Rangers randomly being good in Europe every year will never make senseOriginally Posted by niko_cee
Rangers randomly being good in Europe every year will never make sense
He’ll never disappoint
Frank Lampard is possibly a bit unfortunate to be the current face of lazy appointments made on name recognition, like Bryan Robson for people under fifty, but he is the face of it, so people want him to fail because of that rather than any specific dislike for him personally.
My lazy appointment jibe was aimed at RVN. I don't really rate Lampard, but he does have experience within the championship.
Ruud is a far lazier appointment than Lampard. Some guy who won 1 and drew 1 as caretaker at M.United a few weeks back and punched the air a lot and apparently this made him a top contender for high level managerial posts.
Won 3.
I'm living my truth.
Lampard's had one decent season in his managerial career, based on bringing Premier League players in on loan at Derby.
He flopped at Chelsea and Everton. Also looked like a twat in lockdown giving it large to Klopp.
If you're comparing to other ex-England stars, he's worse than Gerrard because Stevie has actually won something as a manager. But no-one compares to The Erminator Wayne Rooney. You might as well call him the new Alan Pardew. How he keeps getting jobs is beyond me.
He had a good 1.5 years at Chelsea too. Notably getting us 4th while under a transfer embargo.
His weakness was tactical, which I'm not sure is as big a thing in the second tier. He was a good motivator especially of young players.
He's far from the world's greatest coach but there are far worse out there.
All this talk of Rovers being the first domestic side to make European knockouts needs to have an asterisk on it given the standard of the competition they're in.
A transfer embargo at one of the top 6 clubs is hardly going to hinder when you've already got most of the world's top players at your disposal, plus sparkling youth talent to fall back on.
That's certainly one way to describe Ross Barkley and Tammy Abraham.
And the others? Thiago Silva, Azpilicueta and Rudiger. N'golo Kante. Kovacic, and Jorginho.
A solid experienced spine that played a huge part in winning the Champions League the same season Lampard departed.
Champions League winning team. Poor guy had to deal with scraps.
I had a lovely evening at Old Trafford last night. The atmosphere is absolutely fucked.
Lampard did have Chelsea top in the season he left around November but then Chelsea had their notorious winter dive bomb and they never recovered. His first season was excellent blooding in a lot of academy players and no Eden Hazard.
He did well enough at Derby (let’s not pretend that squad was better than Leeds, Villa or even Brentford’s.
Fucked in what way?
It's non existent. There's not even a new manager buzz you'd expect, they've absolutely carved out the people who used to be the ones who would be providing the atmosphere.
It was dead 10 years ago.
Probably but I think it feels worse every time I go.
The club (and clubs like it) treats fans like customers, so customers is what they are. Waiting to be served up a product. The thing that baffles me is why attendance is still so high.
Man United supporting friend of mine hasn't watched Man United or followed football since around 2015.
He continually tells me football is shit. 'It's not the same anymore. Ruined by money'. He won't watch it to save his life. I do sort of agree.
However I suspect his view is more because his team isn't winning much anymore.
A lot of the feel good factor that the fans have comes from a good ownership / strong manager partnership. Every successful team has this combination. Right now, United's ownership seems uninspiring and miserable. No wonder the rest follows.
Aye, if I want to go to the City game on Sunday I can do. If I'm willing to pay £600 for a ticket via the club and actually now on the website it helpfully shows you if the ticket is hospitality, season ticket or just a standard ticket so you can see in the parts of the ground which bits are full of hospitality supporters. The thing is that by having these fans in they dilute the atmosphere which although it always sounds weird can make a difference. That's the bit these owners don't necessarily get the thing you are selling is getting diluted by cramming more and more daytrippers in.
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Did I read it was now £66 a ticket minimum no juniors no concessions etc at OT now?
I don't know what season ticket prices are like, but presumably attendances remain high because people with season tickets fear giving them up so just suck up the increase, and the rest of the stadium can be filled with day trippers.
Season tickets at Brighton seem to have about tripled since the Amex opened, and maybe doubled since they made it into the Premier League, but then the team/product is at least three and two times better than it was then, respectively. Think there's even a waiting list now.
I think season tickets have remained relatively low and will probably get hammered in the summer. The club have been using returned tickets to package them up into £4-600 "executive" tickets where you get to have a meal and some drinks beforehand at the cricket club or nearby. They clearly make loads from just selling the same seat again with a huge markup it's no surprise they would want to reduce season tickets.
How has Mitoma missed that? Would have been a top tier quality/comedy goal.
This is quality, they have no idea here.
He has tried to kick it, so that is sort of interfering with play, even though it has no bearing on anything. Such a stupid rule/interpretation/whatever it is given the old in out that is fine at set pieces.
That is some miss from the Wealdstone fella.
1-1 after 10 mins. Frankie Lamps is back
Happy birthday Barcelolona
Arsenal and their corners
Saturday Night Football immediately ruined. Paella Pulis strikes again.
20 goals since last season in the league alone from corners is hilarious
Is it just me getting old or is 98% of throwins in the Premier League foul throws?
That has almost always been the case, which makes it extra lol when one gets called.
Without being an idiot surely the answer is just to go man to man with them rather than giving space to attack the corners by going zonal.
I would have put my life on Saka scoring that.
That was man to man. They load it up with so many players that Gabriel could just run away and lost Antonio.
Martin Odegoddamnhesgood.
Yeah he was man to man but they are also pissing about with zonal marking just go full man to man.
West Ham are fucking dross.
Had to turn it off, such a dull game.
Sorry we're not losing. Cry more.
4 goals since I turned it on 10 mins ago
How the fuck did West Ham score 2?
They could barely get out of their own box unless they just booted it aimlessly into the Arsenal half.
I guess you can all thank me for the flurry of goals.
No idea, I went for a fag at 3-0 and I came back 4 minutes later to see Paqueta whipping a free kick into the back of the net and it was 4-2.
Thought Palace had lost and was going to lol at the xG [2.30 v 0.02] but I guess a 1-1 out of that is still pretty.
I believe we had one shot on target all game.
What a start.
Taz trying to persist with the narrative Odegaard was shit was one of his weirder obsessions.
Opposition teams must love going to West Ham. Wide open pitch. Atmosphere about as intimidating as being met in a dark alleyway by the Wealdstone Raider.
The league could be decided today.
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