Best header since Javier Hernandez at Stoke, or Javier Hernandez in the Charity Shield.
Best header since Javier Hernandez at Stoke, or Javier Hernandez in the Charity Shield.
United these days are really, really hard to like for the neutral. I started this game not caring who wins and now I'm on the verge of ordering a Freddie Ljungberg ceiling poster.
Offside, surely?
Nope, Wank Bissaka playing them on.
Fantastic. Had that coming to them.
Tell your children about the 2 week title challenge with Wout Weghorst as a starting frontman. Heady days.
I hadn’t realised Man City still have to play Arsenal twice. That really is a massive goal then.
Mikel Arteta is such a little gimp.
Well, that's annoying but Arsenal were definitely the better team.
Arsenal deserve it. We didn't have an answer to the pressure and Saka tore it up. They're going to be hard to stop.
One of the best games I've seen in ages but Arsenal deserved to win in the end.
Striker and another midfielder in the summer and we might actually be a good side next season.
Woof. I love this team.
I hope they outlast Noel Gallagher's men as well. Best team to watch in the league.
Zinchenko being playmaker from left-back is just silly.
Keeper too shirley. Anything in the pipeline there?Originally Posted by randomlegend
Has anyone worked out what Ten Hags special plan for Scott McTominay was?
Jack Butland
Keeper too eventually, but with how much strikers cost I doubt we'll do all three this summer and striker/midfielder are higher priority. De Gea is better than he was playing out from the back, even if he'll obviously never be Ederson.
Show he's shit so he gets funds to replace him in the summer?
I saw the start of the WSL Chelsea Liverpool match today, later found out it was postponed after 6 minutesIn the build up they showed highlights of the previous meeting, three penalties and seemingly no power behind any of them. Is this a thing, are they incapable of striking the ball properly?
Apparently the pitch was clearly frozen, but the ref ignored both teams protests and tried to carry on with the game. Immediately became apparent the pitch was unplayable.I saw the start of the WSL Chelsea Liverpool match today, later found out it was postponed after 6 minutes
It looked hilariously foggy too.
I saw Kathy Burke booting off about undersoil heating being mandatory as if week-to-week they aren't operating at the same level as the various crap leagues where these sort of postponements are routine.
Just did some quick googling, aside the top 5/6 teams it’s a couple of thousand fans, if that.
Given ticket prices are also like £6-8 the league is still absolutely miles away from being economically worthwhile for that sort of facilities.
The “match day income” must be similar to what, a national league north or south team?
Gateshead average attendance is similar to lower end of WSL and the ticket price is twice as high for Gateshead.
Needs some fairly hefty TV money to prop it up.
Apparently the ref wanted it called off hours before, but the powers that be told him/her he/she had to get it played.
I live about two miles from there, I couldn't see out the window at the time and it was completely frozen on the ground. Obviously some pressure from above around not showing that the women's Prem doesn't have the same facilities as the men's.
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Yeah it’s miles off. That every to channel is falling over themselves to broadcast women’s sport blows my mind aside from tennis the viewing figures can’t be that great yet everyone seems to be desperate to make it the next big thing on tv. I assume because they can pick the rights up for next to nothing?
I wouldn’t watch women’s garden soccer if it was in my garden at the same time as something I wanted to watch on TV.
I'm a twit
One of my wife's friends is an ex-professional women's footballer and she won't watch it because it's "fucking shit".
What does this mean?
Even if it was comparable to the men's sport which it really isn't, it lacks a key ingredient: vitriol. The key thing non football fans witter on about that makes women's football better than men's is the atmosphere apparently. Missing the point that tribalism and shithousery is exactly why the men's game is so successful.
The man's scoring looping headers while wearing a bandage and sporting a black eye. Not a single fuck given.What does this mean?
Yeah, the games all sound like a swimming gala.
The world is only going one way though, no point fighting it. Equal pay will be here in our lifetimes.
A flat 'Football Wage', to be paid to every player in every division, roughly equivalent to what the average nurse earns. Any additional endorsement income taxed at ninety-eight per cent to pay for more migrant hotel rooms.
Football ushering in socialism.
We do need to fight it though, because they are talking absolute shit. The reason woman footballers don't earn as much as men is because women aren't fucking watching it. Why is that men's fault? Get off your arse, go support your local team. Fill the fucking stadium. Demand more women's games on TV. Actually watch them. Generate some fucking revenue.
It's basic supply and demand and we need to stop pretending these answers are unknown when some shrill blue hair starts whining.
It's men's fault because we held the women's game back forever / literally banned it for decades.
The feminist era means that men are increasingly not in control of household spending or their own leisure time either, so I'd enjoy men's football while you can. I sound like an incel here but I think it's basically true.
You're gonna have to elaborate on that. A serious amount to unpack there.
I reckon 60 years is enough time to get over that. And if anything, if should be driving more women towards embracing their footballing sisters.
On the women controlling money thing, that's not my experience. I had a 5 year absence from going, but that's because babies are time and money hungry creatures. Now I take my boy to the football and my wife takes our daughter to shows etc. Similar is true for friends that take their kids to West Ham.
What you are saying is probably true for the poor cunts that married Twitter / TikTok weapons, but most people are still normal. Normal women aren't holding the purse strings screaming PATRIARCHAL TOXIC MASCULINITY IT'S ALL MEN UNTIL IT'S NO MEN FREE THE NIPPLE!
Give it time and the Women’s game will be full of biologically born men, that penny will drop and Men (and whoever else enjoys it) will be able to go back to watching the Men’s game in peace, while the screamers turn their attention to JK Rowling again.
What sort of fucking boomer convention have I logged on to this morning?
I think one that is increasingly deciding to call out the bullshit that surrounds us.
I think the product should get better with time, to be honest. They've went from being banned to a professional status with no real in-between. It's all happened very quick.
'I'd enjoy men's football while you can' is tongue in cheek, but football crowds are far (far) older than they used to be and the game from a marketing perspective clearly has a need to embrace whole-family entertainment rather than being a male outlet as it always has been - at least if it wants to maintain high prices that lock out young working class men. Part of that means taking women's football seriously no matter what.
I seem to remember the figure being that women make 75% of household spending decisions (I got this from an ECB event a couple of years ago, as they fretted over how to market their own sport) but I can't find anything from the UK gov with a two-minute google of that.
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Team GB women vs Canada is still the fullest I've ever seen the Ricoh, although an early try at a YOU'RE SHIT-AH at a goal kick, never seen such daggers.
Be fair to Boyd, it's the Oxbridge (and their American counterparts) debating societies that started us down this road, so it must be a bit of a culture shock.
Equal parts hilarious and sad.
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This is it, some of my fondest memories of going to watch Barrow even when it was terrible football, losing streaks, freezing rain were the shouts on the terrace. Highlights being some old fella calling the referee 'a callow youth' for failing to book an opposing player, the stewards absolutely shitting it when some 12 year olds rushed forward after a goal with a flare and some home fans managing to infiltrate the away end and steal their flag prompting the home support to sing 'where's your flag gone?' To the tune of 'where's your mama gone?'.
Maybe it's the clamour for Women's football to be taken super seriously after the likes of Keyes and Gray lolling at them but it just seems so sterile.
The good part was that Canada won 2-0 but could have had 10 so while it didn't get nasty, the crowd did start to turn a bit negative which made me feel right at home again. Just looking at the stadium and the highest attendances I've seen other than that are when we lost 2-0 to Chelsea in the FA Cup, lost 3-0 against Crewe in the JPT and lost 2-0 to Accrington in League 2. When people turn up, never goes well
I mean, whether they’re there or not, really.
I'm a twit
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