Premier League 25/26 Thread
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Jesus @Cazza what the **** happened there? Three down at HT and apparently you didn't have a shot on target.
That's either a massive kick uo the arse the team needs or you fold like a deck of cards now. Forest up next too. Great game to bounce back in, if you win. Or a nail in the coffin if you lose.
That's either a massive kick uo the arse the team needs or you fold like a deck of cards now. Forest up next too. Great game to bounce back in, if you win. Or a nail in the coffin if you lose.
Ohh and I think Spurs missed their 'sliding doors' moment in and around the time they made the CL final, possibly the 6 months before. That was a properly good squad, it just needed a little refresh and a few well picked upgrades. Instead….
Yep, you're not wrong...
I really hate those games where you know exactly what is going to happen. Spurs squandered about 20 tap in chances through poor passing, Son and Kane would have scored 5 goals today easily. And then of course Sunderland equalise with their only shot on target. Absolute bollocks. On the very small bright side, Spurs were solid in the first half and drawing against this Sunderland side is not a terrible result, but jesus we need some midfielders who can cross, Kolo Muani especially looked like he had never kicked a football before, I could have done better.
That game just sums up Liverpool's season. Score a last minute "winner" only to concede an equailser when some random LB who barely plays and hasnt scored in four years twats a worldie into the top corner. Two Alison's wouldnt have saved it.
Not the first time that's happened either, Tarkowski did it to Pool last year and some Spurs boy, Erik Edmund maybe?, did it years ago. Add in what all but proved to be a title winner from Vincent Kompany away at Leicester the year Pool and City got 97/98pts and you get a pissed off me.
I can understand a striker scoring a late winner, ditto a midfielder or someone scrambling one in from a corner. But defenders who score one every five years hitting a thunderbastard is ******* annoying.
Football is a **** sport. Lol
Not the first time that's happened either, Tarkowski did it to Pool last year and some Spurs boy, Erik Edmund maybe?, did it years ago. Add in what all but proved to be a title winner from Vincent Kompany away at Leicester the year Pool and City got 97/98pts and you get a pissed off me.
I can understand a striker scoring a late winner, ditto a midfielder or someone scrambling one in from a corner. But defenders who score one every five years hitting a thunderbastard is ******* annoying.
Football is a **** sport. Lol
The free kick it came from was a dive. There was a two-handed push on Mav before the ball came to Soucek. Then Soucek heads clear followed by Areola fouling Gibbs-White. Or does he? Goes for it with his hands and GW goes for it with his head at the same time. Maybe just a 'coming together'. Need to see it again. These things tend to go against you when you're on a downward spiral...Ehhhh……
Soucek reckons punching someone in the face, accidentally, isn't a foul and a penalty shouldn't be given.
Rrrriiiiiiiitttttteeeeeeee!
The ref gave them literally everything- minor little things that weren't even fouls, yet bigger, more obvious fouls for us ignored and play waved on. Again and again. The disallowed goal was an absolute shocker- it clearly came off their defender after he made a clear action to stop Summerville. There was absolutely no intention from Summerville to pass to Castejallos get a deflection etc. There was also a clear new phase of play after the offside, yet it's brought back and disallowed. Imagine if this happened to MC, Arsenal or Liverpool. That Liverpool offside the other day was also an absolute joke as well. Not a level playing field, it would seem. There were a couple of shocking pen decisions vs Wolves the other day, but we totally deserved that loss in the end. This was different and felt 'almost' manufactured. We played well and at 2-0, would've almost certainly gone on to win, maybe by even more. Very hard to take in such an important game.
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All I have seen is the cross and the header/punch so I cant comment on the foul before it or the disallowed goal.
You're spot on that **** like that only happens when you're having a **** season though.
As for the Pool offside, it is bizarre. I didn't know the details until I saw it on BBCSport page. Despite using the semi automated offside thingy the PL, still use a sort of margin for error. So when they draw the lines they make theirs is (say) 5mm thick whereas other major leagues make them 1mm (measurements here are guesses but the approx scale is right, I think). If there is ANY overlap, the attacker is given the benefit and the goal stands.
Now, it has been like that all season apparently. This is the first I have heard of it. By the reasoning above, the Pool goal is fair enough. We all want to see goals and giving a tiny bit off advantage to an attacker has been called for at various times.
But, quite why the PL uses such a big margin for error I do not know. It does seem daft and if I was Fulham I would properly ****** off.
To me common sense says, it was offside so disallow it!
Fully expecting Arsenal to thump Pool tonight. I won't be watching anyway. Continuing my strike and refusing to watch them
You're spot on that **** like that only happens when you're having a **** season though.
As for the Pool offside, it is bizarre. I didn't know the details until I saw it on BBCSport page. Despite using the semi automated offside thingy the PL, still use a sort of margin for error. So when they draw the lines they make theirs is (say) 5mm thick whereas other major leagues make them 1mm (measurements here are guesses but the approx scale is right, I think). If there is ANY overlap, the attacker is given the benefit and the goal stands.
Now, it has been like that all season apparently. This is the first I have heard of it. By the reasoning above, the Pool goal is fair enough. We all want to see goals and giving a tiny bit off advantage to an attacker has been called for at various times.
But, quite why the PL uses such a big margin for error I do not know. It does seem daft and if I was Fulham I would properly ****** off.
To me common sense says, it was offside so disallow it!
Fully expecting Arsenal to thump Pool tonight. I won't be watching anyway. Continuing my strike and refusing to watch them
Ohh look, having drawn Exeter at home in the third round, City get Salford or Swindon at the Etihad. What are the odds 
It got really really boring five years ago.
And Pool continue their lovely habit of drawing PL sides by getting Brighton, assuming they don't lose to Barnsley tonight.
It got really really boring five years ago.
And Pool continue their lovely habit of drawing PL sides by getting Brighton, assuming they don't lose to Barnsley tonight.
Yep, and Arsenal get Wigan. You've got to love the lack of perspective after FA Cup games, Spurs are apparently in crisis because they lost to a PL team 10 places above them, while City, Arsenal and practically every other PL team played teams several divisions below them. Literally the only newsworthy result yesterday was Macclesfield beating Palace, now that was an upset. It's entirely down to the luck of the draw until the final.
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I don't really care who gets it full time, I would put the manager at about 25% to blame, players 25% and owners 50%. We've seen this film before. Nothing will change until the owners do. Jason Wilcox is a Moron.
Agreed Top down issue,very depressing for Utd fans
No issues with any club other than City. The draws they get in both domestic cups, year after year, are ridiculous. The law of averages means it should have reverted to the mean years ago, yet they keep drawing cannon fodder FC at the Etihad.
@edd_jedi, are Spuds that bad under Frank? I haven't seen them much, but they came 17th last year so surely he gets a season to get the squad approximating something he wants and playing the way he wants? They are higher in the league than last year and still in with a remote shout of automatic CL qualification. Is that ….bad?
It is the law that one of "the big 6" must always be in crisis. How else do they sell papers or clicks on websites. I have heard Spurs fans complaining about him on shoutsport, but they do seem to like putting morons on so I take it with a pinch of salt.
Alternatively, it's ******* brilliant for us Liverpool fans!
Sorry, lol
5 minutes to check it too, ridiculous. While I quite like the idea of Wenger's proposed "daylight" change we'll still have exactly the same problem, is there 1mm of daylight or not? There is no way to solve this problem really, there will always be calls that are so close you need to replay them frame by frame and still nobody will be happy.
No fun to watch at the moment, the defending is just as bad as the last 10 years but we no longer have Kane and Son to bang in goals at the other end. There isn't a world class player in any position of the pitch, the reality is we've gone from a title contending squad to bang average in 5 years, that's not Frank's fault. Gallagher looks like a half decent signing but unless Spurs start buying 100k players like the other top six teams are, I don't see any improvement coming.
Agreed.
Hockey did away with offsides 25 years ago, I do wonder what football would be like without it. Probably ****. Fat sam would have a field day hoofing long balls. It would be interesting to see how teams adapted though.
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It seems there are two ways to run a club these days, financial success or pitch success. City can't be making any money, they obviously don't need to but that's not the point.
I'd love to see them trial it, I wouldn't be against more goals, and I find this modern play out from the back ***** excrutiating to watch. I watched a bit of AFCON last night and it reminded me why I like International tournaments, the lack of coherence makes it much more enjoyable to watch, these modern PL teams that move like flocks of birds are incredibly dull. I want to see more goal kicks!
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There's definitely a balance to be struck, not for Citeh, but for most clubs
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If you think that's all the current Arsenal team can do then you clearly haven't watched them too much. Possibly because it can be boring as you like sometimes, but they are the strongest team with the most consistency. Making the most out of what you have and what the rules allowed is only viewed as bad by those that can't do it. Enjoy the championship
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Don't know why I'm laughing......MU fan laughing at a West Ham and Arsenal fan bantering. More entertaining than watching my team I suppose.
