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12 minutes ago, charlierc said:
Oh let's be fair - it's been magnified because the decision went in Manchester United's favour. I distinctly recall people going the other way when Chelsea had a last minute equaliser disallowed by VAR for a similar offside against Leicester in the FA Cup final a few years ago and praising it then for prizing a trophy out of a rich six club's hands. And indeed if we're talking about VAR antics, I'm actually not 100% sure it was that strong a penalty for Coventry in added time that forced extra-time in the first place. Certainly not as strong as one of the ones Forest had turned down at Goodison Park.
Of course every club has their scars from VAR. I was furious by a very generous handball penalty given to PSG when Newcastle were seconds from winning at the Parc des Princes in the Champions League group stage, but there's been a lot of poor calls throughout the season both for and against multiple clubs. I'm more bemused as to why Forest, who are starting to rack up quite the whinging charge-sheet given they have sent the PGMOL at least 3 letters of complaint this season, feel the need to go further. To say nothing of what their options actually are either. Essentially it's accusing the PGMOL of outright corruption when that referee's priority will be just doing good enough to keep their employment.
Like all decisions if it works to our advantage, we are not complaining. Can't remember any uproar with VAR and how they are spoiling football on this one. A decision that may change the course of the title.
its united, i get that.
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2 hours ago, charlierc said:
Certainly VAR piping up and disallowing the fairytale moment that would've been Coventry knocking out Man Utd in the semis for a 1mm offside isn't exactly going to help with calming the "f**k VAR" crowd. Doubly so after Man Utd won the shoot-out to set up another boring-boring all-rich six FA Cup final.
Let's be honest, is it the decision that people are up in arms about? Or that it went in uniteds favour?
I'm sure majority of clubs have suffered the same. Remember garnacho v arsenal.
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A few let's say suspect decisions, potential corruption in the Premier League.
None bigger than michael oliver being on the pay roll for city.
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1 hour ago, billybigballs said:
Apparently, at Coachella last night, Damon Alburn announced on stage that it was Blur's last ever gig together. Sounds like they're safely counted out of Thursday's announcement!
Would be a bit weird having the last gig at coachella.
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22 hours ago, charlierc said:
Emi Martinez doing a classic shithousing his way to the glory.
He is one of those players that fans love to death, apposing fans just hate. A bit like Cantona, Costa, Tevez, Shearer that sort of player.
Love a sh*t housery player myself.
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I would of thought No Doubt being a really strange headliner to be announced. Almost all festivals announced already, Sziget not being one of the most prestigious festivals anymore. I could understand if it was say glastonbury or Roskilde but Sziget? I have my doubts.
I can understand Blur more, due to them doing the festival scene last year. Saying that I don't see them not being announced because of Coachella.
Sugarcubes reunion....
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That extra champions league place doesn't look promising.
Interesting that the media are leading it with man utd hopes, United have no chance of top 5. 😄
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4 hours ago, DareToDibble said:
I have no doubt the top 2 in PL history are Ferguson and Wenger, but the fact people so criminally underrate Klopp is difficult to understand.
There's no getting away from the fact he has only won 1 title. Even throughout his managerial career he has only won 3 over a 23 year career and 1 champions league. I'm sure Klopp would of liked 5 titles at 74 points, rather than 1 at 90 points.
That's a poor return, for people to claim he is an all time great manager. That should be for the likes of paisley, fergie, capello, mourinho etc etc. The greats win titles, year in year out. They find a way to conquer new challenges and rise to it.
One manager that is underrated is Ancelotti, now that guy is an all time great.
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Are we still getting a headliner for the 1st day? Are people sure it's not tom odell? 😃
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11 hours ago, Akujin said:
What do you mean? No Doubt is American so obvs they know them better than Blur, and No Doubt has 6-7 hits, Blur literally has one song that anyone knows outside the UK.
Or I am misunderstanding what you are saying.
I don't uderstand this though. Why would they headline festivals throughout Europe if they know just song 2.
Stone Roses had the same issue at coachella on there reunion.
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4 hours ago, DareToDibble said:
Klopp finished on 90+ points twice and didn't win the league both times, he was up against an absolute juggernaut in Pep's Man City. Any other era and he would have won 3 or 4 titles in a row.
I'm not going to compare him to Fergie who (it pains me to say) is the best ever but I think Klopp is criminally underrated as a result of losing out on 2 PL titles to an incredible Man City team and 2 CL finals to Madrid. If things had gone slightly differently he could be leaving with 3 PL titles and 3 CL titles.
No one gives this slack to Wenger and coming up against fergies utd.
Klopp return for a team compared to the all time great teams, is average to say the least.
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2 minutes ago, Neil said:
In which case Liverpool fans can blame utd for the PREM wilderness years.
You will be getting used to that from next season, you can come and join us.
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2 minutes ago, Neil said:
Love that utd fans want to blame Liverpool for utd being sh*t
Not at all, it put all English clubs back 10 years.
That's not even a debate. Leeds, Blackburn, arsenal and utd all struggled post heysel in the European Cup. Although both Arsenal and utd did well in the lesser Cup winners Cup. I'm sure @pink_trianglecan remember the wrexham game in 90/91.
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5 minutes ago, Neil said:
And utd missed a decade before that cos they were too sh*t
Fergie wasn't there then though, only arrived season after Heysel. That put English clubs 10 years behind the rest of Europe.
Which carries a bit of weight, as no English side got to the European Cup Final until 1999 after the ban. This was after dominating from the mid 70s to the mid 80s.
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13 minutes ago, Neil said:
In a tenth of the time so a bigger return
Aaahhh moving the goal posts.
Let's not forget fergie missed a chunk, after the scousers couldn't behave in a european cup final.
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13 minutes ago, Neil said:
if those european finals had been won,it would look hugely different. the success was getting to those finals in the first place - many more than god-fergie managed.
Fergie got to 5 european finals whilst at utd, 4 champions leagues and 1 Cup winners cup.
Klopp got to 3, 2 champions league and a europa.
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1 hour ago, Newjem said:
I don't know what he expected tbh. Coachella crowd is generally not the greatest, they've never hit the charts in the US and most of the crowd were little kids (or not even born) when Blur were at their peak. Don't think it would be much better at Sziget nowadays, most of the people (except the Brits ofc) would only know Song 2.
Wouldn't the same be said about No Doubt, who went down well.
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1 hour ago, charlierc said:
I mean, I'd take such a trophy haul as a fan of a club that hasn't won anything big in a while.
Also more than Man Utd have won since Klopp arrived in England tbf. If for different reasons. But I get the point that he arguably could, maybe perhaps should, have won more, even if Guardiola's winning machine was a bit of a substantial opponent.
It's no bigger to win more than utd last 10 years.
He should of won more title, with the plaudits he is getting. One league title, and a covid 1 to boot. Great managers raise there game to conquer the likes of city's money. Fergie did it with Roman and his billions.
Klopp has been a success, but not as great as people say for me.
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On 4/13/2024 at 5:39 PM, Tom Lobo said:
Werchter timetable is out now. 30 bands for me to see in 4 days. For Sziget I have 3 bands til now for 6 days. What a f....
I think it's the worst werchter for a long time.
Werchter is just about the lineups, it's quite poor and dated imo.
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3 minutes ago, Neil said:
That's not how I was thinking it .
I was more wondering that if he moves on does he leave his troubles behind?
Depends on the club.
He will go to a top club next summer I'd imagine, more than likely Spain or Italy. Can't see where he would go to in this country. City? Nah Liverpool? Nah Arsenal? Nah.
Then you are perhaps going down the leagues, just don't see it.
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2 hours ago, Neil said:
according to the beeb's gossip today, this from the mail apparently.....
they say several prem clubs are looking at signing Mason Greenwood, and i was thinking that would be signing themselves some trouble, and i was wondering if hes less toxic to other clubs than he is utd? will his reputation follow him, and lead to protests at a prem club that signs him.?
I thought the football community was appalled about his actions, rather than being appaled by his actions because he plays for utd.
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1 hour ago, ConfidenceMan said:
Don't take this as gospel on policies - but Mitski just posted on her Instagram that "all ages are welcome".
So... Might be in luck.
Thanks for this, you've made her very happy indeed. 😄
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On 4/10/2024 at 12:57 PM, kristofm said:
there are awful ones and there are great deals. crunchy and zing are always good stuff, i think i paid about 10-ish quid for a burger+fries+sauce combination in both places. during the day you can go and visit smokey monkies (1 stop away) with decent smoked meat (they are also present at the festival but of course with much more expensive offers), there's auchan for cheap lunch as well. Aldi inside the festival is a good choice for dinner if you don't care about the headliner that much (no huge queues at that time).
It certainly isn't a cheap festival anymore. A lot of the initial boxes to get me to sziget a few years ago, would stay unticked now.
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Marginal.
Offside yes, offside is offside no matter how marginal or what team it is.