Today’s Football - 2024/25 Season

[PhillG94]

Crazy how entertaining football can be when Everton aren’t playing

 

[blueconverse]

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Missed an absolute sitter to win it. Unmarked 5 yards our and blazed it into row z

 

[helpimonfire]

They drop points and no one near them gains on them. Typical

Forest could tomorrow.

 

[GoldenToffee]

I never felt more like singing the blues,
When Liverpool don't win,
And Everton lose but only by one,
Oh Sean Dyche you've got me singing the blues.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Crazy how entertaining football can be when Everton aren’t playing

Amazing how entertaining paint drying is compared to when...

 

[GoldenToffee]

Missed an absolute sitter to win it. Unmarked 5 yards our and blazed it into row z

Blame that overweight, technically awful, slow coach carthorse Zirkzee for the worst pass to him you could imagine.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Poor old Trent couldn’t concentrate with the weight of that £78m contract offer on the table.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Poor old Trent couldn’t concentrate with the weight of that £78m contract offer on the table.

With it being so public they are throwing him to the lions. For a club so keen on image, it does smack of double standards.

 

[bluenorthwarrior]

These are the unconscious or probably tbh conscious bias decisions that, although on the face of it don't look like much, probably add up to about 10 points over a season. Like you say, pathetic from the linesman. It literally took the United player to stop playing to essentially force the decision out of the referee who was miles away.

I've posted a few times along these lines, it's the constant drip drip of small decisions that the favoured teams get that others don't that add up to increased pressure leading to goals, or easy release of pressure if defending.

Look at the free kick that led to the winner against us yesterday, not for one minute saying bournemouth get those as a favoured team but then point remains that give enough soft free kicks in 'safe' areas of the park due to the clear unconcscoos/conscious bias and odds are some will lead to goal opportunities.

 

[anton66]

With it being so public they are throwing him to the lions. For a club so keen on image, it does smack of double standards.

He wants to go and go now. He’s not arsed about winning the league and maybe a cup with them. The club and its fannybase is embarrassed by his decision to leave the biggest and best club in the world to play for someone else?

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Its the outright refusal to change the loan system that's making it this way. Cap it at 3 that's the easiest fix you can make. You want chelsea money, then fine toil in the reserves for the next 5 years.

Them being allowed to spend without reprisal since early 2000s let them build up a monstrous squad that they could first exploit the loan system, then use to satisfy PSR when the need arose has been massive. The drawbridge was pulled up on the rest of the clubs afterwards (once City had a few free hits at the market as well) which was the real issue for me.

 

[GoldenToffee]

I've posted a few times along these lines, it's the constant drip drip of small decisions that the favoured teams get that others don't that add up to increased pressure leading to goals, or easy release of pressure if defending.

Look at the free kick that led to the winner against us yesterday, not for one minute saying bournemouth get those as a favoured team but then point remains that give enough soft free kicks in 'safe' areas of the park due to the clear unconcscoos/conscious bias and odds are some will lead to goal opportunities.

100%. It's been the case for years. In the 90s they didn't even try to hide the fact that referees would do anything they could do help United.

Nowadays it's officials on the field conveniently missing fouls or calling fouls to get teams out of pressure, absolute lack of consistency in their dishing out of cards, all backed up of course by VAR that answers to nobody and can make up whatever kind of decision they want to dictate whatever result is best for the league / their boss.

He doesn't do it as much any more, but Salah a few years back was throwing himself pathetically on the floor and getting penalty after penalty. If that's a more unfashionable player it's getting forensically analysed by VAR from 12 angles until they find a way to overturn it.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

I agree PSR is a big factor, but only in the last couple of years - post covid really.
Rewind 6 years to 2018-9 when City and the RS were on 98 / 97 mega points totals - very fishy imo

City’s transfer exploits speak for themselves - albeit I maintain they have bought and managed the players exceptionally for the most part - and whether anyone likes it or not, that lot had a good few years where it seemed they couldn’t miss in the market and they had another exceptional manager. The odds were very much in their favour, but they were just two immense teams, whose tallies were helped by those that should have been around them (based on status) having a mare.

 

[Rita_Poon]

He wants to go and go now. He’s not arsed about winning the league and maybe a cup with them. The club and its fannybase is embarrassed by his decision to leave the biggest and best club in the world to play for someone else?

So he has it in the hands of his agent and what can be leaked from Spain. What's next an 85-90m offer and 'it was to good to turn down' type situation.
There's plenty more to come on this, does he bow out on good terms like klopp did, or is he chased out as a Judas. A lot will come down to who they have potentially lined up to replace him if it gets that far.

 

[Bedfordblue]

With it being so public they are throwing him to the lions. For a club so keen on image, it does smack of double standards.

Think they might flog him before the window is out imho. If RM come back with £30m I recon he’s gone.