Ronaldo saves him again.
Ronaldo saves him again.
Originally Posted by Lewis
Emerson and Romero watch update:
Fuck off.
All the goals were great as well. They might go on a 3-5-2 mad one now like Chelsea 2017 and win the title.
That was a pretty good and competent looking performance.
It was a shit-off between two properly shit sides.
Two shit sides on a Jose Mourinho comedown.
How are Man City still nearly evens to win the league?
It's cause a Salah injury would really harm us.
Salah and mane are off to afcon so jota and firminho need to hold the line.
Chelsea lose mendy though, so agent kepa in goal keeps it interesting.
Add in the fact that any of those 3 teams could go in a 10+ game winning run. Makes a 3/5 point gap with 28 games to go not such a thing.
And they've also already had both Liverpool/Chelsea away.
Just seen we’re playing 3 games in November and 8 in December. Nice.
Which they didn’t lose in so that doesn’t exactly bode well. They’ll be 8 points behind next week
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Give the job to Kammy.
Aluko siblings pls. Or Sodje.
Just let Fenners do it. His impression is spot on.
I'm a twit
The sad little studio they have them in now probably sealed the deal. Proper decline stuff.
Nah, Kammy is more of an impact sub. Need someone more consistent.
Have heard people speculate Jeff is leaving because his mates (Le Tiss, Phil Thompson, etc) were all forced off the show. Some saying that the replacements are shit.
I used to enjoy it when I was younger, but not watched in years.
I guess a new younger crowd may be the way forward.
I think the problem with Soccer Saturday, especially these days with all the dodgy streams, is who is it for?
Whenever I cared about football I'd, in order of preference:
go to wba games
watch wba games on the telly
watch wba games on a dodgy stream
listen to wba games on local radio
maybe watch soccer saturday
that, and that it's shit.
Is the soccer Saturday drinking game still a thing?
I'm a twit
Makes the 12 fold btts accas exciting when in the pub
It is a bit of a legacy thing isn't it. When Sky Sports News was free/streaming was still niche and shit it must have been on [in the background] in half the houses in the country.
I've watched it a bit this season when the 12:30 game looks like a snoozefest and the replacements are indeed crap. Clinton Morrison can barely string a sentence together. Which wouldn't be too bad if there was enough there to know what he's getting at, like with Paul Merson, but there isn't.
They changed the lineup because there must be some rule against having five white men on the box now. Can't be any other reason for it.
The BT Sport version, starring Robbie Savage and Peter Walton, is better. Grim
I also think the spreading out of the premier league games over the weekend hasn't helped Soccer Saturday. It used to be all matches at 3pm apart from one on super Sunday and maybe Monday night. Whereas now there are some weekends where only three games. And not as many give a cap about the lower leagues.
Was Lineker right in saying that had Salah tapped that disallowed Mané goal in then it would have stood? Does that handball only count if it directly puts it into the net? I know we've been through the ringer with handballs but that still seems a bitif true.
We must be talking at least a decade since this was the case.
Pretty sure when I moved into my flat in 2011 it was already Saturday lunchtime game, two SUPER SUNDAY games and a Monday night game plus occasional extra Sunday games being moved for stuff. I might be wrong but I feel like it's been 6 games tops on the 3pm slot for a long time.
And let's be honest, Soccer Saturday was always shit. It was just something useful to have on in the background if you were playing FM or doing something about the house.
Surely nobody was actually sitting and watching it as if Le Tissier and Nicholas are appointment telly?
Fair point. The past 10 years have flown by sadly.
In the pre-twitter and streaming days, soccer Saturday was essential viewing for the armchair football fan.
Over the years I feel like the stages were:
* Teletext football updates (I remember waiting in anticipation for the page to update with score updates)
* Soccer Saturday
* Twitter/football apps/streams
I found all three enjoyable over the years.
I feel old
One of the best.
I watched MOTD without knowing any of the results (besides Liverpool obv) for the first time in ages and it really is the difference between being gripped and scrolling on my phone.
I'm a twit
Soccer Saturday had some good moments in it's heyday but how many people here actually saw Nicholas or Thompson play? Maybe the rise of the Carraghers and Nevilles got some gears turning in the execs minds. I don't watch it now anyway.
They all seem to struggle with the pace of it now, stumbling over every other word and not really explaining what's going on. I think they should have phased out the old guard one by one to make it more of a transition rather than dumping a load of new guys in at once.
If the 3pm blackout gets lifted and they can start going to the ground to show clips of goals and penalties as they're taken etc then I think the show would be popular again.
Possibly they could work with the fantasy game and live stream tweets etc to get the youngsters more involved.
As a concept it's barely changed for 15 years. The world moves on and Sky Sports hasn't kept up.
That last comment is bang on.
If you watch that conception of the premier league thing on iplayer, it really does show Sky failing as a company until their punt on broadcasting the Premier league turned out to be a gold mine.
Watching them commentate on games was always dull, but I used to genuinely enjoy the couple of hours before where they'd talk about each team.
Sky Sports in general has been quietly losing pace / not improving for a number of years now. It used to feel like they were always expanding at the cutting edge but since the football rights value went mental they've been clinging on just to keep affording them. BT is no better, mind.
Part of this is they don't look for people with the actual skills for the job. Just "which ex-Premier League player have we heard of who needs the money?" I've said this before regarding the studio punditry but there absolutely must be much better options out there with ex pros who are actually engaging and have a more interesting approach if they bothered their arse to try and find them.
Match of the Day is the absolute worst for that.
They pick the pundits to be cheap, obvs. Do you even see Alex Scott on things anymore? Her fee's probably gone up.
Alex Scott is on everything. Wasn't Thierry Henry on about five million a year at Sky? He was crap as well. The 'star' pundits won't be cheap, and Sky Sports do about as good a job as you could with football now. BBC/ITV (and what I've seen of BT) coverage is appalling in comparison.
Seeing Anton Ferdinand being booked more than once had my head spinning. He can't form sentences.
Replacing Graeme Souness will be Sky's biggest test. He is obviously Liverpool, but 1) not Scouse; 2) not especially revered by Liverpool fans for various lol reasons; and 3) an Old School geezer and legend. If Newcastle become decent and a regular Super Sunday fixture over the coming years I wouldn't be surprised to see Alan Shearer make the move across for some HEATED Roy Keane content.
Yeah, if anything, she's too big for just the football stuff. A breakout star like Jermaine Jenas.
As a license payer, I'm confused by these sentences.
Football's "characters" tend to be thicker than pig shit.
Juventus are doing well.
Kenny McLean over Billy Gilmour
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