Other games thread

[Lord Duckhunter]

Lol Roy Keane. Come on Roy, don’t sit on the fence, tell us what you really think....

[Baird of the land]

Keane’s rant is over the top but I do agree with Keene that de gea is overrated. Living off form from a few years ago.

[Jimmy_D]

Great save by Lloris, thought that was in!

[Jimmy_D]

Looked pretty soft that penalty to me.

[Lighthouse]

As funny as it would have been to give that against Jose, it does show good use of VAR.

[Jimmy_D]

1 minute ago, Lighthouse said:

As funny as it would have been to give that against Jose, it does show good use of VAR.

Yep, would have been a terrible decision.

[Lighthouse]

Looking at the table, I’d forgotten how in the sh*t West Ham were. Come on Wolves.

[igsey]

Good to see United reverting to the old "if you can't beat them, spend as long in the box with the ball trying to draw a penalty as possible" tactic. 11 pens this season, we've had 2.

[stevegrant]

53 minutes ago, igsey said:

Good to see United reverting to the old "if you can't beat them, spend as long in the box with the ball trying to draw a penalty as possible" tactic. 11 pens this season, we've had 2.

To be fair, with VAR, any that are clearly not a penalty would get overturned, as we saw this evening. And Man United spent a long time in Spurs' penalty area this evening because Spurs spent the entire second half defending as if they were a non-league team defending a fluke 1-0 lead against a Championship side, camped in their own penalty area and just booting it 50 yards away every time they won the ball back. Kane was clearly nowhere near fit, it's ridiculous that so many managers decide he has to play every minute of every game, and then act surprised that he keeps getting injured.

[tajjuk]

It was a soft pen, VAR doesn't over turn soft pens because they are not obvious mistakes. I mean for such a strong player that Pogba supposedly is, he went down super easily. A bit clumsy from Dier, but not an obvious foul IMO, I bet if that had been out of the box Pogba would have kept going and not gone down. 

I could easily see that not being given for smaller clubs against bigger clubs, which I think is the point, VAR might clear up blunders, but it can't do much about the refs going like 60-40 on decisions to certain clubs, when they are more 50/50. 

[whelk]

Feels like I should be betting on every game to end 0-0

[Shroppie]

Watford dragging Leicester down to their physical game of hoof and chase.

[igsey]

Chilwell's asking price just gone up £5m

[skintsaint]

19 minutes ago, igsey said:

Chilwell's asking price just gone up £5m

Depends how you look at it, up until that point it had gone down £5m as was getting skinned time and time again during the game.

[skintsaint]

Arsenal keeper just done ACL ..sounds painful.

[Jimmy_D]

That’ll probably extend into a fair bit of next season too, looked nasty.

[skintsaint]

nice goal arsenal..Pepe.

[SFC Forever]

Smallbone could save us spending money on a new midfielder

 

[SW5 SAINT]

1 hour ago, Jimmy_D said:

That’ll probably extend into a fair bit of next season too, looked nasty.

Perhaps they should ask us to name our price re Forster.....

[skintsaint]

Brighton snatch a winner...from the guy who crocked the keeper.

[Jimmy_D]

That was a great move for that winning goal

[skintsaint]

Kicking off at the end, think the guy was giving it large at the Arsenal players. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

Great finish. 
 

Arsenal are such cockwombles. Bottle jobs. 

[whelk]

Nice touch with the booing sounds too

[Jimmy_D]

That post match interview with Maupay will have gone down well with Arsenal fans! 

[Jimmy_D]

West Ham have a bit of an advantage here, their fans are still about the same distance from the pitch as they normally are...

[whelk]

I’ve yet to watch a game where the commentator hasn’t made a joke about crowded penalty area. “No social distancing there” guffaw guffaw chortle chortle 

[whelk]

And those West Ham masks look like pants

[skintsaint]

get in ...Wolves score.

[skintsaint]

orrrrr that 2nd goal, what a hit.

[Jimmy_D]

Fantastic finish!

[OttawaSaint]

Haha! Hope West Ham get relegated.

[Micky]

16 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

Haha! Hope West Ham get relegated.

They've got Spurs and Chelsea next, and have to play 3 of the relegation threatened side's as well.  Could be difficult to get points in that scenario so they might struggle to stay up.  They've also got United away and Burnley at home, not easy. 

[Lighthouse]

I reckon the safety line will be pathetically low this year. It’ll probably transpire that we were already safe on 34 points.

[Lord Duckhunter]

Boscombe starting well. lol 

[stevegrant]

I'm sure everyone was saying that when Bournemouth get all their players back fit again (i.e. when David Brooks gets back fit again), they'd fly up the league and clear of safety. They have been absolutely abysmal here so far

[Lord Duckhunter]

2 minutes ago, stevegrant said:

I'm sure everyone was saying that when Bournemouth get all their players back fit again (i.e. when David Brooks gets back fit again), they'd fly up the league and clear of safety. They have been absolutely abysmal here so far

Brooks has been head & shoulders above the rest of them. 

[stevegrant]

Just now, Lord Duckhunter said:

Brooks has been head & shoulders above the rest of them. 

A very low bar, tbf . It was also his man who he let run into the area unmarked for the second goal...

[Suhari]

Bournemouth look very poor.

Don't they have some really tough fixtures left too?

[waylander]

4 minutes ago, Suhari said:

Bournemouth look very poor.

Don't they have some really tough fixtures left too?

Away to Wolves next 

[Lets B Avenue]

4 minutes ago, Suhari said:

Bournemouth look very poor.

Don't they have some really tough fixtures left too?

Yes. Us.

[stevegrant]

9 minutes ago, Lets B Avenue said:

Yes. Us.

Funny how things turn out - not that long ago they were looking forward to sending us down on the penultimate weekend of the season.

[Lets B Avenue]

Just now, stevegrant said:

Funny how things turn out - not that long ago they were looking forward to sending us down on the penultimate weekend of the season.

The sad thing is we won't be there to see us do it to them.

[beatlesaint]

The banner behind the goal states “Eddie Had A Dream”

More like a nightmare so far 

[Suhari]

Not sure if I'd prefer Bournemouth or West Ham to go down.

Both, hopefully.

[Lets B Avenue]

Just now, beatlesaint said:

The banner behind the goal states “Eddie Had A Dream”

More like a nightmare so far 

He needs "Peter Crouch to Save his Summer".

I'm glad I don't.

[stevegrant]

1 minute ago, Lets B Avenue said:

The sad thing is we won't be there to see us do it to them.

I strongly suspect there will be a few people down there for it if that's how events transpire  

[Lord Duckhunter]

What on Earth is the point of those 2 birds waffling on at half time. 

[Suhari]

Just now, Lord Duckhunter said:

What on Earth is the point of those 2 birds waffling on at half time. 

Eye candy?

[Give it to Ron]

2 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

What on Earth is the point of those 2 birds waffling on at half time. 

BLM Birds love moaning