Tiresias

So many teams just a few points behind is not great, hope they start to drop away soon.

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Really should be further ahead

ffs shelvey

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how did he miss that :lol:

Every time I hear "The problem with zonal marking is..." I just cringe. It's lazy criticism. Lots of teams mark zonally and barely concede from set pieces. But one team does it and concedes and suddenly the whole system is s***. Yes, a zonal system can result in players not marking players. But you can't use a man system if you have a small team. For that matter, man marking systems can draw players out of position. So if a team doesn't use either system correctly there'll always be a free man in a penalty area. Personally I think there should be a mixture of the two, you put your best defenders on the biggest threats, then the rest mark zonally. Which is what most good teams do anyway. Indeed, you put players in the zones and then put your big men on their big men.

This, so many times this.

OMG ZONAL MARKING IS TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING

Sturridge is literally the worst, after that dives nearly throws away a decent opportunity being greedy

cunt is a cunt shocker

great header dickhead look at me celebration

Why would you pay for a ticket to see the mackems when they'll just give you one for free all the time?

He creates opportunities to score when he's on the pitch even though he can't shoot for shit himself, valuable and may be needed at times

I honestly can only remember one game where I thought he was any good, shocking how many managers he's tricked into thinking he's good enough to play for the first team, hope Rafa throws him in a pit for this performance and leaves him there.

Massimo Cellino dodgy? Surely not :lol:

embarrassing, Rafa has to reevaluate his tactics

May be worth mentioning this bit from this article (albeit the source is Joey Bartons book lol) https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/sep/27/sam-allardyce-arrogant-clot-england-manager

Wooooooo

Fifa defeats Racism and Allardyce defeats himself, what a week of footy already

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Stadium of Shite pretty much empty before the final goal anyway

What is it about hull and handballing it obviously

the second was a peak wengerball goal.