Football The 2020/2021 Season Thread

[Raven]

Would have gone to VAR in the prem!


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[Scouse]

We always had problems with stuff getting allowed/disallowed that should/shouldn't be.

We've given up too much to not-actually-fix that.

 

[Aoami]

Didn't think I could dislikes Liverpools fanbase more, then I saw this on Twitter today. Liverpool are like the One Direction of English football.

 

[Scouse]

Didn't think I could dislikes Liverpools fanbase more, then I saw this on Twitter today. Liverpool are like the One Direction of English football.

Awwww.

You don't like shanks, paisley n klopp?

I always liked Paisley saying he wouldn't drink after his european cup triumph because he wanted to remember it.

I think Paisley's the man, tbpfh. Everyone else needs to try to emulate him

 

[Scouse]

Reluctant hero: How Bob Paisley began a revolution

Forty years on from Bob Paisley's first game as Liverpool boss, BBC Sport looks back at the career of one of the game's greats.

www.bbc.co.uk

[I'm] only looking after the shop until a proper manager arrives

"In his nine seasons in charge, Paisley won six league titles, three European Cups, three League Cups, a Uefa Cup, Super Cup and three Charity Shields"


Maybe you can forgive a bit of idolatary from fanatics - we're not all like that

 

[caLLous]

Arsenal are properly shit, though.

 

[Aoami]

Awwww.

You don't like shanks, paisley n klopp?

I always liked Paisley saying he wouldn't drink after his european cup triumph because he wanted to remember it.

I think Paisley's the man, tbpfh. Everyone else needs to try to emulate him

They're all great managers, but these shit photoshops that only Liverpool fans do are just so... i don't know what word im looking for here... sad maybe?

 

[Raven]

They're all great managers, but these shit photoshops that only Liverpool fans do are just so... i don't know what word im looking for here... sad maybe?

oh dear god, no. That really is a horrible picture.

 

[Scouse]

but these shit photoshops that only Liverpool fans do

Rofl.

Yeah. Only Lollerpool

 

[Aoami]

i spend about 90% of my sad little life ingesting football content, and yes, i dont see this shite from anyone else. Happy to be proved wrong though!

 

[Gwadien]

i spend about 90% of my sad little life ingesting football content, and yes, i dont see this shite from anyone else. Happy to be proved wrong though!

Leicester fans are a pretty good par on the cringe factor.

Leicester was struggling to fill its stadium before King Power took over, now they're all super loyal fans and have stopped supporting Man U.

Liverpool fans (as in actual Scousers) are pretty loyal tbf to them.

 

[Aoami]

Leicester fans are a pretty good par on the cringe factor.

Leicester was struggling to fill its stadium before King Power took over, now they're all super loyal fans and have stopped supporting Man U.

Liverpool fans (as in actual Scousers) are pretty loyal tbf to them.

Don't get me wrong, I 100% agree that other fan bases are cringe (American Barca fans probably the number 1 at the moment), but I don't see things like the two photoshops I posted above from other fanbases.

 

[Gwadien]

Don't get me wrong, I 100% agree that other fan bases are cringe (American Barca fans probably the number 1 at the moment), but I don't see things like the two photoshops I posted above from other fanbases.

I think that's because they're Scousers, and I'm sure our resident Scouser would agree with that.

My grandad were a scouser too, so ain't racist!

 

[Raven]

My step dad thinks he is a scouser but he is from the Wirral. He is a bit of a cock though.

 

[Jupitus]

Do Leeds fans have a particular rep? I guess thugs is one people would go for... just wondering what traits I need to learn to fit in with modern premiership discussions

 

[Scouse]

My step dad thinks he is a scouser but he is from the Wirral. He is a bit of a cock though.

That's the sort of wanker localism humans get hung on.

I bet the conversation between two mates in a pub went "you can't be a proper scouser because you live on the waterfront in birkenhead - wrong side of the water" "oh fuck off - I can hit the liver building with a tennis ball" "nyah nyah, not a real scouser" ... and it stuck, because it's funny.

Then some donkeys like @Job would have started taking it seriously and start trying to enforce 'who's a real scouser' police.

The rest of the country, meanwhile, doesn't give a fuck because if you walk like a duck and quack like a duck, well...

 

[Gwadien]

Do Leeds fans have a particular rep? I guess thugs is one people would go for... just wondering what traits I need to learn to fit in with modern premiership discussions

Probably the worst rep.

 

[Scouse]

Do Leeds fans have a particular rep? I guess thugs is one people would go for... just wondering what traits I need to learn to fit in with modern premiership discussions

Only in people who like to pigeonhole tbh.

Every visit to different football stadia for me has just been a celebration of different coloured shirts and singing of different lyrics to the same actual tunes

 

[Jupitus]

Probably the worst rep.

You can't provide any more details, they're just cunts?

 

[caLLous]

 

[Aoami]

Do Leeds fans have a particular rep? I guess thugs is one people would go for... just wondering what traits I need to learn to fit in with modern premiership discussions

The Leeds fans I come across on the internet are generally a wildly optimistic bunch, just delighted to be back where they belong! In real life, mixed bag. I've seen us play Leeds a couple of times when we were in the champo, and never seen any problems. A mate of mine though is Indian, Spurs Fan, and said he got a lot of racial abuse when they came to WHL for a cup tie a few years ago. So i'd try and bunch yourself in with the latter!

 

[DaGaffer]

I spent a lot of my formative years going to Leeds matches because they were the only First Division club within an hour's train ride. "Football's Nasty Leeds" reputation was deserved, both on and off the pitch. These days? Meh, no worse than anywhere else, but apart from Manchester I don't really like going anywhere up north any more, its all a bit depressing. It actually is grim up north now.

 

[Aoami]

Yikes Jannick, what a header!

 

[Aoami]

Perfect example of VAR not being used properly there, even though it benefitted my team. That was a tight enough call to just stick with the refs decision, not need to go to VAR.

 

[Raven]

The final decision was correct though and he wasn't sure, so he checked.

 

[Aoami]

The final decision was correct though and he wasn't sure, so he checked.

Who knows. I'm under the impression that VAR is there to check "clear and obvious" errors, not borderline decisions like that that could go either way.

I'm definitely still of the belief that the tech is a good thing, but the rules near clearing up and tightening up.

 

[Raven]

Yeah I get the point about clear and obvious errors but it was never going to stop there. A game like that could make a huge financial difference to either team. We can't have all the glamour and excellent tournaments without a whole lot of money, unfortunately.

 

[Scouse]

@Jupitus - VAR, and what happens next.

We'll implement a system where coaches can call on VAR if there's something they disagree with. Maybe 3 times a game each. So six interruptions.

That way the advertising men will get to keep their incredible money earning interruptions to a previously fast flowing uninterrupted game (which is what VAR is really all about) and the fans who are rapidly falling out of love with the game will go "thank you, thank you! for not completely fucking our game up! We'll accept a lesser standard of game, which is clearly loads better than full VAR".

But football will still be diminished. For money.


(Above is my prediction, nowhere have I seen this. But remember when the yanks wanted to split football into quarters like American Football? That was really pushed hard. For money).

 

[Moriath]

@Jupitus - VAR, and what happens next.

We'll implement a system where coaches can call on VAR if there's something they disagree with. Maybe 3 times a game each. So six interruptions.

That way the advertising men will get to keep their incredible money earning interruptions to a previously fast flowing uninterrupted game (which is what VAR is really all about) and the fans who are rapidly falling out of love with the game will go "thank you, thank you! for not completely fucking our game up! We'll accept a lesser standard of game, which is clearly loads better than full VAR".

But football will still be diminished. For money.


(Above is my prediction, nowhere have I seen this. But remember when the yanks wanted to split football into quarters like American Football? That was really pushed hard. For money).

They dont play adverts in football games for var delays.

 

[Scouse]

They dont play adverts in football games for var delays.

They will and you're a fool if you don't think the most valuable advertising space on the planet isn't ripe for it.

Football was never broken. It is the most successful sport on the planet.

But an opportunity exists to make billions of dollars, so...

squandered airtime which can command as much as £600k per minute...

Speaking to the FT, independent sports marketing adviser Tim Crow said: “I think it is the biggest sponsorship asset that football has ever created. Most other advertising is on the side, but VAR is in the middle of the game, part of the game. For a sponsor, that is a dream come true. There is no question that if brands had the opportunity to sponsor around VAR they would.”

I was best man for a guy who runs an advertising company. He's a villa fan. He thinks it's going to be shit (but lucrative) and his mind boggles how dumb the public is that they can't see this clear and obvious pitch to fuck over their game for money.

Make the argument about "fairness" or some shit like that and the world will look the other way. But it's all about monetising two 45 minute blocks of uninterrupted advertising possibilities - through the artificial insertion of interruptions that you can do something with.