SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2020/21

You had Ajax, Liverpool Spurs competing for the final the year before last. You had Liverpool/Roma in one semi final the year before that. It does throw up some shocks.

 

Iow: sometimes the 4th best team in englamd/italy/spain does better than the 1st or 2nd best team in england/italy/spain. And once every 15 years ajax or porto put together a good team for one sesson before all their best players are immediately sold to England and Spain

 

Look at Celtic. Players to win it X times over down the past 20 years.

 

Yep. You manage the resources you have, bring up players through your own academy, do excellent scouting and develop young players only for the handful of bigger clubs look at your players like this:



Dortmund won today and Haaland scored two goals. Could have had a third but unselfishly passed it off to a team mate so they could grab one at the end.

It's hard to even get excited about it knowing he will be sold to a club in England or Spain within a year or two maximum.

 

Small potatoes but did anyone catch Tammy Abrahams shit-fit today at Chelski vs Pal Arse?

Basically Chelsea had their 2nd pen of the day and Abraham, not the designated taker, trotted over at 3-0 to get his name on the scoresheet.

Azpilicueta, the club captain, took the ball off him and gave it to the designated spot-kicker, all round cunt Jorginho.

Abraham was not best pleased

 

Irish Update

1. Burnley in a bit of a free fall.

2. United sign 33 year old Cavani.

3. Greatest News Headline Ever:-

Andy Murray's cockerel Colin is killed by a fox after row with his three hen wives | Daily Mail Online

 

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United being bent over.

 

Pamela's a pussy. What a cunt Lord. That's cheating

 

Hate United but that's robbery

 

Yep. If for example the ref didn't see the elbow and only the retaliation then maybe you could argue it was the right call but you could still give a yellow to Lamela for the performance.

With VAR allowing you to see everything? Fuck that. Total joke.

 

Forget the officials for a second. Why are the leagues so cowardly in taking any action to prevent or punish this garbage?

Fuck what the in game officials decided and not wanting to or being incapable of overruling them. Things this blatant should result in multi-game bans and huge fines.

 

I agree. It should be retrospectively punished.

 

Luckily it's a very small minority but some people will try to defend his disgusting actions as "smart".

Absolute fuck right off.

 

Stops being funny when it starts being you.

What the fuck is going on in football?

Why is every game 5, 6, 7 goals?

 

Liverpool are a disgrace. I know there are a few key absences but no Premier League defending side has ever conceded 7 in a fucking single game.

That back 4 should be ashamed of itself.

A fucking disgrace.

 

Liverpool have not been on it since they collected the title. Not even close. This isn't a "Wake up".

4-1 at half fucking time was a wake up.

They're not interested.

By the time they are finished at Goodison they could be 6 points off the pace and they were NEVER 6 points off the pace in the past 2 years.

Villa barely fucking stayed UP last year.

Shambles.

If Olly deserves Stick, so does Klopp.

 

Most of the money I made today has been betting on Villa for "Next Goal". And I've only been wrong twice. My prematch bet of Villa or draw {to pay £20 on £7}, I cashed that out for full value at half-time.

 

I just got off the phone with him. He figured a lack of concentration was the problem. The players are going to be sent to a special camp to work on such things. Apparently it's located somewhere in Poland from i gather.

 

Bullshit. They'll never get in. Half of them are black

 

It's an erm... privately chartered train.

 

I heard about these camps. It's one of these "Everyone gets a Star" places. Nobody actually earns their stripes. As training camps go it's a joke. They all leave in worse condition than when they went in.

Not buying it.

 

Vhy don't vee vait and see?

 

Hell give these guys a chance and you'll never see them again.

 

So Citeh, United and Liverpool not just lose, but get wrecked. Lost in the story is Leicester also getting done 0-3 at home. Interesting weekend in the EPL to put it mildly. Now the international break.

The question is:

Ootrage!! Oder keine ootrage?

 

Villa have not improved drastically. Liverpool have not dis-improved. United are no more overrated. Spurs are Spurzy. Can't beat Newcastle at home but bash United? City bashed by Leicester bashed by .............West Ham.

Wolves.......bashed by...........West Ham, who are still a relegation-threatened side when you get right down to it.

Wolves could barely get past fucking Fulham today. Sheffield United built their season around a waterproof defence and are now suddenly down to.........bottom, with no points?

What's happening IMHO is Covid. No crowds. Players sick. Surreal atmospheres. Biological clocks all shot to shit. Referees now acting out different roles as there's no mob there to intimidate them or roar them on.

Guys who have spent the past 10 years playing August-May now coming off August-March, July-August, Break.......pack the games in.........games played at weird times {7.15pm SUNDAY?}

None of this excuses Liverpools performance today.

 

Watching Sellik currently like sitting in a dark, quiet stairway watching a drunk with no keys try to break down a thick door. It breaks eventually but you're just relieved, not impressed

 

I know the feeling. It's like a Vitali knockout. Dudes fall over from sheer exhaustion rather than anything cerebral.