Went to the Everton game last night - any Blues who have moved away from the NW, try and get to a game as the new stadium is immense. Both for the viewing spectacle and location.
Game was a bit flat, mind. Nice to see Big Mick Keggers in good form - a player who has endured some bad times. But neither side really made the case for three points.
Is that a penalty now?
Wow
Soft would be an understatement
The incessant whistling is just plain annoying second only to the vuvezelas.
Never a penalty.
Liverpool deserved that though. Or didn’t deserve to win at least. Slow, laborious, error prone. And that’s just Konate. Wirtz looking like a reverse Coutinho in terms of the fee. And Alison and Ekitike off injured I think. Slot’s got work to do!
Is that a penalty now?
Wow
Galascum - its expected. Brutally assaulted by Szoboszlai (arm brushed his chest, went down clutching his face as if someone had leathered him, gets the penalty - stands up smiling). As my son said watching it, if this is what football has become, he hates it.
Champions League? More like the soft penalties league - if either the Man City or Liverpool pens had happened elsewhere on the pitch or if they were attacking players & not defenders nothing would've been given.
I think the man city penalty would be given 99% of the time in the PL or CL, the free kick it came from absolutely shouldn't have been a free kick, Monaco were throwing themselves at the floor all through the game and the ref was buying every bit of acting going, but from the moment I saw the replay of the penalty it was obvious it was going to be given.
I see Big Ange has seen Amorims win record and said “hold my pint”
Sacking Nuno looks even more mystifying than ever
Ange and Potter will become this era’s Bruce/Pardew/Hughes, frequently getting jobs, getting sacked then fading away to the lower leagues.
Ange has a big task on if he wants to change a very negative team to a swashbuckling attacking one. I expect also Nuno will face the wrath of the West Ham fans for not playing ‘the West Ham’ way.
Does anybody know what ‘The West Ham Way’ actually is?
I’ve heard it referenced for decades, but never seen any evidence of it.
I expect also Nuno will face the wrath of the West Ham fans for not playing ‘the West Ham’ way.
Such complaints tend to surface during runs of poor results, for example the last half season under Moyes. I remain of the view that Potter is a decent coach, but was poorly suited to West Ham.
Such complaints tend to surface during runs of poor results, for example the last half season under Moyes. I remain of the view that Potter is a decent coach, but was poorly suited to West Ham.
Looking at how well Brighton were set up I am of the view that Potter is an average coach who was fortunate to be at a club who had discovered a great formula for identifying talented players.
De Zerbi was a far better coach for Brighton than Potter imo.
Today is the embodiment of our continual decline as a club. My Sunderland-supporting mate is quite keen to find a pub with a dodgy feed we can watch the match together in.
He’s confident that they’re going to pick up an easy 3 points at Old Trafford and on present respective form I can’t see that confidence as misplaced. We’re languishing in 14th and look utterly dismal, they’re up in 6th and absolutely flying.
I’ve applied the kiss of death to them by sticking a fiver on them at 6-1, which are crazy odds given our respective form. This is what it’s come to…. betting against United, at home, against a side that have just come up.
The first match I ever took my daughter to was Sunderland, when Moyes had just been sacked, Giggs was standing in, and they beat us comfortably then. Back then I don’t think anyone could ever envisage how far we’d fall. It really is quite something.
Greggs has a pub now, The Golden Flake. I'm guessing it'll have a very flat roof.
Reading FC entertain Mansfield, not too much I hope.
My kids of death bet worked. Money well spent 😃
Well that should keep Amorim in a job for a while longer, so we can all continue to have a good old laugh.
Slottage time backfires again!
Several players look woefully out of form - Konate, Mac Allister, Kerkez, Salah, Isak clearly not fit, Wirtz looks lost. Weird to say given they’re second but Arne’s got a job on!
Well that should keep Amorim in a job for a while longer, so we can all continue to have a good old laugh.
its all academic anyway. I don’t think anyone believes another chuck of the managerial dice is going to improve matters. The rot goes far deeper than that. We’re at the point where winning at home to Sunderland is actually a relief
Yep, Liverpool made Chelsea look better than they should be. They've got 6 first luck defenders out of action.
New signings really off the pace.
Probably one of the nastiest rivalries in world football today, the old farm derby. Second only to Reading Oxford.
Probably one of the nastiest rivalries in world football today, the old farm derby. Second only to Reading Oxford.
Live on ITV, club ride I was leading finished in time. First goal disallowed just to add to the atmosphere. Commentator apologising for the crowd 🤣
Second only to Reading Oxford.
Burnley v Blackburn is another absolutely mental one! I have no idea why a couple of junctions on the M65 can elicit such vitriolic hatred. 🤷♂️
I don't buy in to the hatred in derby games, and I find the mates who go that far are usually the first to say how great the atmosphere is at WSL games without that excess testosterone.
Great second goal for Ipswich, not convinced we'll actually beat them for the first time in 16 years.
In Reading's case boat diver and father of dodgy daughter Robert Maxwell, tried to merge the two clubs.
Blimey, and we've got a game in hand, after that convenient flood at Blackburn the other week.
Blimey, and we've got a game in hand, after that convenient flood at Blackburn the other week.
Fair play to you and Ipswich deserved the win ...boy that hurts as a Norwich fan (but at least we have fond memories of the last 16 years 😉 ).
Sadly I can see that kick starting your season whilst we could be plummeting to league one unless some serious changes are made!
OTBC
Meanwhile in Scotland, watching my brother's utter incomprehension as Hearts go top of the league and Rangers spend the entire season falling down stairs has been pretty fun. Hearts fans are not configured for this sort of thing, they are a plucky underdog/maybe we'll qualify for europe/ah well it's still better than Romanov sort of a population and it is fun to watch them disassociate as things go well, in the certain knowledge that they're about to wake from a dream and learn that the entire first 11 have just fallen down a mineshaft or Tynecastle's been eaten by Godzilla or something more normal like that.
I wish my dad had lived to see this, it'd have been like watching someone take LSD for the first time.
Ah, the Romanov era, when George Burley had Hearts top of the league after ten games and Romanov sacked him. Happy days. Looking forward to the west coast media doing their best to upset Hearts apple cart by insinuating that McInnes is in talks with Rangers over the next few days.
Lovely stuff. Give him a pay rise too please Jim.
Re Hearts. I think they have a real chance. Celtic have relied on several last minute winners recently to keep in touch and there seems to be plenty of grumbling from the fan base and internally. It doesn’t seem a happy camp.
Oh dear lord! At the present rate of return, in that time he’ll have spent the best part of a billion quid and got us up to 12th
I bumped into a mate last night and we were discussing the present shambles. I told him that last season was the first where I’d not been to OT once.
He said he’s knocked it on the head too as they don’t do Childs concessions any more so the cheapest tickets for both him and his son are now 67 quid each. So it’s the best part of 150 quid to watch that dross, so he’s not bothering any more
You're 10th, 3 points shy of the top five. Not sure why it's the crisis of the century, when the mediocrity of everyone else may yet save you. Apparently the Saudis are now sniffing around Man Utd, which will make some of your fanbase suddenly shelve all the 'oil money' taunts aimed at City/Newcastle etc.
On a brighter note, nice to see the Hojland revival continuing at Napoli. Amazing what a decent midfield support can do for a striker.
Not sure why it's the crisis of the century
You know the rules…. According to the meedya at least one premier league club needs to be ‘in crisis’. It’s just our turn at the moment. It’ll be somebody else next week
You're late, it was West Ham last week and it's already been handed over to Forest
Beating Greece at home isn't for everyone.
It was quite astonishing to see Scotland snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. The most one sided victory I think I’ve seen - maybe Liverpool beating PSG away last season is comparable.
we're away to Portugal on Saturday - really hope the referee steps in and stops it before it's a massacre. I expect Engerland have a home fixture against Sri Lanka under 14's.
Arne Slot flies to Baghdad to watch a young Iraqi boy play football. Slotty is suitably impressed and arranges for him to come over.
Two weeks later Liverpool are 4-0 down to Man City with 37 minutes left, Slot gives the young Iraqi striker the nod and on he goes.
The lad is a sensation, scores 5 goals in 37 minutes and wins the game for Liverpool. The fans are delighted, the players and coaches are delighted and the media love the new star.
When the lad comes off the pitch he phones his mum to tell her about his first day in English football.
'Hello mum, guess what?' he says 'I played for 37 minutes today, we were 4-0 down but I scored 5 and we won. Everybody loves me, the fans, the media, they all love me.'
'Wonderful,' says his mum, 'Let me tell you about my day. Your father got shot in the street and robbed, your sister and I were ambushed, and our handbags were robbed and now your brother has joined a gang of looters, and all while you were having such great time.'
The young lad is very upset. 'What can I say mum, but I'm really sorry..'
'Sorry?!!! Sorry?!!!' screams his mum, 'it's your f#cking fault we came to Liverpool in the first place!'
So farewell then, Big Ange. No chance of winning in his second season. Hope he gets another job very soon. As a Chelsea supporter ideally it would be Sunderland because we are playing them next week.
Forest no longer a crisis club!
Ange gone, bring in O'Neil for an European party whilst looking for a successor to Nuno... please....
I think they’ll never be too far from a crisis with the owner calling the shots. What a tool. I’m no Ange apologist but did Maranakis really expect instant results from the polar opposite of Nuno style/tactics wise?
Well, as its my scouse mates birthday and he wants to go to the pub to watch the match, short of faking my own death I'm going to be enduring watching the Liverpool game where we will no doubt get absolutely battered! 😫
Watched the Arsenal game yesterday. We were very average throughout. I really don't see what some people see in us, I can't see us winning the league this year on what I've seen after 8 games. I'd say 3rd after City and Liverpool.
stcolin - it was a pretty stodgy watch. But your defence is immense and I think will win you the league. It’s a very settled side too, with a deep squad now too.
