Love when Match of the Day uses their regional radio commentators on the FA Cup highlights. Some lovely excited stuff from BBC Wherever’s man on the Hartlepool game.
BBC Radio Cumbria getting a good feature on the Barrow game too.
Love when Match of the Day uses their regional radio commentators on the FA Cup highlights. Some lovely excited stuff from BBC Wherever’s man on the Hartlepool game.
BBC Radio Cumbria getting a good feature on the Barrow game too.
The Middlesbrough game couldn’t hide their bias either I noticed earlier
Aye, the Boro lot are good value for that.
Someone tell me ITV had a choice and decided to show Yarmolenko vs Charlie Cresswell over us or Spurs.
They love to bang on about THE MAGIC OF THE CUP but they'll pick a match between 2 disinterested Premier League teams every time.
The unwritten rule seems to be they only televise giant killing type games if the lower league side is at home, at least in these rounds.
You need 1) a rinky-dink home ground; 2) room for lol comparisons between the cost of one starting XI vs the other; and ideally 3) some players who have other jobs that the commentators can subtly belittle.
Or some tenuous link to the club they're playing, "He idolised Steve Claridge as a boy and now he gets to emulate him."
Our team Shrewsbury 14/1 is tasty.
Charlton against Norwich could be tricky.
Number 82 seems to think he has Milner level cardio. Gonna be dead by half time if he’s not careful.
I'm a twit
A goal made in the academy says the BBC livetext. Didn't they poach Gordon from Derby quite recently?
Also, I thought the Palace game yesterday (well their first goal, I didn't really watch the match all that much) was a great advert for a non-VAR world. A great goal which VAR would have scrubbed off for an entirely unimportant offside in the build-up to the goal.
Similarly, West Ham just scored a goal which would definitely have been chalked off by the Premier League VAR, but the FA Cup VAR seemed just to think fuck it, let's allow it.
I'm interested to hear the logic involved in allowing that goal. On what planet is he not interfering with play?
Ibou Traore... Sorry... Konate having a bit of a wobbly one again.
TV graphics have Burkina Faso going with a 2-4-4 formation. Maybe this is the next great evolution in football tactics, dreamed up in the scrublands outside Ouagadougou.
What a shocking tackle that is by Steeve Yago.
He should have walked for that.
And only 30 seconds into tournament before the first Benjamin Massing-esque studs up assault. It's good to be back
That tackle is absolute dynamite.
Is this African thing getting way much more coverage than previously? My Twitter feed is full of it.
Having to watch this on Arab TV so someone please explain, have they got their 80% capacity? (It looks close) And are they all supposedly double-vaxxed?
I'm in love with the Burkina Faso keeper kit and the keeper himself.
What timing that is.
Afcon >>>>>> the Asian Cup. You don't see goalkeepers in yellow-green-green charging out of their goal for no reason after 9 minutes in the latter.
Isn't the Asian cup usually at silly hours?
Can't wait to tweet about this to my metro liberal comrades
Giggles, you need to get behind it if you want your boys to hold on to these beastly Nigerians you're farming over there.
Don't give me that AFCON is better quality/KO hours are better, nonsense, both don't hold up to scrutiny. Tbf it's probably for the best, I'd blow a fuse (or something more substantial, yes Giggles) if I had to deal with this level of condescension.
https://mixture.gg/v/61db086a1ca54
The Magic of the (African Nations) Cup
The Asian Cup is great fun. It's like that old Fifa cheat where you could turn all the players in to midgets.
VAR has to give that penalty.
Not surprised taz is on the wrong side of history again.
They stretchered Tapsoba off there and he instantly got off and was asking to go back on the pitch.
This half has had it all. Hot-headed North African refereeing, shocking tackles, goalkeeping disasters, a vastly over-staffed team of stretcher bearers, and of course a penalty dispatched with aplomb into the back of the net.
Haha look at the big muscly creatures running around after the ball.
Another shit attempt at a tackle.
That was such a stupid lunge.
Tonal shift in last 3 posts
'For the pygmies, the slavers... The up-all-night night ravers...'
Down all the years it never ceases to amuse me how frustrated some of you get about the idea of other people watching black people play football.