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Pathetic refereeing

I dont know why Pardew wants to kill the game by subing the most effective players today... We don't have any games for a week now....

Give the other players a run out when the game is buried?

Been mighty impressed with Santon today.

Should have scored that, like

Peeeeeeeeeerch

Oh god I want Perch to score.

Where's that oatcakejamie twat?

More appalling officiating.

not offside.

I know he won the ball but fuck me that was a horrible challenge.

It's raining cartilage after his knees exploded. 

Villa won't go down this year, but there's a serious chance they will next year with the same squad and manager, and I can't see Lerner affording much change to either. Wolves and Blackburn are gone, think it's Bolton, Wigan and QPR duking it out for the last spot. Unless somehow the Mackems got fined points, perhaps for having criminals in the team, or just for being Mackems.

Wish people would p*ss off with the "Ashley will sell anyone"

 

He sold Andy Carroll for 35 million and took time to replace him, but with one of the best finishers in the world. Also got Colo to stay, which noone thought he would. I'm a fan.

Double also, this summer transfer window will be the first one in which we are:

- in profit

- in Europe

So there's more of an impetus on him not to sell.

If I were an Everton fan I'd feel sick as. Best chance to beat their rivals to a cup final for decades, had the form and better side, gifted a goal and still lost.

Neesy is a mackem.

I think Carroll's had a great game, fair play to him.

Neesy is a mackem.

Dour game. Thought it might come to life after Liverpool scored but it's dull as.

Neesy is a mackem.

Their football is dire to watch and kind of rank but it's not some offence against sporting philosophy, ffs. It's a game plan, you're allowed to have one.

 

The big picture is that  in the area of player development we've fallen far behind the Germans, especially in the wake of Germany's self examination. A examination that was so far reaching, it stretched from the International 1st team to grassroots level, and inbetween. From top-to-bottom of the league great football is played in the Bundesliga, from a technical perspective.

 

The likes of Pulis & Allardyce are a stumbling block to the work put in at the grassroots level, and destroy the raw potential  produced in their relevant  catchment areas. For the country to bridge the current divide, clubs have to be on a similar page, re: employing a philosophy that is beneficial for domestic player development.  If clubs are relegated, amidst promoting managers who coach football which is actually educational, then the financial blow of relegation should be softened in the form of increased parachute payments (as a concrete policy). Clubs like Stoke, who simply get by and collect their slice of the TV  rights pie & are anti-thesis to the last point, should be whacked in the hip-pocket. Those  respective financial incentives (and disincentives)  will phase out this anti-football mentality, that has been  embraced by some managers and clubs who refuse to evolve. The Pulis' and Allardyces' of the domestic coaching scene (for the sake of the relevant player catchment areas) and the niche market they have created thanks to their survival-at-any-cost approach, have to be phased out of the game. 

 

Wouldn't mind England playing the way Stoke did if we won international tournaments.

Seriously, it's ugly but to call it a crime etc is ridiculous.

Also, I don't think they're nothing but the battering ram approach. Some of their players can play.

Their football is dire to watch and kind of rank but it's not some offence against sporting philosophy, ffs. It's a game plan, you're allowed to have one.

Honestly don't think so, Chelsea have enough poxy luck/bribing of officials to compensate for the fact they are past it and while Spurs are in the middle of a total collapse they're remaining games are hardly what anyone would call challenging and games I'd fully expect us to win most if not all of them while our last 3 games are not pretty

Wouldn't have called Norwich home a challenging game for them either.

Our last 3:

City are eminently beatable, especially not at the Etihad. By that point their season is totally and utterly over, a deflated club with fuck all left to play for who haven't functioned right for about 2 months.

Chelsea: absolutely not scared of them, they looked shit yesterday, were poor and lucky against Wigan. We can easily beat them.

Everton: don't think we'll win that one, they're on fire.

I actually think we'll do it.

In the last 450 minutes of football we've conceded just one goal - the calamitous mix up between Williamson and Krul at West Brom. Top stuff, that.

 

We've scored ten in the same period. Pards:

 

Very impressive indeed.

not that impressive, we haven't played anyone yet.

What about Liverp-

wait

To be fair to the Liverpool fans criticising it, I've seen Downing do it loads this year, so the magic has probably been somewhat devalued for them.

I think this is the best thing about him: the fact that you know that, at any moment, he can just do something undefendable and get you goal that the other team can do bollock all about.

20) The best stadium of light in the world

David Cameron's a Villan, isn't he?

Insert seething political joke here