rallyboy

This Moss defence seems to be that if a defender trips a forward, the forward is to blame as he has shinned the defender's foot...or in this case, Armstrong hipped Walker's thigh while obstructing the city defender from getting anywhere near the ball, a ball he was attempting to shield from behind Armstrong..... So Moss is no clown, he's just introduced the concept of distanced-shielding when not in possession, and he's reinventing the concept of foul play. The guy is a trailblazer, one of the great thinkers of the modern game. Definitely not a clown.

A neutral observer could even suggest there was no great reason for reviewing the red card - did that really look like a genuine attempt to play the ball? It had all the hallmarks of there's a player through on the keeper, I'll desperately lunge at him from behind just to prevent a goal and take my chances with the ref. I wasn't especially impressed with Moss making time to discuss it with the already-dismissed Walker before he went to the monitor either.

What a player, scoring goals in an era of awful pitches and leg-breaking tackles.

On the bright side, Boris has finally broken up the worst performing, integrity-free, over-promoted, corruption-riddled, sycophantic UK cabinet in living memory. You have to feel sorry for the PM, he must have been seething at whoever the dithering simpleton was who appointed them all, but with top quality performers like Truss now in control of really important stuff, I'm sure things will improve. Her performance on trade deals has certainly highlighted how good she is.

He has a point about Nige's reign, it was depressing. I remember everyone angrily storming the pitch to attack the team, two seasons running. The players had to hide in the stand to avoid the angry mob chanting abuse. Terrible times.

I keep hearing how Antonio is the strongest forward about and will bully defenders - well he came to the wrong place today! We roughed him up, muscled him off the ball, played him out of the game and eventually off the pitch. Nice job. Organised, strong, so much better than last season.

No point, some twat would crash into it.

I had the misfortune of witnessing Yorkshire batting yesterday, it went on forever, way beyond what was required as everyone knew they needed 300 maximum to win the game. Delaying that declaration cost them a simple victory, it was bonkers. That picture in reality is the fielders gathering around the captain to ask him how on earth he converted total dominance into a draw. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. 🤡

a studded lunge missing the ball - not covered by normal penalty awards so should have been a red card as well?

It's a good read - I learned some interesting stuff about a couple of players in particular, and managers....and Cortese! 😲

It was worth the refunded entry money alone just to see him clatter into that soppy whinger and rob him for our goal. Left him in a little sobbing heap.

I didn't notice Ole or the United players highlighting the half a dozen refereeing mistakes in one game that enabled them to score nine. When they occasionally get an official who doesn't give them every single decision, it must come as a bit of a shock. Bless. Welcome to our fucking world.

It's always good to hear the thoughts of Jason King. And I miss On the Buses.

That league is over bar the shouting, they'd better order up the open-top bus now and get a ground extension with dedicated overland train station and integrated conference centre hotel facility sorted asap! Eisner's pledge to be competing with Man City, Barcelona and Juventus in nine years time has finally launched and looks ahead of schedule.

Two individual errors meets failure to change tactics? Salisu will not make that mistake again in a hurry, but Stephens has been around long enough not to go to sleep in that situation. They need to wake up or we're in for another season of playing Spot the Three Shitter Teams. Even without Mike Dean running the show United will be a proper test...

He offers a goal threat in both boxes.

The sun's shining down south, Saints have made some interesting signings, the season is here and stadiums are opening!!.....yet there are still people frothing at the mouth and bickering on here about whether knee should be in a capital letter or what colour fucking grass should be if it's going to be knelt upon. For the casual observer there is no longer anything to be achieved by making any point via this lame and asthmatic donkey of a thread - it's just become noise....of varying shades.

Rarely has a thread gone nowhere and achieved so little at such pace. In fact this 'debate' could last forever unless someone is brave enough to put it out of its misery... #boltgun

Disliking it is one thing, you can ignore it, as many do. But booing it is way more than thinking it's a waste of time. Booing it is a massive statement.

Seems like a good and inexpensive deal for a young player with genuine potential, what's not to like? Our policy of giving young players game time has clearly tipped the scales in our favour - it's a yes from me. And if he does well for us and looks world class, let's try not to be too surprised when he goes back to Chelsea.

Bill Gates is making me do things, I'm scared.

Player gets head turned and ideas above his station after being gently tapped up while on England duty. Nice.

It was just a game to Cummings. When he admitted that he twisted the truth just to wind people up and that his real role was to push through the agenda of a couple of dozen multi-millionaires in the background, alarm bells should be ringing - even among the Brexiteer MPs he described as morons. Was he lying then or now? Either way he's conned quite a few people and he and Boris are chuckling all the way to the bank.

I've paid my season ticket today, if some of that is going to look after a young Saints player who may or may not have a future in the game, I'm happy with that.

That's not a very polite nickname for a senior police officer.