Football 2015/16

[Gucci Piggy]

Lewis McGugan's a baller tbf. Dunno how he never made it out of the Championship.

[thetime]

Thank fuck for that, Rodgers will be there a bit longer.

[pink_triangle]

Its funny for all the talk about penalties being a lottery, I bet if you looked premier league v lower league in shootouts, the premier teams would be comfortably ahead.

[Gucci Piggy]

I'll just repeat for the thousandth time how I will never understand why a player of Coutinho's quality can't kick a ball into the corner of a goal from 12 yards out.

[pink_triangle]

I'll just repeat for the thousandth time how I will never understand why a player of Coutinho's quality can't kick a ball into the corner of a goal from 12 yards out.

How about Messi, I think his penalty record is 50% recently.

[kaosmark2]

I still don't like football then.

Me neither.

[Gucci Piggy]

How about Messi, I think his penalty record is 50% recently.

 

Yeah it's crazy. Really don't get it. Don't even need to hit it with any power, just place it in the top corner; keepers never dive there (imagine how hilarious it'd look for a keeper to dive in the top corner for a penalty and the ball to be placed into the middle of the goal). I hit penalties there when I played football and never missed one; I'm pretty sure Coutinho and Messi are more capable than I am.

[kingcrawler]

Moult scored, but he was an absolute shambles the rest of the time he was on. He genuinely had me howling with laughter at times.

I dunno, I thought he was an improvement on Theo Robinson in that he actually ran about. Robinson offered absolutely nothing.

[Gucci Piggy]

Oh my days you have Theo Robinson? He's absolute dogshite and wasn't even good enough as third choice for us in League One (bare in mind our second choice was also one of the worst strikers I've ever seen at this level).

Also saw Dean Saunders mentioned earlier. I liked him as manager; nice chap.

[kingcrawler]

Oh my days you have Theo Robinson? He's absolute dogshite and wasn't even good enough as third choice for us in League One (bare in mind our second choice was also one of the worst strikers I've ever seen at this level).

Also saw Dean Saunders mentioned earlier. I liked him as manager; nice chap.

I'm not a Motherwell fan but yeah, they signed him. To be fair to him he didn't have much support from midfield but he couldn't hold the ball up and was outpaced by the centre backs a few times. He was a strange signing anyway given they already had four strikers and another out on loan and I imagine his wages aren't that cheap. They've just sacked their manager so not sure how much he'll play now given they've got at least three better strikers imo.

[Gucci Piggy]

If he's getting outpaced by centre backs then he's screwed. The only slightly positive thing about him was he had pace.

[jackarmy]

Oh my days you have Theo Robinson? He's absolute dogshite and wasn't even good enough as third choice for us in League One (bare in mind our second choice was also one of the worst strikers I've ever seen at this level).

Also saw Dean Saunders mentioned earlier. I liked him as manager; nice chap.

 

Lovely bloke, awful manager. We dodged a real bullet when he turned us down and we appointed Martinez instead...

[ThomThomDrum]

This Martial lad is becoming a cause for concern for ABUs. For someone whose goal scoring record was nothing too impressive before he arrived, it seems he scores for fun. Scary.

Edited September 24, 2015 by ThomThomDrum

[eFestivals]

I watched the Spurs/Arse game last night, and gawd it was dull. Arsenal haven't found their mojo yet this season.

 

Which is probably a bad sign for other teams, given that they're mostly collecting the wins despite playing badly for them.

[pink_triangle]

Lovely bloke, awful manager. We dodged a real bullet when he turned us down and we appointed Martinez instead...

He is a nice bloke and very enthusiastic, however I think he thinks more highly of himself than results suggest. He also had obsession with bringing in "name" players like matt jansen, patrice suffo and some bloke called gyan who had played a europa league final, all terribly suited to the league. He eventually got it right, but it took a long time and endless players to get there.

[mjsell]

I watched the Spurs/Arse game last night, and gawd it was dull. Arsenal haven't found their mojo yet this season.

 

Which is probably a bad sign for other teams, given that they're mostly collecting the wins despite playing badly for them.

 

Wasn't it just. It looked like the players had never seen one another before. The only positive performances were Gibbs, Chambers and Sanchez off the bench. Flamini's two goal heroics masked the fact that him, Arteta and Ramsey were completely dominated in the middle of the park - struggled to put more that two passes together, which led the back four to just start playing long ball. It was dire to watch.

[zahidf]

I watched the Spurs/Arse game last night, and gawd it was dull. Arsenal haven't found their mojo yet this season.

 

Which is probably a bad sign for other teams, given that they're mostly collecting the wins despite playing badly for them.

 

Did you see the Liverpool game?

 

It was so bad, even Brendan scarpered before the press conference when he'd normally be talking about his side's 'character' and how tough Carlisle are...

[mjsell]

Did you see the Liverpool game?

 

It was so bad, even Brendan scarpered before the press conference when he'd normally be talking about his side's 'character' and how tough Carlisle are...

 

I heard Firmino got injured, how bad are we talking? Will he be out for a while?

[eFestivals]

Did you see the Liverpool game?

 

It was so bad, even Brendan scarpered before the press conference when he'd normally be talking about his side's 'character' and how tough Carlisle are...

 

I caught the last ten minutes of each half .... the last ten of the first looked OK-ish, the last ten of the 2nd was dire.

 

I was just settling down in bed with the laptop for extra time when the stream died, and all of the other streams of it died too. The plonkers streaming it had set it on a timer, and not considered extra time.

Edited September 24, 2015 by eFestivals

[The Nal]

In fairness, Liverpool had 47 chances, 16 on target. But most were speculative efforts. Never heard Anfield so quiet. And there were huge queues for taxis outside Anfield while the game was still going on.

 

Anyway, the new Henry!!

 

GIF: Martial finishes the game off with another goal to make it 3-0. pic.twitter.com/P53pqYSc8F

— United Digest (@UTDdigest)

September 23, 2015

Edited September 24, 2015 by The Nal

[TheGayTent]

Naughty naughty arsenal

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34347108

[mjsell]

Naughty naughty arsenal

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34347108

 

Idiots, the least they could have done was spell a funny word with remaining letters.

[Gucci Piggy]

Lovely bloke, awful manager. We dodged a real bullet when he turned us down and we appointed Martinez instead...

Yep. He took us over when we were bottom of the Championship and made us even worse for the rest of the season. He brought in the likes of Pascal Chimbonda, El Hadji Diouf and Frederic Piquionne (along with a load more big name signings) who were all absolutely rancid and stunk the place out.

Although to be fair to him, I'm not sure those signings were his decisions. We got in bed with Willy McKay and started this "experiment" which obviously crashed and burned.

The next season he actually had us heading for promotion until he got nabbed by Wolves, but he did so by destroying the good, passing brand of football we'd established and turned us into a dull, workmanlike team who overpowered everyone else.

Who do you support who offered him a job?

[TheGayTent]

Jack army is a bit of a clue I'd guess...

[jackarmy]

Yep. He took us over when we were bottom of the Championship and made us even worse for the rest of the season. He brought in the likes of Pascal Chimbonda, El Hadji Diouf and Frederic Piquionne (along with a load more big name signings) who were all absolutely rancid and stunk the place out.

Although to be fair to him, I'm not sure those signings were his decisions. We got in bed with Willy McKay and started this "experiment" which obviously crashed and burned.

The next season he actually had us heading for promotion until he got nabbed by Wolves, but he did so by destroying the good, passing brand of football we'd established and turned us into a dull, workmanlike team who overpowered everyone else.

Who do you support who offered him a job?

 

Swansea - he was bookies favourite, think he'd just been sacked along with Souness at Newcastle.

 

We appointed Martinez, at the time still playing in midfield for Chester in League 2, and the rest is history...