Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [1st - 4th December 2017]

There was almost no chance of it being rescinded. It wasn't intentional, it was bad luck due to the stupid way Bellarin goes to make the tackle but you would struggle to argue that the end result was nasty. We weren't going to risk the ban being extended.

Also, how the hell is Alex Oxlaide-Chamberlain so high on that list. Hes been crap every time I have seen him.
 
Ox is doing fine, started the other day and was decent. He gets higher points as he dribbles(runs past) people a lot.

Stats are correct, as far as they go, but have to show all players to see Coutinho who doesn't have the minimum required apps to be shown in the full table.
 
I am considering a new thread dedicated to this but let me try to begin the discussion here.
It is very ugly to see how spectators have begun a new fashion - to leave the stadiums well, well before the clashes' final whistles.

Why, why, why?
 
Shamikebab said:
Not really a new thing is it?
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Previously, it was common when one of the teams had a terrible game. Nowadays, spectators from the victorious team don't even wait till the end to congratulate their favourite footballers. Do they hurry not to miss the transport, or simply bored by the game?
 
Huh, :eek: They can wait in the stadium seats while everyone else "escapes" and then go...... but whatever.

To me this is a major sign of disrespect for the players who run like crazy for almost 2 hours :o
 
4K8KW10 said:
Huh, :eek: They can wait in the stadium seats while everyone else "escapes" and then go...... but whatever.

To me this is a major sign of disrespect for the players who run like crazy for almost 2 hours :o
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What do you mean? If you don't beat the rush you can be stuck for hours sometimes. Its not like getting on an aeroplane where being first in the queue doesn't make any difference.

Getting out of Wembley or Twickenham can take hours when everyone is leaving. Trains are full, police and doing crowd control, traffic is being managed.

If you go to every game then leaving a few minutes early probably isn't a big deal to you. I think those footballers on millions a year can probably handle seeing some people leave early as well.
 
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Some stadiums are a nightmare with respect to routes in/out... so people leave early to miss the mass traffic jam. I used to do the same down at Ewood and that was with 15K-20K fans not 50K+ at some stadiums.

End of the day if it's a weekday evening kick off and you aren't getting home until past midnight with work the next day it's totally understandable people might leave 5 minutes early imo.

Bed > Players feelings of disrespect.
 
I've never left early and does it amaze me how many actually do this: turn up late, go to get food at 40 minutes, get back to second half late and then leave early. Not sure the players would be bothered either way.
 
fez said:
What do you mean? If you don't beat the rush you can be stuck for hours sometimes. Its not like getting on an aeroplane where being first in the queue doesn't make any difference.

Getting out of Wembley or Twickenham can take hours when everyone is leaving. Trains are full, police and doing crowd control, traffic is being managed.

If you go to every game then leaving a few minutes early probably isn't a big deal to you. I think those footballers on millions a year can probably handle seeing some people leave early as well.
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It doesn't make sense because leaving early just shifts the rush forward. The rush doesn't magically disappear. There should be a management about leaving. Not everyone should be allowed to leave at the same time, but sectors after sectors.

CliffyG said:
I've never left early and does it amaze me how many actually do this: turn up late, go to get food at 40 minutes, get back to second half late and then leave early. Not sure the players would be bothered either way.
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Yes, it is very ugly. Several years ago it wasn't like this. It's getting worse and worse...
 
If people wanted to pay me 200 grand a week to run around for a couple of hours but some of the spectators left early... I think I'd cope with that... :p
 
4K8KW10 said:
I am considering a new thread dedicated to this but let me try to begin the discussion here.
It is very ugly to see how spectators have begun a new fashion - to leave the stadiums well, well before the clashes' final whistles.

Why, why, why?
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I do leave early occasionally, I guess in the same way you'd leave a terrible play at the interval (Though I've never left at half time :p)

Usually if we go 3-0 down on 80 mins or something. I left early once on 0-0 because someone who was giving me a lift wanted to get away early - missed our winner. And left once when we were 5-1 up and missed our sixth!

The earliest I've left was 66 minutes after Leeds plundered their fourth against us in 2011. We were abject.

There are people near me who do seem to religiously leave on 80 or so minutes regardless of result, they are odd. There is a guy with a superstition near me that if he leaves we will equalise or win!
 
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Park far enough away so the traffic isn't an issue...problem solved. When I go to Anfield I have to walk about a mile through the park to my car, hardly ever get stuck in traffic.
 
4K8KW10 said:
It doesn't make sense because leaving early just shifts the rush forward. The rush doesn't magically disappear. There should be a management about leaving. Not everyone should be allowed to leave at the same time, but sectors after sectors.

Yes, it is very ugly. Several years ago it wasn't like this. It's getting worse and worse...
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If it didn't make sense people wouldn't do it. Of course it makes sense, how many people leave on 85 minutes? Compare that to how many leave at full time, naturally it's considerably less on 85 minutes.

It's been that way for as long as I can remember it, going back into the 90s. People can do whatever they want to do, they paid the admission fee they can leave whenever they like.
 
CliffyG said:
I've never left early and does it amaze me how many actually do this: turn up late, go to get food at 40 minutes, get back to second half late and then leave early. Not sure the players would be bothered either way.
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Leaving early I can understand - I've never left early from a Liverpool game but I did nearly all the time when I went to watch England although that was mainly because I couldn't figure out why I was there to begin with. Getting out of Anfield is a ****ing nightmare. It took well over an hour to get 2 miles from the ground last night - it was slightly worse than usual (but not much) as there were 100s of riot police man for man marking the Spartak fans through the streets all the way to the City centre.

The ones that turn up late then head off early at HT are the ones that I can't get my head around. A guy a couple of rows in front of me turned up 15 minutes late then around the 35 minute mark is up and gone to get some food, got back after the 2nd half kicked off then left on 80. He missed literally half the game.
 
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