Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

[TheBigIguana]

Frustrating how much is down to diving in this sport

 

[Billy Dean]

It’s been this way since the early 2000s and the so called ‘big 4’. The PL want a ‘title race’ but only want it against a few select teams. They don’t care if the rest of the league is complete cannon fodder.

The days of the likes of Leeds Blackburn Everton Villa etc. ever winning the top flight again are over. Even if they got a team together good enough to do it they can’t compete against this refereeing on a weekly basis and unless they dope they probably can’t even compete in general.

Guardiola and Klopp have destroyed English football beyond reason in recent seasons. The rest of the league may as well not even bother. It’s a shock if these teams even concede a goal let alone drop a point now.

Leicester though

 

[kenada_blue]

if that was a pen then so was the Villa one that was turned down

Didn't see it. But Klich just kicks Rudigers foot trying to get the ball. Penalty for me.

Their 1st wasn't one IMO

 

[Johnniepk]

Droopy Jaws was asking for a pen or a foul everytime there was a challenge from minute one. Paid off.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

None of the top 3 looked particularly convincing today

 

[Saint Domingo]

Droopy Jaws was asking for a pen or a foul everytime there was a challenge from minute one. Paid off.

Liverpool players whine more than any team I’ve ever seen. Any single decision from minute one they’re in the refs face. I’m sure it does influence the game but honestly it’s a bad look for the sport compared to how refs are treated in other sports.

 

[spectateur]

It's indelibly written into the laws of the game now. "No penalty kick shall be awarded against any of the Sky six".

Yet top 3 all won with the help of pens.
Strange isn't it.

 

[jaybx1878]

Didn't see it. But Klich just kicks Rudigers foot trying to get the ball. Penalty for me.

Their 1st wasn't one IMO

Sorry, thought you were on about Salah collapsing to the floor again

 

[Blues Harp]

Petro dollars, state, Oligarchs, is it any surprise.

Are you a tourist or a shanks shagger?
Own up lad, we see you

 

[ste d' indica]

Crap defending or amazing attacking?

Bit of everything I think! lol Including a goal from Hallam Hope, ex of this parish.

 

[jaybx1878]

More scripted than the WWE this league, its all about keeping the big boys up there to sell foreign tv subscriptions.

 

[deipnosophist]

four words dictate the PL's officiating policies...

...'the spice MUST flow'

 

[Saint Domingo]

We’ll end up even worse than the Scottish league. They’ll kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Fans want competition yet the PL don’t want it at all. They just want a constant rotation of the title between City Chelsea Liverpool and United if they ever sort themselves out properly. Everyone else being routinely relegated so they don’t realise they’re stuck in a league they have no chance of winning.

 

[kenada_blue]

Slippy gonna have a whinge about the pen or just go balls deep on his former masters?

 

[kenada_blue]

We’ll end up even worse than the Scottish league. They’ll kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Fans want competition yet the PL don’t want it at all. They just want a constant rotation of the title between City Chelsea Liverpool and United if they ever sort themselves out properly. Everyone else being routinely relegated so they don’t realise they’re stuck in a league they have no chance of winning.

Leeds would've got a point and were the better side if they hadn't have been stupid at the end.