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Not sure if I think finishing third and playing in the Europa league would be a good thing.
Oh yeah we don't want the Europa league if we still have all these injuries in the new year. If we can get players fit again though we can rotate the squad a bit more in Europa games than in the CL. Agree though the league is priority (as always).
That comparison to Bielsa feels very accurate. It's fine for Ange to say, this is how we play (mate), under me Mt teams always play energetic attacking football, and after morihno and conte it's great to see! But I do think he needs to accept plan B has it's place. Klopp has Liverpool play attacking football, but recognises at 10, and 9 men, plan b of compact and tight with salah to run on to balls on the break, is more likely to succeed against decent opposition. We could have done similar trying to suck Chelsea forward and leave space for Son to run in. However, I doubt a point salvaged would make much difference come the end of the season so if he felt there was more to learn from watching the 9 play ange ball and lose 3-0 then fine. Dier showed enough to give some hope. I'd love to see him refind the form he had under Poch.
With vdv and cuti out he's going to get some starts, cometh the hour Eric, what are you going to do?
It’s a fine (high) line isn’t it? Late on Son and Bentancur missed good chances to equalise, if they’d gone in Ange is a genius etc.
United in action tonight. Best get behind the sofa Binners 😀
I’m already getting my shouty head on in anticipation 😂
And it was all going so well
Maybe at this point we need to push the defence up to the half way line and see if someone else can get sent off?
You could always just give up and watch the Arsenal game?
all very spud like!
And todays lesson in how to throw away a comfortable 2 goal lead is brought to you by Marcus Rashford and Harry Maguire…
If we revert to type then we completely collapse in the second half and lose 5-2
Saw ManU up 2-0 and thought this should be plain sailing, now 2-2 and they're down to 10 men 😲
Plain sailing? Have you not watched us this season?
And the Arsenal game has Rio Ferdinand as a studio summeriser. For some reason he sounds like he has 2 tongues.
clutching defeat from the jaws of victory ! 😀
ROONY ROONY
Oof. That bloke they wanted to sign is going to finish off their CL hopes when Bayern come to Old Trafford, isn't he?
Absolutely nuts!
Bizarrely we looked better with ten men tonight than we’ve looked with eleven all season
Mind you, that’s hardly a high watermark
At least finishing bottom means United avoid the Europa league?
Laughing at United is almost like kicking a puppy.
Seeing Garnacho shushing the Copenhagen fans after the penalty... beautiful 😀
Another decade or so and I might feel sorry for them.
Brighton back to winning ways again 👍🤩😎
Liverpool looked pretty clueless earlier.
The soft touch away form appears to have returned. Mac Allister suspended this weekend which may be a good thing, he’s struggled a bit as defensive midfielder, although Klopp doesn’t seem to trust anyone else in the role so not sure what the alternative is.
Liverpool took going to Toulouse far to literally 😀
So wolves have received yet another apology from var about the penalty awarded to Sheffield United which led to them getting their first win of the season.
That is three times now that the panel has apologised to wolves for getting decision's wrong which could make the difference between staying up or receiving high place finish money.
Because it's wolves it doesn't make sports headline news
Because it’s wolves it doesn’t make sports headline news
It'll have made sports headline news somewhere, Wolverhamption maybe. But not a hope in hell of anything being the main story on BBC Football for example unless its about Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool or the women's game.
Apparently Wolves' first goal was a bit special.
It was.
Ha, ha & thrice ha. 😂
As an Albion fan I have no real love for the Dingles, but **** me Sarabia's goal was something else.
they (spuds) pulled out the sucking dick celebration again must be a fun dressing room ?|
Big Sam in the directors box at Old Trafford.....
Makes you think 🤔
Big Sam the Stalking Horse.
Well played Bournemouth. And Dortmund earlier in the week. You love to see it.
Big Sam in the directors box at Old Trafford…..
Makes you think 🤔
I’ve already posted Mrs Binners thoughts on this
Anyway… the Newcastle players, or what’s left of them, looked dead on their feet today. Nick Pope pulled off some amazing saves to keep the scoreline down to that. They’re going to need to spaff those oil millions in January
Striker!
We’ve been needing a new one since Raul was assaulted at Arsenal.
It was a wonderful goal, amazing touch and skill to apply that finish.
Consistency is going to be key for us moving forward. I am happy to admit being a bit underwhelmed at the appointment of Gary O’Neil but I think it could be a very shrewd one.
Anyway, top of the Championship getting tighter....
Top of the Championship is interesting. Leicester and Leeds have strong squads. Ipswich are doing very well but I suspect they won’t be able to keep it up with a long season and inevitable injuries.
I think it further exposes the gap between the Championship and the Premier League.
In other news the powerhouse of Berkshire lost to Shrewsbury - not a great advert for dodgy owners.
I'm slightly concerned for Ipswich mid-December to Christmas. It's been pointed out to me it's Norwich on the 16, Leeds on the 23rd and Leicester on the 26th. I'd like to see 6 points out of that but will be a tough patch of games
Just watching MOTD and if you’ve not seen the Sarabia goal for Wolves against Spurs… wow! The first touch to tee himself up for the volley is unreal! As good as you’ll ever see!
I keep watching it and it just gets better.
His touch is reminiscent of Bergkamp. Incredible goal.
I thought it had shades of Gasgoine at his best. Absolutely sublime
Gasgoine - how good could have he have been? A child-like genius.
Still one of the best goals ever, while we’re talking about teeing yourself up for a volley
Best volley ever was Justin fashanu against a mighty Liverpool team. Pre premier league.
Weird day, that one. I was strolling into town to meet my mates and watch the match in the pub when the bomb went off outside the Arndale. That goal made the day a bit better, but it all felt a bit surreal
I was standing just a few feet from the camera for the Gascoigne goal. As he popped it over Hendry I thought "in the dream he now volleys this...."
I was late home from a ride and turned on the TV for the England Scotland game just as Seaman saved and Gascoigne went down the other end....
Yesterdays goal was right up there though. Beautiful to watch.
I’m slightly concerned for Ipswich mid-December to Christmas.
Better than most years then, usually December to March!
Some clubs need to acceot that despite former glories, we are unlikely to ever be successful Premier League clubs in the current climate. Maybe get promoted, maybe last 2-3 years, don't do anything financially reckless, and bounce between the Championship and Premiership when we can.
Tony Yeboah whacking it in off the underside of the bar against Liverpool takes some beating for me
That's on here, along with a couple from Robin van Persie I was looking for. One of those Utd players that, even as a City fan, you'd pay to watch.
Van Persie’s goal on the volley with the ball dropping over his shoulder springs to mind. Jaw-dropping skill and control. Any mere mortal trying that and it’s going in Row Z. The pass from Rooney too. Inch perfect!
I was gob-smacked when Arsenal let him go to Old Trafford. Why let a player that good go to your main competition? Bonkers!
watching the volleys video, I have no idea how you can choose between them, so many stunning ones.
Shearer for me if I had to but only because I'm the son of a geordie lass and that's my team as a result.
To put some misery on it...... defenders. If you make a clearing header, not straight out into the middle channel, get it out to the wings!! How many goals in that set are direct hits after a clearing header!
If we're talking volleys, then it's Di Canio's scissor kick vs Wimbledon for me.
There are some peaches on that volleys video. I'd forgotten Andros Townsends rocket against City. Scholesy was always good for a 'put your ****ing laces through it' effort from 30 yards out
Some tasty games on today too. looking at the weather forecast, with storm Debi* coming in, I think an afternoon watching footy is very much in order
* Thats Mrs Binners name so cue lots of comments about dangerously disruptive wind 😀
Like a new wife - wet and wild at first and then ****s off and takes half your house
A nice dodgy penalty, should get this game going off now 😁
Ah, maybe i was wrong, just a boring 4-4 game in the end
Well that was absolutely ****ing nuts!
Another boring Chelsea game this week, eh? 😂
Cole Palmer looking like signing of the summer
That was a superb game! Chelsea continue their Robin Hood act - rob the rich, give to the poor! (Points off city, lose to Luton!)
Volleys - David Platt vs Belgium - England players weren’t meant to score goals like that in those days.
Points off city, lose to Luton!
they beat luton 3-0 :/
@klunk oops, yep, but it stands up as they lost to Nottingham forest, West Ham and Brentford…
Shows City’s embarrassment of riches that they can let a home grown player go for relative peanuts. Good to see Chelsea having a go at them, wish more teams would, although you risk a thrashing doing so.
With more financial irregularities than Father Ted, it looks like Reading's weekly fine and points deductions are coming to the end with new owners being mooted.
The Saudi’s?
@klunk oops, yep, but it stands up as they lost to Nottingham forest, West Ham and Brentford…
Mid table side loses to other mid table sides...
Maybe get promoted, maybe last 2-3 years, don’t do anything financially reckless, and bounce between the Championship and Premiership when we can.
I completely agree and was saying as much to someone at work last week. Get promoted, don't go mad and try and stay up there. Just need to avoid buying the next Fenidi George. There are some clubs that have had a good stab as this tactic as I think it's obvious you're not going to be challenging for anything
Volleys – David Platt vs Belgium – England players weren’t meant to score goals like that in those days.
Great goal, not as big a belter as that video but for timing, importance, and the fact i was watching it with Uni mates in the telly room in that period between finishing Uni finals and results coming out, always going to be a favourite.
it looks like Reading’s weekly fine and points deductions are coming to the end with new owners being mooted.
The Saudi’s?
In dreams, maybe. Two names have been mooted so far.
William 'Rich Energy' Storey - pulled out in early Nov when his accountants didn't like the state of the books (and I suspect they know what dodgy looks like) and Mike Ashley. TBH, for all he did at Newcastle, he wouldn't be the worst - we aren't stymied by lack of ambition and demands from a massive fan base to make us Champions League contenders.... we're a failing asset that needs turning right side up and saving / making sustainable, because bottom of League 1, 10 points behind 20th, and with potentially more points deductions to come, survival is ambitious right now.
Shows City’s embarrassment of riches that they can let a home grown player go for relative peanuts. Good to see Chelsea having a go at them, wish more teams would, although you risk a thrashing doing so.
Is £40 million relative peanuts now? So the riches of the £120 million TV money gets you three bags of kp's
Yep, relatively. Antony cost £85m.
A couple of years before the PL, but this one's decent.
https://twitter.com/1968Tv/status/1723797393609572771
Yeah... a bit special from Frank, that.
I've just thought of another one that was a bit tasty, to say the least. Even more so as it was a Derby-winner in about the 87th minute. What a way to do it!
He did have the good grace to say that he practiced that all the time and 99 times out of 100 it would end up in Row Z
A ten point deduction for Everton 😳
Difficult to see how that can fly while Citeh and Chelsea are busy making a mockery of FFP rules
Cos they admitted it & they've made loss year on year, not much to fight.
With the Teams around them this season I think they will be safe from relegation tho.