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Thread: August football thread: Football is back (already)

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    ITV really trying to make it matter

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    Hello Jota.


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    Rooney's first game at Plymouth is a 4-0 defeat to Sheffield Wednesday. At some point there is going to have to be some accountability for all these people who keep giving him managerial jobs.

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    While I would love to dig him out, why is a crap team that spent 4.5 million quid beating another crap team that spent 450 grand with 2 goals coming in the last 10 minutes a massive enditement.

    Portsmouth haven't been in the league for 12 years and took Leeds to the brink, does that mean whoevers in charge there should also be sacked?

    I may be slightly biased by the job he did at Derby and the fact that Liam Roseniors been a massive success might be a classic case of the brains being in the backroom but I think it's a bit harsh.

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    We gave Everton a bit of a drubbing and were narrowly edged by Werder Bremen in our last pre-season games so we've gone into a season with rare optimism and of course lost 1-0 late on at Stoke.

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    Someone needs to intervene over Rooney's hair. Is he not allowed to cut the bit that's been grafted on?

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    Luke Shaw's apparently done one training session after coming back from the Euros and is out for 3 weeks.

    Giving Reece James a run for his money at this point.

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    He must be due a testimonial soon.

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    Just beat Bristol City to win our first league cup match in around 35 years. The Sky Sports+ thing is good that you can fritter between 30 matches all going on at the same time but the production quality is about what you'd expect when you're stretching it out over 30 matches all going on at the same time.

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    Smart from Jose to bottle UCL qualification. Europa league trophy in the bag.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    He must be due a testimonial soon.
    This season would be his testimonial year. He appears to have averaged nineteen league games per season, and he's contracted until 2027. Shit.

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    Testimonials are all but a dead practice, right? Newcastle haven't had one for a decade.

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    Testimonials were designed as a big old whip-round, which isn't really the thing when everyone's on six figures a week.

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    Referee's call is here

    You can stay with your original decision, Tayls, you're on screen now.

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    Can't see Farke lasting much longer at Leeds.

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    After what time the interviewer had used the phrase 'good looking' do you think he began to regret where his question was going.

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    Blocking at set pieces to be more stringently policed by VAR? That'll be lol and not at all a complete clusterfuck, and RIP Arsenal.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/ckgw1grdppzo

    This guy must be the biggest idiot in football.

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    They’ve got Archie Gray and Sarr, they’ll be fine.
    I'm a twit

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    Penalties in this ajax game have been on for over 20 mins

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    Ajax have just missed for the 4th time in sudden death to win it. This is amazing

    They finally win 13-12 after 17 pens

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    Top effort from Brobbey to miss both efforts.

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    His first one is arguably the worst penalty you’ll ever see

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    I didn't realise we had to play a qualifying round to get into the Conference League. Servette! Absolutely superb St Gallen vibes.

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    Ice Cream Van Stand #MassiveClub


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    La Liga apparently working on playing the December Barcelona v Atletico Madrid game in... Miami.

    Farmers league.
    Last edited by John Arne; 16-08-2024 at 08:29 AM.

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    New ref stuff this season. Can't see any of this being an issue.

    - Semi-automated offsides will be introduced but won't start until AFTER the international break in September, October or even November.
    - Only the captain can speak to the referee. Any other player will be automatically carded if they confront officials.
    - VAR officials will not get involved in subjective decisions: only CLEAR and OBVIOUS errors will be looked at.
    - No mid-season/Christmas break for the players
    - There is a new Premier League Match Centre social-media account that will communicate the facts regarding VAR decisions.

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    That only the captain speaking to the referee stuff is unenforceable guff. Football is a working class sport, players will never ever respect the referee now matter how good the ref is or no matter how hard you try.

    Also looking forward to Objective Stuart Attwell deciding which subjective decisions he should not get involved in.

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    Handballs are going to be less punitive as well, and you also won't be auto-booked for an unintentional handball leading to a penalty, although that throws up other questions in and of itself.

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    United might want to give the armband to someone else in that case.

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    Could you in theory just rotate the armband during the game so that everyone can have a crack in turn?

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    Just googled Olympic Football 2024 Final to check something and for some reason google defaulted to showing me the women's first, which doesnt make sense as surely you'd do it alphabetically?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben View Post
    - VAR officials will not get involved in subjective decisions: only CLEAR and OBVIOUS errors will be looked at.
    Sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    Just googled Olympic Football 2024 Final to check something and for some reason google defaulted to showing me the women's first, which doesnt make sense as surely you'd do it alphabetically?
    We all know what's going on.

    With that said, that must be the biggest women's tournament, while no one gives a fuck about the men's one.

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    Probably because God's United States won gold and it therefore got googled more times.

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    Is this another example of USWNT being SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS?

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    It is quite funny how Sky meticulously airbrush Dick Keys and Andy Gray out of all their historical coverage montages now.

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    I’d be the first top say woke gone mad, but you can’t be at that shit.

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    They were 100% saying that kind of stuff all along, but at a certain point they became too expensive and that's why Sky found a way to get rid.

    As such have little sympathy for the video touchers of today.

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    When was the last time Fulham won at OT?

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    Quite literally the last time they went there.

    Silva has also yet to lose an opening day fixture as a manager.

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    2-1 in February, Iwobi with a 97th minute winner.

    Good value for it too. I'm expecting at least a draw tonight.

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    This Traore v Dalot battle straight from the prison showers.

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    United needing to advertise for a new club Butcher after that one.

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    Muniz is such a baller.

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    Ten Haag ball is hilarious. Just sit deep and pray you do something on the counter

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    Have Man Utd bought a midfielder yet? Sure there’s a Dutch boy kicking about somewhere

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    Yeah this is dire from them. I get your new signings aren't all in yet but nothing has changed at all in terms of playstyle.

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    There must be some eighteen year old in the system who could at least loiter around up front and hold the ball up a bit.

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    All of United's three decent chances have come directly from Leno and/or the lumbering Bassey trying to play it out of the back like they're Victor Valdes and Pique.

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