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General Football and Sport / Re: Premier League Fixtures 27th - 28th April

« Last post by Andar on Today at 04:36:57 pm »

Any chance Forest do us a favour here…

Think today might be now or never.

Wolves and West Ham are routine home wins in a title run-in. Fulham away is the type of away game you want in a run-in. Little old Craven Cottage with their muted atmosphere.

Spurs will clearly take a beating too. Everton had City during 13/14 and the strange atmosphere transmitted to the players and City strolled that one. Expect the same from the Spurs players.

This is the game you are relying on. Forest are desperate, fans might put up an atmosphere and they might park up a bus with a lucky goal on the counter.

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General Football and Sport / Re: The Snooker thread

« Last post by sinnermichael on Today at 04:36:34 pm »

Allen vs Higgins has been a really hard watch. Both really struggling.

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General Football and Sport / Re: Arsenal: Top of the divers league

« Last post by John C on Today at 04:36:30 pm »

A very popular euphemism is winning mentality.

There's a saying in another language I speak: "If it's you, it's  _______. If it's us, it's _______."

In this case: "If it's you, it's winning mentality. If it's us, it's cheating."

Now that we're probably out of it, at this stage of the season I'm one of the few that would rather you lot won it over City. Fuck them getting 4 on the trot and seeing them set of c*nts celebrating again.
You've got a good team mate, they've put a solid winning campaign in for their manager. Quite an achievement to sustain if you manage to succeed if City drop some points.
But please don't come on here gaslighting us.
Arteta has assembled a right bunch of wingeing diving fucking cheats, make no mistake about that.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: PL: West Ham 2 vs 2 Liverpool Bowen 43’Robbo 48’ og (tit) 65’ Antonio 77’

« Last post by rossipersempre on Today at 04:36:16 pm »

'There are skills which are interchangeable between working in the prison service and refereeing,' said Taylor, who worked in Strangeways HMP in Manchester before becoming a full-time professional referee.

'It's not about red and yellow cards, it's about stopping things happening as much as you can. Trying to be proactive.

'Working in a prison meant I needed a lot of communication and management qualities to deal with daily situations.

'I specialised in control and restrain techniques, educating staff on the best ways to control violent individuals and difficult situations that arise."

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Hold on, isn't the job of a referee to be reactive to what happens on the pitch, not proactive, prejudging everything and seeking to justify it afterwards?

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General Football and Sport / Re: Premier League Fixtures 27th - 28th April

« Last post by Crosby Nick on Today at 04:36:06 pm »

Had my telly on mute after the end of the N London derby. Just after kick off at Forest, I unmuted it; one word from Drury, back to mute.

Was it someone’s forename.

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General Football and Sport / Re: Premier League Fixtures 27th - 28th April

« Last post by Crosby Nick on Today at 04:35:27 pm »

I didn't watch a single minute of it.
Who cheated and what did M Oliver do?

Nothing too out of the ordinary John. Just the usual Arsenal set piece shenanigans and going down easily. And Oliver bottling big calls but this time VAR (correctly) decided that swinging and missing the ball and kicking the player in the box is in fact a penalty. Who knew.

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General Football and Sport / Re: LIVERPOOL TRANSFER THREAD - 2023 (FSG posts = get muted) - No Mbappé

« Last post by KC7 on Today at 04:35:16 pm »

Problem here is many don't see Trent as a "6" without a very strong, powerful DM alongside him.

And Mac Allister better as an "8".

Is the solution, playing Sboz wide forward, off a striker, swapping Macca there and then you
sign a beast to mind the shop alongside Trent?

Mental how some haven't learned a thing from the past two seasons.

Trent and Mac as the two deep midfielders next season and Mr Slot will be looking for a new job before the season is out.

No DM means no defensive protection means no restriction to the opposition to our back line.

The one real regret is that Jurgen isn't staying one more season as that's the position he would definitely target (did at the end of the window but that got desperate and ultimately we got what we got). That one quality addition and we'd have been good to go. No more having the advanced midfielders (Mac, Jones and and Dom) be restricted by having to stay close to the slow 6 so as not to leave him exposed, no more moving Mac into a position which is alien to him,  just a functioning midfield with a quality 6 doing his job, helping the back line, and allowing the 8s to do theres without having to babysit him.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: The corruption fallacy - they’re all out to get us!

« Last post by Eeyore on Today at 04:35:12 pm »

I understand why he didn't. But it might explain why it's not the lead story in some papers and Salah's petulance is. If Klopp had spoken out and made an issue of it then the papers would have followed. Keeping silent is not the best way to whip up a storm.

Fair enough.

I will ask again.

The million pound question for me is whether you think Taylor deliberately denying Liverpool a goal scoring opportunity was bias. I mean Taylor did absolutely nothing wrong. He indicated to the keeper to play on. He wasn't covering up his own mistake when he cheated and told Areola to go to ground.

So was it an act of affection to Areola or was it just his bias coming to the fore and he didn't want Liverpool to score from a mistake. Furthermore if Ali had done the same thing do you think he would have blown his whistle told our physios to come on and told Ali to go to ground.

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General Football and Sport / Re: Premier League Fixtures 27th - 28th April

« Last post by Robinred on Today at 04:35:04 pm »

Had my telly on mute after the end of the N London derby. Just after kick off at Forest, I unmuted it; one word from Drury, back to mute.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by Garlic Red on Today at 04:34:25 pm »

Slot as a Head Coach will almost certainly have less responsibilities and power compared to Rodgers or Klopp.

Maybe that’s a good thing? You’ve said in the past you’ve felt like Klopp burned out due to a lack of supporting structure around him at the top, you also said you felt it was integral we returned to something like the past to avoid the same happening to a future manager.

What if those that are running the club have felt that giving the manager/HC that additional responsibility is too demanding on them and potentially impacts how they do their job - or impacts the stress levels that come with the job?

At the end of the day, Slot doesn’t have to agree to working under the structure, so discussing it as a potential issue seems silly if he’s agreeing to come here and work under it. I personally think it’s a positive move and clinging onto English football’s traditional values/titles is pointless, especially when we’re not bringing someone who’s worked in English football.