Football 2020/2021

[jyoung]

Scoring goals is great. Unless you concede more than you score. 🙂

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, thetime said:

 

What has that got to do with anything? It is not a rule. The postponement benefited Everton more than City.

[thetime]

14 minutes ago, jyoung said:

Scoring goals is great. Unless you concede more than you score. 🙂

Bet the top 6 love playing Leeds, absolutely love it. 

[pink_triangle]

35 minutes ago, kaosmark2 said:

I think you're conflating 2 different issues. Restricting debate is not the same as thinking people should take responsibility for the consequences of what they tweet.

You mentioned Katie Hopkins, and a large criticism of her is that she refuses to stop inciting hate. Ditto Priti Patel. 

The right to say something doesn't mean there's no responsibility not to. 

See I don't think I am. A large proportion of the country agree with what the likes of Patel says, we personally don't. At the same time Patel gets a level of  abuse that she wouldn't get for saying exactly the same thing as a man. Who is to play the deciding role which woman need protecting and which don't? Which woman views are acceptable and which not?

I think if you are a pundit and you say something about a player or team then that player or team deserve a right to reply. As I have said no issues with criminal action against anyone abusing on social media.

[Homer]

Celtic been a bit unlucky here. They hammered Rangers in the first half.

[Homer]

... and then they concede. Title to Rangers then!

[Gnomicide]

Love how when things go another teams way the whole game is bent and it's all a conspiracy against Man City.

Everyone at the top level is getting together to make sure plucky little underdogs Citeh never win another title.

[kaosmark2]

43 minutes ago, pink_triangle said:

See I don't think I am. A large proportion of the country agree with what the likes of Patel says, we personally don't. At the same time Patel gets a level of  abuse that she wouldn't get for saying exactly the same thing as a man. Who is to play the deciding role which woman need protecting and which don't? Which woman views are acceptable and which not?

I think if you are a pundit and you say something about a player or team then that player or team deserve a right to reply. As I have said no issues with criminal action against anyone abusing on social media.

Very few clubs bother with calling out pundits on social media. Leeds were either being ignorant or dismissive of the consequences. The fact they left it up after she started getting abuse, without any sort of statement saying that anyone found doing it wouldn't be welcome at games in the future, suggests the latter to me. 

[Paul ™]

47 minutes ago, Homer said:

... and then they concede. Title to Rangers then!

Sure thing now.

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, Homer said:

Celtic been a bit unlucky here. They hammered Rangers in the first half.

 

3 hours ago, Homer said:

... and then they concede. Title to Rangers then!

Commentator's curse strikes again then eh?

[Gnomicide]

It's blatant cheating, the game's outright bent.

 

[jyoung]

19 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

It's blatant cheating, the game's outright bent.

 

Can see both sides, man. I wasn't really calling for a pen. We were so bad today...

[pink_triangle]

I hope these idiotic footballers breaking Covid guidance are going to be properly disciplined and not just a slap on the wrist.

[squirrelarmy]

1 hour ago, Gnomicide said:

It's blatant cheating, the game's outright bent.

 

At least that one was actually inside the area. 

[Guest]

9 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

It's blatant cheating, the game's outright bent.

 

Because when you look at it from the other angle, you can see it's not a penalty.

[Gnomicide]

2 hours ago, eastynh said:

Because when you look at it from the other angle, you can see it's not a penalty.

And when you looked at the Pogba incident, you could see the defender knocked his leg which forced him to trip over himself.

Was it a penalty? I don't know but I can see why it was given. What it wasn't is blatant cheating.

[Guest]

26 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

And when you looked at the Pogba incident, you could see the defender knocked his leg which forced him to trip over himself.

Was it a penalty? I don't know but I can see why it was given. What it wasn't is blatant cheating.

You think 33 penalties in less than a season and a half is normal? The Pogba one was blatant cheating. He was not fouled, remember you have to be fouled to get a penalty. Just like the Chelsea player was not fouled. Difference is Pogba flicked his own foot and flopped over.

I'd Pogba a cheat? The evidence suggests he is.

https://twitter.com/johnmerro1/status/1345124353491537920?s=20

[eFestivals]

1 hour ago, eastynh said:

I'd Pogba a cheat? The evidence suggests he is.

Is Sterling a cheat? The evidence suggests he is.

Etc, etc, etc.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, eFestivals said:

Is Sterling a cheat? The evidence suggests he is.

Etc, etc, etc.

He has dived a few times and it is disgraceful.

[Homer]

19 hours ago, pink_triangle said:

I hope these idiotic footballers breaking Covid guidance are going to be properly disciplined and not just a slap on the wrist.

Agreed - though the fact that Mourinho broke the rules himself before may undermine that somewhat!

[Homer]

Weird to have a pre-set free kick routine relying on Ings pulling off a Van Basten with his wrong foot!

[Gnomicide]

Laugh a minute this year's league.

[jyoung]

Looks like we will have a real title race anyway.

[thetime]

👌

 

[thetime]

😂