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  • Transfers! Here we go!!!!

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  • Seeing if Newcastle blow their load on a lot of shite

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  • Waiting for the fixture carnage to really kick in

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  • It'll help distract me from my December alcoholism comedown

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  • New year, new turtle

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    Football in January 2022

    Gosh, the year now has a 2 at the end of it!

    I feel revitalised and like my love of football has been entirely rekindled. Enthusiasm!

    What are you most looking forward to in football this month / year?

    We do, of course, have a positively sizzling line-up of games to kick off the new year with a BANG!

    12:30 - Arsenal v Man City - BT Sport
    17:30 - Glentoran v Larne - BBC iPlayer / BBC Sport Website
    17:30 - Crystal Palace v West Ham United - Sky Sports

    I mean okay there are only three games but two of those feature some of England's finest football teams and Arsenal so that's like four games by the standards of ordinary football!

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    T minus 8 days until Cameroon and Burkina Faso kick off the best event of the year.

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    I opened the thread fully planning to mention AFCON but it turns out I'm a massive racist and entirely forgot.

    My ignorance of African football probably would have been worse though.

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    Arsenal players and fans are having a laugh saying that's not a penalty. Silva running onto the ball, shirt pulled back, obvious penalty. Also a straight red in my world.

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    Silva dives and is falling down from said dive when his shirt is pulled. Should have been a booking for Bernardo Silva

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    This VAR shit is some nonsense.

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    Good to see you've started the new year blindfolded.

    Gabriel should be sold for those two yellows, and every Arsenal fan applauding him off should have their season ticket cancelled.

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    Martinelol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Good to see you've started the new year blindfolded.

    Gabriel should be sold for those two yellows, and every Arsenal fan applauding him off should have their season ticket cancelled.
    What? Xhaka doesn’t even touch him and he’s falling to the floor before his shirt his touched. I don’t understand how you can’t see that.

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    Worst part is that he had dribbled past his man and was in a good position to cross, but it is more lucrative to dive than to keep playing.

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    He dived cause the ball was overran but good to see shirt pulls be punished regardless. And that favela cunt

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    Arsenal should have had a penalty in the first half. Not sure how VAR managed to get that wrong.

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    Martin Keown is thick as shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dquincy View Post
    Arsenal should have had a penalty in the first half. Not sure how VAR managed to get that wrong.
    Because many calls are judgment calls, and VAR just adds an extra layer of judgment.

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    lol. England's champions march on.

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    Rodri running right up to the Arsenal fans there

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Rodri running right up to the Arsenal fans there
    Need more of this in the game.

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    Adebayor's one (with the same clubs, actually) was an all time great moment.

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    Hope he gets a nice holiday in Dubai for that. Absolute joke.

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    Abu Dhabi, not Dubai. Get your Emirates right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Hope he gets a nice holiday in Dubai for that. Absolute joke.
    Are you talking about Martinelli for missing an open goal, or about Gabriel, for that incredible display of wits?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Are you talking about Martinelli for missing an open goal, or about Gabriel, for that incredible display of wits?
    Maybe if the ref wasn’t standing in the fucking way for no reason he might have scored.

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    Arsenal have completely done that to themselves. Xhaka dry humping Silva in the penalty area is only going one way and a brainless red. The winner felt inevitable even with City not putting much together.

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    Poor old Peter Walton is drowning on BT. Think I just saw the back of his notes and it gave away the date and time for the next PGMOL anti-Arsenal conspiratorial get-together.

    Sir Henry Winter giving it 'the standard of officials is not good enough' can get to fuck though, classic Sir Henry room-reading bullshit. Does he think there are better ones hiding in the lower leagues? Or does he think giving them dog's abuse every time they get anything wrong is going to improve the (perceived) situation?

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    There's a good photo of Rodri on the Guardian sports section with his tits out. Compare and contrast with the Adebayor celebration where the Arsenal end is a cacophony of rage. A decades worth of being slowly dismantled and brought back into the pack later and they don't look angry, just empty behind the eyes and utterly broken. United supporters are currently going through the same process, but not at such an advanced stage.

    Not that I'm enjoying it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    T minus 8 days until Cameroon and Burkina Faso kick off the best event of the year.
    I want at least one penalty shootout with 20+ penalties in the tournament, at least 3 keeper fuck-ups a game and some glorious shithousery from "those" teams.

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    Another vaccine death in the crowd

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    Hearts have gone.

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    I really hope that’s true

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Poor old Peter Walton is drowning on BT. Think I just saw the back of his notes and it gave away the date and time for the next PGMOL anti-Arsenal conspiratorial get-together.

    Sir Henry Winter giving it 'the standard of officials is not good enough' can get to fuck though, classic Sir Henry room-reading bullshit. Does he think there are better ones hiding in the lower leagues? Or does he think giving them dog's abuse every time they get anything wrong is going to improve the (perceived) situation?
    I can assure you that your presumptions about the referees in the lower leagues are correct. The standard of refereeing here is far worse than in the Premier League. We had a Premier League referee for our match against Doncaster the other day and the difference between him and the refs we usually have was remarkable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave. View Post
    I can assure you that your presumptions about the referees in the lower leagues are correct. The standard of refereeing here is far worse than in the Premier League. We had a Premier League referee for our match against Doncaster the other day and the difference between him and the refs we usually have was remarkable.
    Bobby Madley. He's reffed us a couple of times since his return and he's pretty good. Whilst the officiating in League One is pretty poor, people go way over the top and many Sunderland fans have their minds made up before the game has even kicked off.

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    I just watched the Arsenal - Man City highlights on the official Arsenal channel.... They are as bad as the old fan TV lot

    "Oh here we go, refs been waiting for that, off you go".

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    Lukaku left out of the Chelsea squad today.

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    The people of Benelux find it so, so hard to keep their traps shut. Completely unable to mask what they're really thinking. Like the opposite of Brits.

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    Turns out he was the bad influence all along, and the Paulp Ogba redemption arc is in motion.

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    That #10 from Getafe is a tidy player.

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    I thought that there was someone called Assad playing for Madrid. Just realized that they are talking about Eden Hazard.

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    Rafa
    I'm a twit

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    Matip missing for today being the 3rd name with Alisson and Firmino being confirmed too.

    It's going to be a big job getting anything today with several first teamers missing as well as Klopp himself.

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    I love stupid videos like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Fox View Post
    Matip missing for today being the 3rd name with Alisson and Firmino being confirmed too.

    It's going to be a big job getting anything today with several first teamers missing as well as Klopp himself.
    Mane and Salah up against Azpilicueta and Alonso should be a right laugh

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    The dickhead has gone Milner ahead of Keita, hope he dies from Omi.

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    Two goalkeepers on the bench and Milner in over Naby. Lovely.

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    Has Klopp ever lost at Stamford Bridge in the league? Jordan Henderson’s yearly wonder strike today

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    'Rafa' is as past it as Jose Mourinho, except he'll just bounce between bollocks jobs whilst Mourinho probably has a few glamour postings and the national job left in him. Are any of that mid-2000s 4-5-1 defensive shit generation still doing anything useful? Didier Deschamps has (albeit completely in spite of himself) probably had the last laugh on Mourinho after losing that 2004 Chelsea Job in the Bank ladder final.

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    Tuchel has such Seb Vettel energy.

    'Big match of football. Big, big match of football.'

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    Big three points for Leeds. It was a bit of a timely vindication of the Bielsa system too, which has seen us take some absolute beatings recently. But we stuck to it there even when 2-1 up with them throwing every attacking option at us for the equaliser, and we went back down their end and added a third. I obviously realise there's a big difference between doing it against Burnley and doing it against a top end side, but still.

    Also, Stuart Dallas is legitimately right up there with the best signings the club has ever made in its history at this point. His contribution for the club, and the value for money, with that lad is absolutely off the charts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post


    I love stupid videos like that.
    hahaha, me too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    Big three points for Leeds. It was a bit of a timely vindication of the Bielsa system too, which has seen us take some absolute beatings recently. But we stuck to it there even when 2-1 up with them throwing every attacking option at us for the equaliser, and we went back down their end and added a third. I obviously realise there's a big difference between doing it against Burnley and doing it against a top end side, but still.

    Also, Stuart Dallas is legitimately right up there with the best signings the club has ever made in its history at this point. His contribution for the club, and the value for money, with that lad is absolutely off the charts.
    The reaction to getting beat by City, Arsenal etc was ludicrous. You have terrible players and a weak squad, that's going to happen with this system - but it's also the system that allows you to beat the shit and therefore stay up.

    When he leaves and you hire Bob Tactics in his place, you're going to need a serious squad overhaul or go down.

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