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mike23

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  1. You just have to laugh at how biased these cunts are. Propped up a godawful United team all last season and here we go again this year.
  2. It was comical how relieved the ref looked when he saw the flag was up for offside when the Chelsea player made a diving save to block Szoboszlai's cross in the last few minutes. For a moment he had a look of horror on his face when he thought he had no choice but to award the penalty.
  3. From watching the replays at the time, I gained the impression Alisson would have saved it had the Chelsea player caught it properly rather than completely scuffing it.
  4. I couldn't believe he just let them play on at that point. They ended up having possession for about 2 minutes straight as a direct result of it, too.
  5. That's one of the most frustrating things with VAR. Sometimes they review incidents in minute detail from various camera angles, other times they don't even seem to bother looking at it. I've no idea if it was a foul or not but it was definitely worth a second look. The game even stopped for an offside so they had the perfect opportunity to tell the ref to hang on for a minute.
  6. We were great up until the equalizer but seem to have just completely fallen apart since then. Hopefully some halftime adjustments can be made and we can react to whatever the issue was because otherwise this game is only going one way. There should be more chances for us at the other end. Mo hit the bar, had a goal ruled out, and there seemed to be numerous other opportunities where we just didn't make the most of the positions we were in. So far it's kinda been what probably most of us expected in that we look like we have plenty of goals in us but also look like we'll concede plenty. An experienced defensive midfielder needs to be brought in. I'm not sure a talented but very inexperienced kid like Lavia would be what we needed in games like this.
  7. If I was Brighton I'd add an extra couple of million to Chelsea's fee for every additional day they continue to fuck about over this without putting another actual bid in.
  8. Of course Manchester City have one of the lowest wage to income percentages in the league.
  9. It was inevitable they'd get their grubby cheating hands on it eventually. Inter did better than I expected but weren't good enough in possession and wasted the 2 golden opportunities they did create. As good as Inter were defensively, you'd really expect defenders to be doing everything to throw themselves in front of the shot for the goal. Two Inter defenders just stood there like dummies. I don't expect the media to constantly bring up all the charges they're facing, but it was genuinely distasteful how it wasn't mentioned once during the BT coverage and how the commentators instead spent the whole game talking of how this was the culmination of an organic journey built solely on great recruitment and hard work. The commentators can also get fucked just for comparing Ederson's save with Dudek's. City completing a treble seems like a fitting way to end this miserable season.
  10. Frustrating. Seems like half of Everton's goals since Dyche arrived have been 25 yarders that usually end up in the stands 99 times out of 100. Brighton want shooting for that 1-5 game the other week. Leicester never should have been in trouble with the squad they had. Maybe next year. At least this dreadful season is finally over. Let's never speak of it again.
  11. Leicester deserve to be relegated after that. They've been a shambles defensively recently so you can't blame them for focusing on being hard to break down, but at some point they had to go for it (and I don't just mean the last 2 minutes). You can't just rely on hoping Bournemouth can get something at Goodison.
  12. That BBC report, like a lot of other reports about the charges, ran with the narrative that their offences are purely historical. It obviously wouldn't be okay if that was all it was as it's won them titles in the past and the strength of their current squad is very much indebted to those offences, but I really don't like how it keeps being implied that they're now doing things legitimately. The only reason the charges only go up to 2018 is because they stopped complying with the investigation. They're still making up false sponsorships, making out that they bring in more now than every other club in world football, and the Haaland signing alone shows that they're not declaring what they're paying in wages accurately. Every other interested premier league club had to walk away from signing him because of the finances involved, and it wasn't because of the transfer fee - which still laughably gets brought up as an example of how efficiently run they are.
  13. To be fair, a lot of people said that about Bournemouth this year.
  14. A really frustrating watch. The first half was really poor and we couldn't really have any complaints about going in a goal down. The second half was a lot better, but for all the pressure it didn't seem like we created much at all. Every final pass seemed to be overhit. Trent's been great recently but his radar in particular seemed to be really off today. It seemed like we put a thousand crossed straight into their keeper's hands. Villa were well organized, everything seemed to drop their way in and around the box, and they were allowed to time waste to their heart's content all afternoon. Every big decision seemed to go their way. The penalty seemed soft and Mings could have easily been shown a red for that challenge on Gakpo. I found a stream with a great picture but no sound so I have no idea why the goal was disallowed or why the ref had to go to the monitor to make the decision if it was offside. I'd have fancied us to go on and win it had it stood but it just seemed like 1 of those days. The ref was utter shite in general and even without the big decisions it felt like 1 of those death by 1000 cuts games when he seemed to blow his whistle every time one of their players went down. At least we got an equalizer and even better Bobby got it. When 10 minutes went up on the board it felt like it was all set up to give him and Milner a fitting send off with a late winner, but for all the huffing and puffing in those final minutes it never really looked like coming. Top 4 is all but gone then. It probably would have been anyway with the way other results have gone since Thursday. Maybe winning our last 9 games would have counterproductive in convincing people at the club that major changes aren't needed after all. We need to have a great summer in the transfer market to avoid a repeat of this shitshow of a season.
  15. Frustrating watch so far. Lots of overhit through balls and overhit crosses straight into their keeper's hands. I really thought the missed penalty would lift us but instead we just carried on sleepwalking through the game until they scored. Mings should be off. I look forward to there being as much media coverage about this injustice as there was when Jota escaped a red card against Spurs the other week.
  16. That pass from the goalkeeper to a defender in the box who had a man on him has got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen on a football pitch.
  17. Beginning to dislike Brighton. Bad enough to produce such a shit performance the other week against Everton, but to do it again a week later when we needed a helping hand from them is just taking the piss now. No reason whatsoever to be leaving out some of their best players at this stage of the season. At the very least they should have been able to make this a really tough game for Newcastle, but instead Newcastle are just strolling to one of their easiest wins of the season.
  18. It felt like that Bournemouth game really impacted on the games after it as well. It just completely sucked away all the momentum from the United win and the mini run of improved results before that. No surprise we lost at City - getting anything there is tough even when we're good - but 2 points from the Chelsea and Arsenal games just weren't enough. The performance at Chelsea was absolutely dreadful, too - especially when you look at all their other recent games. It seemed to take Xhaka kicking off with Trent to finally prevent our players from just sleepwalking through the rest of the season. I think we're just going to fall a bit short even if we win the last 3 games. Newcastle just had too much of a lead and United's run-in is too easy. Swap Newcastle's and United's remaining fixtures and there might have been a real chance. As mediocre as United are, they've been good at home and in beating the bad teams this year.
  19. Fair play to Everton for their last 2 performances. No idea where they've come from as they barely looked to have a goal in them before that. It also must have been a major prematch confidence boost watching that shambolic Leicester display at Fulham earlier. No chance they're going down now. The other teams down there are looking so bad that I was starting to think 1 win might do it for them anyway. I didn't expect it to come today though. Maybe we can go through all this again next season. The hope is that with all their financial problems they remain as perennial strugglers and eventually run out of luck. Brighton just didn't look prepared for this game at all. Maybe all the fixtures have caught up with them or maybe it was sheer complacency after all the plaudits they've been receiving. I can only hope that they're so embarrassed after this today that they're extra fired up against Newcastle next week as we really need a favour from them in that game.
  20. Fairly similar to the Fulham game. Not great but we deserved the win. We didn't create that much but there were still big chances missed from Nunez and Gakpo (twice) that could have made things a lot easier. Other than the disallowed goal Brentford didn't create much. We did a good job defending set pieces against them. The ref was utter shit. Soft freekick after soft freekick for 90 minutes. And you just have to laugh that he booked Alisson for timewasting after the amount of shite some keepers have constantly got away with this season.
  21. Wasn't great but another win to keep our run going. It was infuriating how we just kept giving the ball away in the final minutes. Players trying fancy flicks and very low percentage shots instead of just keeping possession and eating up more time. Almost paid the price right at the end for it as well. It always feels like we have to give teams one more chance in the final few minutes when we're defending single goal leads. One of those games that will very quickly be forgotten.
  22. Much more enjoyable game than I was expecting. Plenty of effort from both teams but an embarrassing lack of quality at times - which I guess is why they're both down there to begin with. We keep thinking Leicester are better than they are because we're still thinking of them as the team from the last few seasons, but any team who are only above the drop zone on goal difference with 4 games to go are bound to have serious deficiencies. Vardy showed flashes of his old quality but it was clear that he's a player well past his best now. A case of what might have been with Maddison blowing the chance to probably put the game beyond Everton from the spot; on the other hand, however, Everton may well have won but for a string of top class saves from Iversen. Surely Brighton and City are too good to drop points against Everton, so we need some of the other teams to pull away from them during those fixtures. I think Everton will beat Bournemouth on the final day so that fixture at Wolves might be what determines whether or not they stay up.
  23. Dani van den Heuvel doesn't appear to have a solid physical form. I'd still give him a go over Meslier.
  24. Just been watching highlights of today's other games on YouTube. How many mistakes does Meslier have to make before Leeds drop him? It must feel like starting every game a goal down with him in goal as he seems to inevitably be at fault for at least 1 goal every single game. His confidence must be absolutely shot to bits by now. Even if the backup keeper isn't great it's hard to imagine they could do a worse job. Navas was terrible for Both Brentford goals yesterday as well and seems to have looked pretty iffy in general for them since he arrived. Stupid Everton enabling goalkeepers.
  25. Not really sure whether to be happy or annoyed after that. It was a game that probably mirrored how my thoughts keep fluctuating on our prospects for next season. We made the great start and I'm thinking just a few additions and we'll comfortably at least be back in the top 4 next year. Then we go from that to looking all over the place and I'm back on the half this team look finished train. At least it was funny how we won it. Such a Spursy way to lose a game. Any other team apart from maybe Everton and Jota puts that late chance the other side of the post. Poor Richarlison celebrates his equalizer like an absolute twat and then suffers instant karma. It doesn't excuse our performance, but Tierney was an absolute disgrace again. He gave the penalty but that was literally the only thing he did give us in the whole game. Constantly not giving blatant fouls from Spurs players and blowing up for perfectly good challenges from our players. Refs take the piss on a weekly basis in refusing to give Mo anything, but actually penalizing Mo for that late incident was alleviating the piss taking to a whole new level. Spurs got the freekick that led to their equalizer straight after that. Had it finished 3-3 it would have been all on Tierney. Klopp needs to call out that performance today because that ref should never be allowed near one of our games ever again, although we were all saying that last season too.
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