Football 2021/2022 Season Football Thread

[caLLous]

Oh that's fucking hilarious.

The first 10 pens were outstanding, the next 11 were good enough, but Kepa's...

 

[Scouse]

What a shootout.

I really felt for Mendy, so it was a fitting end.

 

[Jupitus]

I am delighted to have seen that - Kepa was being a fucking cocky cunt all through, so a bit of karma, IMO!

 

[caLLous]

I don't understand why refs don't clamp down on all that noncery. He had to tell Kepa to cut it out for every single pen. Get your yellow card out and see how much he tries it on the next time.

 

[Jupitus]

Bielsa gone. I know Leeds fans adored him but I never saw the big fuss. Yes he coached exciting, high-intensity football but that seemed to be the only kind of football he knew how to coach and an inability to adapt and deal with injuries is one of the reasons they're where they are in the league. It's like the rest of the league figured out how to counter Leeds and he had no plan B.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/60529015

I can see that as a neutral you would think this, and I actually agree... but there is more to the fans about him, myself included, which makes this incredibly sad... so many supportive tweets for him from all of the players (and some ex players under him) and I think this one does help understand:

"If I’m honest I feel lost right now with the news. Bielsa wasn’t just another coach at our club he understood what the club meant to us all, he understood the culture of the city."

He has most certainly become a legend for all of this generation of fans, and will be revered by us all forever, I would guess.

 

[caLLous]

I can see that as a neutral you would think this, and I actually agree... but there is more to the fans about him, myself included, which makes this incredibly sad... so many supportive tweets for him from all of the players (and some ex players under him) and I think this one does help understand:

"If I’m honest I feel lost right now with the news. Bielsa wasn’t just another coach at our club he understood what the club meant to us all, he understood the culture of the city."

He has most certainly become a legend for all of this generation of fans, and will be revered by us all forever, I would guess.

I know, I remember seeing a video after he'd secured promotion to the prem of fans standing by his very modest car outside his very modest house, basically overcome with emotion, worshipping him for what he'd done. Like I said, I know he is and will always be adored locally and he has inspired loads of other coaches but Leeds have just been so easy to play against this season. He's either incapable of adapting or he's just too stubborn. I forget which player it was doing a post-match interview after our match yesterday but he basically said "it's obviously not working but we're going to keep doing it."

 

[Jupitus]

I know, I remember seeing a video after he'd secured promotion to the prem of fans standing by his very modest car outside his very modest house, basically overcome with emotion, worshipping him for what he'd done. Like I said, I know he is and will always be adored locally and he has inspired loads of other coaches but Leeds have just been so easy to play against this season. He's either incapable of adapting or he's just too stubborn. I forget which player it was doing a post-match interview after our match yesterday but he basically said "it's obviously not working but we're going to keep doing it."

Yep, I can't argue with that at all... though many fans have outrightly said they'd rather go down with Bielsa still there than lose him... bless 'em

BTW - I have to say I was absolutely amazed at just how good your boy Kane was yesterday - kudos!

 

[Gray]

He can finally rest on a chair now instead of having to waste his knees.

 

[Embattle]

I had a feeling Kepa was doomed since as soon as the whistle went he started running.

 

[Wij]

View: https://twitter.com/carlisletom/status/1498055561727774720

 

[Aoami]

View: https://twitter.com/mikewalker___/status/1498019328125452290?t=iCYKswid0tQ5lpULE4iLjA&s=19

 

[Ormorof]

FIFA in going with the money shocker and being the worst Anger as Fifa decide Russia can continue bid to qualify for World Cup

 

[Scouse]

 

[Aoami]

Bad taste - The NeverEnding VAR bullshit thread

 

[Scouse]

Nope.

 

[Aoami]

View: https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1498266999570542592


Southampton Ladies keeper getting a last minute FA cup equaliser over the weekend. Lost on pennos though.

 

[caLLous]

Lol Everton have received an apology from PGMOL over the decision not to give them a penalty. That'll help if they end up in a relegation scrap.

 

[Aoami]

VAR VAR VAR etc, but they may not have even scored the penalty, and it ignores the fact that they were shit for the vast majority of the game.

 

[Scouse]

Sssssh. Don't talk about VAR, remember?

 

[Aoami]

My comment was clearly an attempt to not talk about VAR and talk about the actual football.

 

[Scouse]

Frank Lampard was talking about the football. The football that's being shat on by VAR.

You can't separate it. It's part of the game. And it was a clear pen, a two minute holdup and a joke result.

Fucking great. Well worth holding up the game because it's much better and much more accurate, yadda yadda yadda.

 

[caLLous]

My comment was clearly an attempt to not talk about VAR and talk about the actual football.

To be fair, Everton put up a decent defence and were unlucky to concede in the way they did (with the deflection off of Holgate and Keane being wrong-footed) so a draw would probably have been a fair result.

 

[Aoami]

Meh. I saw the game, Everton deserved fuck all from it in my opinion, and they got nothing. City had two more shots on target than Everton did in total.

 

[Scouse]

Was it a penalty?

The answer is a clear Yes. And VAR should have awarded it. But didn't. Because it's shit.

Your argument is daft - football involves results against the run of play. Everton were hard done by. Even though we've a system to ensure "fairness" - which, in fact, doesn't. It just unnecessarily holds up play for fuck all.

 

[Aoami]

If it's so important to some people to talk about VAR, shall I make a massive fuss every time it gets a decision correct as well?

I don't understand how you can't see how boring this chat is.

 

[Scouse]

lol. My post was a screenshot and Fat Frank's words. I think he's pretty interested in it.

And he should be. He was robbed.

 

[Aoami]

I understand why his frustrated, because the VAR made a poor decision. However, take the carabao cup final for instance, I remember the VAR being used I think 3 times, and reaching the correct decision each time. Are you going to make a post praising those decisions? Probably not, because it would be really fucking boring talking about the 99% of decisions they get right, just as boring as you brigading the thread every time they get one wrong.

 

[Scouse]

I understand why his frustrated, because the VAR made a poor decision. However, take the carabao cup final for instance, I remember the VAR being used I think 3 times, and reaching the correct decision each time. Are you going to make a post praising those decisions? Probably not, because it would be really fucking boring talking about the 99% of decisions they get right, just as boring as you brigading the thread every time they get one wrong.

No - because it was shite. Two of them would have likely stood each way so it would have ended 1-1 and gone to penalties. Instead we had fucking ages waiting for VAR to rule out not obvious offsides or interference. It killed the moments. It's fucking shit.

Was sat in the pub. Nobody was happy about it. Everyone moaned about it's millimeter bullshittery. It's fucking shite.

To be clear: I'd happily have lost the match if it meant VAR was abolished.

 

[Gwadien]

inb4 meg makes another thread.

 

[Aoami]

View: https://youtu.be/6yra7WzsJkY


1 win, 5 losses in their last 6 now. Managers have been sacked for less.