Bale channeling Lukaku with that first touch.
Bale channeling Lukaku with that first touch.
Is the Rodriguez that scored Hameth?
If that happened we would need an England World Cup win to get over it.Originally Posted by niko_cee
Yes. He looks like a smacky.
LOL.
I've been there meself losing me footing.
Yes Steven. Yes.
He’s been on fire this year despite not scoring today. I reckon he still has about two years at the absolute top top level.
Elsewhere, at the United Player of the Year knees-up, Mourinho appears to have invented his own little 'Manager's Player of the Year' award (complete with crap little trophy) and given it to Scott McTominay. I bet Paulp Ogba is sacking his agent as we speak.
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It's pretty amazing how many things had to go right for them to win that tie. Ramos the difference. Almost certainly the first and only time Bayern could have been the good guys.
I will be binning every opinion I have on football if they win the final.
Oh, and the sport needs a clock that stops when the ball is out of play. There can be no argument against it.
Well, given that an average game actually only lasts about 60-70 minutes with the ball in play, it would be the case that a 90 minutes of in-play football would make every game into an extra-time game and players would be dying left right and center. You'd eventually reach an equilibrium in tactics where everything would move much more slowly on the pitch so that the players could conserve energy. Not sure thats worth getting rid of some time wasting
I give him more than that.
Continuous game, continuous clock. It'll turn into a 4 hour NFL nightmare if you let them take time off. Advert timeouts, water breaks, managers setting up set pieces for two minutes, you name it.
Games in Asia would literally never end if they had a stopping clock.
They'll introduce those things anyway if they really want to.
Have a timer in the stadium that goes up when the ball isn't in play and have it count down after 90, I don't care. Too often the end of a good game is ruined by this shit.
I sort of understand where you are coming from re: added time but having a definitive end point (which a countdown clock would provide) would just make the game more anti-climactic - in the same way NFL games can just peter out when the clock is running down. That feeling of 'blow the whistle ref!' is a great thing about football.
Also, I reckon the idea of loads of time being lost to the ball being out of play is a bit of a red herring, akin to how it feels better to be driving a longer way around than be stuck in traffic (even if both methods reach the destination at the same time).
It’s no surprise Real Madrid are doing this with a spine of Ramos-Modric-Ronaldo.
Modric and Zidane’s knockout record is fucking bonkers.
I think you could allow play to continue after full time, until it goes out + one extra set piece. You'd lose that particular shout from the crowd, yes, and I suspect the final minute or two might turn into a basketball style affair trying to get it downfield, but I think I could tolerate that. I reckon there was about 5 minutes of actual football in the last 15 last night.
I do like how Rugby carries on until the ball's dead.
Might as well give teams the ability to make five substitutions too.
Everything crossed the murderers go out tonight.
Do away with extra time entirely, game ends at the first break in play after 90.
There's been some shocking ideas in this thread, but that's the worst.
If the game is 0-0 after 45 minutes. Just go straight into a penalty shoot-out.
Don't bother playing. Whoever has the highest revenue wins.
Game ends first time the ball touches the ground after 90 minutes.
Rocket league style
What they could actually do is be a little more strict on Time wasting, and dish out post-game warnings for it as well the way they might do with Diving these days.
I would love to see someone get a second Yellow card for time-wasting twice. Whenever a keeper gets a yellow, they always take another minute after that knowing they won't get another Yellow just like that.
KerlonGame ends first time the ball touches the ground after 90 minutes.
Rocket league style
He'd be worth at least £500m in the current market.Kerlon
Just have (and enforce) a five second limit for putting the ball back into play. Took too long? Change of possession. If the GK takes too long, penalty kick.
As for faking injuries, whoever needs the little cart to come in needs to take a five minute timeout. If they are really injured then that gives them time to recover. If they are faking it, then they leave their team with one player less for a small period of time.
Or just leave things as they are.
Super idea - kick your opponents and play against 10 men for 5 minutes.
There is already a rule to cure that. If you kick your opponents you get booked.
5 minutes left, a goal down. I'm sure players would take a booking to play against 10 men for the remainder of the game. Fuck it, let's have 4 players booked and play against 7!
You absolute mentalist.
I think you overestimate the number of tackles that lead to genuine injuries. To ensure that an injury would disable a rival player, the risk of getting a red card would be extremely high. Might prove entertaining.
Just make whoever commits the foul go off with him for 5 minutes too.
Though then you'll get players faking injury to have the other teams best player off for 5 minutes.
Just have to keep it how it is.
None of these things would work for two reasons that are never likely to change. Players/teams cannot be trusted not to waste time (the best way of 'gaming' the clock with the current rules); and the governing bodies are all completely spineless so any new regulations will never be enforced.
I think the rules are pretty good as they are. Or as they were. That new penalty order is still a communist disgrace.
Full on nervous and excited now!
Fuck off.
Right. Can turn this off now.
Brilliant!!
And you all said I jinxed it.
I'm a twit
The numbers on the back of Liverpool's shirts look massive. Are they wearing some sort of throwback kit?
Outstanding comedy there
Here we go.
BT's lead commentator is relishing every chance he gets to mention 'Schick'.
That’s ruined commentary teams favourite Gini fact
I can't remember a team being this shit defensively in something like this. They have just killed themselves.
Something about ALLEZ.
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