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Nah, the Gosling save was really good, it's not just a simple spread of the body, there's a little movement towards the ball with his leg. The thunderbastard that he tipped over was a good save as was recovering from Mbemba's fuck up. Also that diving catch of the weird high cross that got caught by the wind. You could tell he pulled that shit out of his ass but it was a nifty NFL catch and the striker was there to pounce if he had let it bounce. Thought that was one of his more key plays just based on how weird the situation was and how unusual that type of catch is in soccer. Mostly routine saves but you still have to make them, thought he's done very well in this game and against Stoke really. Maybe becoming third choice has fired him up a bit.

This is too fucking true, Josh Koscheck once faked injury in a UFC fight when a guy -almost- hit him with an illegal knee strike. iirc he won by disqualification too. So if you can flop your way to victory in a fucking cage fight.... Basically I'm against flopping except when it helps our team and we win.

Man this is one of my huge pet hates, people over here bag on soccer constantly about diving but it is easily as bad or even worse in the nba. Just a matter of reputation. Annoying as fuck in both sports, but there is no way I'm going to disparage our best player becauase he is shrewd enough to utilize a bit of run of the mill gamesmanship. Furthermore, I've no idea where people have got the idea that he dives or feigns injury regularly, I think nine times out of ten he eats shit because he is a nine pound Spaniard in a league where they don't call fouls committed against shit teams like ours. Finally, he scored a great goal today and you can fuck right off if you think shooting early, hard, and low is a poor finish. That's how you beat every keeper is low, and Ayoze's poise on that shot with three defenders in arm's reach was fantastic. So give the kid a break if he went down easy when Henry David Whats-His-Fuck gave him his first cauliflower ear, he's the only one on the team that managed a shot on target, and he scored the fucking goal that got us out of the relegation zone. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go finish my Freedom Fries.

I tried to forget as much as possible about the derby

Yup, don't understand this at all. Maybe it's because I'm American, and soccer is synonymous with pussies and diving so I don't have any expectations that it will be played in some bizarre "manfully british" fashion.

Last few certainly haven't been great.

Sigh. That was supposed to quote the guy talking about diving of course. Probably like thirty pages ago now. Mobile posting is tricky.

See also: catchers "framing" the ball in baseball. Basically fooling the umpire into thinking the pitch was a strike. Catchers are scouted in part for their framing ability, which would be the same as buying a striker because he's good at diving. Fucking shambles and the mlb needs a video strikezone almost as badly as the epl needs a challenge system.

Other than being down to our third-string goalkeeper I suppose. But what the fuck, I actually feel pretty good about this one. Time to stamp on their filthy mackem necks and heave ourselves out of the drop zone.

At this point I'll fucking take it.

Losing this one. Norwich are pretty decent and Blob Elliot in goal means we're fucked.

Dempsey was horrible, worse than Cisse and needed to come off at half time. Altidore has always been awful and if those two start again Jurgen is retarded. Bobby fucking Wood plz.

Love this guy, we need a bit of give-a-fuck in the squad desperately these days.

It's from Marca, I just located the original article. http://www.marca.com/2015/10/03/futbol/futbol_internacional/premier_league/1443862081.html Looks to me there's nothing in it. "Pochettino was interested. I was flattered by it, it didn't happen because NUFC thought I was too important". Other highlights of the interview: - Was disappointed to not play more at the beginning of the season, but he understands there was a lot of new people and a new manager, and he feels his hard work is being rewarded now. - Gets along very well with Mitrovic on and off the pitch. Feels their playing styles mix up very well. - He feels most comfortable playing as second striker. - Wants to improve his defensive game (the way he says it makes me think he's been instructed to do so) Thanks dude

I turned the game on (no way in hell I'm setting my alarm when we're this shit) just as they were celebrating their second. nice to know i don't have to watch the rest now. And did he really start gouffran in the middle and our two CENTRAL MIDFIELDERS on the wings???

Mbabu made that position his own on saturday imo, would be dissappointed if he lost it again so quickly.

Very frustrating that the only games we have a chance of winning this season are the ones not shown on television.

so is this another one where they don't even have cameras at the stadium or what?

f*** off man. He can't pass 5 yards. He's shockingly bad, runs in constant straight lines and has absolutely no awareness, first touch or class No He's been a part of the best play we've seen over the last couple of years and, on his day, is a real force. He's not s*** in any way, shape or form and to suggest he is is pure, unadulterated hyperbole. We've not had a "best play" in last 2 years. We have been garbage. He is supposed to be a centre mid and can't dominate at all despite his size and pace. He might win 100 metres but can't play football If he could make a tackle he'd be a monster. But he can't.

Thought he sucked today. Had one good moment in 90 minutes.

He is shit on the wing, good through the middle (Sissoko). The problem is we've bought like 4 players who are only good through the middle lately... Can we play a 4-2-1-1-1-1-1? Anyway, Perez up top is not ideal, but it's the only option until Mitro comes back. (Though I kind of like the idea of taking a shot a SDJ up top and Ayoze in behind).

I think our U23 team and women's team are actually better than our first team at this point.

Put the game on this morning, and as soon as I saw it was Andre Marriner I told my lady: "Whelp, we're fucked." He fucks us over every single time man. After the red card I just said fuck it, turned it off and came here to check the score. Amazed we only lost by one. Also as a side note, the yellow on Moussa was disgusting... Arsenal poofter goes down, looks up to check the ref, sees the ref is not going for his pocket, and then starts rolling around and screaming in agony until he changes his mind and the card comes out.

Hahaha fuck man you weren't kidding about that commentator sounding like he's broadcasting from the fucking moon