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No one cares about Chelsea unless they are playing one of the big teams.
Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [28th November - 3rd December 2014]
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No one cares about Chelsea unless they are playing one of the big teams.
On these forums I've noticed that the most commented (and probably supported) teams are Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal. It is amusing that nobody seems to give a damn about Chelsea.
Its a good result for us (Man Utd). We closed the points gap by 2 points.
Its a good result for us (Man Utd). We closed the points gap by 2 points.
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Its 3 points in the bag and only 1 injury. But we did pick up a couple of yellows. Even rvp scored and we didn't concede so can't grumble too much.
It was easily our worst attacking performance this season, defensively we've played worse though.
Having said that, we would've (and did) lose this sort of game last season when the opponent were physically stronger than us and pretty intent on just frustrating and trying to blag a scrappy goal so it's an improvement of sorts.
That's not to take anything away from Sunderland though as they stuck to their task and battled to the last.
Objectively it's an away point though which is never a bad thing.
pewl celebrating like they won the league after beating stoke
Sounds familiar!
On yesterdays game, managed to watch it from start to finish. OK, so it was only Hull but cliche time, you can only beat whats in front of you. Football was very very good yesterday. Moved with some pace into the final 3rd. Fellaini I am glad to say is actually playing very well. Give him a job and he has stuck to it. While he is always going to be stereotyped as a fitting into a long ball physical team, you saw a lot of the play he does for Belgium in terms of ball retention and recycling it pretty quick. Of course he does give you that physical pressence from set pieces but glad he's turning it around.
Smalling as well is another player who has come back from his suspension, probably better for it. He's talking to the players around him and taking on the responsibility of a player who needs to step upto the plate.
Herrera also, bloody brilliant yesterday
Good result and good football by Utd.
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lol, crap ref, one of the most clear and visible penalties and he gives him a card for a dive. Because of the timing, the ball goes before he gets there, he with both feet/legs makes contact and takes both of Aguero's legs out and he gives a card for diving, idiot.
Even if you think he got the ball the contact on Aguero causing him to go down is 100% clear.
Even if you think he got the ball the contact on Aguero causing him to go down is 100% clear.
Pen all day long that one
Not really seen that much of Southampton this season so havve been intrigued to see if they are all that. Got to say, i'm pretty impressed. They don't mind playing the ball out from the back and look very confident on the ball. Maybe lack a bit of quality on the wide midfield areas, but look pretty decent.
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It's why we need video replays and a limited number of challenges, it means which ref you get is almost irrelevant because the biggest decisions can effectively be overturned. If a ref was to see the video replay of that and not change his decision he'd be fired very quickly for being either biased or incompetent. The excuse of didn't see it properly completely vanishes.
With video replays it would be a penalty, yellow to the defender and Aguero havign the yellow card withdrawn.
Now video replays would have fixed this but there is zero excuse for getting this wrong in the first place because it was so so obviously not a dive.
With video replays it would be a penalty, yellow to the defender and Aguero havign the yellow card withdrawn.
Now video replays would have fixed this but there is zero excuse for getting this wrong in the first place because it was so so obviously not a dive.
Football is probably the biggest global sport not to embrace full video technology to assist the officials
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Yup, it's laughable, considering the money involved and the betting involved having a fair outcome in a league with one of the highest revenues in world sport seems nuts.
Tennis already paid what at least 7 officials to watch all the lines and decided that that wasn't accurate enough and use video replays(and more advanced technology coupled with it) to improve the fairness. One ref and two linesmen over a massive pitch with a lot of limited views due to number of players and it's deemed good enough. It should have been in football at large for 5+ years and in the EPL, being one of the first leagues to start bringing in huge huge money, should have had it for at least 15 years.