Other Football 22/23

[stringvest]

On 03/07/2023 at 20:21, Anubis said:

What possesses these tools to do this and post it on the interwebs?

 

 

 

Never mind the shite song - look at the state of that gaff.  Who is he?  Little Red Riding Hood's grandma?

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Forest Green set to appoint the first female manager, albeit just as a caretaker. 
 

Big Dunc jibbed off. 

[Denny Crane]

 

Would be a very significant change if it happened. I read trials are happening shortly but can't find a timeline.

A More Offensive Approach

Infantino proposed to the FIFA development director to find an improvement that would benefit offensive soccer. And Wenger thinks he's found it. The Frenchman thinks that the spectacle will grow and proposes that the offside rule change. His idea is based on allowing the striker to be ahead of the defender, as long as he keeps a part of his body in contact with which he can score a goal in line with the last defender.

Wenger has drawn inspiration from a study carried out in the Premier League that says offside calls would be cut in half. "At some point measures will be taken and it may even be determined that with five or six centimeters it is not offside. Everything is under study," authorized IFAB sources told MARCA. Of the four offsides on average in each game, only two would be offside with the change in the rule, something that could make it possible for the game to be more offensive

 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.marca.com/en/football/2023/07/04/64a380dc268e3eeb7c8b4605.html

[TheHowieLama]

That is offensive.

[polymerpunkah]

And suddenly Canada's struggles make sense.

 

They've added Phil Neville to the coaching staff.

 

 

 

[Pidge]

1 hour ago, Denny Crane said:

 

Would be a very significant change if it happened. I read trials are happening shortly but can't find a timeline.

A More Offensive Approach

Infantino proposed to the FIFA development director to find an improvement that would benefit offensive soccer. And Wenger thinks he's found it. The Frenchman thinks that the spectacle will grow and proposes that the offside rule change. His idea is based on allowing the striker to be ahead of the defender, as long as he keeps a part of his body in contact with which he can score a goal in line with the last defender.

Wenger has drawn inspiration from a study carried out in the Premier League that says offside calls would be cut in half. "At some point measures will be taken and it may even be determined that with five or six centimeters it is not offside. Everything is under study," authorized IFAB sources told MARCA. Of the four offsides on average in each game, only two would be offside with the change in the rule, something that could make it possible for the game to be more offensive

 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.marca.com/en/football/2023/07/04/64a380dc268e3eeb7c8b4605.html

 

 

Yeah, deeper defences with more conservative marking, that'll be more entertaining.

[Anubis]

Ancelotti taking the reigns at the Brazilian national team next year.

[Jose Jones]

8 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Ancelotti taking the reigns at the Brazilian national team next year.

 

Can't approve of that at all.  Brazil is the greatest football nation on the planet, they can't have a Brazilian manager?

[Jurgen Knows]

1 hour ago, Jose Jones said:

 

Can't approve of that at all.  Brazil is the greatest football nation on the planet, they can't have a Brazilian manager?

 

I think it's a sensible move. He is a high profile manager with a track record of handling strong characters in the dressing room. Brazil surely have great coaches, and they are indeed the greatest football nation as you rightly point out, but the national team manager role is less about coaching and more about leading. Ancelotti ticks all the boxes.

[sir roger]

Ancelotti must look at these articles about Guardiola being the best manager ever  and raise a wry eyebrow.

[lebron]

Haven’t scoured through the last few pages, but just found out that Adolf Hütter is the new manager of AS Monaco. Interesting choice of name for an Austrian…

[Mook]

3 hours ago, Jose Jones said:

 

Can't approve of that at all.  Brazil is the greatest football nation on the planet, they can't have a Brazilian manager?

 

Anything that involves Liverpool not having to play his teams is massively approved by me. He's had a hoodoo over us ever since Istanbul, the fucking twat.

[Pidge]

13 hours ago, Nelly-Matip said:

Forest Green set to appoint the first female manager, albeit just as a caretaker. 
 

Big Dunc jibbed off. 

 

A caretaker appointment in July is a really weird move. Hopefully she gets a chance to actually lead for some games that matter.

[Bjornebye]

33 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

Anything that involves Liverpool not having to play his teams is massively approved by me. He's had a hoodoo over us ever since Istanbul, the fucking twat.

 

He's a top top manager, one of the greats. He must have been pissing himself managing Everton. If Klopp was to go tomorrow Ancelotti would be the top of the list. The fuuuuume would be monumental. 

[halewood pete]

Just seen a tweet by Chris Kirkland.Hes struggling with his mental health again and has sought professional help, he said Sunday night he was in a really dark place.Hope he gets well soon,great guy.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

31 minutes ago, Pidge said:

 

A caretaker appointment in July is a really weird move. Hopefully she gets a chance to actually lead for some games that matter.

Agreed. It’ll be interesting to see how she does if she does get some proper game time. The Forest Green owner seems happy to divert from the traditional norms of the game, so it wouldn’t surprise me if she did secure a more permanent position. 

[Denny Crane]

12 hours ago, Pidge said:

 

 

Yeah, deeper defences with more conservative marking, that'll be more entertaining.

 

 

That was my first thought -  it would penalise teams who play a high line but Wenger who is pushing for this - is no friend of pragmatic football.  Managed to find the first phase of the trials from under 18s and the small sample find a 0.35 increase in goals. I'm guessing the next stage is to trial at a higher level with a bigger set of matches. 

 

632 goals / 177 matches = 3.57 goal per match

Round 24 to Round 30 (plus the postponed match) that trialed the "daylight" offside rule:

 

247 goals / 63 matches = 3.92 goal per match

[Creator Supreme]

1 hour ago, halewood pete said:

Just seen a tweet by Chris Kirkland.Hes struggling with his mental health again and has sought professional help, he said Sunday night he was in a really dark place.Hope he gets well soon,great guy.

Poor sod, seems like one of the good guys too, I echo your sentiments with regard to him getting help.

[Strontium]

6 hours ago, Jose Jones said:

Can't approve of that at all.  Brazil is the greatest football nation on the planet, they can't have a Brazilian manager?

 

How's that working out for them? They haven't won the World Cup since 2002, and they've even only won one of the last five Copa Americas, and two of those were held in Brazil.

[halewood pete]

[Scott_M]

17 hours ago, Nelly-Matip said:

Forest Green set to appoint the first female manager, albeit just as a caretaker. 
 

Big Dunc jibbed off. 

Another Everton first….

 

 

[Scott_M]

Heh heh heh… Max Power

 

 

[Elite]

Joke that this under 21 semi isn't on TV.

[Scott_M]

22 minutes ago, Elite said:

Joke that this under 21 semi isn't on TV.

Penalty to England. Looked suspiciously like an Antony Gordon dive for me.

VAR confirms the penalty. I think Gordon definitely initiated the contact. 

 

Justice is done as Gibbs-White puts the penalty wide. 

[polymerpunkah]

Dive, of course.

 

And VAR gets it wrong.

 

Of course.