Other Football 2023/24

[an tha]

47 minutes ago, Smell The Glove said:

Touché 

Ha! Anyway all that really matters is what we do - it is on our own hands - only time to really start worrying about the others is if and when it isn't.

 

The biggest worry is the fucking toll as this takes on us as fans!

[Fugitive]

I’ve just seen this photo of Ben white and felt compelled to pop on and say Ben White is a massive cunt.

 

 

[Dapower]

4 minutes ago, an tha said:

Ha! Anyway all that really matters is what we do - it is on our own hands - only time to really start worrying about the others is if and when it isn't.

 

The biggest worry is the fucking toll as this takes on us as fans!

Hopefully we all come out on the right side for a change this year 3rd time lucky at home to wolves last day 

[Dapower]

2 minutes ago, Fugitive said:

I’ve just seen this photo of Ben white and felt compelled to pop on and say Ben White is a massive cunt.

 

 

Has his bird got his pants on?

[Lee909]

3 hours ago, an tha said:

Are the ballboys actually handing the players the balls?

 

Yeah, as soon as the ball was going out they were grabbing the ball and throwing it back

[an tha]

40 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

Yeah, as soon as the ball was going out they were grabbing the ball and throwing it back

Staggering isn't it.

 

We had Coote enforcing it on Sunday.

 

Premier League ball boys and girls have been ordered to stop throwing the ball back to players during matches, amid concerns that the “multi-ball” system is giving home teams an unfair advantage.

 

Updated ruling states that players must now collect a ball from the nearest cone, rather than receive one thrown to them.

 

“Ball assistants”, as they are known in the Premier League handbook, are no longer allowed to even be positioned next to the cones during matches. The league hopes this will make it clear to players that they must fetch the ball themselves during games.

[Pidge]

What? So now the league's pro time wasting?

[an tha]

4 minutes ago, Pidge said:

What? So now the league's pro time wasting?

I think they worked out we had benefited from the ball boys getting ball back in play quickly and decided to put a stop to that.

 

The rule now states that "Ball Assistants are only allowed to retrieve match balls and replace them on the vacant cones and are not permitted to return a ball directly to a player."

[Lee909]

3 minutes ago, Pidge said:

What? So now the league's pro time wasting?

 

I'm guessing it's also to stop the home ball boys fucking around and more incident of players confronting them and pushing them away. Home teams are getting them to fuck around not passing the ball back or throwing the ball back once they've picked up another ball

[an tha]

Further to above:

 

 

"In order to help speed up the game and avoid time-wasting, 14 balls -- seven on each side -- will now be available at the side of pitch, an increase of four from the previous system.

 

Ball assistants will be required to return a ball to a vacant cone when it goes out of play and ensure that they are not positioned next to the ball cones.

 

The Premier League has stated that ball assistants must sit behind pitchside advertising boards where possible."

[an tha]

Good to see it being ignored already at arsenal - i am sure it will be enforced at anfield tomorrow.

[El Rojo]

3 hours ago, Code said:

Leverkusen won their semifinal in the German cup tonight 4-0.

 

The final is the 25th of May, they will play Kaiserlautern who are currently third from the bottom in the 2.Bundesliga. 
 

 

 

I support Liverpool FC, not Bayer Leverkusen FC.

[Lee909]

I see Guillem Ballbag was out today doing Xabi PR about how he wants to manage us and will in the future. 

 

Hope Amorim or Nagelsmann gets the job and stays for 25 successful years and beats Xabi in at least 6 finals

 

I'm not bittet

[DalyanPete]

9 hours ago, Judge said:

We have to do it all by ourselves by winning all the 9 remaining matches. Not one of the other teams will take a point from our two rivals.

 

We can do it.

Digging this brother

[Code]

I refuse to believe my eyes are wrong, how is this not offside?

 

 

[Code]

6 hours ago, El Rojo said:

I support Liverpool FC, not Bayer Leverkusen FC.

My point was that if we both reach the Europa League final, they will have another final coming up three days later. 

[manwiththestick]

20 minutes ago, Code said:

I refuse to believe my eyes are wrong, how is this not offside?

 

 

If that is not offside then neither was Luis Diaz on Sunday.

 

Certain teams are ruled under different scrutinies, nobody will convince me otherwise.

[Bobby Hundreds]

9 hours ago, Anubis said:

Win every remaining game one nil. Job done. Epic amounts of piss boiled.

I think that's the only way we will win it. We cant drop fuck all. 

[Scooby Dudek]

8 hours ago, an tha said:

Staggering isn't it.

 

We had Coote enforcing it on Sunday.

 

Premier League ball boys and girls have been ordered to stop throwing the ball back to players during matches, amid concerns that the “multi-ball” system is giving home teams an unfair advantage.

 

Updated ruling states that players must now collect a ball from the nearest cone, rather than receive one thrown to them.

 

“Ball assistants”, as they are known in the Premier League handbook, are no longer allowed to even be positioned next to the cones during matches. The league hopes this will make it clear to players that they must fetch the ball themselves during games.

They probably first looked at at an F.A. Cup game away at Blackburn many years ago. I blame Jimmy Hill *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* I'm impressed with how sad my life is that I remember this clearly;

 

Conversation. 32 years today, Blackburn drew 1-1 with Liverpool in the FA Cup. It's remembered for Jimmy Hill criticising a ball girl for giving the ball back to Liverpool too quickly before their last minute equaliser. Here's the remarkable story of Hill's comments that hit the front pages.5 Jan 2023

 

[No2]

Last I checked every team played the same amount of home games so had the same amount of advantages. Its not a huge issue but any changing of rules during the season is wrong. Some teams will have played more home games than others, so if its actually an advantage the league have allowed some clubs to benefit more than others. 

[Rushies tash]

Just now, No2 said:

Last I checked every team played the same amount of home games so had the same amount of advantages. Its not a huge issue but any changing of rules during the season is wrong. Some teams will have played more home games than others, so if its actually an advantage the league have allowed some clubs to benefit more than others. 

 

Well, especially if they don't appear to be enforcing the rules for some teams.

[an tha]

36 minutes ago, Scooby Dudek said:

They probably first looked at at an F.A. Cup game away at Blackburn many years ago. I blame Jimmy Hill *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* I'm impressed with how sad my life is that I remember this clearly;

 

Conversation. 32 years today, Blackburn drew 1-1 with Liverpool in the FA Cup. It's remembered for Jimmy Hill criticising a ball girl for giving the ball back to Liverpool too quickly before their last minute equaliser. Here's the remarkable story of Hill's comments that hit the front pages.5 Jan 2023

 

Total recall!

[Pidge]

10 hours ago, Fugitive said:

I’ve just seen this photo of Ben white and felt compelled to pop on and say Ben White is a massive cunt.

 

 

 

[an tha]

1 hour ago, manwiththestick said:

If that is not offside then neither was Luis Diaz on Sunday.

 

Certain teams are ruled under different scrutinies, nobody will convince me otherwise.

Would be interesting to see their lines for that.

 

I read it was cleared quickly too....

[Bruce Spanner]

Not gonna lie, got a lot of time for Ben White.

 

Very good at a job he hates, but pays insane money.

 

Turns up, does his job, fucks off out and bangs dim witted models in shit clubs/hotels/countries and doesn't give a second thought to his day job.