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soccerball 22/23, the WC hump season

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Agreed. And some truly awful refereeing!


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 7:21 am
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@binners - what's your prediction for Utd v Arsenal today?


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 4:17 pm
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God only knows?! Depends which United turn up
And whether Arsenal revert to type or not.

I’m hoping Martinez gives a Jesus a ‘reducer’ in the first couple of minutes and we can take it from there.

If Ronnie is on and Arsenal insist on playing it out from the back then you’d think there would be opportunities to be had

Should be a cracking match this though

There you go… I’ve just said it and cursed us all to a nil nil 😂


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 4:23 pm
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And Martinez does precisely that! And got away without a card too. Excellent!

Let’s have it! 😂


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 4:33 pm
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Like that a shove in the back is now "soft" !? and slap 'ed and lazy boy on the bench.


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 4:50 pm
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90 million?

Bargain!

😂


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 5:07 pm
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A proper United v Arsenal match

It’s been a while

Top notch first half. The second should be pretty full on.


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 5:23 pm
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slap 'ed is a proper donkey


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 6:12 pm
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He’s an absolute liability. He comes on and is booked within seconds and gives away a free kick on the edge of the box

That was a cracking game. Arteta’s second half substitutions we’re utterly insane! Almost insulting and got punished as they deserved to be

I’m happy with that performance after our truly dismal start to the season. Chuffed for Marcus. 2 goals and an assist and just a brilliant match. He needed that. Hopefully he’ll kick on from that now

I stuck an optimistic few quid on a United win too at 3/1 😃


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 6:28 pm
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And I seem to recall binners had United down for a relegation battle after 3 games..... It's still a long season and may pan out that way, but I bet he thinks they're city's closest challengers now 🤣

Always good to see the gooners lose and nice to see them brought down a peg after a flier of a start. Looking quite close across the top 6 or so... All the big teams have had some strong performances and some much more iffy ones.

Now it's Wednesday night football next. Marseille come to North London. Those of us in cl now play twice a week until the November break. Yikes.


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 6:44 pm
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but I bet he thinks they’re city’s closest challengers now

Not unless I’ve been smoking crack 😂

It’s just good to see such a massive improvement, but we’re still totally hit and miss. We could/should have lost to Southampton. We’re a long way off delivering performances like that with any consistency

As a United fan it’s just nice to watch a match without my head in my hands while unloading a deluge of abuse at Harry Maguire


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 6:59 pm
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😂😂


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 8:08 pm
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My boss is a Man U fan (like 1/2 the world) the smugness will be unbearable tomorrow.


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 8:15 pm
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Trust me… we’ve not allowed ourselves to feel smug for about ten years

Granted, we were smug as **** for over ten years prior to that 😂


 
Posted : 04/09/2022 8:31 pm
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Just popping out from the thrashing machines that are the neverending politics threads to say there's football on tonight.


 
Posted : 06/09/2022 4:51 pm
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Chelsea are 1-0 down to the mighty Dinamo Zagreb

What is their new name given Chelski doesn't really work nowadays?


 
Posted : 06/09/2022 6:50 pm
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Son of chelski?


 
Posted : 06/09/2022 7:13 pm
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ChelTodd doesn't sound right

Chelboehly sounds like a village in Moldova


 
Posted : 06/09/2022 7:41 pm
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Chel$$ea


 
Posted : 06/09/2022 7:48 pm
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Ziyech is not the dead ball specialist he thinks he is


 
Posted : 06/09/2022 7:49 pm
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England 3-0 up on ITV....


 
Posted : 06/09/2022 8:01 pm
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Tuchel would be on thin ice if Abramovich was still in charge. An awful lot of money spent.


 
Posted : 06/09/2022 8:56 pm
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You were saying.....


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 10:18 am
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RIP Pepperami Man


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 10:20 am
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Bonkers... completely bonkers... give him millions upon millions to spend.... then can him after a few games of spending it and building a squad... Football, the most bemusing thing on the planet


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 10:21 am
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That is mad. Allow him to buy the players he wants for mega-money. Then bring in another manager who undoubtedly will want to mould the team differently.

Well, Brendan Rodgers will be available shortly.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 10:23 am
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Unless there's some serious dressing room unrest that can't be resolved then it's mad to act so quickly. It was bound to take some time to gel as a squad with so much change over the summer.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 10:35 am
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Thoroughly deserved. Quite frankly if Tuchel cannot win every game and match City whilst incorporating 200m of talent in 5 weeks he must be incompetent. He'll get a job somewhere else and excel as he's a good manager.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 11:07 am
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😮


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 11:09 am
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I didn't see that coming.

Well, Brendan Rodgers will be available shortly.

Yeah - after their start I thought he was going to be the first casualty.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 11:16 am
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The only reason I can think that this makes sense is if Tuchel has really lost the plot. To be fair, his demeanour has been extremely frantic of late & I wonder if the new owners have seen enough to think he can’t work with them.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 11:20 am
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Yeah – after their start I thought he was going to be the first casualty.

Scott Parker went before Leicester went into complete meltdown, can’t see Chelsea replacing Tuchel with Rodger’s, he’s pretty average as a manager, not sure who’s on the market they can go for that’s at that level!


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 11:21 am
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Just thinking though, Sean Dyche is available and could be a temporary fit until a realistic candidate is available, not sure they’d be happy, but not many big clubs are sacking their managers in September 😳


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 11:26 am
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Rodgers would be sensational, magnificent, tremendous.

Failing that give it to brave John Terry.


 
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Posted : 07/09/2022 11:47 am
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Howe?


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 12:22 pm
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Whye?


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 12:45 pm
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Absolute madness from Chelsea.

Tuchel is a wholly unlikeable individual but i'd have him in at the Villa any day.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 12:49 pm
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I would put my money on it they already have Poch in line to replace him


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 12:49 pm
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Looks like it is Potter, I guess he will take it, I really rate him but suspect he will be another chelsea managerial casualty and doing so will damage him.

I think Tuchel got lucky winning the champions league, he managed to revitalize the Conti team, but as he progressed to his own ideas becoming established the team faded badly.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 12:52 pm
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Looks like it is Potter, I guess he will take it, I realy rate him but suspect he will be another chelsea managerial casualty and doing so will damage him

Yeah but after 18 months and £20m the pain won't feel so bad 🙂


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 12:53 pm
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potter would seem a strange choice to me, I'd expect chelsea to chase a'Big' manager. Poch replaced tuchel at PSG didn't he? chelsea do have history of going for the previous replacement of a manager they just sacked (AVB after Morinho). I'd rather in wasn't Poch myself, but so long as they don't try and steal conte I'm not concerned I guess.....causing disruption at another big club by pursuing their manager is nice for neutral fans ....Pep needs a new challenge....ETH bail early.....Klopp definitely on the down slope at liverpool....Arteta...yeah...but probably not.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 1:12 pm
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Potter to Chelsea? The only problem I can see is that his Brighton team sometimes
struggled to turn draws into wins, which seems rather familiar.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 4:15 pm
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And whether the egos in the dressing room will accept him. By all accounts he’s a very good coach, making players better. Good for him to be offered the chance I guess, and yeah he’ll be rich in a year or so!


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 4:48 pm
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Gutted. We’ve lost our 2 best players, our top scorer and now we’re about to lose our manager.
Never had this problem in league 2.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 8:08 pm
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I'm not being ridiculously biased here am I? But how can either of those be penalities in the Liverpool game, let alone both.

It's no wonder I've fallen out of love with football


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 8:19 pm
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Chelsea better be quick getting Potter in or Liverpool will beat them to it.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 8:48 pm
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Didn’t they give Klopp a new, long, contract recently? They look knackered! Hangover from last season - or the last 3 or 4 seasons?


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 8:58 pm
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Just one of those nights I guess, or months, lol.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 9:05 pm
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It’s a goal fest! Channelling the spirit of Barcelona? 4-5 anyone??


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 9:12 pm
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Liverpool look to have Thiago back at least, but they have shown how weak they are in the middle, and the defence and midfield don't seem to be chipping in with goals.

As stated before, think it'll be a long season for some teams like Liverpool and Chelsea, i've never really bought this whole ManC and Liverpool being light years ahead, Man City have that strength in depth, but you take a couple of players out of Liverpool and they're back in the pack.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 9:31 pm
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Another unconvincing performance from spurs.... But richarlison has got his first goals and looks like got us the win. Good, I'd have been peed off to waste points at home.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 9:46 pm
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In the Liverpool game there was very little extra time given how many deaths Napoli suffered.
This looked like the Liverpool team that lost heavily to Seville a few years ago.


 
Posted : 07/09/2022 9:57 pm
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https://twitter.com/goal/status/1569282481949650944?s=20&t=eAZ8t8WfE5F1uSkBkjm9-g

Should be... erm... interesting


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 1:45 pm
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Blimey Costa! Could be an inspired signing for Wolves...or not.
Speaking about managers leaving clubs, one of the most bitter departures was when Mark Magee left Reading just after signing a long-term contract and leading to 2nd place by December 1994 then leaving mid-season. Queue subsequent slide.
Even today if you mention his name in one of the bistros or sushi bars in Reading a terrible chorus of tut tutting will be aimed at you.


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 2:13 pm
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Couple more fixtures off this weekend as expected!
RM.


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 7:17 pm
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So more cancelled fixtures then a couple of weeks of utterly and completely pointless Nations League matches that nobody gives a toss about anyway?

Great!

Have we found out why it’s ok to play all other sporting fixtures apart from football?


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 8:00 pm
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Perfect year for fixture congestion later in the season.

I can understand the fixture postponements next weekend with the policing manpower requirements, but the knee jerk reaction to join in this past weekends festival of sickening sycophancy was stupid and unnecessary.


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 8:01 pm
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Have we found out why it’s ok to play all other sporting fixtures apart from football?

Policing apparently.


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 8:03 pm
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Yep, with MSP on this. Should have been at Elland Rd right now! After the internationals we won’t have played for 4 weeks. Then 5 weeks of games and it’s 8 weeks off for the World Cup. Mental!
RM.


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 8:27 pm
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Blimey Costa! Could be an inspired signing for Wolves…or not.

I think we were unfortunately in a position where we are “scraping the bottom of the barrel”!
Our new striker signed from Stuttgart did his ACL on his debut just as the window closed. The alternatives were Daniel Sturridge or Andy Carrol!!
It really is going one of two ways.


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 8:44 pm
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Other sports don't have the potential for crowd trouble

Lots of police redeployed for QE2 state funeral


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 8:45 pm
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Lots of police redeployed for QE2 state funeral

massive over reaction for the sinking of a boat


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 8:48 pm
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I really can’t comprehend why, given that there’s a big break for this stupid winter World Cup, they’re going ahead with these pointless international friendlies.

I foresee an awful lot of phantom injuries in the next week or so that miraculously cure themselves once these ludicrous Mickey Mouse Cup games are out of the way


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 9:13 pm
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Other sports don’t have the potential for crowd trouble

Other funerals don't need a police presence either.


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 9:22 pm
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I foresee an awful lot of phantom injuries in the next week or so that miraculously cure themselves once these ludicrous Mickey Mouse Cup games are out of the way

There’s still a few places up for grabs, I can see those friendlies being well supported by players!


 
Posted : 12/09/2022 9:38 pm
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Spursey


 
Posted : 13/09/2022 7:36 pm
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With these awfully stupid nations tournament/waste of time and the sandy world cup, clubs will have to play at be times a week to catch up.


 
Posted : 14/09/2022 8:38 pm
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Spursey.


 
Posted : 17/09/2022 7:23 pm
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Unbelievable ‘super sub’ performance by Son.

Who the hell does he think he is? Ole Gunnar Solskjær? 😂

He’s absolute quality! Three absolutely superb finishes!


 
Posted : 17/09/2022 7:29 pm
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It's only leicester, they are proper rubbish this year, Rodgers again showing his lack of being able to adapt during matches, or making changes at the right time, think he must be getting close to seeing if Sky need any more pundits this year 😂


 
Posted : 17/09/2022 7:34 pm
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Leicester were all over the shop at the back

Rodgers has to be odds on for the next manager to go. They’re woeful!

What’s the record timeframe from winning the league to getting relegated?


 
Posted : 17/09/2022 7:37 pm
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Chapeau to Maddison for his individual performance but especially that post-match interview


 
Posted : 17/09/2022 7:55 pm
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Who the hell does he think he is? Ole Gunnar Solskjær? 😂

No-one's that good 😉

Rodgers out I reckon


 
Posted : 17/09/2022 7:58 pm
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Nice one Sonny! Couldn't be helpful for him


 
Posted : 17/09/2022 8:58 pm
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No-one’s that good 😉

Admittedly he’s got a way to go to match Ole’s 4 goals in 10 minutes supersub performance, but it’s a start 😂

Seriously though, Fergie always said about Ole that he left him on the bench because he’d never seen a player read a game so well, so after he’d been itching to get on, when he did he knew all the weaknesses to ruthlessly exploit

Looks like Son did pretty much the same today


 
Posted : 17/09/2022 10:51 pm
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Black suits and black ties on MOTD? FFS!!! 🙄


 
Posted : 17/09/2022 11:08 pm
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City got relegated the year after winning in 1936/37


 
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Black suits and black ties on MOTD? FFS!!!

First PL games and MOTD on the national broadcaster since the death / in the period of national mourning.

It does feel like folks are now looking for stuff to get indignant about. Micah Richards is still looning it up so it's not exactly causing a problem.


 
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Ray Wilkins has pulled his boots on I see !


 
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