Jimmy_D

We’ve survived from worse positions than this

Holy ****!!!!

Alcaraz off!? Unless that’s actually an injury as well as changing the shape, just seems odd.

Well, we’re in the game. Ref is a ****.

So close to 3-1...

Ok. What?

First half we played well and it felt like we’d get something out of the game, then we concede a scrappy goal almost out of nowhere and completely fall apart.

Meanwhile, England’s unbeaten run under Weigman ended at 30 games by Australia. Incredible achievement, and better now than in the World Cup, but a well below par performance tonight and no doubt England will have to figure out a way to counter those sort of tactics in the World Cup this summer.

Thought he must have been offside, but he’s behind the ball when it’s headed back across. The bounce makes it slightly awkward with Konate having to try to chest it in, and Ramsdale makes an absolute world-class save.

Bloody hell, what a game that turned out to be

Oh I’ve no doubt that Robertson is far from innocent, looks like he’s been swearing at and insulting that lino all the first half as well, but I don’t think they’ll be able to let that sort of reaction from an official just slide.

Justice!

That looked more like a trip by the Liverpool player

Blimey, probably be a while before we see that lino officiating again.

Liverpool - Arsenal turning into a proper battle here, second half should be interesting

Partly age as well, but I don’t think he’s ever got back to the level he was at before the ACL injury.

Sounds like they’d be open to negotiating reasonable terms to end the fighting. I’m sure we could rely on them to keep their side of any deal too.

If you can breeze past a few posts on this thread about Sholing without complaining I’m sure you can manage the same for other matches you’re not interested in.

Had a fair bit of coverage back when they extended the unbeaten run to 27 games. Also Google have done a doodle for yesterday’s match. https://g.co/kgs/JoJZpJ

Made to work for it more than they would have wanted after scoring that fantastic goal, but winning a penalty shootout and extending the unbeaten run to 30 games, a run including wins against all the best teams the world has to offer… every time they’re only increasing what was already a legendary achievement.

Not sure calling them allegations is required any more. While the front lines have been relatively static for a while, the balance of power is constantly tilting further towards Ukraine. Bakhmut has become a target that Russia will pay any price to take, and Ukraine have been taking advantage of that. Ukraine have still been paying a terrible price of course, but losses have been extremely tilted towards Russia by all accounts, and holding the fighting in place has helped reduce civilian impact in other parts of Ukraine. The equipment available to each side is tilting Ukraine’s way too. Russia have been desperate enough to bring T54 tanks out of storage, while Ukraine now have Challenger II and Leopard 2 tanks available, and the disparity is similar across all equipment, not to mention the reports of Russian conscripts being sent to the front with little to no equipment and minimal training, while Ukrainian recruits have been training for months with various NATO armies. Also there have been Wagner’s public complaints of not being equipped well enough and suffering from a shortage of artillery shells. On top of that, Russia’s missile and drone attacks on civilian targets have been becoming more and more sporadic and less and less effective, through a combination of Russia running short of missiles, Ukraine’s air defence becoming more and more effective, as well as the end of winter reducing the impact of targeting energy infrastructure. It’s perhaps telling that there was no mass attack timed to coincide with Finland joining NATO, as it’s extremely unlikely Russia would have let that pass with no response, unless they simply weren’t capable of it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64923719

That's one where there might be a little more behind it than meets the eye. As well as being a notorious proponent of Russia's actions in Ukraine, he was also one of Putin's more outspoken critics, and seemed to be aligned with Wagner. Might be one of the first visible signs of a rift between the Kremlin and Wagner growing wider, or of Putin starting to get paranoid (or at least wary) of Wagner's growing influence.

The cheating ****s were literally holding defenders standing in offside positions.