LionOfGosforth

Benfica nearly ahead in 15 seconds

He does this after almost every defeat but tends to disappear when we've won and it's always a bad faith argument, with no intention of taking on anyone else's views.

Yes, I just meant when I saw it, it reminded me of that and then I searched for it and it's incredibly similar in the collision. Definitely worse in as much as he turns and uses his hip. Battiston had concussion, lost teeth and the ref gave a GK.

https://youtu.be/tGq7VcaHoqo?si=C0-T-zWssMH8hg9L Basically the same foul and one of the worst i've ever seen

Christ. That's horribly reminiscent of Schumacher on Battiston in the 82 World cup. Poor bloke lost teeth and all kinds and I think the ref played on as well. Not seen a challenge that bad since.

Can't mention them, doesn't fit the narrative

Good Christ, can we stop conceding early FFS just once

Think Speed scored the first, Shearer the second with a towering header and we nearly won it as well

Fair but "should have won a couple" in about the last 30 visits ain't great like . Lost count of the 0-3 beatings we had in the early 2000s. Still we did get a couple of draws, I remember us scoring twice in the last 10 to get a 2-2 one year so you never know.

Was at the last league win at Anfield, 2-0 in 93 and it was absolutely brilliant, but they were crap in that era and we were really building with KK. Still, haven't won here in the league since then, 32 fucking years. I mean I know for the majority of that time they've been better than us but it's like they never ever have an off day/night against us. You definitely can't fluke a result here, especially since they get every decision and seem to get as much time as they need to get a goal if they need one, so you have to be nigh-on perfect in every way.

Haven't seen anyone on here rate him at all @joeyt positively loathes him

Yuck, feel better

Fair comment, although I do think the Championship is pretty poor this year and worse than i've seen in the past. Your comment about Ipswich getting back-to-back promotions only serves to highlight there's virtually no gap between the 2 leagues at all so you've got essentially a league 1 side, with a few talented young players, trying to compete in the PL. It's no wonder they're getting obliterated most weeks. The bigger/wider problem, the gap between the leagues, means that promoted teams are almost exclusively going straight back down and that isn't to be celebrated generally, they're all going to end up like Norwich eventually, or worse. It only serves to exacerbate the status quo which we all like to complain about with regards to the big 6 or whatever. What the fix is, I have no idea since the spread of wealth and overall rules regarding spending vs revenue aren't going away.

Aye. Just in the past couple of weeks, Mackems have needed a last minute goal to draw at home to mid-table Watford and lost twice in 5 days this week, one of those to a team 4th bottom. Even if they somehow come up through the playoffs, what's the point? They'll end up with 15 points max. It's a wider problem in that the gap between the two leagues has never been bigger and it's only growing.

Competitive without a doubt, just so low on quality it's barely above league 1. Look at the game Birmingham gave us in the cup as compared the Mackems last year. Depends on what you want in a league but imo, the teams in contention to come up should be miles better than those in 15th or 16th and should be in a position to compete when promoted. As proven by the 3 that came up last year, the gap is ridiculous, a chasm.

"Is the title gone for Arsenal Robbie"

Seems mad looking back that he was an England mainstay for a fair bit. Bielsa had him at a crazy high level for a while, some mad scientist coaching

10 minutes added for Arteta's cowards to snatch something undeserved

Arsenal, fucking hopeless. Enjoyed that Bowen scored his goal right in front of Rice

To be fair, I have it on in the background while I work. As soon as I posted, I knew i'd made a goof, checked lineups again and tried to edit but too late, already noticed

Hasty edit

Brilliant goal from Kulu like

4-1 Spuds

Ref being a cunt to Ipswich

I know you quick on the trigger bugger, couldn't edit fast enough. Shows how much attention i'm actually paying