When was the last time both United & Liverpool finished outside of the top four?
When was the last time both United & Liverpool finished outside of the top four?
When Leicester won the league I think. I know Arsenal/Spurs finished T3, presume City got 4th.
We're getting 4th at least. Ryan Mason's Spurs or some Solly March masterclass isn't enough.
I heard a stat about Newcastle last finishing above United in 1977. Sure enough, we finished 5th and qualified for Europe that season. Next year we were relegated.
Shoutout for Tottenham 1-1 Everton. 9th time in the PL, 27th overall.
The commentary on that Kane flop
Love to hear it roles reversed.
He was just anticipating the contact, right?
Ref had no choice, apparently, not seen it, watch Everton v Spurs? Are you kidding?
Everton scoring late equalisers like that is a definite never going down ever sign. Bring on the Everton-less Super League.
Steve Watson used to do that. I'm sure someone's launched one of those off the first man at point-blank range before.
Sir Henry Winter tweeted that it was 'embarrassing', if he's dunking on a major England player then it must have been war crimes tribunal-worthy.
Which Englishman do you hate the most @Giggles, King Hamilton or Lord Kane?
I don't actually think he has anything against Hamilton, more so the folk on here who refer to him as Lewis.
Sir Lewis, please.
I don't have to hate either to call out that wankery. No problem with the dive at all either, just found the commentary around it laughable.
Hamilton is a bit of a tosser though in fairness, the poor underprivileged mite.
From BBC's live page:
Absolutely nothing wrong with Kane's reaction. That's what happens with that kind of impact, I doubt he made the conscious decision to go down. I've had similar impacts in the same area many times and it's physically impossible to stay standing, and there's always a brief delay from shock. Criticising him for his actions is akin to ignoring the seriousness of head injuries no matter how small.
They're absolutely right.
At least 10 days out for Kane to get over the concussion I'd say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hutter
Looking through the names being put forward for the Leicester job and this guy is one of them. Surely that can't be allowed.
Who in their right mind called their son "Adolf" in 1970? Jesus christ.
Probably named him after Adolf Eichmann.
No wonder he goes by "Adi".
Mitrovic 8 match ban. Jesus
Yeah, a man nearly died ffs
Imagine how many Doucoure will get for concussing our Harry if Mitrovic gets 8.
For 8 games, Mitro should have genuinely lumped the cunt. Absolute joke.
Same as the Suarez ban for racism, DOUBLE the ban that the pikey boy JT got. And the FA are appealing to get it increased. You can see where their priorities lie.
Rumours on Twitter that they have a vendetta against Fulham/Serbia/Portugal #itk
If this is some kind of ban encouraged to stop the refs being crowded, it won't work.
It's a farce. When it happened, all the cronies in the media were harping on about how any contact with a ref should be a red card. And since then we've seen virtually every side continue to crowd the ref or come into contact with them, with no repercussions.
The only way it stops is if the officials charge on and protect the ref. I'm all for that visual.
Another Vendetta against Fulham.
Hardly, just an easy target for the FA to appear to be coming down hard on protecting officials. I can't imagine any of the Sky 6 receiving this sort of attention and disdain from the FA.
Yeah, they'd never put Chelsea under a Transfer Embargo or anything like that.
FIFA issued that embargo, as well as fining Chelsea and the FA.
Hasn't Jimmy's recent incursion into South America cleared Our Luis from Liverpool on the Negrito front?
Was what Mitrovic's actual red card for? Was it for shoving the ref or did he do something, get sent off and then shove the ref? Aggressive physical contact with the ref probably should carry a pretty hefty ban, so 6 games or so doesn't seem disproportionate. Less than Di Canio. Not the same but what did Thatcher get for that 'shove' on Pedro Mendes?
The red was for shoving the ref.
The 8 game break down is as follows:
The Serbia striker received a three-match ban for the sending off, three for violent conduct and an additional two for "improper, abusive, insulting and threatening" language.
I'm not sure how bad his language must have been to warrant a 2 game ban.
A weird way of breaking it down because yeah, he was sent off for the contact with Kavanagh. So effectively it was 6 games for the grab, and 2 for his language after the fact.
Di Canio was already sent off when he pushed Alcock so his ban for the push was also 8 games. Thatcher got 8 for the, let's be honest, assault on Mendes. I forgot he was only booked at the time too.
Is 8 matches the limit before it goes to time bans [a la biting Suarez and Kung Fu Cantona]?
Being as it was in the FA Cup doesn't it only apply to cup games per that weird rule they seem to have this season [I'm sure the Spanish Cup had something similar, maybe still does]?
It’s obviously wasn’t the same thing, petulance rather than aggression, but this makes it even more baffling that Bruno got away with it completely because they’re clearly trying to send the message with the Mitrovic ban that officials are off limits. Which is fair, but inconsistency is what creates confusion and ultimately the inability to change attitudes.
I think red cards in the FA Cup still carry over to other domestic competitions. It's just yellow card suspensions that are competition-specific.
Mitrovic absolutely deserved that ban and more, the simple reason being he continued to be aggressive towards the ref after the red card had been given.
A red card is the maximum punishment the ref can give out. Anything a player does after a ref has already sent them off has to be punished retrospectively or it's not actually being punished at all. If he didn't receive a lengthy ban, it would also have sent the message that once you've been sent off you may as well crack on. It would leave referees feeling that they had no protection once they've given a red card.
I interrupt this clear vendetta against Fulham to say that there's no Van Dijk tonight.
Forecasts call for a heavy dose of Goe Jomez lasting for up to 90 minutes.