Spockydog Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 17 minutes ago, Consigliere said: Timber should be fit again for the run in as well. LANS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 (edited) Ffs. Watching City games in the hope they’re going to drop points is not fun. It’s the hope that kills you. ETA: Ffs. Edited February 5 by ljkeane Spockydog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 7 hours ago, Mexal said: My twitter feed is all covered in comments from the celebration police (i.e., Neville, Carragher, Ferdinand, Keys). Have I just been blind because it wasn't my team but has there ever been this much discussion within UK football media about how happy a team is allowed to be when winning a big game? On NBC sports in the US, all the focus was on the tactical nature of the game but every commentary I keep seeing from UK clips (and I fully recognize they're just clips) is on how much Arsenal celebrates and how much they shouldn't. ETA: seems it’s just Sky Sports really and a few others but BBC MOTD was great and as I said, US coverage was very good. Still, it’s constant and I just don’t any commentary that’s been associated with celebrations with other teams. I always tell my girls that, "Triumphalism is unattractive", and if we were all perfect people, winners and losers would all shake hands and head out for dinner together after a match. However, sometimes there are games that have a deeper meaning or value, psychologically, to a team. Perhaps you have lost the championship game three seasons in a row, and then you finally win. Or perhaps the other team has been bullying your team's players online. Or perhaps you have been practicing a certain technique, and the players finally put it out there on the field or court. When you win those games, you ought to be able to celebrate without others doing a lot of complaining. I wish the Tricky Reds had won, but Arteta's celebration is completely understandable. Nobody should be talking trash about it. Spockydog and Mexal 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Fucking love this man. https://www.instagram.com/p/C28Berjs50_/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 (edited) 8 hours ago, ljkeane said: Ffs. Watching City games in the hope they’re going to drop points is not fun. It’s the hope that kills you. ETA: Ffs. Surely by now we should be used to it no? From now on , Liverpool have to win all their games and hope City drop points in at least 1 game. More difficult for Arsenal, they have to win all their games and hope City drop points in at least 2 games . What I'm saying is barring major injuries or bottling it, City will the PL. Edited February 6 by AncalagonTheBlack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 3 hours ago, AncalagonTheBlack said: From now on , Liverpool have to win all their games and hope City drop points in at least 1 game. If you win all your games, City will automatically lose a game; at Anfield. Your remaining games in the league against the big boys are all at Anfield, iirc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Hope this is true, otherwise he will miss 6 games including the Carabao final. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 (edited) Son and KMJ heading back early to Spurs and Bayern. Those clubs will be thrilled. South Korea were well outplayed by Jordan though. 2-0 was flattering to South Korea. Klinsmann must surely get the sack now. Edited February 6 by Consigliere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 50 minutes ago, Consigliere said: Son and KMJ heading back early to Spurs and Bayern. Those clubs will be thrilled. South Korea were well outplayed by Jordan though. 2-0 was flattering to South Korea. Klinsmann must surely get the sack now. Ha. They barely managed to get through the previous rounds. Penalties in one after a last minute equalizer in regular time, and ET in the other one, too. Klinsmann sure knows how to get his teams physically conditioned, but not much more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 2 hours ago, Consigliere said: Son and KMJ heading back early to Spurs and Bayern. Those clubs will be thrilled. South Korea were well outplayed by Jordan though. 2-0 was flattering to South Korea. Klinsmann must surely get the sack now. I was shocked to see that South Korea had 0 shots on goal compared to Jordan's 7. How the hell do you have 70% possession and 0 shots on goal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 Leverkusen - Stuttgart was a proper cup game. Leverkusen the best German team atm. They should win the cup this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 4 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: Leverkusen - Stuttgart was a proper cup game. Leverkusen the best German team atm. They should win the cup this year. I rather they win the league so Xabi can come to Liverpool ASAP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I haven't been watching AFCON because I don't really watch international football these days. I really should have been watching AFCON. Nigeria just thought they scored on the break to make it 2-0 against South Africa with five minutes to go, but VAR ruled it out and pulled it back to the other end for a penalty for a foul. Brutal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Chelsea being good tonight really isn’t the entertaining way for this to go. Still time for it all to go wrong I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 6 hours ago, polishgenius said: I haven't been watching AFCON because I don't really watch international football these days. I really should have been watching AFCON. Nigeria just thought they scored on the break to make it 2-0 against South Africa with five minutes to go, but VAR ruled it out and pulled it back to the other end for a penalty for a foul. Brutal. That was quite a game. South Africa played hard, but they never seemed to be as talented in front of goal as some of the other sides who went out previously, yet squandered their talent with oddly passive play (Senegal!). VAR got both possible penalty calls right, too. Both the Egyptian pen you mentioned, then the extra-time second half red against Egypt that wasn't a pen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted February 8 Author Share Posted February 8 And in German footballing news. There supposed to be two major games yesterday. First the rescheduled relegation battle between Mainz and Union which ended in a 1-1. Second was the last Cup QF between Saarbrücken and Gladbach. As the third tier club Saarbrücken automatically had the advanatge of hosting it. This is where things start to get off the rails. Saabrücken buiilt a new Stadium (well actually the City owns the place with the club as tennants). Building process as with any given public project went over schedule and over budget, leaving the club without a proper home for 2 years or so. Like I said, it went over budget, what they didn't spend sufficient money on was the bloody pitch. So you have a fair chance of getting games cancelled in poor weather due to pitch condition. It's been raining quite a recently. So you can see where this is going. Let's just say, the city really should have thrown in another 200.000 € to install a proper drainage for the pitch. You can't chide the commitment of the club and volunteers there. They put covers of the pitch to protect as wel as they could, then in a desperate measure they gathered any leaf blowed in the city trying to blow the water off the pitch, but to no avail. Ref. walked around the pitch and called the game off, because pitch condition was too poor/the injury risk for players too high. The city embarassed by this rather public humiliation has voted to upgrade the pitch. But that won't happen before the off season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Joyce reporting that Thiago is injured again. Sustained a muscle injury in the last game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 (edited) 1 hour ago, Consigliere said: Joyce reporting that Thiago is injured again. Sustained a muscle injury in the last game. He should do us a favour and retire already. His body can't even take a 5 minute cameo anymore! Edited February 8 by AncalagonTheBlack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 33 minutes ago, AncalagonTheBlack said: He should do us a favour and retire already. His body can't even take a 5 minute cameo anymore! His contract is up at the end of the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Blue cards to be introduced for football sin-bins. Quote A blue card is to be introduced in professional football as part of sin-bin trials to be announced on Friday. Telegraph Sport can reveal the game’s lawmakers, the International Football Association Board (Ifab), has signed off on what would be the first new card to be used at the top end of the sport since the advent of yellow and red cards at the 1970 World Cup. The revolutionary move will be announced by Ifab as part of sin-bin protocols that will see players removed from the field for 10 minutes if they commit a cynical foul or show dissent towards a match official. Blue cards have been used this season during a sin-bin trial in grassroots football in Wales, with the colour chosen over the likes of orange in order to differentiate it clearly from a yellow or red card. Two blues equal a red The new protocol announced on Friday will limit the new card to fouls that prevent a promising attack plus dissent, as well as confirming a player should be shown a red card if they receive two blue cards during a match or a combination of yellow and blue. Top-tier competitions will be excluded from initial testing in the professional game in case the protocols require further refinement, but elite trials could still begin as soon as the summer. That may include in the FA Cup and Women’s FA Cup, with the Football Association considering volunteering next season’s competitions for testing. But sin-bins will not be used in this summer’s European Championship or next term’s Champions League after the president of Uefa, Aleksander Ceferin, told Telegraph Sport last month he was completely opposed to them, adding: “It’s not football anymore.” The European governing body nevertheless could be forced to introduce them if, as expected, trials lead to them being added to the laws of the game. Rugby-style measures Ifab, the board of which includes FA chief executive Mark Bullingham, first agreed in November to test the rugby-style measure in elite competitions such as the Premier League. Sin-bins have worked successfully at tackling dissent for many years at grass roots and youth level and the new trials will also see them used to punish tactical fouling. As reported by Telegraph Sport, Ifab also approved a global trial of another rugby union rule that would see only team captains allowed to speak to the match referee about a decision. The trials have been fast-tracked amid dire warnings from Ifab’s leaders about player behaviour, of which they said: “This might be the cancer that kills football.” Ifab’s annual business meeting decided that sin-bins were key to clamping down on this, as well as on any foul that prevents a promising attack but does not meet the threshold for a red card. One example given during the meeting was Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini’s shirt-pull on England’s Bukayo Saka in the final of Euro 2020, which only resulted in a yellow card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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