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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT8| Made it to the Championship play-offs
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What does "reach out" mean?
Chelsea were the better side, I don't dispute that. You scored some good goals and defended well. You also got a free goal from the referee and forced us to chase when we should have been level. We crumbled with our old CBs in the last 20 minutes but had we not had to go mad after that travesty of a goal we might have had a bit left in the tank. For an hour I thought it was very close.
Vivalaraza
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There's always a lot of talk about how players disrespect officials, and they do at times and it's sad to see when players at swearing and them etc. But I 100% understand why players have no respect for officials, because they are terrible.
Today in both games there were such bad calls and such inconsistency and calls made which are just inexplicable. Calls which I just don't see any logic behind.
If I'm a player who runs myself into the ground day in day out and all my hard work is undone because an official isn't up to the task, I'd be mad.
Sad state of affairs.
Today in both games there were such bad calls and such inconsistency and calls made which are just inexplicable. Calls which I just don't see any logic behind.
If I'm a player who runs myself into the ground day in day out and all my hard work is undone because an official isn't up to the task, I'd be mad.
Sad state of affairs.
Chelsea away is gonna be such a massive game.
Contact. It seems to have replaced 'got in touch with' in most young journalist's vocabulary.
Well said.
FA has been stubborn for far too long. It's time to make changes for the better.
Yup. I was confident we'd beat them but since AVB left they've been playing pretty well :/
Hope we win!
I getcha.
It's a shame - I thought it was a cracking game. Very few fouls breaking up play, end to end stuff. As for the goal - and I know how this sounds - I've yet to see a definitive angle showing it didn't cross the line. In real time, as it happened, I thought it was a goal. On subsequent replays, for me, there's no clear angle one way or another - but giving it was a bad decision.
Has there ever been a Harry Redknapp team that doesn't look absolutely knackered at this stage of the season? Not sure he rotates enough leaving important players looking jaded.
flintstryker
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I really hope our next manager sees the light Mac Eachran is way too talented to not be given a fair shake.
All the team works for him, obviously he's going to score some goals. But he can't make a single chance on his own...
You're just salty that the banters so good, should reach out to banter advisors lol
Apart from the 700 replays showing it didn't even reach the line, more like cross it.
He doesn't, it's a major problem but we have so many old/injury prone players that it's unavoidable. I think we looked fine for 70 minutes but we really needed Sandro to come on to help in midfield, not another striker. Defoe just got in the way and did nothing for 20 minutes.
Moobabe said:
Martin is that you? The TV replays were perfectly clear. The whole of the ball never even came close to crossing the line, it was a standard goal-line clearance.
Yes but are they definitive?
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flintstryker
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Btw any word on how serious David Luiz's injury is?
Okay my stream was late and I thought he was just filming to prevent the goal to be allowed. He's hurt
The vocabulary makes it
Vivalaraza
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Gomez is very one dimensional. I don't rate him. He is a good player and you can't argue with the amount of goals he scores so fair enough, but yeah, just too simple a player for me. When you play one up front you need that guy to be damn good. Bayern get him enough service most days because their midfield is so damn good but he can't hold it up and as you say he hardly ever makes anything for himself.
If Bayern had, just for example, Van Persie, oh wow, shit would be unreal.
they were right in it until the robbery goal.
lol it didnt even make it to the line. let alone cross it.
I don't think he's a great player, not in the slightest. But like you say their midfield is so good all he needs to do is put it in. And he's very good at that.
The_Hitcher89
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The problem with the word banter is that its an awful sounding word, used as a catch-all for any number of contexts and often an escape word when someone's made a tit of themselves. But I can't think of any synonyms and its used in situations which occur very often in sports discussions, so its all we've got
Is it fair to say that Gomez is a better Hernandez?
Well it was 1-0 until the robbery goal, and 2-1 shortly after it - if anything the impetus of actually scoring gave Spurs a better chance of winning it.
I agree with it being an escape word.
Didn't Grey and Keys use "banter" as an excuse for their sexism?
I found that excuse particularly funny.
Sure it gave us a lift but who's to say we wouldn't have scored when 1-0 behind? We had good chances in the first half and got into promising positions, 1-0 is nothing, we were matching you. Your second goal was simply not a goal. Had we been able to keep it tight, not run around going mental, our two old mules in the centre of defense might have lasted longer than 65 minutes. Like I said, Chelsea deserved to win, but they got a huge slice of luck at a crucial time.
The_Hitcher89
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I've seen it used as an escape for ignorance of the causes of the Hillsborough disaster and blaming Liverpool fans for it on another forum. Its a bit like how you'll sometimes see people on discussion boards make a fool ofthemself and then pretend they were trolling when they get called out
Bayern won in every match he scored. He gets a chance inside the area and he usually converts it. Drogba got nothing on Gomez nowadays.
Who's to say we wouldn't have scored again? After all 1-0 is nothing, and we were matching you. And our "ageing" players showed they still have the energy and quality to affect a game at this level.
Vivalaraza
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Comfortably.
If Hernandez keeps developing his game and gets consistent I can see him being a similarish player to Gomez, scores a lot of goals but on the whole poor in other areas.
Pretty much. If we had someone like Drogba, now that would be incredible. I'm still hoping we buy some interesting striker in the summer. We're buying one for sure but there are rumors of the board trying to buy an old guy just to be backup and nothing more... but there's still a little chance of we buying someone younger and more talented.
The_Hitcher89
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I wish we had another Ruud.
He was a selfish bastard but he could actually play a bit too.
Arsenal2022
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The_Hitcher89
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Would you say Rooney played that role two seasons ago?
They show very clearly the ball wasn't even on the line when Ekotto poked it away, so yea, I'd call that definitive.
He's my favourite player ever joint with Scholes. 150 in 200 games. I know Messi and Ronaldo are making a mockery of records like that but just phenomenal
My word.
Nobody, both teams were doing well. But only one team had the referee score on their behalf. Nobody is going to remember this 5-1 as a complete thrashing of a dire Tottenham. They will remember it for a game-changing refereeing error that gave a strong Chelsea an unfair advantage over a lively Tottenham who then crumbled once their imbecile of a manager put Defoe on instead of Sandro and destroyed our midfield.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Hey we used to have a member here that did that all the time. What a joy he was too.
Willkiller
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I'm just glad Atkinson didn't have to call the Grand National yesterday...
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