ben48

8 hours ago, gkmacca said:

On a positive note, some of the things Thiago did were just breathtaking. Just a slight adjustment of his feet, not touching the ball at all, and an opponent stumbled past him. He needs someone else to be doing a lot of the dirty work he was obliged to do last night, but he's one of those players, like Molby, who seems at times to have an extra few seconds to make his decisions. It's just a treat to watch him play for us.

Spot on mate

We’ll played lads, against a very good side.

2 hours ago, Gnasher said:

How do you think that the young will get on at the next election given this photo I.d.thing, won’t it cancel out many of them from voting, if so then that’s so called democracy gone..

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-election-results-biggest-youth-turnout-in-25-years-government-prime-minister-ipsos-mori-a7798866.html

I see this afternoon that Abramovich is supposed to be in a team brokering peace in Ukraine. I’ve heard it all now, !

Has the crowd gone home, give them some support for fucks sake.

Macca and his idiot mate Darke, are doing my fucking head in, got to watch with the sound off, again!!

I see that Southgate is using the old genius England tactic, last used with the famed Mick Mills, of playing a left back who can’t kick with his left foot!

13 hours ago, ben48 said:

You watch these Sky twats now, “ this proves that the prem is the best league in the world” whist conveniently forgetting the millions spent, and the fact that the Allardice clones plotting next season’s campaign with 37 draws I win to keep them in the league, park the bus and destroy football.

There you go Carragher in the Daily Star “ Barca and Real are desperate for the super league because they are afraid of what the Prem has to offer,”  yeah Burnley on a Wednesday night, and the ball coming back down with snow on it. 

You watch these Sky twats now, “ this proves that the prem is the best league in the world” whist conveniently forgetting the millions spent, and the fact that the Allardice clones plotting next season’s campaign with 37 draws I win to keep them in the league, park the bus and destroy football.

Kante being everything that we hoped Kieta would be.

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Another vote for the 'no sound' watching of the match. I also have been doing it for yonks and have noticed how a lot of after match 'headlines' tend to focus more on the pundits reactions rather than the game itself.

Yes mate, sky have turned it into a soap opera. Remember when the big thing was ,would Suarez shake hands or not, or the feud between Wenger and Mourinho, it’s a fucking joke and now Neville and his cohorts have taken themselves to be the voice of the game when, in actual fact the Prem league is in the most part fucking garbage.

2 hours ago, Butch said:

I always turn down the sound especially when it's sky. Talking bollocks. 

Same here mate, I’ve done it for ages, can’t stand any of it. Especially this sky garbage.

This game is just like the game earlier, and the game earlier, one team of half decent players trying to pass their way through an eleven man defence, the game as the one earlier totally fucked up by an incompetent referee and two idiots talking about the wonderful sky spectacle, it’s all fucking mundane garbage.

34 minutes ago, Elite said:

I like Souness bit he's just Sky shilling here. Embarrassing.

This,

Just now, dockers_strike said:

Haha, daft cunts in football calling for an 'independent' regulator for English football. So that would knock the Saudi take over of Newcastle out the stadium then!

 

I cant wait for the day when we're all a Burnley, Fulham and West Brom, the lowest common denominator in football.

Spot on mate, fucking hell something has to happen , this so called best league in the world is utter garbage, sky started it and now that the chalice has been taken out of their hands they use the idiot Neville to plead their case. I just want to see good football, played between sides that attack and want to win. I am sick of pundits applauding Fat Sam and his defiant rearguard tactics , now they are all at it. Twenty two overpaid one footed wonders , run like fuck for two hours and play a square ball ten feet( if they on their good foot) , if this means that I can go and see top class skilled players, trying to win with top officials running the game then I all for it , because as it is it’s fucked!

Fuckin Shearer on the news just now, thick as two short planks!

1 minute ago, an tha said:

A monster in middle of park.

 

Leave him there.

 

Get some proper centre half cover in summer and never pull the lad out of the midfield again.

Yep, monster ,great performance tonight, also he allowed Thiago and Widj to play.

1 minute ago, LFC 6 Times said:

That was boss, Fabinho in midfield and Jota up front was just worlds apart from what we’ve been seeing of late.

 

Phillips was superb, really should be proud of what he’s done in a red shirt, hasn’t put a foot wrong. I never want to see hendo or fab at the back again, it’s been our undoing this year, you just lose too much elsewhere. 
 

You get VVD & Gomez in behind Fab we’re laughing again.

 

Well done reds and well done Jurgen.

This, I thought that the midfield of Widj, Fab and Thiago were superb, and it was nice to see Mane and Robbo playing together again, special mention to the two lads at the back, well done.

10 minutes ago, Crazy Dave said:

I’ve started to notice that too. He turns and passes the ball backwards from the edge of our box all the time now. In fairness, he’s looking up and seeing about one red shirt in the box surrounded by 5 defenders normally. Our midfield is scared to get into the box, probably because the defense is so high behind them and they’re worried about being turned around. 
 

He also just looks completely burnt out. 

The thing that I’ve noticed is that Mane isn’t there to help him out anymore, he’s playing in some inside position. The two of them working together on the wing was one of our great successes 

I thought that things changed when Fabinho came on and played in his natural position, Fulham couldn’t get out of their own half. To win games you have to control the midfield. For fucks sake play the lad in his correct position and keep the pressure on the opponent, chances will come, if we don’t take them then that’s another matter.

The only thing for me was the arrival of Fabinho in midfield, we looked a different team, Fulham couldn’t get out of their own half. Never play that man as centre back again, what a waste. Kenny said that you have to earn the right to play football I.e you have to control midfield. When Fab came on we looked a different team.The most frustrating thing is if they had bought a half decent centre back in January then we still could have been fighting for the league, but to take your two best midfielders and push them as emergency centre backs, and give up on midfield is suicidal.

And it’s the “same old song”.

3 minutes ago, The Guest said:

We need to fundamentally change the way we play.  We don’t create chances anymore because we just continually do the same thing and it just no longer works.  We watch the same game every single week.  Everything is so predictable.  The quality of opposition literally just doesn’t matter because it’s so easy to play against us.  Van Dijk and the other centre backs coming back isn’t going to change it.  We just don’t get to the byline and that’s the bottom line for me.  We can’t break sides down anymore with cute bits of passing and dribbling around the box.  It just doesn’t work.

This!

Well I have to agree with all the posts on this thread, and I have to say that after 60 years of supporting the lads and watching top class football I have now given up on it. I watched the European cup game last week and really enjoyed it, good football ran by competent officials. I have finished with the premier league, full of 6 foot twelve one footed wonders, and totally incompetent referees who seem to think that they are the stars of the show. Managers who delight in killing the game with so called pundits who support them. I feel sorry for Jurgen, a good man and a sportsman, who thought that others in the league believed in the same values. You don’t stay at the top of the English league by being a sportsman, you do it by being a cheat (Ferguson and others ), it’s football by numbers now, no individual skill, no characters, just pass the ball to death until you lose it, with eleven defenders in their  own penalty box it’s a job to know what to do, but I know that it’s shit. I started turning the tv on a minute before kick off because I couldn’t stand the sky soap opera. Then watching it with the sound off because of the relentless garbage coming out and it was only then with no sound, atmosphere or anything that I could see how bad this English league is. Best league in the world my ass, and they can stick it

I just feel sorry for Jurgen and the lads, they outplayed Leicester today only to be robbed, the first two goals should have been disallowed, the third wouldn’t have happened if we weren’t chasing the game, I’m finished with it now.