Will having a VARiety of threads work? - televised football 10-12 Aug 2019

[Guy Profumo]

What rot. If someone assumes disrespect because someone else isn't conforming to some anachronistic and childish dress code, they're undeserving of respect.

And who's claiming disrespect.

I'm saying it's respect if you bother to turn up properly attired.

And it's respect for yourselves too.

[Guy Profumo]

What rot. If someone assumes disrespect because someone else isn't conforming to some anachronistic and childish dress code, they're undeserving of respect.

Then we will disagree.

It is my contention you are incorrect.

However, I respect your opinion.

Wrong though it is.

[delicatemoth]

The instant he signed for Man Utd, Harry Maguire acquired the face of a young Graham Taylor.

[delicatemoth]

An old-fashioned indisputable penalty for Manchester United is whacked home by the likeable Rashford. Chelsea have started with Kanté on the bench for some reason.

[hobbes]

Anyway, Chelsea should be a couple of goals up here and are playing much better football. Unfortunately, they have a Kurt Zouma.

[hobbes]

But this is about the right and proper behaviour, and respect for the competition and your opponents.

What rot. If someone assumes disrespect because someone else isn't conforming to some anachronistic and childish dress code, they're undeserving of respect.

[Ray de Galles]

This PL fifth/sixth play-off has started off with a blizzard of misplaced passes, missed tackles and terrible first touches. Mount looks the best player on the pitch by some margin so far.

[Guy Profumo]

Compare and contrast.

Ole Gunnar Solskjćr.

Properly dressed.

Frank Lampard.

Not.

Club blazer and tie.

No ifs.

No buts.

No argument.

I might be a paid up member of the ABUs.

But this is about the right and proper behaviour, and respect for the competition and your opponents.

[delicatemoth]

Final score Leicester 0 Wolves 0, and I have to say Leicester were lucky with the handball decision on Wolves' non-goal. Their manager reminds me of Pluto Shervington.

[gt3]

Have got the wingco over at gt3 towers to watch the Newcastle v Arsenal game... he's just apologised for making me sit through that...

[Guy Profumo]

"It's so comfortable for the visitors"


No, no, no, no, no, no.

At 1-0 up, you can always be caught on the break.

Newcastle Utd. are fighting for every ball in midfield and it can go wrong.

Who is this idiot commentator?

[Jah Womble]

Arse take the lead and Sky’s ‘neutral’ pundit can barely contain his excitement.

[delicatemoth]

A so-called handball. Wolves very hard done by imo.

[delicatemoth]

Oh, it's been VARred off. Not sure why.

[delicatemoth]

All Wolves in the second half and now they've taken the lead.

[Guy Profumo]

And apparently according to the tellyscreen overvoice, Newcastle United will be happier with 0-0 at half time.


Despite being at home, and having less of the possession albeit with about as many chances.

Against Arsenal.

Ok. A team tipped to challenge, but really, if you want to regard yourselves as one of the "big beasts", you need to do better.

[Jah Womble]

That was one of the grimmest halves of PL football that I think I have ever seen.

[delicatemoth]

Half time 0-0, as befits two Proper Adult Teams with Ambitions of Breaking Into The Top Six. Leicester have had slightly the better of it without creating any real chances.

[Guy Profumo]

Mkhitaryan.

Rightly booked.

Waving finger at referee.

Same old Arsenal.

ALWAYS cheating.

[Voidoid]

Game management with subs, dead ball situations and so on is endemic nowadays. Do Sunday league teams do it?

It happened in the 6 a side league I played in until recently, when an opposition team was doing it in a half hour game whilst beating is 5-0 I thought I can’t be bothered with this anymore and we just play casually between friends now

[delicatemoth]

Well, my unseemly boosterism seen on the PL thread has dissipated, but I'm still looking forward to watching Leicester this season. Berbaslug will be pleased to hear that Choudhury is in today's team.

[Jah Womble]

But the ‘actual’ media - for all the nonsense they do spout - don’t tend to take the ‘Spurs have bottled the PL title’-line. For the simple reason that Spurs have never really been in a position to win it. (The last time we were actually top was for one week in September 2014.)

In my experience, that perpetual and inaccurate taunt is used solely by anonymous keyboard drones.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Good old cut-n’’-paste social media is alive and well for another season, I see.

Don't forget the actual media. Oh the discussion of how Spurs' season was now over would rage and rage, until one or both of man utd and chelsea dropped points in their game later today And then it would be them, with spurs forgotten. Unless it is Frank that loses in which case the newspapers will blame the club for not buying him anyone (yes I know)

[Jah Womble]

Has Ben Davies not recovered from his groin operation yet and where is Sessegnon?

The latter had a minor hamstring issue.

I did something similar. I was consoling myself that the knowledge that the lost life could be set against Spurs' season being over after one game, and all the headlines tomorrow would have been "Last train to Cucksville." As spurs came to terms with bottling the title. You know the usual run of such things.

Good old cut-n’’-paste social media is alive and well for another season, I see.

[Glass Half Empty]

Son, who has a greater understanding of social media shite than I reckons that the Lineker Sheffield slip was deliberate following some on-line bollox earlier.