2021/22 Premier League & General Football Discussion

[MUSC4EVER]

Video footage has emerged of West Ham's Kurt Zouma kicking, slapping and throwing his pet cat in front of his child whilst laughing.

The reaction has been pretty bad as you can imagine and he could face a club suspension.

 

[SestoScudo]

Video footage has emerged of West Ham's Kurt Zouma kicking, slapping and throwing his pet cat in front of his child whilst laughing.

The reaction has been pretty bad as you can imagine and he could face a club suspension.

What a heartless prick. I liked Kurt Zouma a lot now I dont.

So many footballers are turning out to be aholes. What is going on?

 

[Famine]

«"Unnamed" 31-year old married international first team player at Everton arrested for child sex offences»
PFA:

«Benjamin Mendy arrested and charged with NINE counts of rape and sexual assault against five women»
PFA:

«Mason Greenwood arrested on suspicion of rape, assault and threats to kill after being apparently caught on audio raping and threatening assault»
PFA:

«Kurt Zouma throws a shoe at a cat»
PFA: OMG GUYS THINK OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND BEHAVIOUR

PFA aims to make sure players are 'aware of their responsibilities' after Kurt Zouma incident

The Professional Footballers' Association says it aims to ensure players are aware of their responsibilities after a video emerged of Kurt Zouma hitting his cat pet.

www.bbc.co.uk

Edit: OMG, West Ham are starting Zouma tonight.

 

[daan]

Edit: OMG, West Ham are starting Zouma tonight.

And Watford are trolling him by starting no.21 Kiko Felinia.

 

[Touring Mars]

«"Unnamed" 31-year old married international first team player at Everton arrested for child sex offences»
PFA:

«Benjamin Mendy arrested and charged with NINE counts of rape and sexual assault against five women»
PFA:

«Mason Greenwood arrested on suspicion of rape, assault and threats to kill after being apparently caught on audio raping and threatening assault»
PFA:

«Kurt Zouma throws a shoe at a cat»
PFA: OMG GUYS THINK OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND BEHAVIOUR

PFA aims to make sure players are 'aware of their responsibilities' after Kurt Zouma incident

The Professional Footballers' Association says it aims to ensure players are aware of their responsibilities after a video emerged of Kurt Zouma hitting his cat pet.

www.bbc.co.uk

Edit: OMG, West Ham are starting Zouma tonight.

What is it with footballers and pussy?

 

[Hasnain282]

 

[sirjim73]

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And Watford are trolling him by starting no.21 Kiko Felinia.

Well, when selecting the West Ham team, Zouma is a shoo-in.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Burnley 1-1 Man United
Newcastle 3-1 Everton
West Ham 1-0 Watford

Typical United performance lately where we have a great first half but a bad second half and it happened again tonight, Pogba gave United the lead with a nice finish to cap a great move on 18 minutes but then Jay Rodriguez with Burnley's equalizer right at the start of the second meant it was a point apiece and united drop out of the top four and its going to be tough to get back there based of that performance.

Great night for Newcastle with a big win which means they are out of the bottom three, Trippier with a great 30-yard free kick for their third, disappointing night for Everton, there was a moment when Zouma was down injured for West Ham and the Watford fans were chanting 'that's how your cat feels' to him, I bet that's never been heard at a football ground before, terrible that Moyes played him.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

RSPCA have taken two cats from Kurt Zouma's house and Zouma has been fined two weeks wages which is thought to be £250k, the money will go to animal welfare charities.

Vitality has suspended its sponsorship deal with West Ham.

Edit: Adidas announced not long ago that Zouma is no longer on of their recognized athletes, that's his boot deal gone!

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Aston Villa 3-3 Leeds
Man City 2-0 Brentford
Norwich 1-1 Palace
Spurs 2-3 Southampton

Crazy game between Villa and Leeds which saw five goals in the first half, two goals from Jacob Ramsey (what a player he is turning into) and the other from Coutinho for Villa's goals and for Leeds it was Dan James with two and Llorente with the other and Villa had Konza sent off late on.

Spurs were 2-1 but Southampton came back for a deserved win and Spurs drop crucial points in the race for fourth, City weren't quite at their best but still picked up a fairly comfortable win for a 12 point lead at the top, quickest goal in the league this season was scored at Carrow Rd when Pukki scored after 37 seconds.

 

[redhed17]

This round of games is a big contrast, so far, to the last round, with regards to the number of goals! 😲 Loads of goals. 😄

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Kurt Zouma's brother Yoan has been suspended by Dagenham & Redbridge for posting that video on social media.

Roy Keane no longer in the running for the Sunderland job as the two parties couldn't agree a deal, Alex Neil now the favourite for the job.

Man United players thought to want Pochettino in charge in the Summer which isn't down to them so now I hope we hire Ten Hag instead, hate it when the dressing room leaks stuff to the press.

 

[Famine]

Zouma has been fined two weeks wages which is thought to be £250k, the money will go to animal welfare charities.

Vitality has suspended its sponsorship deal with West Ham.

Edit: Adidas announced not long ago that Zouma is no longer on of their recognized athletes

And this all happened faster than Mason Greenwood was dropped (though at least United didn't pick Greenwood in a matchday squad right after).

Again, I like cats and have two of them, but it's mad that people, companies, and sport apparently have more respect for them than they do for women.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Liverpool 2-0 Leicester
Wolves 0-1 Arsenal

Comfortable Liverpool display with Jota scoring twice, Leicester didn't put up much of a fight. Arsenal just managed to get a win in a tight game, Gabriel with a scruffy goal and they had yet another sending off with Martinelli shown two yellows in about ten seconds!

 

[redhed17]

Martinelli went and got sent off for the bizarre situation of getting 2x yellow cards in the same passage of play, which I don't think I have seen before. 😲 🤔 They were both deserved though, and this could be the consequence more often when the Ref lets the game play on after a foul. If a player is then stupid enough to go and foul again, what option does the Ref have!

 

[Jimlaad43]

There was nothing bizarre or controversial about it. Two bookable offenses in the same phase of play, with the first being played on for advantage should of course both count as yellows. Michael Oliver makes it very clear as he's showing the cards that one is for the foul by the throw in, and the other is for the late tackle afterwards. The rules of football allow for such a decision by the ref, so all the criticism he's got is completely unjustified.




The BBC stats did point out that Arsenal have got twice as many Red Cards in 2022 (4) than they have scored goals in all competitions. I haven't fact checked it but if true, that's utterly hilarious.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Games this weekend.

Saturday.
Brentford v Crystal Palace
Everton v Leeds
Man United v Southampton (12.30 BT)
Norwich v Man City (5.30 Sky)
Watford v Brighton

Sunday.
Burnley v Liverpool
Leicester v West Ham (4.30 Sky)
Newcastle v Aston Villa (2pm Sky)
Tottenham v Wolves

No Chelsea v Arsenal as Chelsea are in the Club World Cup final v Palmieras tomorrow.

One PL game in mid week next week and its Man United v Brighton on Tuesday which is a re-arranged game.

 

[Famine]

I remember vaguely a lively conversation about goals scored by Germany and Portugal in the Euros that should have been ruled out for offside by the letter of the IFAB law on offside - because the player who scored the goal was standing in an offside position (not an offence) when the ball was played, then played the ball themselves after returning from an offside position after it was deflected by an opponent or the goal frame - but both goals were awarded, and someone saying they'd never seen offside played that way.

Well...



Magennis (Wigan) is standing offside when Tarikwa (Wigan) strikes the ball at the goal. The ball hits Storey (Owls) and then the post, deflecting back to Magennis who is now being played onside by Byers (Owls) - although this looks arguable; there's enough of bits of Byers he can play the ball with that are level with bits of Magennis, though Magennis's body is further forward than Byers - and Magennis scores.

The goal is correctly ruled out for offside against Magennis.

Apparently League One has a higher standard of officiating than Euro 2020... which is scary, as we've had some dreadful refs this season.


Also we've now won four in a row at a 5-0 aggregate score, including the team second in the table with three games in hand. Just the league leaders and local rivals (according to them) next. And we're four points from the automatic spots... 😬

It's the hope that kills you.

 

[andrea]

Drawchester United

 

[Jimlaad43]

Drawchester United

Thanks for giving us no context or reaction, just a two-word post that doesn't relate to anything that's been posted above it...

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Man United 1-1 Southampton
Brentford 0-0 Palace
Everton 3-0 Leeds
Watford 0-2 Brighton
Norwich 0-4 Man City

Chelsea 2-1 Palmeiras (after extra time)

Another game where United played well in the first half and scored only to play terrible in the second and concede, Sancho scored his first goal at Old Trafford but then Che Adams equalized just a few minutes into the second half, Three games in a row where United haven't finished a game off and dropped points.

Great win for Everton with Coleman, Keane and Gordon scoring, Maupay and Webster scored for Brighton who move into the top half, Brentford-Palace was dull. Predictable comfortable win for City with a Sterling hat-trick and Foden getting the other.

Chelsea have won the Club World Cup beating Brazilian team Palmeiras in the final, Lukaku put Chelsea ahead in the second half but a penalty from Veiga took the game to extra time, a handball from Luan in the Chelsea box get them a penalty which Havertz converted with just five minutes left and Luan was later sent off, the semi final involving Chelsea wasn't on TV but the final was on Channel 4.

 

[sirjim73]

Man United 1-1 Southampton
Brentford 0-0 Palace
Everton 3-0 Leeds
Watford 0-2 Brighton
Norwich 0-4 Man City

Chelsea 2-1 Palmeiras (after extra time)

Another game where United played well in the first half and scored only to play terrible in the second and concede, Sancho scored his first goal at Old Trafford but then Che Adams equalized just a few minutes into the second half, Three games in a row where United haven't finished a game off and dropped points.

Great win for Everton with Coleman, Keane and Gordon scoring, Maupay and Webster scored for Brighton who move into the top half, Brentford-Palace was dull. Predictable comfortable win for City with a Sterling hat-trick and Foden getting the other.

Chelsea have won the Club World Cup beating Brazilian team Palmeiras in the final, Lukaku put Chelsea ahead in the second half but a penalty from Veiga took the game to extra time, a handball from Luan in the Chelsea box get them a penalty which Havertz converted with just five minutes left and Luan was later sent off, the semi final involving Chelsea wasn't on TV but the final was on Channel 4.

Semi final was on E4 actually. Bizarre I know. Not that you missed a lot, poor game.

As for today, well 🤔
Mistakes, we made a few.

But no time for losers
Because we are the erm, hang on, what was it again...?

 

[andrea]

 

[Famine]

This was the starting teamsheet for Arbroath midweek:



Three players called Hamilton.

For their match with Hamilton.

Who also started a player called Hamilton.

 

[andrea]

Can Tottenham just be dissolved, that club is hopeless.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Newcastle 1-0 Villa
Spurs 0-2 Wolves
Burnley 0-1 Liverpool
Leicester 2-2 West Ham

Excellent win for Newcastle to end a great week in which they won two games, Trippier with another free kick in the first half and Villa didn't really do a lot, Wolves with goals in the first half from Jiminez and Dendoncker against a pretty woeful Spurs side who have now lost three in a row and Wolves have now overtaken them into 6th in the table, Liverpool managed to get a win thanks to Fabinho just before half time but they weren't at their best.

Bowen gave West Ham the lead before a Tielemans penalty meant it was 1-1 at half time, Pereira got his first league goal in over two years to make it 2-1 to Leicester before Dawson had a late equaliser, Kurt Zouma was set to start the game but fell ill in the warm up so didn't play, maybe he got cat flu or something...

 

[Strittan]

I love being a Spurs fan…


… not.

 

[andrea]

Uh oh

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Champions league is back this week with the last 16, both Liverpool and Man City play their first legs v Inter Milan ad Sporting Lisbon respectively on tomorrow and Wednesday.

There is one PL re-arranged game this week and its Man United v Brighton tomorrow night, There is a standard PL schedule this weekend with the big game being Man City v Spurs on Saturday, there are four of the PL re-arranged Covid games in mid week next week.

 

[andrea]