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That and at least international football has a soul.

I mean, it’s an Everton forum, what on earth did you expect?

Cheers, was waiting for them to replay the fucker.

When I lived in Scotland 15 or so years ago I watched more SPL football than I ever had up to that point, and it seemed incredible what other sides got away with against Celtic or Rangers. Particularly if they were at home, the underdogs seemed to have license to kick anything that moved.

BBC text talking about that time all the refs got together to decide to penalize Crouch for being tall. God that made me so angry.

Lest we forget, taking the knee was started by one fucking guy.

Right, finally got a bit of a break from work and can start planning this shit. Anyone know what’s the broadcasting situation in the US? Anyone got exclusive rights?

Yeah, I loved the Kappa shirts. Nearly put my purple Spurs one down as impressive, but now the main impressive thing about it would be my gut.

Way back in the early/mid-80s when it was tough to get obscure/foreign shirts me and my Uncle took a train to a shop in Letchworth that used to do them. Got Adidas Boca and River Plate shirts. Still have them hanging in the closet - both sponsored by Fate O.

Uh huh. Hard to imagine a universe where Rafa goes to a team where things are not good off the pitch and there’s not going to be loads of money available.

So glad I’ve been weaning myself off football because that’s precisely the sort of shit I’d get pissed off about. Not really giving a toss any more is rather liberating. I recommend it.

We were terribly ponderous going forward in the second half against a desperately mediocre team. You’d want us to be able to maintain pressure on a team like that, probing for opportunities - someone like Grealish might have made a difference and taken the game by the scruff. On the other side of the coin, that centreback pairing just makes me so nervous. I did think that Walker looked pretty classy at RB. It’s all so very mundane, although when you look at other results it’s hard to get too worked up.

I mean, they’ve had one shot on target, which we gave to them. The game should have been over before they scored tbh.

You voted 0 in the Relegationometer?

Cracking goal by Northern Ireland.

I feel so out of touch with England. Every time I’ve seen Rice in the past he’s looked mediocre. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

I’m keeping football at arm’s length, but wanted to share this. My wife’s a Villa fan. We met in Birmingham the night before the New Year’s Day match 2008 (Spurs lost). Spurs lost the next match too, while we were engaged and preparing to move to the US. We got married in Jan 2009. Since then, Spurs’ record against Villa in all competitions is P20, W16, D3, L1. I’m almost sorry for her. Almost.

They were both first team full backs for almost all of their time here? Presume he wanted them to stay for longer.

It does seem bizarre that after the recent awful run you’re still two points clear of the relegation zone with a game in hand. You’ve not been in the bottom three all year - is that right?

Yup, thought he looked great tbh. I still get a twinge of sadness every time this thread is bumped, mind.

All right, here's a Spurs one: GK; Pat Jennings - N. Ireland RB; Stephen Carr - Ireland CB; Richard Gough - Scotland CB; Toby Alderweireld - Belgium LB; Gareth Bale - Wales RM; Son Heung-Min - Korea CM; Ossie Ardiles - Argentina CM; Luka Modric - Croatia LM; David Ginola - France ST; Dimitar Berbatov - Bulgaria ST; Jurgen Klinsmann - Germany Sub1; Erik Thorstvedt - Norway Sub2; Hoddle/Waddle/Gazza/Kane/King/Campbell/whoever Sub3; Christian Eriksen - Denmark Sub4; Rafael Van Der Vaart - Netherlands Sub5; Gylfi Sigurdsson - Iceland Sub6; Sergio Reguilon - Spain Sub7; Adebayor (Togo)/BAE (Cameroon)/Palacios (Honduras) Tough to choose one Frenchman. Went for Ginola, but you could put Lloris in, push Bale to LW, and have Reguilon/BAE behind him.

I mean, Man U would have had two penalties for that.

That is a really weird decision not to give a penalty. VAR is a thing in this, right?

Barca, PSG, Real etc etc.

Fantasy Football? Ha nope, not interested enough to do it this season. I just think Mahrez is class, love watching him. Yeah, likewise on the FF. I almost want this Super League thing to happen so I can just completely fuck football off for good.