Bar Man City the top of the premiership looks like division 1 circa 1979. Forest!
Just watching MOTD. What a performance by Bournemouth! A thoroughly deserved win against City. If it hadn’t been for Ederson making a few critical saves, that scoreline could have been even worse for Pep
I had a season ticket in the Frank Clark days, I never thought we'd see these heights again.
Hard set of fixtures in the run up to Christmas, feel Nuno has some points to prove.
Bar Man City the top of the premiership looks like division 1 circa 1979. Forest!
Except in 1979 Ipswich would have been where Man City are.
Whatever people think of Phil Jones there is little doubt in his skill as a wordsmith: "Phil Jones just said Bruno Fernandes is 'misinterpretated'". He's has now fulfilled his potential. - Someone on twitter.
I have much admiration for Phil Jones. He managed to get 9 years at United picking up 120 grand a week for playing as many games for them as I have.
He just had to sit on the bench every once in a while if absolutely everyone else was injured.
Not a bad gig.
Surely the easiest ‘job’ in the world is third choice keeper at a big club?
I don’t know how much they’re on but it’s probably several multitudes, per week, of what most people earn per year. Yet even the clubs most ardent fans don’t even know who you are because you never even make the bench
Just turn up for training every week and count your money
We hear a little about failed players and how rejection affects their latter years but we hear very little of those players like Jones, who become multimillionaires for basically doing nothing. Like Trump.
There was an article about that I remember - here it is - ultimate benchwarmers.
Not a bench warmer as such as he’s usually too injured to make it, but Luke Shaw has apparently missed 250 games since he signed for United. Or roughly six seasons. I guess as he’s actually decent he gets less stick than that doled out to Martial, Jones etc.
Millwall v Leeds tonight if anyone needed reminding of the 70s and 80s hooligan nostalgia.
PAOK pretty sure they're from Greece - remember them from playing Sensible Soccer back in the day
Seems like the Floodgates have opened against Noah.
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Unbelievably good decision by the ref to allow play on for Liverpool’s first goal.
So there's only one team in the top 4 levels without a win this season.
Spurs had better watch out tomorrow....
Do you think if Nunez had missed the ref would have sent Bailey off, after playing advantage? Funny to see Nunez finish that, it’s the easier ones he has trouble with.
Pep out BTW.
So there’s only one team in the top 4 levels without a win this season.
Indeed, the only other team until today having just sent Shrewsbury bottom of L1... hrmph
We are not gonna make it!
Do you think if Nunez had missed the ref would have sent Bailey off, after playing advantage?
No idea, seemed like he was the last defender but then the goal was scored.
Was it Poch why barged Owen for the England goal in 98?
I love the pundits saying Citeh are now in crisis. Oh what I’d give to be in that kind of crisis. They’re just missing the best player in the world. That’s all. Who wouldn’t be?
Also; Brighton were absolutely bloody brilliant in the second half. Not many teams have come from behind to beat city. But they just went at them.
Yep. Totally. That's what I love about the premiership.
A few short years ago mighty Reading beat Brighton in Brighton. I flew that over for that, good weekend.
So there’s only one team in the top 4 levels without a win this season.
Spurs had better watch out tomorrow….
You read it here first folks!
I hope you had money on it?
This Chelsea Arsenal game must hold the record for putting the most absolute sitters into Row Z, from both sides
It’s a bit tight behind the top two.
Currently on my way home to Bristol, after a great away day at Spurs. What a result!
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I hope you had money on it?
Sadly not. Wonder who we've got next?
Normally we’d be a safe bet, but apparently we’ve taken the handbrake off
4 points between 3rd and 13th. With nearly 1/3 of the season played. Crazy.
You do get the sense that the so-called mid table teams have generally given the bigger boys a better run for their money so far this season, which is a good thing. The bigger teams also look to be suffering from the crazily congested fixture list and the new CL format does appear to have thrown up an increased number of difficult ties.
Not sure I understand the furore over this referee's comments. Obviously he's a pillock for expressing them in a situation where he could be recorded, but it's not surprising that getting confronted by Klopp post match might make him think significantly less of the bloke.
Sure, this guy is toast, but football in general needs to protect refs, even bad ones, from abuse from players and managers post match.
You’d think in any sane world the amount of players pulling out of the Engerland squad would maybe make them rethink pointless nonsense like the nations league. If you were a player at the top level, competing for the Premier League and Champions League, so playing twice a week, would you want to risk injury to play some glorified friendly in Greece? Ir would you take the opportunity to have a week off from a massively congested season instead?
Harry Kane can **** right off! It’s not like he plays in the most competitive league in the world any more, is it?
Or you could do a Luke Shaw. Be out of action for your club for months, get taken to the World Cup when not fit, played, aggravate the injury, out for another 6 months.
The Nations League was always ridiculous, but given the amount of games that are now being played by the top squads, it’s now just a farce. No wonder loads of players are suddenly developing ‘injuries’ that will have miraculously disappeared by next week.
Made me laugh with its relentless handling of Man U
So Engerland players are playing the same injury shenanigans that R. Keane used to do to us.
It wasn't until i read this thread that i realised that yet again we have an international break. Too much FIFA, too much.
They need to reduce the number of pointless International Fixtures.
It's only getting worse.
The expansion of the World Cup will cause some ridiculous mis-matches.
Why can't England just pull out of stuff like this Nations League? Are they obliged if they want to compete in the other tournaments?
The same Harry Kane who missed his team's defeat to Greece last month because of *checks notes* injury?
Players get injured; there's no doubting some of the injuries in his squad, surely? If he's got something specific to get off his chest, then he should say it - not some snide, vague comment about 'country before club'. Some players simply don't have his level of myopic loyalty, for varying reasons.
Is Kane getting the hump because he wants to win something at a national level before his career ends and the Nations League is the most likely chance of it? He'll be remembered for eternity if we win that.......
Its a glorified friendly - thats it. And its the clubs who pay the players wages, not England/the FA so if they don't want their assets to risk injury etc (moreso given how some of the "big" clubs are doing so crap in the league this year) then they should be well within their rights to pull them from internationals.
Not sure I understand the furore over this referee’s comments. Obviously he’s a pillock for expressing them in a situation where he could be recorded, but it’s not surprising that getting confronted by Klopp post match might make him think significantly less of the bloke.
Sure, this guy is toast, but football in general needs to protect refs, even bad ones, from abuse from players and managers post match.
The allegations have got worse today - the S*n have really got it in for him. Making him a household name in the worst possible way.
Regarding Harry Kane - have a word with yourself mate - most of the players that have withdrawn are playing in injury depleted squads & there are a lot of injuries this year, & I think too much is being put on the players at the top clubs now.
Again, he's a pillock, but hitting the sniff is fast becoming our national sport anyhow.
He's a football ref, not a High Court Judge, archbishop or minister of state.
Indeed. At an average Engerland game, pretty much all the support will have been on a steady supply of gak and Carling since breakfast
