Football Banter Thread

Moses said:
Van Gaal,

After playing 12 games... he had 19 points in the league, and a +6 goal difference. Not sure about position, because I can't get that from a quick glance at their results.
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4th after 12 games. Statto is a great site for that kind of thing, it has list of results and the league position after that round of fixtures.

Difference being Moyes took over a championship winning side with very few serious injuries and played a basically unchanged side(a couple players for rotation) with the majority of the same 11 playing most of the first 10-15 games, the same starting line up that finished the previous season champions.
Also without a single significant player leaving IIRC.

Rodgers has one significant player who left, one injured and bought what 6 players meaning the team hasn't had many changes at all. Sure there are 5-6 new players but compared to last year's squad only 2 of them "had" to play considering only 2 people are really unavailable compared to the team that finished last year.

LVG had 3 very senior players leave, many more players injured and multiple new players in of which because a much larger number of players was injured or left, Utd had to play a much higher number of new players, some bought some youth team.

LVG has had a massively, massively changed team to deal with and while maybe his own fault(but might in the long term prove best) has had loads of injuries causing constant starting line up changes and yet has improved the results and performances(which while not good are still improving, just no where near as fast as the results improved).

If Moyes had as many changes/injuries/players leaving the side would undoubtedly have done MUCH worse than they did. Likewise if Rodgers had 2-3 more players leave and another 3-4 injuries then he'd be in an equally bad situation as LVG and have an excuse, however he doesn't.
 
Andybtsn said:
My brother in law works for the fire dep who took the call, the crew on site pretty much confirmed it, I presume from witnesses? It was only until I searched further that I found out he had attempted suicide in the past.
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Terrible really. Looks like he was in trouble with the law a couple of days before, for drink driving.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30630041
 
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So true
 
He was offside and Moyes is a stupid ****. As with Everton he's doing the won't attack till no choice style. Sociedad played rather like Villareal before Moyes took over, taking the game to the opposition, going for more goals after they have the lead. Sociedad did very very little till they went a goal down, got a goal back, weren't that aggressive, went a goal down and only with 15-20 mins to go did they go more all out attack at which point they started to look better. Had they played that way across both legs they'd likely have won.

This is a team that had a solid year three years ago, a fantastic year that qualified them for the CL two years ago, a weaker year last year due to having CL games but still qualified pretty comfortably in europa league positions and this year should have been looking at 4-7th again, that is how good they are.

Even in a cup game that doesn't have much importance and where a draw is useless, he went with the playing to not lose strategy.
 
SUNDERLAND manager Gustavo Poyet has learned the meaning of numbers like 32, three and a half, and 80,000, one day too late.

Club officials explained the abstract mathematical objects after Poyet agreed to pay Jermain Defoe 14 million pounds until 2018, figures that Poyet came up with because he liked how they felt when he said them.

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There is still a possibility that the deal may fall through when the concept of Sunderland is explained to Jermain Defoe.
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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/94474-2015011594474
 
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