for a quickfire sacking, this is it.
Their team is properly brutal.
For all the goodwill he built with us, he's not gone anywhere with it. China ruined him.
No idea what the Utd formation is. Maybe a diamond with Sancho and Rashford up front? Or 4-3-3 with Fernandes left wing? Who knows.
Ronaldo dropped anyway
Everton are alright I think. Or they were before half the squad got injured.
In this game they've looked like every Benitez side ever playing slow, ponderous, painting-by-numbers football. Allan and Doucouré the only bright spots.
Was catching up on Match of the Day. Leeds appear to have played in their pyjamas?
BBC has it listed as a 4312 with McTominay behind Rashford and Sancho.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
They're clearly wrong but imagine if McSauce is playing IN THE HOLE with Bruno further back.
That Man Utd team isn’t bad if they’re going back to their sitting deep and hitting on the break style. Rashford always scores against Chelsea. 0-2 all over this.
£5 on that at 70/1 is very decent
The Guardian have it as 3-4-1-2, but no idea. Guess it's just to match up against Chelsea. Phil Jones on the bench :drool:
McFretic. :sick:
Marcos Alonso is a crime against football
And an actual criminal.
I don't care if we draw or even lose this, being in a position where The Famous Man United come to Stamford Bridge and play like this is the long term win in itself.
0.02 xG :drool:
There's very little goals in this Chelsea side. Mon a rapist winner.
However many hundreds of millions of quid spent just to field three defensive mids and no strikers. Glorious stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Jorginho for the Balon D'Or :harold:
:lol:
That was always happening on the break. No idea why Man Utd stopped playing like this, that’s how they got half their wins on Ole’s golden spell
The oddest part of a very odd goal was Rashford (was it?) remaining completely offside the entire way, forcing Sancho to shoot. Quite lucky he was able to score.
I get he trusts his touch but what the fuck is he doing that as the last man for?
Poorginho wahey.
I'm convinced that he doesn't know what the offside rule is, he's always fucking offside.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Footballers operate on autopilot when it comes to things like first touch, he won't even have considered the possibility of miscontrolling it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gray Fox
Sancho is an incredible young talent.
Alonso on corners over Ziyech is an odd one
That 'Rashford Shot Clock' idea could be a genuine world-beater. He should count to three, and if he still has it, stop running and pass it to the nearest red shirt.
The fact that so many consecutive Chelsea managers have believed Ruben Loftus-Cheek to be worth persisting with is a real indictment of modern football methods.
Another :evictory: on Jose Mourinho's perfect record.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Love the xG.
ffs Wan Bissaka.
It's because he's tall and doesn't do anything badly but he's not like great at anything either. He's Mohamed Elneny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
He’s missing this
Honestly, if I was a ref, the rat face on Bruno Fernandes would make me just send him off for no reason and if it gets me a demotion then so be it.
That was a ridiculously soft penalty.
How is Werner still on the pitch? :D
Lukaku and Havertz must be still injured
If this pudding scores and does his Thierry Henry big man celebration I'm done for the season.
Fred :face:
Ronaldo wasn't even annoyed.
The incompetence of the officiating there was breathtaking.
Is that an actual rule? Because he didn’t shoot the assistant can’t pull it back for offside?
Is it genuinely the rule that VAR can't change the offside if it goes out for a corner? It feels like something that would happen on a badly programmed video game.
His aura kept him onside.
Hopefully that will teach Rudiger to stop thinking he can play.
Chelsea are utterly dreadful to watch.
Chelsea need to have a word with Thomas Tuchel about his touchline clobber. Are you a Big Club if your manager dresses like a shoplifter?
7 points off top with a goal difference of negative two :drool:
December is hyooge now. Man Utd away and a load of absolute shitters. Make or break time.
The Carragher/Keane argument is made 100x better by OG Jimmy just laughing at these two having a divorce mid show.
Carragher comes across like he has brain damage in that.
WHY HAVE THEY SIGNED HIM THEN?
To try to win a cup
YES BUT WHY HAVE THEY SIGNED HIM????REEEEEEEE
Carragher is clearly the winner. Keane is a mong.
There is no world where both of them aren’t gobshites.
Roy Keane is a crap pundit (albeit a lol one), but he is more right in that discussion than not. The other stuff he said about Carrick was good as well.
If you weren’t a United fan you would be absolutelyQuote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Lolling at the sentence ‘they’ve signed cristiano Ronaldo to win the FA cup’.
Wait, they were on the same team?Quote:
Originally Posted by mo
I mean, it's just reality.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Might be now, but it sure as shit wasn't when you signed him.
Arsenal have won at least 2 FA Cups since United won their last trophy. It isn’t the players holding you back mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
This quote and calling Juventus shit is incredible stuff. You are an absolute joke when it comes to football opinions. Reddit as fuck.
The standard non-deluded opinion was that they signed Ronaldo because he's Ronaldo and why not. Nobody thought that it was going to edge them the league, but, if he improves the squad/adds big goals, he might help win a cup. I'm not sure what Carragher was screeching about winning the league for.
Juventus are shit and United are not going to win the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
I always thought this as well. He was available and why not? Hell, he might wind up retiring in red and he's not going to half-arse it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Can barely see the ball in the Leicester Watford highlights.
Awwww lil' Maddy has put his dad's suit on.
Apparently it's a gammon take but Alex Scott needs culling. That constant fucking voice of talking through a forced grin is intolerable. "Ooo but she wears leather leggings"...fuck off, love.
Ronaldo's goals are the reason they aren't out of the CL and bottom half of the league. Now, you can say his presence is a retrograde step and means they don't press, but if you're a shit team and don't press anyway then you might as well have Ronaldo.
They should just leave him for the CL games. He’s been a bit useless in the majority of their league games.
Rarcus Mashford will out score him in the league
They finished 2nd last year. This is an insane take. It’s really not hard to do well at football if you buy better players than everyone else. Wenger managed it on half their budget. You just buy better players and it doesn’t matter whether you set up in a 4-1-3-2 or a 4-2-3-1. You’ll win. They’ve been managed by an absolute nobody for years and finished 2nd because their budget is bigger than everyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
They signed him because it's Ronaldo and it's "Romantic".Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Jesus, give the guy some credit. Not like Chelsea and Liverpool suddenly had no money last season.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
This is it. Maybe a sensible club wouldn't have become nostalgic over an old great but we did even if he didn't fit what had given Solskjear some success.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Just looking at the table, I hadn't really appreciate how much filth there is going on. Wolves, Spurs and Brighton 6th, 7th and 9th with none of them averaging more than a goal a game and none with positive goal difference. Your mob not much better. :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Top 3 out of sight already.
It is looking a bit La Liga.
We will come third. It'll be a very good third, though, and we'll be close in Europe again too.
Chelsea were also managed by an absolute nobody for half the season. Your budget is miles more than Liverpool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
Good one.
I meant to include a reply to the tweet but I've fucked it and now I can't find it.
It was indeed the best of ones though. You've all missed out.
I think it will depend on how Liverpool get on during the Afcon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
So was United apparently. Liverpool had blown the league away and been unbelievable for 3 seasons. You're allowed to give people credit.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Phonics realising he's been handed another opportunity to be an insufferable nonce:
Does anyone else play Premkiller? £5 entry and you pick a team to win every week and the last man standing wins the entire lot. Can’t pick the same team more than once.
Recent winner won nearly £8k.
I’m going to guess that link sends on bank details to you or something.
I think I agree with Carragher, but it's very much a hindsight is 20/20 thing isn't it. As it stands now, my gut instinct is that if you're gonna be flapping around in and around the last CL spot, you might as well have given time to the young up-and-comers, and tried to put together something more coherent tactically (and spent the Ronaldo money on a CM, obvz...oh, and gotten a proper manager in), but when they signed him I was very much one of the idiots who thought WOW look at all those good players, maybe an outside shot at the title.
Far be it from me to care who wins the balloon of gold, but how has Lionel Messi won it? I can think of at least five more deserving off the top of my head: Lewandowski, Jorginho, Chiesa, Salah, De Bruyne.
Remember when Neymar went to PSG to get out of Messi's shadow solely so he could win this lol.
That QPR winner was a lovely finish.
He cried because he loves his club and the big meanies made him leave. Then he was good again. It's a heart warming tale.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Hairline seems far closer to you than me, buddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Assuming it's the award for the best footballer of the year, he should have won every single one for the last 15 years.
https://i.ibb.co/kDBkT7h/Screenshot-...27-Gallery.jpg
Man said Jorginho :D don't get me wrong, it's fantastic to see a white man not get laughed out of CM on the back of his ability to make 5 yard passes but get a grip.
'Copa America top assister'.
107 recoveries... Well, definitely deserves it.
The most glaring thing on that list is Benzema being on it.
For one of the established two to not win it a player has to have an exceptional season for a club that wins virtually everything they are in. De Bruyne probably gets it if City don't meff up the Champions League final. That said, is this the one voted for by international captains or the French Journalists? There's literally not a chance Messi or Ronaldo don't win it until the end of time with the captain one, and now Messi has dignified France with his presence I guess he's got them all sewn up as well.
Messi winning in 2010 was the beginning of the end.
Well we know he's not above a bit of extortion now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I think the voters at large are still under the mistaken impression that Barcelona/Real Madrid remain the pinnacle of club football. They do not.
I imagine the only reason Messi won this year is because he won the Copa America. But yeah the fact that Jorginho was a contender says a lot
Although I do agree with Taz. Messi should have won it every year since he first won it.
They gave Modric the sympathy d'or and Lewandowski is still waiting for his....
Modric played for RM at the time, Lewandowski's goals don't count until he bangs five past Atletico Torremolinos.
Seems good, reduction of decision time and increase in accuracy. The current system is just a holocaust/apartheid/pigs in blankets shortage.
I've often thought in the last few years, what we need is for the offside rule to be MORE convoluted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
It's the obvious evolution. The current system of having to refer to David Coote at Stockley Park is going to look proper stone age in about ten years time.
I can't see how David Coote won't always be needed for non-line calls.
As with everything, AI, famalam. Anything with an xFoul of over 0.75 to be called.
The thing is that how offsides are currently done on VAR feels silly. You got the guy going pixel by pixel and determining what part of the arm counts as the shoulder and whatnot in order to draw some lines that are then presented as if they came from a highly sophisticated software. If you are at that point, you might as well get said sophisticated software instead.
It's a computer vision/ML problem, probably quite a nice one to think about. Lots of training data available but hard to programme in the intricacies of things like deflected passes etc.
Given the use of the term "semi-automatic" I just assume it will handle the lines part but it'll still be down to the VAR to decide whether it's an offside or not.
The worst of both worlds.
I see the United Champions League game is coming into doubt. All of these new restrictions are going to be a massive ballache on that front. Considering the risk of getting a bit of Omicron I'd be amazed if the likes of Liverpool even considered sending their first team out. Useful cover for a week's rest. Could be a real boon for acey-meelan.
They're just talking about moving it rather than cancelling it aren't they? Or has that discussion moved on?
Aye, moving or rescheduling, but why would United want to have to travel and expose themselves to avoidable risks when they are already through and top of the group?
Hadn't noticed the neg for this til now :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Only heard today about the Man Utd lad being on the books of Locomotiv Moscow. Did Utd pay them as well as paying him 30 months wages for 6 months work?
What's the best website to find out what games are on? BBC pushing women's football over PL games is just stupid.
https://www.livescore.com/en/Quote:
Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
https://www.live-footballontv.com/
Just put on Amazon for the miners v canaries game, first thing I hear is Peter Drury saying 'How St James's thirsts for a local hero tonight'. The guy is truly irreplaceable.
I probably should've activated that prime trial for that. Gatesehead are on ITV4 on Friday. Sam Matterface will be trotting those same lines out.
I used to get these on Prime but not any more. Probably has something to do with Premier Sport getting rights here now for games.
I'm not sure these fixtures are worth the bother, but I'm sure a VPN would sort you out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
You've just missed a thick as shit barcode red card that has made Alan Shearer seethe. Worth the annual fee alone.
Seems to go by the location associated to your Amazon account now so a vpn doesn’t work. There’s very little they actually work for any more.
Extremely stupid sending off tbf.
Ah. That's shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Wonderful. This is comfortably the worst Newcastle side I've lived to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
It really would be tremendous to see them relegated. Decapitating cunts.
I think this is the worst game of the season that I've seen, between two Championship sides in all but name.
Newcastle are going to have to work miracles in January to stay up. Trouble is, they have the budget to do so, but will anyone of real quality be willing to risk relegation?
I almost wonder if the plan is to build for the future. This season feels like a write-off and we've got a gap to cross. I guess we'll see in a few weeks where our Saudis heads (lol) and wallet is at.
Aye. Almost as lol as the score in the England game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
:cab:
It's gone from 15-0 to 18-0 in the time it has taken me to read about 6 posts in this thread.
I’ve just watched our lot score their 9th. Georgia look like it’s their first ever time trying the sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
He'll miss this.
:D nearly
I'm not sure this is even Championship standard. How did Norwich get promoted? Awful football.
I never got a 20-0 on Football Manager. Jesus what's the point of that.
What a goal. I made that happen :drool:
I could only manage them on CM2 German Leagues. Bayern Munich were basically the Harlem Globetrotters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
My 5 y/o daughter could probably kick it further and with greater accuracy.
As tragic as that Newcastle v Norwich game seems to have been, the Canaries are at least giving themselves a fighting chance of battling relegation as opposed to being relegated by default. I mean, they'll still go down but at least keep it interesting until the final weeks of the season so others can be dragged into it. Southampton and Brentford are my picks to join them at this point as I can see the festive period being too much for Brentford whilst Southampton miss Danny Ings's goals from the looks of things.
:roflol:Quote:
Originally Posted by mo
:D fuck sake
I genuinely reckon 11 of us, without meeting prior, could rock up and put more than 20 past Latvia Women over 90 minutes.
Progressive.
Saw a good stat earlier, that Newcastle are just the fourth side in the Prem to not achieve a win in their first 14 matches. The other three were all relegated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smjffy
How many would you therefore beat England Women by?Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
He wouldn't.
It's coming home.
I don't understand why they have set up the women's qualifiers in the same way as the men's. England's goal difference in their group is +53 in six games. Surely a Nations League style setup would be more beneficial for all concerned.
Iconic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I'm shocked that a game that was banned for several decades is structurally bad.
I reckon we could avoid losing 20-0. I have no doubt they are all far superior footballers to me but when it comes to set pieces I'd be like Jan Koller against some oompa loompas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
I see Neymar has been poleaxed again. Small Pockets secretly buzzing.