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Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 5:28 pm
by medgar
SDLRob wrote:Well then.... WELL THEN!!!!! Here comes the Champions League!

Bloody hell, don't think I've been so nervous watching a match for a long time.... CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!
Really? Wasn't that nervous in the end, prematch maybe but it was pretty clear Ajax didn't have any answers throughout. If Utd hadn't got the 2nd the end would have been worse of course.

Also, this is childish but still amusing :D

https://twitter.com/Simply_Spurs/status ... 0126179328

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 5:36 pm
by SDLRob
It was mostly down to a gut feeling of the fact it was such an important match for us for this season and next.... just had a horrible feeling we'd screw it up. When we got the second it lessened, but I was still nervous

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 12:52 pm
by huggybear
So, Arsene Wenger gets a new two year contract. Baffling decision, and it shows that the Arsenal board has no ambition.
Manager out of contract at the end of the season, finished out of the top 4 for the first time in 20 years, finished 11 points behind our rivals, and 18 off the league winners, and gets rewarded with a new contract.
Looking forward to Ainsley Maitland-Niles playing centreback and Lucas Perez playing wing back on the opening day while we haggle over price for Scott Dann.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 4:35 pm
by medgar
Even stranger if there was any truth in the rumour of their interest in Tuchel as he's just become available. The last part reminds me of a good point someone made earlier in the year, the haggling over Mustafi meant he wasn't available for their first couple of games, notably the one against Liverpool. No guarentee the result would have been different of course but amazing how little things like that could have caused a potentially large difference in the season.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 10:44 pm
by huggybear
medgar wrote:Even stranger if there was any truth in the rumour of their interest in Tuchel as he's just become available. The last part reminds me of a good point someone made earlier in the year, the haggling over Mustafi meant he wasn't available for their first couple of games, notably the one against Liverpool. No guarentee the result would have been different of course but amazing how little things like that could have caused a potentially large difference in the season.
It's just boring every year. Unprepared squad in August, rush signings on deadline day, terrible form in November and February, an upturn in form after February to scrape 4th (or not). And now we've finished 5th, getting 4th will be seen as an improvement.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:55 pm
by medgar
Lukaku to United for £75m looking likely. Have to say I'm a little unsure. He's still young but I'm not that convinced by his all round game, don't know how great he'd be for winning the CL etc. Should bang in enough goals to get back into it in the first place I guess.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 6:10 pm
by SDLRob
He's been getting a fair few goals this last season.... but I have to admit he wasn't someone I thought we'd go for...

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:48 pm
by flyboy10
Watford's equaliser for 3-3 can't have been offside. The ball was played backwards by his teammate and was deflected towards the goal line by a combination of the Liverpool defender and Mignolet's arm.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:12 am
by SDLRob
Dunno how Chelsea could have had a worse start to the season... losing to Burnley and getting two players banned...

Liverpool snatched a point from a victory today.

And It had to be Rooney didn't it?

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 6:18 pm
by Mr-E
It all started with Cahill..... :-(( Good second half by Chelsea with 9 men.
I have to say, Manchester United really played well today. Pogba was great and Lukaku had one of his good days. Hurts to say it. :lol:

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 6:23 pm
by SDLRob
Great way to start the season and if this is any indication as to how we'll do this season... yippee!

Lukaku, Rashford, Matic, Mkhitaryan, Martial... we saw a few players show great potential. West Ham weren't sitting back either, they had a few good chances and I think they could do well this season.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 10:33 pm
by flyboy10
Jonjo Shelvey was given the opportunity to offer his opinion on certain Spurs players. He was asked, "Where do you stand on Dele Alli?"

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 9:53 pm
by huggybear
flyboy10 wrote:Watford's equaliser for 3-3 can't have been offside. The ball was played backwards by his teammate and was deflected towards the goal line by a combination of the Liverpool defender and Mignolet's arm.
You are offside if you are in an offside position and disrupt the keeper, which Britos is clearly doing.
Also, a forward pass is dependent on the relative positions of the players, not the direction of the ball. Britos is ahead of the Watford player who plays the ball, so regardless of the direction of the ball travel, he is automatically offside.
From the FIFA offical laws of the game:

In the context of Law 11 – Offside, the following defi nitions apply:
• “nearer to his opponents’ goal line” means that any part of a player’s
head, body or feet is nearer to his opponents’ goal line than both the
ball
and the second-last opponent. The arms are not included in this
defi nition

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 7:48 pm
by flyboy10
huggybear wrote:
flyboy10 wrote:Watford's equaliser for 3-3 can't have been offside. The ball was played backwards by his teammate and was deflected towards the goal line by a combination of the Liverpool defender and Mignolet's arm.
You are offside if you are in an offside position and disrupt the keeper, which Britos is clearly doing.
Also, a forward pass is dependent on the relative positions of the players, not the direction of the ball. Britos is ahead of the Watford player who plays the ball, so regardless of the direction of the ball travel, he is automatically offside.
From the FIFA offical laws of the game:

In the context of Law 11 – Offside, the following defi nitions apply:
• “nearer to his opponents’ goal line” means that any part of a player’s
head, body or feet is nearer to his opponents’ goal line than both the
ball
and the second-last opponent. The arms are not included in this
defi nition
Sorry but you are completely wrong on this. You cannot be offside if the ball is played towards your own goal (no matter where you are on the pitch) any more than you can if the ball is not played at all. The ball came to the goal scorer from a defender. You cannot be offside from a ball played by a member of the opposing team. As for the parts of the body that determine an offside position, they are any parts of the body with which a player may legitimately play the ball and score a goal. This is however irrelevant to this particular situation. He was completely in an offside position but was not offside.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 12:05 pm
by Cold Gin
Liverpool game yesterday was a joy to watch. I hope they can pick up a CB prior to the window closing, as Levren is a liability, but offensively, what a performance. Of course, Arsenal was as bad as they could have possibly been. Tough to be an Arsenal fan right now!

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:43 pm
by huggybear
Cold Gin wrote:Liverpool game yesterday was a joy to watch. I hope they can pick up a CB prior to the window closing, as Levren is a liability, but offensively, what a performance. Of course, Arsenal was as bad as they could have possibly been. Tough to be an Arsenal fan right now!
You have no idea. We pushed Bellerin, our only right back to left wing back to allow Oxlade Chamberlain to start, even though Ox doesn't want to play for us (and we're about to sell), even though we had the Bundesliga left back of the year sitting on our bench.
We benched our 50m record signing striker for an out of form Welbeck too.
Oh and we are going to sell Alexis Sanchez to Man City for Raheem Sterling and us giving them some cash.
Oh and we shipped 9 goals in 3 games. And our manager won't admit there is a problem. It's grim.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:35 pm
by Cold Gin
Anyone catch the Tottenham Man City Champions League game yesterday?My was that entertainment!

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:19 pm
by Option or Prime
Yep, absolutely outstanding game, and they get to do the hole thing again at the weekend in the league. Great to see no whinging afterwards too.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 8:39 am
by JN23
As a Manchester United fan I found the ending hilarious :lol: but a great game indeed.

One of Ajax or Tottenham are going to be in the Champions League final which would have been considered crazy at the start of the season

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:16 pm
by Cold Gin
I'd love to see Liverpool win the EPL, but if I were to bet, I'd put my money on City. And I'm a fan of neither.

Hope Tottenham takes 3rd, and rooting for them in the Champions League.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:20 pm
by Cold Gin
Tottenham..... :x

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 6:05 pm
by Cold Gin
https://www.beinsports.com/us/premier-l ... FYpK8EZsko


Christian Eriksen leaves Spurs for Real Madrid.

I'm gutted!

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 7:05 pm
by Option or Prime
Wow thats alarming! I wonder if Bale is staying at Real Madrid?

We will soon see if Liverpool can spring a surprise, you have to think Coutinho will play a starring role.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 9:13 pm
by JN23
You would imagine Bale will leave Real Madrid, doesn't seem to be in favour and the fans don't seem to have taken to him in his time there.

Incredible second goal from Messi tonight 8O

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu May 02, 2019 4:40 pm
by Cold Gin
Messi's second goal....just wow.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 11:18 am
by Cold Gin
And with that unreal blast from Kompany, the Citizens take the EPL title barring an unreal upset from Brighton on Sunday. What a smash!

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 10:54 pm
by Cold Gin
Tough day being a Barcelona fan!!! :lol: :lol:

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 11:59 pm
by Option or Prime
You have to say that Coutinho and Suarez must have wondered why they left. Truly outstanding performance by Liverpool who may well win the Champions League as compensation for coming in as runners up in the Premier League. Never seen Messi so quiet.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 6:20 pm
by JN23
Option or Prime wrote:You have to say that Coutinho and Suarez must have wondered why they left. Truly outstanding performance by Liverpool who may well win the Champions League as compensation for coming in as runners up in the Premier League. Never seen Messi so quiet.
Coutinho maybe but Suarez has won four league titles, four domestic cups and a Champions league since he left in 2014. If he'd stayed at Liverpool he'd have won nothing.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:38 pm
by Cold Gin
Some of the most entertaining football I've ever seen in the last 24 hours. Simply stunning win by Tottenham on aggregate today. I'd have never guessed they could have come back after being down by 2 goals, then scoring three straight.

All English Final!!!

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Thu May 09, 2019 9:16 am
by Siao7
JN23 wrote:
Option or Prime wrote:You have to say that Coutinho and Suarez must have wondered why they left. Truly outstanding performance by Liverpool who may well win the Champions League as compensation for coming in as runners up in the Premier League. Never seen Messi so quiet.
Coutinho maybe but Suarez has won four league titles, four domestic cups and a Champions league since he left in 2014. If he'd stayed at Liverpool he'd have won nothing.
I was thinking the same. Wonder why Suarez left Liverpool and joined the (arguably) best club in the world, winning titles left right and center? Yeah right!

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:57 pm
by Retro-Virus
Any Bayern Munich fans here ? Predictions for tonight ?

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:55 am
by F1Tyrant
European Football 1955-2021 murdered by greedy owners.

I renounce Liverpool Football Club.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:15 pm
by Siao7
F1Tyrant wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:55 am
European Football 1955-2021 murdered by greedy owners.

I renounce Liverpool Football Club.
Yeah, it is terrible.

They've done it ok with basketball the last 5 or 6 years, league with a final four format, but it is not locked like the one proposed here. It was fun listening to Neville ranting today

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 5:49 pm
by F1Tyrant
Siao7 wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:15 pm
They've done it ok with basketball the last 5 or 6 years, league with a final four format, but it is not locked like the one proposed here. It was fun listening to Neville ranting today
Apparently American billionaires don't "understand" relegation but it reality they just want to decouple sporting performance with financial returns. I can see Tottenham, Arsenal and probably Liverpool not even mounting a challenge to the competition while colllecting the $$$.

Disgusting.

All 12 should be banned from domestic and European competition. Let's see if Asian and American markets can make up the shortfall given they've just screwed local 'legacy' fans.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:06 pm
by Siao7
F1Tyrant wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 5:49 pm
Siao7 wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:15 pm
They've done it ok with basketball the last 5 or 6 years, league with a final four format, but it is not locked like the one proposed here. It was fun listening to Neville ranting today
Apparently American billionaires don't "understand" relegation but it reality they just want to decouple sporting performance with financial returns. I can see Tottenham, Arsenal and probably Liverpool not even mounting a challenge to the competition while colllecting the $$$.

Disgusting.

All 12 should be banned from domestic and European competition. Let's see if Asian and American markets can make up the shortfall given they've just screwed local 'legacy' fans.
Yeah, pretty terrible. I couldn't believe how many big clubs signed for this crap, I was expecting better from them

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:04 pm
by j man
I don't see this happening, I rather think it's just a ploy to help negotiate better commercial rights deals for themselves. However it is remarkably bold; either they've completely misread how the fans would view the idea or they're incredibly confident that either 1) the fuss will die down and ultimately the fans will continue watching and packing out the stadiums or 2) the gains in the global market will outweigh the loss of their traditional domestic fanbase. My feeling is that the former is most likely, these owners are completely out of touch and don't understand why fans want to watch their team.

I do like this Super League idea though. Let the over-commercialised nonsense go off and do its own thing, and meanwhile the real fans can have their national sport back.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:42 pm
by Asphalt_World
I see Boris Johnson doesn't agree with this. He doesn't seem to think that leaving a large, successful organisation with dreams of going it alone, is a good thing. :uhoh:

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:07 pm
by JN23
Well safe to say this disaster of an idea is now pretty much dead.

Football will probably forget this now, but it would be great if it could be use a catalyst for some change in the game.

Re: The Official Football Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:36 pm
by Asphalt_World
JN23 wrote:
Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:07 pm
Well safe to say this disaster of an idea is now pretty much dead.

Football will probably forget this now, but it would be great if it could be use a catalyst for some change in the game.
I see Ed Woodward has resigned and there are strong rumours that Stan Kroenke is going to sell Arsenal soon.

The problem all the owners of these 6 English clubs have is that not only have all the fans revolted but the players and managers also appear to feel exactly the same as the fans. The owners are losing their entire clubs over this.

I can see more than one of these clubs being sold in the coming months.