Football 2024-25. Pep’s last season?

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.

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dander

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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.

Looking back at the incident it looked like the ref waved his hands to say no foul on Sala which is surprising. Weather VAR would’ve got involved is now inconsequential.
Nunez seems to play better when he doesn’t have to think, he’s scored some absolute screamers just using his instinct. When he’s been put through one on one with the keeper and has to think where to place it he often wastes the chance. Weather it’s a confidence thing I don’t know. I always like to see him on the start sheet though, he never gives up, always puts himself in the right positions and helps out a lot defensively. 

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.

Looking back at the incident it looked like the ref waved his hands to say no foul on Sala which is surprising. Weather VAR would’ve got involved is now inconsequential.
Nunez seems to play better when he doesn’t have to think, he’s scored some absolute screamers just using his instinct. When he’s been put through one on one with the keeper and has to think where to place it he often wastes the chance. Weather it’s a confidence thing I don’t know. I always like to see him on the start sheet though, he never gives up, always puts himself in the right positions and helps out a lot defensively. 

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!

binners

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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?

But if you play for Man Utd or Spurs then England is the most likely route to success

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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

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15F63sPgmC/

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

He’s a football ref, not a High Court Judge, archbishop or minister of state.

True that. I’d not be at all surprised at any of those being caught out; referees are expected to be a cut above those dubious roles mentioned above in terms of bribery, bias & illicit shenanigans.

As per usual tho you can pretty much guarantee the journo’s reporting on – no doubt sounding horrified enjoy snow sports in the evening or at weekends.

Exciting news on the BBC that training by Amorim has gone well and there were many positive reports.

Well, he’s up against a team on the rise on Sunday….