Today's Football 2017-18 Season

CahillsCornerFlag · August 13, 2017

Kane the absolute ballbag just cost me £30 with that miss. Why is he so turbo gash at the start of the year.

Nymzee · August 13, 2017

Fake keeper makes a good save (from an embarrassing defensive error) then the defence completely lets him down at a corner and Strasbourg go 1-0 up.

NewRadical · August 13, 2017

What an utter moron Shelvey is. He'll never learn from his mistakes either.

Benitez mistaking faux hardman chest thumping for actual leadership qualities.

How I would love Newcastle to go straight back down to the Championship.

Yid4life · August 13, 2017

Q.E.D

Rook · August 13, 2017

flibbyflob said:
If I was at Barcelona i'd want Eriksen or Alli more than Coutinho. Both far superior players.

counterpoint: Coutinho makes the RS worse

Armel · August 13, 2017

Nymzee said:
Fake keeper makes a good save (from an embarrassing defensive error) then the defence completely lets him down at a corner and Strasbourg go 1-0 up.

Koller was a really decent stand in keeper. Really liked Koller.

Nymzee · August 13, 2017

Striker-keeper swaps with defensive mid player to try get something back. Ref gives away ridiculous penalty after one of the best slide tackles I've ever seen. 2-0 Strasbourg with 10 mins left. Game over.

Refereeing standards in French football are very average again so far this season.

kenada_blue · August 13, 2017

flibbyflob said:
If I was at Barcelona i'd want Eriksen or Alli more than Coutinho. Both far superior players.

This. All day long with Eriksen

He's better than Countinho I think but Barca aren't interested cos he's not called Eriksoninho

Nymzee · August 13, 2017

3-0

Long range effort. Looked better than it was. Proper keeper would have saved it. Mental game this.

Scouse · August 13, 2017

Seamus Colemole said:
Rest of the law? That's in the bit i quoted, as was the fact that the Watford scorers left leg was closer to the goal than the ball and 2 liverpool defenders, therefor offside.

No it doesn't. Probably 99% of the time it does work out that way that the ball is played forward to an offside player in general play. But it's still possible for a ball to be played backward and a player to be offside, direction of the ball is not mentioned in the law.

We're gonna have to agree to disagree on this one mate. As far as I'm concerned you can only be given offside if a ball is played forward.

gonetomorrow · August 13, 2017

kenada_blue said:
This. All day long with Eriksen

He's better than Countinho I think but Barca aren't interested cos he's not called Eriksoninho

Maybe they'd take Rossoninho off our hands.

Osamabindiesel · August 13, 2017

"Chicharito is an intelligent player" No... I think that is his biggest fault. He is always offsides. I think he will be decent for West Ham, but he doesn't time his runs well.