Football The 2016/2017 Season Thread

[Moriath]

The monaco defence seem to have caught the disease

 

[Shagrat]

what an outstanding game at the Etihad tonight, had a bit of everything.

 

[caLLous]

Ranieri gone. Weird timing. It's always dangerous when the owner says he fully supports the manager and then he keeps losing.

 

[Moriath]

Ranieri gone. Weird timing. It's always dangerous when the owner says he fully supports the manager and then he keeps losing.

Well i guess he has three weeks before the next leg of the champ league

 

[Moriath]

Spuds self destructing.

 

[Raven]

Would be awkward if they got knocked out by the mighty FC Gent.

 

[CorNokZ]

45 minutes to go and we've made club history

No jinx

 

[CorNokZ]

Ranieri has been sacked..

GG mate

 

[Raven]

Ranieri has been sacked..

GG mate

Stupid decision.

 

[Raven]

Also, I thought Alli had removed cunt from his CV?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIzKECGa9b4


wtf was he doing?

 

[Raven]

They just need to work on finishing behind Arsenal and their season is complete.

 

[CorNokZ]

Final 16, baby!!!

 

[Raven]

 

[Hawkwind]

So watched the Chelski v Swansea game on Bein Sports and at one point the commentator (EPL broadcast) says, "The last time Swansea won at stamford bridge TV had not been invented and Margaret Thatcher was PM!"

Where the hell do they get these people?

 

[Shagrat]

Feel so sorry for Southampton. Deserved to win today

 

[caLLous]

Well they certainly deserved to draw and take it to extra time, what with that blatantly onside first goal.

 

[Raven]

Kante (or lack thereof) is why Leicester are shit now, an absolute beast, Chelsea robbed Leicester.

 

[Moriath]

Kante (or lack thereof) is why Leicester are shit now, an absolute beast, Chelsea robbed Leicester.

Its more than just one man tbh

 

[Scouse]

What's that Scouse? Slippery slope? You're so fucking retarded. Don't be stupid. They'll introduce it for goals and that's that.

 

[DaGaffer]

What's that Scouse? Slippery slope? You're so fucking retarded. Don't be stupid. They'll introduce it for goals and that's that.

Don't care.

 

[Scouse]

Don't care.

You will when they hold up play for every fucking offside decision

 

[caLLous]

So give each team a number of challenges, like in the tennis. If the challenge is successful, they don't lose one, if it isn't, they do. When they run out of challenges then tough luck. The only difficulty comes when deciding what to do if the challenge is successful (whichever way it might be). You can't just replay the point like in tennis and it's not exactly the other team's fault that the officials got it wrong so it wouldn't be a free kick. I guess more drop ball situations would arise.

The broadcasters have replays of offsides up within seconds. What happened yesterday was an injustice and wouldn't have stood in a system with verification. Puel had every right to be furious with the officials. Such a poor decision has more than potentially cost them silverware.

 

[Scouse]

Soulless.

 

[DaGaffer]

Soulless.

How is having to live with an injustice "soulless"? Only someone genetically predisposed to feeling sorry for themselves would say that. Or in other words, anyone born within the postcodes L1-L34.

 

[Raven]

A pretty simple solution would be a slight change in the rules where a if a players feet are offside then it counts as off side, then stick a sensor in their boots. If a player is offside then something on the wristband on the lino could light up or something.

Lots of things like that can be tracked by computer rather than relying on the ever shitter refs and linesman.

 

[Scouse]

I made the argument before - the fact that football is gloriously messy and, ultimately, human is what makes it great.


I don't really get why you made your jibe tho @DaGaffer - makes no sense. It's the above argument I'm interested in.

Edit:
It's not just about what happens on the pitch, but off it too - and the messyness is what makes the off-pitch stuff all the more interesting and fun. We've all been on the wrong end of decisions. "Hand of God" and all that. But I wouldn't wish that had never happened. It's part of why it's the beautiful game.

Beauty <> 100% technically correct

 

[Scouse]

Lollerpool losing. I wonder if they thought "quick! Sack him! Scousers next and they're proper fuck-ups!"

 

[Raven]

lol at Liverpool.

Klopp out!

 

[Moriath]

Just turned it on. 45 mins yet but omg the score line lol

 

[Shagrat]

so where the fuck was this Leicester performance over the last few weeks...