2016/17 Premier League & General Football Discussion

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Phoenix
United beat Chelsea 2-0, in a very good game.

Haven't seen United play anything close to this performance in quite a while. :D
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It was like United of old yesterday, fast counter attacking, decisive and pressing the ball all over the pitch. Ander Herrar was my MOTM easilly, Rashford caused enough problems and got that early goal but Herrera nullified Hazzard completely for the whole game, got an assit (via a handball though) and a goal of his own. The best Van Gall buy of the lot, Luke Shaw should be second, if he can stay fit.
 
daan
Including the ghost goal that we got at the weekend.
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Also the goal Motherwell weren't given earlier in the season, I believe it was against Kilmarnock? I remember McGhee being furious.

It's been an awful season for the referees all things considered.
 
Brend
It's been an awful season for the referees all things considered.
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But pales into insignificance against the worst piece of Scottish refereeing I recall.

There was a game back in the mists of time, but probably 1980's, involving Dundee United and another team I can't recall. A shot was fired in from outside the box. It goes in the goal, hits the stanchion and rebounds out. Everyone knows it's a goal, but the referee thinks it hit the post and is waving play on. The defender who had the ball, in his hands as he had picked it up, inside his own box, dropped it to his feet, and passed it to another player. The game carried on.

And everyone is thinking, "What the 🤬 just happened?" If it's not a goal (which it was) then it's a penalty (which it wasn't, because it was a goal, but if it wasn't, it's a penalty.)
 
daan
But pales into insignificance against the worst piece of Scottish refereeing I recall.

There was a game back in the mists of time, but probably 1980's, involving Dundee United and another team I can't recall. A shot was fired in from outside the box. It goes in the goal, hits the stanchion and rebounds out. Everyone knows it's a goal, but the referee thinks it hit the post and is waving play on. The defender who had the ball, in his hands as he had picked it up, inside his own box, dropped it to his feet, and passed it to another player. The game carried on.

And everyone is thinking, "What the 🤬 just happened?" If it's not a goal (which it was) then it's a penalty (which it wasn't, because it was a goal, but if it wasn't, it's a penalty.)
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Flipping hell. :lol:

At least something like that hasn't happened yet! (Touch wood...)
 
John Terry to leave Chelsea at the end of the season.

Brighton all but promoted to the Premier League now, they won earlier and its going to take a freak goal difference swing in Huddersfield's game to deny them.
 
m8h3r
IIRC Didn't they give someone the boot for no reason cause they liked Zola?
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Someone who'd assembled a decent team on no budget and got them level on points with the teams in the playoffs, yes.

While everyone in the Premier League was howling about the unfairness of Claudio Ranieri's sacking (which seems to have been warranted), Gary Rowett's was a travesty of incredible proportions - and look how he's rescued Derby County from Steve McClaren's inept hands!
 
Sources surrounding the KNVB are hinting at Roger Schmidt to be the next manager for the Dutch Squad.

So. There you have it. The KNVB has screwed itself so hard that it has to look across the border to find someone. And instead of upping the budget to lure someone first class, they will probably settle for this 3rd class nobody.

His palmares :

Champion with RB Salzburg.
4th and 3rd place with Bayer Leverkusen.

Applause.
 
Okay, a few things to catch up on. :)

Marcus Bignot (mid-season appointment) let go by Grimsby.
Kevin Nugent (mid-season appointment) let go by Barnet.
Gianfranco Zola (mid-season appointment) walks out on Brum after a horrid 2 wins in 24.

What a joke. Bignot did excellent work with Solihull Moors in the Conference and now he's out of work already. Zola should never have been appointed Birmingham boss; Rowett did an excellent job and they've only gone backwards since.

I'm interested to see what Harry Redknapp can do there with 3 games to go. The last time he was drafted in as a late season troubleshooter he got Southampton relegated from the Prem.

Famine
Now, I'm not saying that it would be funny if a bunch of crooks hired a crook...

But in totally unrelated news, a-hahahahahahaha...
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CROOKED Birmingham literally appointing a manager involved in CORRUPTION scandals. Sad!

10th April - Marcus Bignot (Grimsby Town, sacked) League Two
15th April - Kevin Nugent (Barnet, sacked) League Two
17th April - Gianfranco Zola (Birmingham City, resigned) Championship

Sackings: 33
Resignations: 10

Total: 43
 
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Premier League team of the season. We can comment on how absolutely wrong it is.
 
No one decent plays 4-4-2 in the modern game... leaves a team too light in mid field.

Kayne has been fit enough to warrant a place, and should go for another center mid... personally, I'd replace with Lalana for his pressing ability, and switch to a 4-3-3.

Oh, and Hazzard typically plays on the left and Mane on the right

Otherwise I'd find it hard to argue with most of the others (whether I like the players or not!).
 
Liquid
Except Leicester last year and when they've bothered to play well this year.
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One season wonders :lol:

And Vardy did a lot of pressing - you won't get that from Lukaku (though Kane does press reasonably well).
 
4-3-3

Hazard - Lukaku - Mane
Alli - Kante - Eriksen
Alonso - Alderweireld - Van Dijk - Coleman
Heaton​

Would have been my starting XI.

But it is hard to miss out; Kane, Sanchez, Costa, Ibra, Son, De Bruyne, Aguero, Rose, Firmino, McCauley, Vertonghan and Valencia.
 
They've caught a new suspect in the Dortmund bombing case.

It's a extremist from the financial sector. His goal was to let the Dortmund shares plummet.

:lol:
 

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