TheBrownBottle

Christ will someone tell our lot to stop arsing about in dangerous positions?

It’s because the ball doesn’t even hit his arm. It’s bounced off his lower thigh / knee

Re the Willock chance - if he tries to put that far stick there’s a really good chance that the defender‘s blocks the shot. He scuffs it a bit because he’ll have needed to change the direction of the shot when he realises the defender is likely to block it.

Shearer gannin mental with Dermot Gallagher here on the international feed re the pen. It’s not a pen mind but watching Shearer gan crackers is great

Professional performance that by Arsenal. Pope kept us in that at the death. We’ve played well - the only big issue is that we keep making some daft errors in possession. I’m not convinced re Isak on the left. Just feels like a complete waste - he has to come so deep to receive the ball due to Burn being a bit unsure how to play as an attacking LB and Joelinton isn’t at his best on the right of midfield. Still well in this though, plenty of time yet to get back in it. HTL

The lad only started his first game in professional football mid-December in a league so utterly shite its hard to describe adequately - seriously, the standard here is poor; I spent the other night 'braving' late Autumn conditions to see Western Wanderers getting beat by Sydney FC in the local derby (canny atmosphere, bit of argy bargy - but not the highest standard of football). I'm still lost as to what exactly was expected; he couldn't get a start in a poor league in his native country, yet somehow there is an expectation he can get a game at a higher level? He made an excellent cameo in a pre-season friendly vs Barcelona, and came off the bench a couple of times for a mediocre side at the WC. Make no mistake about it; the SPL is a big step up from the A League. And the PL is a massive step up from that. The lad should have either trained with NUFC or went on loan at a much, much lower level than he finds himself. I feel desperately sorry for him, he's been let down by our loan team - I refuse to blame Hearts, who may not have realised how raw the lad is until he rocked up to training, for anything other than for not doing their homework. They're under no obligation to play someone who isn't ready. NUFC should be hesitant re sending players out there again, though.

European football half & half scarves - the acceptable face of the half & half scarf

Gotcha - I take it that was from sides having to play each other?

Villa's loss yesterday guaranteed 7th place. A win today guarantees 6th (actually a point pretty much guarantees it barring a 27-goal swing in Spurs's final three games). Following Man City's win, we can no longer win the title. This is the way I've always viewed it - each position just closes off at this time of the season. I'll admit that the stress of this is lost on me - we don't even need to hit top form, just average form. If we're a point ahead of Liverpool and Man Utd on the final weekend, then and only then will I feel any stress. Edit: beat Arsenal today - a tough but hardly unlikely outcome (we're marginal favourites with the bookies, or at least we were this morning) and win our game in hand and we'd be closer to 2nd than to 5th. Nee stress lads and lasses.

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Don’t always watch these vids but that was a canny one. Also, while I was aware of Arsenal’s recent results, it is stark that they’ve conceded nine in the last five - given our attack at the moment, there’s goals there for us. They’re bloody good going forwards too, mind. I think there is a good chance we win this, but I’m going for a 2-2

Yep, it definitely is - the tickets are non-transferable. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (1994) is what they’ll cite for convictions. How likely you are to be prosecuted is another matter, like. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/166/enacted#:~:text=166Sale of tickets by,business%2C in any other place.

Women like Warnock should fuck off back to women’s football is what I have to say about that

Can’t be arsed to look it up, maybe someone knows the answer to this: The game is in injury time, and the ref misses a penalty call. VAR is reviewing it, and spots that there should be a pen - but the ball doesn’t go out of play at any point and the ref blows the final whistle. Can the final whistle be cancelled to go back and review the VAR?

It would sum this game up if Brighton’s pen is hammered into the top corner and De Gea still saves it

Christ, that interview. You’d need to be a qualified psychologist to know if there is something wrong him, but I think any bouncer would be turning him away from their bar if they asked him how many libations he’d had.

Count me not in on the unanimity. It always looked like a daft move to me.

I think Fat Sam will earn everything he gets in keeping a club - who are out of the relegation zone - out of the relegation zone. It would be miraculous I reckon.

They don’t have to do us any favours nor Kuol - they have a responsibility to do what’s best for their club. They’ve judged that he’s not good enough at present to play. That doesn’t mean that they signed him with that expectation - they see the lad in training every day.

What a proper head of players loans would ask of a potential loanee’s club: Is it in a suitable location for the player in question? What’s their training ground and facilities like? What is the current atmosphere like around the club & on a match day? What’s their manager’s personality? How secure is his job? What’s his footballing philosophy? Does he blood youngsters? Does he have a track record of doing that successfully? Which players play in the player’s position and how likely is our youngster to get ahead of them? What is the standard of the league they’re in? Have they given assurances on game time? Shola’s questions: Is their ground less than two hours drive back yerm? … and that’s it.

Closer to 25 years than 30 They are unarguably a big club now. But they never managed this under their own steam - Harding & later Abramovich’s money was needed. PS for anyone too young to remember mediocre Chelsea - everyone ALWAYS hated them, even when they were London’s fourth club. Combat 18, the headhunters, the shed. Cunts, all of them.

No-one does with FFP Emery will have wanted the guy, and English clubs will now offer a lot more money to DoF positions than even the continent's biggest clubs.

Three of those Chelsea trophies came in a two year spell - four in a four year spell - at the end of the century. For the vast, vast majority of football history Leeds and Man City were bigger clubs than Chelsea. Chelsea were just another London club until the late 90s - Arsenal and Spurs were the big London clubs. Plenty of us saw West Ham as London's third club

Kinnear’s Wimbledon were definitely second best London team when we came back under Keegan - I think they finished 6th from memory

Ugly football and Leeds goes hand-in-glove to me - but what a comedown from Bielsa-ball