25/26 - Non Saints Games

[Gloucester Saint]

Great win for Leeds. With the easiest run in and better GD, they should be OK from here. Farke doing a great job.

1 from three out of Spurs, West Ham and Forest. 

Edited Monday at 21:11 by Gloucester Saint
Corrected by H&W

[Holmes_and_Watson]

6 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Great win for Leeds. With the easiest run in and better GD, they should be OK from here. Farke doing a great job.

2 from three out of Spurs, West Ham and Forest. 

Sadly, short of a Trump appearing as JC, miracle for Burnley, it's just the 1 of the 3.

A nice moment of enjoying 2 of them going though. Thanks for that.

[suewhistle]

I fancied seeing Spur's and West Ham's new stadiums as I'd been to the old ones but there's a possibility I might have to wait another season or so to do both. What a shame..

[John Boy Saint]

3 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

I fancied seeing Spur's and West Ham's new stadiums as I'd been to the old ones but there's a possibility I might have to wait another season or so to do both. What a shame..

If you do get to go to West Ham invest in some Opera glasses, especially if you end up on the upper deck of the away fans: you’ll be closer to your house than the pitch! 🤪  

[Gloucester Saint]

Nasty injury and if it isn’t fully healed probably out of the WC as well https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98mqrpz50vo

Take a risk too early and could be out 12 months instead. 

[bpsaint]

Chelsea away penultimate game for Spuds, can you imagine 🤣
 

10 years since they officially stopped them winning the Prem too.

Edited Monday at 22:11 by bpsaint

[SNSUN]

57 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Nasty injury and if it isn’t fully healed probably out of the WC as well https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98mqrpz50vo

Take a risk too early and could be out 12 months instead. 

Without making light of a bad injury which is terrible for the player, but it seems as though the stars are aligning for Spurs relegation. 

Also with Leeds pretty close to safety, that's two promoted clubs surviving. It shows it can be done with the right signings and decisions. 

 

[Lighthouse]

3 hours ago, Baird of the land said:

The whole hair pull red card thing is stupid.

It's stupid from Martinez, I can't get my head around why any player would do something that daft, especially with VAR around. It's in the same boat as those ridiculous, leaning in pseudo headbutts, like the incident with BBD at Newcastle last season. You're basically trying to get sent off for violent conduct, without actually being violent.

[Baird of the land]

5 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

It's stupid from Martinez, I can't get my head around why any player would do something that daft, especially with VAR around. It's in the same boat as those ridiculous, leaning in pseudo headbutts, like the incident with BBD at Newcastle last season. You're basically trying to get sent off for violent conduct, without actually being violent.

After being whacked in the face(not violent conduct) reaching to grab hold of something was probably instinctual. Still a bad modern law invention.

[Whitey Grandad]

6 hours ago, Baird of the land said:

After being whacked in the face(not violent conduct) reaching to grab hold of something was probably instinctual. Still a bad modern law invention.

Not at all. Grabbing at someone's hair deserves a red card all day long. You don't play football with your hands. 

[Baird of the land]

6 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not at all. Grabbing at someone's hair deserves a red card all day long. You don't play football with your hands. 

So is shirt grabbing also a red card offence?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

50 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not at all. Grabbing at someone's hair deserves a red card all day long. You don't play football with your hands. 

Quote from the Bazunu school of football handbook. 🙂

[Behind Enemy Lines]

28 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Quote from the Bazunu school of football handbook. 🙂

Hands are only to be used to pick the ball out of the goal each time you concede. 

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, Baird of the land said:

So is shirt grabbing also a red card offence?

Not at present but much less likely to cause physical harm. Shirt grabbing is 'holding' whereas pulling someone's hair is a physical assault. 

Not long ago shirt pulling was a mandatory yellow card. 

[karlb79]

18 hours ago, SNSUN said:

That Man Utd fan not cutting his hair until they win 5 in a row could be waiting years. 

 

 

My 12 year old lad decided to take on that challenge before the Watford game on the 7th Feb. I thought he'd be waiting 60 years for a haircut, but he had a smart new trim after 60 days!

[Dark Munster]

4 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not at all. Grabbing at someone's hair deserves a red card all day long. You don't play football with your hands. 

Throw ins?

[Tommy Mulgrew]

2 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not long ago shirt pulling was a mandatory yellow card. 

IMO, it should be again.  Football matches would then be more what they are supposed to be like instead of imitation wrestling matches.  Ban holding and shoving at corners and free-kicks and obstruction with no attempt to play the ball as well and, before you know it, football will be fun again, even if we are not winning.  If a way could be found to get rid of falling down at the slightest of touches (shades of Shane Long and Leo Scienza), I’d be a happy man.

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, Dark Munster said:

Throw ins?

There was a time when the ball was kicked in instead of thrown.

I suppose it could be argued that the hands of the thrower are not on the field of play.

There is an exception for goalkeepers of course. 

[IOWSaintDaz]

Bit strange seeing that Skate Connor Chaplin in the Sky studio as a pundit when his team are playing tonight VS Ipswich also???

[benjii]

2 hours ago, IOWSaintDaz said:

Bit strange seeing that Skate Connor Chaplin in the Sky studio as a pundit when his team are playing tonight VS Ipswich also???

Not as strange as being relatively pleased that the Skates won!