Strange no VAR check for a Tagliafico handball in Chelsea-Ajax.
Strange no VAR check for a Tagliafico handball in Chelsea-Ajax.
Jorginho is so much better under Lampard. Tomori was an absolute monster for the last 80 mins.
Oxlade with the ball on the edge of the area and the defender puts his arms behind his back, and turns side on, making himself as small (and useless) as possible. Oxlade scores.
Haland's son, Erling, is a seriously good finisher.
That goal is offside but it's still a tidy finish.
Tomori is the best defender we've had for years, he is immense.Originally Posted by Waffdon
Jorginho is approaching fan favourite status now which is quite the turnaround. I don't know how Sarri is doing at Juve but in hindsight he was rank poor with us.
Genk have a goal disallowed, we think for offside, it took about 4 minutes and we didn't see one replay of the alleged incident.
I thought they were looking at a possible foul as they kept showing the actual header/challenge.
Zouma has stepped up a lot recently but a fit Rudiger alongside Tomori is a very decent partnership potentially. Kovacic also looks far better under Lampard - Sarri and his weirdo fans have taken an L so far.
That's some finish from Chamberlain.
Ooff.
That was class. Really hope he gets back to his top form because the midfield needs a creative spark.
One-footed chump.
The original tweet is gone already
Yeah, ffs.
What was it?
Try this one:
Haland is getting a bit silly now. Two goals tonight take him not far shy of two goals a game in all competitions.
Jesus.
Fuck me, Martial is a miserable cunt.
If we can win 2-0 (or 2-1) with Garner scoring the second that would be very nice.
He looks pretty tidy, and Brandon Williams has shunted Luke Shaw down to fourth best left-back.
Celtic
That volley and save at the end was fucking mental.
Why's Luke Shaw been sacked off again? Fat? Shit?
Yes
The fatness stuff seems to have been a bit of a smokescreen for him just being meh at everything.
Pretty sure he's injured.
He should have been sold the day he rolled into training with them Simon Cowell teeth.
Just seen the video of a large number of organised Lazio fans going around Glasgow doing nazi salutes. Surely you have to throw them out of the competition? Football authorities are pathetic.
Really?
On another note of ethnic hellishness, today has been dead at work so I've spent some time working out all the Euro playoff permutations. It took a good long while but I have got a four-team playoff bracket of Bosnia, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. Has this possibility been picked up in the respective countries? Sounds like everyone's worst nightmare.
Scotland v Bulgaria in another 'path' looks like a certainty, so that will be fun too.
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Are there any stupid rules that teams will try to manipulate to get a favourable draw and betting opportunities for us?
There are lots of stupid rules but most scenarios are so contingent on other results that I'm not sure any Belarus magic will be possible.
The main wild card is that there is something in the smallprint about UEFA giving all the host nations a good chance to qualify, which raises the alarm somewhat.
Williams was the only bright spot of yesterday's game. It was absolutely bollocks.
I was on a train with a phone out of battery. I reckon I was less bored.
Being kept back for 65 minutes was less boring than the game.
I mean throw the fans out or the team? I could see banning their supporters.
You traveled? Nice dude. Any photos?
They really should start punishing team. Award the next 10 games as 4-0 losses.
I don't really understand the point of punishing the teams for behaviour of fans like that. The football is just a vehicle for them to express their behaviour, I doubt they even care that much if the team gets banned.
They had a guy on radio 4 the other day who was a 'football hooligan' back in the day. He said the same, that you have to punish the actual fans properly, punishing the teams does nothing.
Good point. Hooliganism is a lifestyle.
How do you punish fans? Spend hundreds of thousands on lawyers to prosecute them?
Clubs turn a blind eye constantly, you need proper sanctions on them. Long bans and relegations and being thrown out of things. The Heysel ban was the best thing UEFA ever did as it made us actually clean up our act via shame and starvation. Nowadays the accountants would blanch at such an idea.
I can only assume UEFA and FIFA don't actually care much about racism.
The fans are trolls and are only doing this stuff as much as they are because they know it's started pissing off people that didn't care 15 years ago. Besides the fact that it's absurd to compare the death of dozens of people at Heysel to having racists at or near stadiums, it's not the kind of problem that you can fix by limiting alcohol supply and converting stadiums to all-seaters. You might as well just cancel southern and eastern Europe.
Good idea tbf.
We should just legalise racism. Sticks and stones and all that.
The Heysel ban's a good example tbf. There's a sharp before and after contrast. Why they can't do the same on a smaller scale to some no mark shithole like Bosnia I've no idea.
Your own fans are one of the main users of the Nazi salute, so would you take an example being made there "for the good of the game"?
Italian supporters chucking that salute around is more akin to Celtic fans waving Irish flags around than it is making monkey noises at black players. I don't think sporting authorities want to be wading into deciding which political stances are and aren't legitimate add-ons to football culture.
You could say the Lazio fans are racist, are racist, are racist, and that's the way they like it? ; )
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