Featured: That was the week that was (Oct 13-19 2018)

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Saturday Oct 13:

 

What’s this shit? I’ve been out the loop for a week or so due to a house move, I check back online and find out that Mo got injured last night, in the last minute of a game that Egypt led 4-0. Why is he still on the field when they’re up by four? Even worse, they were playing Swaziland. I didn’t even know that was a real country. Seriously, I would have put good money on it being one of those countries that underwent a name change decades ago, like Rhodesia, or just some jarg made up name like Timbuktu.

 

*edit - I had to google Timbuktu to make sure I spelled it correctly, and it turns out that's a real place too. Mind. Blown. 

 

Just browsing newsnow and see that Andy Robbo has to defend himself after some comments he made were misconstrued and taken as a dig at Scotland boss Alex McLeish. Hold up, Gordon Strachan is Scotland manager isn’t he? *checks google* Ok so McLeish took over in February. I’m so out of the loop on anything non-LFC related these days it’s ridiculous.

 

Anyway, bottom line is Robbo didn’t have a pop at him but if he did it would be ok because Andy Robbo is the King of Scotland and Alex McLeish is a terrible manager.

 

Staying with international footy for a second, I caught a couple of minutes of the England game last night as it was on when I was at my parents’ house. For a second I thought they were playing at the Etihad as there were more empty seats there than at Goodison for a dead rubber Europa League game.

 

Not sure why, something about Croatia fans misbehaving and having to serve a stadium ban apparently. Bit shit for the opponent though isn’t it? The players having to perform in that weird empty stadium with no atmosphere (no problem for Stones, Sterling and Delph, obviously) and the fans not being allowed to travel. Ok, so that’s actually a good thing. I wish all of England’s opponents would get themselves stadium bans.

 

Sunday Oct 14:

 

VVD is coming home early too with a reported recurrence of his rib injury. He scored last night as Holland beat Germany 3-0. Gini scored as well. Lovely goal that, it was the kind of goal he never scores for us and the kind that I was expecting Naby to be scoring every week. Let’s face it though, we’ve been getting no goal threat from our midfield all season and it’s a big problem because the front three aren’t producing.

 

I really like Wijnaldum as a six, but when he’s in the box to box role he frustrates the shit out of me. Sometimes he looks really good, but mostly he’s just very vanilla. He should be the one who gets double figures every season but he’s nowhere near. Seeing him do this for Holland just makes it all the more annoying.

 

I saw something today listing the top ten slowest players in the league, and two of them were ours. No surprise that Sturridge was one, but I was massively shocked that Lallana was in there, not least because to have your speed measured surely you have to actually spend some time on the pitch? Besides, Lallana isn’t slow is he? It’s that long since I’ve seen him I can’t be sure.

 

For the record, the slowest player in the league was Gary Cahill, but I’m calling bullshit on that as no-one is slower than that Depoitre behemoth at Huddersfield. Cahill has only played 21 minutes this season so maybe he just didn’t need to sprint in that time?

 

The slowest player ever is still Per Mertesacker, who I'm pretty sure would have lost in a footrace with Gunnersaurus. 

 

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[scudger99]

Clickbait sucka !

Usual high standard Dave, quality read. 

Didn't Croatia get the crowd ban because some daft cunt mowed a swastika onto the pitch or something stupid like that ?

[sir roger]

9 minutes ago, scudger99 said:

Clickbait sucka !

Usual high standard Dave, quality read. 

Didn't Croatia get the crowd ban because some daft cunt mowed a swastika onto the pitch or something stupid like that ?

Yes , I believe he has been asked onto Question Time next week.