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Great game for the neutral so far,what a goal from kane,to stoop down and leave it bounce off the top of your head and right into the far corner,lots more goals hopefully.
Now that's a goal!
Great game. Hope Costa doesn't come on and spoil it!
This is fabulous
What a strike from Matic!!!
Absolutely belting match this!
Well done Spurs... in what must have been a difficult few days at the club.
7 semi final defeats in a row. Spursey
up the Arse! 3rd final in four years. Hope Wenger wins it then retires.
also, what a classico . Brilliant game at the Bernabeu
Thought the thread might be a bit livelier given the end of the season is imminent.
So....thoughts on the Manchester derby tonight? I'll go draw. But what's with Mourinho's constant criticism of his players (Jones and Smalling this time, for being injured). Lucky late win for Arsenal last night to ignite their charge for fourth - wouldn't be surprised if they make it as I think Liverpool will blow the top 4. All their remaining games are against mid or lower league table teams, which they seem to struggle with, and their bench in recent games has been threadbare.
Stuff the top . Who is going down?
The real euphoria is avoiding the drop on the last day of the season.
But what's with Mourinho's constant criticism of his players
It is what he does, he has lost the dressing room at his last 2 teams for that reason. It is the treat em mean keep em keen school of [s]Victorian mill ownership[/s] managment, it might get a short term effect the first time you do it, but after a while the team stops trusting their manager to have their backs.
Yeah, he's treading a fine line at the moment.
Sunderland and Boro down (obvs) with Swansea I think.
As a swans fan i hope man utd go into sunday completely knackered after a busy week,swansea will do an escape act,2-1 swans
Going down, defo Sunderland and Middlesbrough, would kind of be a shame to see either Swansea or Hull go down. A couple of years ago Swansea seemed to be doing everything right, playing good football on a tight budget, Then they lost their way a bit and started to suffer, they could get back to that but need to do some rebuilding.
Hull have been fantastic since Silva came in, the relationship between the fans and the owner is weird though, he has obviously done a lot for the club getting into the PL is punching above their weight, but then he has this silly idea about renaming them to Hull tigers and they turn on him, and when the PL don't let him rename he has a hissy fit.
Ive got tickets for the Arsenal Man U game next week.....which when I bought them I thought it might be an important battle for the title....not an unimportant game for 5th place! 🙁
Gaby Logan on Sanchez 🙂
MOBILE.TWITTER.COM 7 semi final defeats in a row. Spursey
Clincial from Chelsea who had so few shots on goal. So all credit to them.
Concentrating on PL and CL qualification for next season, and you ? 😉
Tonight? Who knows? Its a derby, so anything could happen. It usually does. I wasn't expecting us to get anything out of the Chelski game, but they never turned up. Who knows which City squad will show up?
I also don't get what Jose is playing at publicly criticising his players, but then Pep isn't showing Aguaro any love either. Which is just bizarre as he's a proper world class striker!
Whats going to be interesting is to see if he starts with the same Lingard/Rashford combo up front that was so effective against Chelski?
@jambalaya I'll take the occasional one blip year for another 21 years in a row of utter domination 😆
I reckon he will Binners with a solid midfield to protect the centre halves. Expect quite a few balls over the top for Rashford and Lingard.
but then Pep isn't showing Aguaro any love either
Pep has been completely different towards Aguero, publicly it all been "he's a great guy" "I want to help him become the best" etc etc. Reading between the lines it looks like he doesn't think he delivers what he wants, and hard to argue that the front line did move up a gear with Jesus in rather than Aguero, but he has not publicly dressed him down the way Jose has turned on half his team at some point through the season.
Whats going to be interesting is to see if he starts with the same Lingard/Rashford combo up front that was so effective against Chelski?
Does he have any choice? Until the end of the season its the chance for Lingard, Rashford and Martial to show what they can do, it has been a shame Rashford and Martial haven't been brought on more and developed this season.
I hope you're right SF. Its getting a whiff of the Yorke/Cole link up with those two. Here's hoping. Herrera was immense in the Chelski game, so if he can perform like that again tonight.... who knows?
Its a derby, so I expect he'll start hair'n'elbows to barge into everyone*, break everything up, and it'll all get a bit handbags. I'm not expecting a display of silky fluent skill from either team. It'll be the usual war of attrition. Always good fun! 😀
* I'll be having my usual bet on him getting booked
@howsyour, tide has turned .... 😉
This is disgraceful, darker side of football, Spurs very much included
BBC.COM Good call re the midfield but Martial instead of Lingard. The French Theo Walcott!
WTF does Pep persist with Bravo? Caballero has shown himself to be far more capable every time he is on the pitch.
Well only one team had a real go at winning that one.
Brainless from Fellaini!
Manyoo have become a true Mourinho team. Playing football way down the list of priorities. Surely most manyoo fans are embarrassed by these displays after spending so much? It really could have been Pullis's Stoke team out there tonight.
City may have their flaws but at least they approach the game in the right way and play positively.
As for Fellaini he is stealing a living and deserves a long ban for refusing to leave the field. That would probably benefit his team though.
boring game mainly due to Jose tactics
Fellani was stupid - aguero went down easy for the tackle and the head but
As for refusing to leave the field he seemed relatively calm though also annoyed as he probably felt Augero "induced" the "headbut" but he can have no excuses for doing that as you will always get sent off
Ignoring that god it was dull
Jose has always played that way. Sit back, sit back, goal on the break. Add that to the huge budgets he has enjoyed at Chelski in particular when other where spending far less and he is a winner 😐
EDIT: IMO Jose didn't get the job first or second time round as the club knew he'd play dull football. Then the results where so far below expactations they said what the hell and hired him.
EDIT: IMO Jose didn't get the job first or second time round as the club knew he'd play dull football. Then the results where so far below expactations they said what the hell and hired him.
Not just the dull football but the Pantomime Character Moany has become over the years. Man U had high principles, until reality dawned and then they sold their soul to the devil!
I'd love to see Arsenal beat Chelsea to win the Cup and pack Le Prof off into retirement, but sadly the opposite of both scenarios is more likely! 🙁
watching MotD, why do they let people commentate on games where they don't have knowledge of the rules / how it works.
Jonathan Pearce ranting about 'the linesman didn't flag' (but he had a much better view) about the Burnley handball disallowed goal.
If he flags he creates a situation to manage, where the players expect it to be given. The referee will almost certainly have told his assts in their briefing to take decisions that happen in front of them, or where they're certain about them. But otherwise keep the flag down and use their throat mics to communicate.
So the ref will have said 'what do you think?' the asst says 'It looked like it was upper arm rather than shoulder' the ref says 'yes that's what I thought too' and a decision is made without creating a situation where everyone runs at the asst. Good refereeing, totally mised by that muppet.
And no, this isn't inside info despite me being qualified.... Sky Sports had a brilliant documentary on this with Pierluigi Collina that Pearce either hasn't even watched, or it's gone straight in one ear and out the other.
awful first half for Man U and terrible to see Rashford dive like that
The authorities need to use video replay to see that sort of stuff and ban players and deduct points
Horrible aspect of the game
Wins ball but clearly dangerous getting a foul and a booking from this prod
you're just biased! 😆 😉
a tackle endangering the safety of his opponent? Just possibly.
If he'd hit him harder at least he'd have returned from his low orbit feet first.
thing is though, it's a 50:50 ball, and he doesn't go in 2 footed or even straight legged with one foot, nor studs showing, he times his swing perfectly and takes the ball cleanly. don't really see how it can be classed as an illegal tackle at all.
Yes, I'm completely biased, but still, really don't see anything wrong going by the letter of the law. 🙂
bloody marvellous tackle from my view point! 🙂
Theatre Of Draws.
endagered the opponentdon't really see how it can be classed as an illegal tackle at all.
Its one of those we want to keep tackles in the game but a split second late and he breaks a leg or worse and the impact on the player was pretty harsh Its a physcal game but it is not rugby
As for Man U story of the season another draw at home and injuroes all over the park
Great free kick shit penalty and still lacking creativity and a player [ rashford aside] who will actually be inventive and try and take on a player its just pass pass pass with no end product not so much tika taka as tika crappa
We do not deserve a CL place playing like this
but he isn't late. you can't give a foul on what ifs.
The epic unbeaten run rumbles on! Can anyone recall a more underwhelming one?
They are so solid though Unitd, even with all the defensive injuries. Bodes well for them if they get some attacking players in this summer.
its still dangerous play - I assume the player careering through the air is indication enough for you - you might need to put him in another top to understand though.
One of those it is a great clean tackle but the effect and danger cannot be ignored.
Ally mccoist even agrees it wasn't a foul..
the yardstick by which all bhoys agree and measure their views 😉
I can see the argument for either case but do think he endangered the player with the tackle.
haha 🙂Junkyard - lazarus
the yardstick by which all bhoys agree and measure their views
don't see anything wrong going by the letter of the law
neither you nor Ally McCoist seem aware of the IB decisions on the laws then.
Careless is when a player shows a lack of attention or consideration when making a challenge or acts without precaution. No disciplinary sanction is needed
•?Reckless is when a player acts with disregard to the danger to, or
consequences for, an opponent and must be cautioned
•?Using excessive force is when a player exceeds the necessary use of force and endangers the safety of an opponent and must be sent off
Does not comment on the legality of the tackle, whether they got ball, or man, or both together, or one first and then the other, or whether there was intent, or..... Just simply if a player tackles without taking into account the safety of his opponent.
Should have been at least yellow, and given the player went round 180 degrees and landed on his head I can very easily see a justification for red, given that he endangered the safety.
And people will disagree because in their day you could put man and ball into row E with impunity. And you can also argue that times were 'better' then, without feigning injury and diving, and in some respects I agree.
But those, in black and white, are the instructions for how to interpret the laws, and as such they are fact, not opinion.
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