Other Football 2024/25

[Smell The Glove]

15 minutes ago, Gruntfuttock said:

Xabi loses from 2-0 up!

Good. Got a 100min winner last week, fuck all that again.

 

[Chocoholic]

3 hours ago, Mudface said:

The Everton match is pure eye AIDS, not even worth watching for shits and giggles.

Oh, but dear reader, it was, it very much was.

 

Except the giggles were replaced with many hearty and lengthy guffaws!

[Mudface]

7 minutes ago, Chocoholic said:

Oh, but dear reader, it was, it very much was.

 

Except the giggles were replaced with many hearty and lengthy guffaws!

 

Heh. Just watched the highlights, the first half is literally 15 seconds, just that Ndiaye shot.

[an tha]

Leverkusen loses increases the chaaanthes of Sir Harold The Lionheart of Kaneshire getting a winners medal, and that is not a good thing.

[No2]

Kudos is fucking brilliant.

[Bruce Spanner]

Fisrt on MOTD.

 

Lovely stuff.

[Binomial]

Probably not a good idea mate.

 

[Torvald Utne]

Joe Hart is a plum

[Trumo]

1 hour ago, No2 said:

Kudos is fucking brilliant.

 

High praise indeed.

[Binomial]

RIP Sol Bamba.

 

Didn't even know he was ill, 39 is no age. Literally only started his managerial career out in Turkey a few months ago.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

Can't make my mind up on Kudus.  

Seems more Origi than Mane. 

[polymerpunkah]

Napoli score twice late to beat Parma.

 

But only after Parma's keeper got a questionable red card after they'd used their subs.

 

Not the highest quality football, but non-stop entertainment.

 

 

[Razoray]

14 hours ago, Mudface said:

The Everton match is pure eye AIDS, not even worth watching for shits and giggles.

Didn't age well

[Anubis]

7 hours ago, Binomial said:

RIP Sol Bamba.

 

Didn't even know he was ill, 39 is no age. Literally only started his managerial career out in Turkey a few months ago.

Wow. That’s sad.

[Anubis]

Arsenal fans all over social media crying about Kavanagh. Strange that, after Anfield last season.

 

As usual, they’re missing the point. When the ref blows for a foul and free kick for the other team, if you do something to delay the process by kicking the ball away it’s a yellow. It doesn’t matter if the other player tried to take a quick free kick and the ball was moving, that can be dealt with by bringing it back. It’s the process, once the ref has blown, that you’re attempting to delay and which you’re given a yellow card for.

 

The second thing they’re struggling with is that Rice was not red carded for kicking the ball away, he was correctly given a yellow. It’s the fact it was his second yellow which was why the red card was issued.

[razor]

The BBC really tried to create a narrative to support Arteta by oddly showing the Brighton player kick the ball along the line after it had gone out.  It was a 3 second clip and it had no context at all.  Certainly not a "highlight" of the game.

 

They showed it for no reason at all other than to later use it to question poor Arsenal having the brave lionheart Declan O'Rice sent off by that CHEATING, CONIVING, DOUBLE-STANDARD APPLYING REF.

 

Arteta even pretended that Rice DIDN'T flick it away, and in fact the Brighton defender kicked it at him and it hit his leg.

 

It was so Arsenal.  Utterly embarrassing, and absolutely on point for that crying, cheating, snivelling, passive-aggressive phoney of a manager.  I absolutely detest him.

 

But 0/10 for the pundits on Match of the Day for saying nothing about this.  How have we got to this?

[Rushies tash]

I'm just glad that someone picked up on Arsenal's antics once they go a goal up. Hopefully this will continue, but I won't hold my breath.

[Elite]

Fagan is full of shit, stick to hiring pickpockets you dickhead.

[DaveT]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

Arsenal fans all over social media crying about Kavanagh. Strange that, after Anfield last season.

 

As usual, they’re missing the point. When the ref blows for a foul and free kick for the other team, if you do something to delay the process by kicking the ball away it’s a yellow. It doesn’t matter if the other player tried to take a quick free kick and the ball was moving, that can be dealt with by bringing it back. It’s the process, once the ref has blown, that you’re attempting to delay and which you’re given a yellow card for.

 

The second thing they’re struggling with is that Rice was not red carded for kicking the ball away, he was correctly given a yellow. It’s the fact it was his second yellow which was why the red card was issued.

Spot on. The ‘controversy’ is totally contrived. 

[Paulie Dangerously]

1 hour ago, razor said:

The BBC really tried to create a narrative to support Arteta by oddly showing the Brighton player kick the ball along the line after it had gone out.  It was a 3 second clip and it had no context at all.  Certainly not a "highlight" of the game.

 

They showed it for no reason at all other than to later use it to question poor Arsenal having the brave lionheart Declan O'Rice sent off by that CHEATING, CONIVING, DOUBLE-STANDARD APPLYING REF.

 

Arteta even pretended that Rice DIDN'T flick it away, and in fact the Brighton defender kicked it at him and it hit his leg.

 

It was so Arsenal.  Utterly embarrassing, and absolutely on point for that crying, cheating, snivelling, passive-aggressive phoney of a manager.  I absolutely detest him.

 

But 0/10 for the pundits on Match of the Day for saying nothing about this.  How have we got to this?

 

Guardiola used to be the Cry Baby in Chief of the Premier League but he's been absolutely usurped by his protégé Legohead. Have Arsenal ever been treated fairly under him? Has he ever been graceful? He's a horrible bastard. 

[Moo]

1 hour ago, razor said:

The BBC really tried to create a narrative to support Arteta by oddly showing the Brighton player kick the ball along the line after it had gone out.  It was a 3 second clip and it had no context at all.  Certainly not a "highlight" of the game.

 

They showed it for no reason at all other than to later use it to question poor Arsenal having the brave lionheart Declan O'Rice sent off by that CHEATING, CONIVING, DOUBLE-STANDARD APPLYING REF.

 

Arteta even pretended that Rice DIDN'T flick it away, and in fact the Brighton defender kicked it at him and it hit his leg.

 

It was so Arsenal.  Utterly embarrassing, and absolutely on point for that crying, cheating, snivelling, passive-aggressive phoney of a manager.  I absolutely detest him.

 

But 0/10 for the pundits on Match of the Day for saying nothing about this.  How have we got to this?

 

No sympathy for Arsenal at all, but what was the difference between the two incidents, other than one was a throw in and one was a free kick? Shouldn't they both have been yellow cards?

[Torvald Utne]

Just now, Moo said:

 

No sympathy for Arsenal at all, but what was the difference between the two incidents, other than one was a throw in and one was a free kick? Shouldn't they both have been yellow cards?

First incident could have been argued that he was trying to keep it in play, bullshit but not totally clear cut and it also didn't stop anyone from taking a quick set piece.  Rice kicked the ball away to stop a free kick being taken with a player there ready to kick it. 

 

The two incidents are not remotely comparable.

[joe_fishfish]

I reckon if that Rice second yellow had happened to us there would be uproar on here. Conspiracy theories flying round and everything. It’s a correct decision by the letter of the law but the ref has done Arsenal there, no question imo. You can’t even file it under “you’ve seen them given” because you absolutely haven’t.

[Chocoholic]

Arteta: Amazing! The Brighton player kicks my special boy and it's my special boy who's sent off?

 

With thinking and narrative like that, no wonder he's amazed.

[Creator Supreme]

12 hours ago, Binomial said:

RIP Sol Bamba.

 

Didn't even know he was ill, 39 is no age. Literally only started his managerial career out in Turkey a few months ago.

Reading more into it today it seems like he's had a recurrence of the Lymphoma he fought a few years back, and ultimately it's beaten him.

 

Very sad.