MikeO Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Try to work out a MOTD running order for this (we'd be on last is the only certainty)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Mourinho says £300m spend not enough to win title. In 2003 Mourinho said when he was at Porto, "We have beaten the big spenders who pay millions of euros for one player and we have built a great team spending money doesn't mean success we have proved that." This was after he won the champions league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjazzbassist Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 42 minutes ago, MikeO said: Mourinho says £300m spend not enough to win title. In 2003 Mourinho said when he was at Porto, "We have beaten the big spenders who pay millions of euros for one player and we have built a great team spending money doesn't mean success we have proved that." This was after he won the champions league. honestly he's the donald trump of football, he says whatever he wants regardless of thought, opinions, facts, etc. i'm glad he never came here. he's an idiot most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Man City 90% possession at Newcastle, makes us v Liverpool and Chelsea look positively dominant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 1 hour ago, MikeO said: Man City 90% possession at Newcastle, makes us v Liverpool and Chelsea look positively dominant. And some on here wanted Benitez markjazzbassist and Matt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjazzbassist Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 42 minutes ago, pete0 said: And some on here wanted Benitez sadly i think some still do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinn31 Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Watford were leading for a long while. Woulda shot them up the table again and I could've started making jokes that Marco SIlva would again clearly be the "Next big thing" manager after a month of poor results and being clearly overrated. How the hell have Swansea beaten anybody? They are dog shite. I don't rate the manager they've brought in either. Absolutely criminal if they didn't call Gary Rowett or some of the better managers in that division, though any manager with a top half Championship side probably wouldn't touch Swansea with a ten foot pole. They probably should've brought Garry Monk back, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted December 31, 2017 Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 7 hours ago, Quinn31 said: Watford were leading for a long while. Woulda shot them up the table again and I could've started making jokes that Marco SIlva would again clearly be the "Next big thing" manager after a month of poor results and being clearly overrated. How the hell have Swansea beaten anybody? They are dog shite. I don't rate the manager they've brought in either. Absolutely criminal if they didn't call Gary Rowett or some of the better managers in that division, though any manager with a top half Championship side probably wouldn't touch Swansea with a ten foot pole. They probably should've brought Garry Monk back, Watford create as many chances as they concede which is all well and good when confidence is up and they take their chances but when they don't they can' kill off games and things like today happen. It also doesn' help them that their manager seemed to want to leave to join us. I can' imagine it was good for morale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 31, 2017 Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 Nice moment earlier when De Bruyne and Puncheon were both down getting treatment before both were stretchered off when Hodgson and Guardiola were sat with each other chatting. Great example of showing respect for each other that you'd never get from someone like Mourinho and many more. Romey 1878, rubecula, Bailey and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinn31 Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 Brighton are off to a flying start! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 21 minutes ago, Quinn31 said: Brighton are off to a flying start! 1-1 at half time, which is what I predicted as the final result so here's hoping for a dire goalless second half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 16 minutes ago, MikeO said: 1-1 at half time, which is what I predicted as the final result so here's hoping for a dire goalless second half. Ah well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinn31 Posted January 2, 2018 Report Share Posted January 2, 2018 18th now on 20 points (Stoke, yikes!) - A lot of the relegation fodder bar WBA and Swansea seem to really be starting to pick up some points - this could reopen an intense relegation battle - I could see Swansea and West Brom being adrift at the bottom, but 18th could come down between 3-5 teams very late on. Brighton, Huddersfield, and even Watford now looking like they could be involved if they don't pick up form. We are now only 7 points above bottom, and our next four fixtures are Arsenal, Spurs, Leicester (not easy, imo) and West Brom - crucial to get three against West Brom or we could very well be sitting only 3-5 points above the bottom three at the start of February. I don't think this becomes a relegation fight again, but that would definitely make a lot of us uneasy. rubecula 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c1982 Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 This is brilliant! https://twitter.com/cpfc/status/948600278508503042 pete0 and MikeO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btay Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Anyone watching arsenal v Chelsea. hazard just won a penalty with minimal or no contact from bellerin - wondering if it’s going to be looked at by the committee for diving Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafnia Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 10 minutes ago, Btay said: Anyone watching arsenal v Chelsea. hazard just won a penalty with minimal or no contact from bellerin - wondering if it’s going to be looked at by the committee for diving Terrible dive. Niasse got 2 matches.... hazard won't. Corrupt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btay Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 6 minutes ago, hafnia said: Terrible dive. Niasse got 2 matches.... hazard won't. Corrupt. This is my thoughts mate, they have set a bar/standard and have to maintain that regardless of players/teams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btay Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Bellerin scores at the death - bit of justice in my opinion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Btay said: Anyone watching arsenal v Chelsea. hazard just won a penalty with minimal or no contact from bellerin - wondering if it’s going to be looked at by the committee for diving 1 hour ago, hafnia said: Terrible dive. Niasse got 2 matches.... hazard won't. Corrupt. Stonewall penalty for me. Hazard winso the ball and Bellerin kicks him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 15 minutes ago, Bailey said: Stonewall penalty for me. Hazard winso the ball and Bellerin kicks him. I didn’t think it was a stonewall but I did think it was a penalty. In regards to the retrospective banning for diving - it’ll be a very long time until a player from a top club is punished, if at all, imo. holystove 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btay Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 Game of opinions for me I guess. You look at the Swansea game where Ayew didn’t go down under lloris’s challenge - no goal as result and then hazard goes down under minimal. this is where punishing “diving” is hard as they reward players for going down as soon as possible and punish honest players for trying staying up Bailey and Vranny 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vranny Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 4 hours ago, Btay said: Game of opinions for me I guess. You look at the Swansea game where Ayew didn’t go down under lloris’s challenge - no goal as result and then hazard goes down under minimal. this is where punishing “diving” is hard as they reward players for going down as soon as possible and punish honest players for trying staying up This is the other huge issue driving this problem. You can’t really complain about players going down over “minimal contact” when they would never receive a penalty if they were infringed upon, but didn’t go down. This part of the game needs a huge mentality change from the higher ups and refs. Quinn31, Bailey and Romey 1878 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinn31 Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 12 hours ago, Vranny said: This is the other huge issue driving this problem. You can’t really complain about players going down over “minimal contact” when they would never receive a penalty if they were infringed upon, but didn’t go down. This part of the game needs a huge mentality change from the higher ups and refs. There is something in between simulation and a penalty. A very big area actually. Football is a contact sport and just because there is contact in the box doesn't mean its a penalty. If a player goes down because of it, it doesn't mean it's a dive. Romey 1878, Matt, MikeO and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btay Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 4 hours ago, Quinn31 said: There is something in between simulation and a penalty. A very big area actually. Football is a contact sport and just because there is contact in the box doesn't mean its a penalty. If a player goes down because of it, it doesn't mean it's a dive. Exactly this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinn31 Posted January 6, 2018 Report Share Posted January 6, 2018 Mark Hughes sacked by Stoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjazzbassist Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Quinn31 said: Mark Hughes sacked by Stoke no surprise, it will be interesting to see who they sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 be interesting to see if anybody wants him too, he is not a bad manager, not great either but not that bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 12 hours ago, Quinn31 said: Mark Hughes sacked by Stoke Another shite manager that will no doubt be hired again soon. Quinn31 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Romey 1878 said: Another shite manager that will no doubt be hired again soon. As long as it's not by us then that's fine with me. Romey 1878, Quinn31, rubecula and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Im currently feeling very jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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