Go on Mellers.
Go on Mellers.
Queirozball and Egypt's centuries of national seethe, a match made in the fire pits of hell.
What a finish that is.
Made sweeter with the Egyptian seethe over a non foul.
Fuck VAR.
That wasn't a foul.
That was a bullshit decision, nothing in it, 60/40 call on a minor foul some time before a briilliant goal means that the brilliance is cancelled out in favour of defenders falling over. The very worst of VAR in its full glory.
Benitez gone apparently. Pretty funny that it's not a week since he forced Lucas Digne out.
It's going to be weird looking back on his career as a whole.
Wayne 'Manager of the Year' Rooney surely isn't walking out of his miracle effort mid-season.
Duncan Ferguson so Wayne can save Derby first.Originally Posted by Lewis
Hilarious. Just glad he's proved who the better manager is between him and Steve Bruce.
Can Derby even stay up? Are they due any more deductions?
Barnsley must be dogshit.
Without the deduction, they'd be 10th. They can make that gap up.
Is the waster owner gone now?
Get a load of Tommy Tuchel moaning about Lukaku losing the ball and missing their biggest chance. Did he sign him off a YouTube compilation?
He did look really bad on MOTD tonight.
Hard to believe Ziyech started today. He seems like a total waste of space. He’s Mahrez without an ounce of end product.
Also - the Ramsey fella for Villa is top class.
Balance like a peak Deli.
He couldn’t have picked a worse front 3 for playing City. He donned them 3 times in a row last year playing Havertz through the middle and Werner running in behind Walker for fun. I can see why Ziyech started to an extent as he scored twice against them in the wins last year but Ziyech/Lukaku is a massive no.
I’m pretty sure Lukaku was a ‘board signing’. He couldn’t be further from the type of player Tuchel likes. He’ll be gone in the summer no doubt.
I'm not saying that racism is rampant across managers or anything but it's wild the amount of managers who have had control of Lukaku and seen Andy Carroll rather than Andy Cole is absurd.
'Had control of'? Looks like Andy Cole? Jesus alright mate.
Trying too hard.
Not sure Lukaku was the problem today. Obviously people like him as the story because he's been in the news and is the star striker. The problem was the manager inexplicably selected Moroccan and American dweebs who fucked up every counter attack because they have the composure of a choc ice in a blast furnace, while Mason Mount and Kai Havertz sat on the bench.
Then he brought on Callum Hudson-Odoi who is like the above dweebs fucked and had the child tutored by Malouda and Kalou.
The win percentage with Havertz through the middle must be huge compared to when he’s not. It’s not like he scores or assists much at all but everyone looks like footballers again when they’re playing around him
On that theme. It's funny that 3 of 4 of the major teams have a soft spot for Yossi Benayoun
Nice tattoo Jimmy.
Aye. Only 20. Get involved, Jurg.
I'm a twit
Whilst I sort of agree with Spurs' crying about their game being off if not directly caused by covid tests, in this statement:
Doesn't the bolded bit directly conflict with the follow-up statement? Surely 'taken together with injuries' are considerations unrelated to covid? Or is the AFCON the curveball here because Arsenal have a few players away at that?"The original intention of the guidance was to deal with player availability directly affected by Covid cases, resulting in depleted squads that when taken together with injuries would result in the club being unable to field a team.
"We do not believe it was the intent to deal with player availability unrelated to Covid.
It's too vague to say. I'd say that Covid should be the principle cause of the problem for it to apply. In this case, it's barely a problem for them at all. Their main problem is that they were too thick to not send players out on loan when they were already struggling for numbers.
It is what it is anyway, they're not the first and they won't be the last to take the piss. More concerning is the precedent they're setting. They may as well just arrange a winter break for during AFCON now.
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That's fair if it's just one covid case, 4 AFCONs and 3 or 4 other injuries, but where is the limit with covid cases? Does it need to be 3, 4? It's very clearly not 10 or whatever would be needed to actually be unable to put a full squad out, and hasn't been at any point.
They shouldn't have gone down this road to begin with really. Play the youth team or forfeit the game. It's harsh, but it would affect all clubs at one point or another. All this bollocks is just causing headaches.
Teams pay 50+ players a salary. Put a player from the reservers in there. If there are not any available, start looking at the women's teams and give them a shirt to play. It really isnt that hard.
Get a few fans on like Harchester United did.
Another couple of hamstrings done in for Leeds.
It's never ending. I would be seriously investigating the possibility of some sort of voodoo hex being placed on us at this point.
We went through something like that under Sounness and Saunders. It was either the state of the training pitches or the training itself that popped hamstrings like bubble wrap.
Looks like we're well into the [now annual?] post-Christmas goal gloom.
Sir Rafa has been sacked. Looks like the granny shagger could be the next cab off the rank for them.
He did his duty well.
Seems Klopps Liverpool team goes very flat in January. Likely all of the PRESSING catching up to them from earlier in the year.Looks like we're well into the [now annual?] post-Christmas goal gloom.
This game is a great example of why Leeds will stay up easily. No matter how vulnerable they look in a game, there's always a goal in them.
Yet again VAR's main function is to aggressively disallow goals that would have stood for 100+ years until we started using VAR.
Disgraceful decision to disallow that goal. Complete lack of common sense. Do the people in charge of VAR actually understand football?
Doesn't matter, once you surrender the soul of the game to the finer points of the rulebook then you have to start disallowing everything and giving penalties for everything.
It is offside though isn't it? Unfortunate but he's in the wrong place.
Just save from the Leeds keeper as well.
Yeah, the linesman would’ve given that off if he’d realised it hit Rodrigo. Shots hitting players form the same team on the line isn’t a new thing.
It’s unfortunate, but he’s offside. The goal would’ve gone to him, whilst blatantly offside. You can’t just ignore it.
That miss at the end!
Not offside for me. The ball is going in anyway and he doesn't obstruct an opposition player from preventing the goal. If a team playing against Sunderland had such a goal disallowed, it would still be disgraceful and I would think we would have been extremely lucky. I don't particularly like Leeds but glad they won in the end.
Tunisia are not fucking around today.
Rafa will not be winning the league with Everton.
100m is the going rate for Villa academy players if you fancy it.
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