WorcesterWHU wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:48 pm We looked utterly lost without Bowen today. He's such a great outlet.

What was kudus excuse?

He's allegedly an elite level player but can't hit the target when the ball falls to him unmarked, then gives the ball away for them to score 2nd. Beyondawful

Sometimes european games are dead after the first leg (see brighton). The aim was to keep it alive. It's slipping into unconciousness but it still has a pulse. It's really pointless to say we lost this game because of who we didn't sign in January. Maybe we lost it because alvarez got a pointless bo...

Patsy Belgium wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:23 pm The **** will be here till the grim reaper calls then we’ll have the soppy offspring at the helm.

I've been saying this for ages when people were convinced he'd sell up last year. He's Mr. West Ham don't ye know.

Having to base my opinion on MOTD only but thought Emerson's goal should not have been disallowed, The 'equaliser' was rightly if annoyingly chalked off, and their penalty was soft. Emerson gets the ball then their legs tangle.

Fab's handling and long kicking is much better, Areola has the advantage in shot-stopping and close distribution. We are so lucky that we have two top keepers to call on

Thought it was a very even game which ebbed and flows. Robbie Savage made the point about moyes subs. "why would he when this 11 is doing so well" He was going to bring Ings on for Antonio, but we got a corner and so didn't make the change. Spurs made 5 subs and got worse. I thought we pla...

The over 65 is being raised in line with retirement age. Doesn't seem unreasonable but don't know about U18

il_martello_di_genovesi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:29 pm Alvarez is suspended. So congratulations.

But we have Kalvin Phillips

How did the system not need changing. Newcastle had missed a couple of decent chances and were pushing for a foothold. Our 2 man midfield needed some help. In hindsight anyone except Phillips would have done a better job, but the tactic was right especially as Antonio rarely does more than 60 minute...

Cheating ? A new "invention". Absolute nonsense. Leeds United circa 1970 were the media darlings of the day. "Professionalism" their particular brand of cheating was called then. And I'm also sure people who watched the game back then will remember the late Francis Lee being ref...

**** off Shearer Laughing at the penalty decision on MOTD2 The more I see that ridiculous decision the higher my blood pressure rises. We’ve been dealt some proper **** decisions this season but this one just beggars all belief. Whatever anyone says, without that gift of a penalty, the Geordie magg...

I read consistently that we 'sit back' and try to defend a lead. I think that view forgets that 2 teams are playing. When we played Burnley at home did they sit back and defend or did we switch around and push forward? Think back to our game at spurs in covid where we were 3-0 down in twenty minutes...

neathiron wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:42 pm But only for certain teams though. I don't think Liverpool or Arsenal would have had this much scrutiny from VAR if it was one of them who scored it.

You didn't watch the league cup final then for Liverpool's 'offside' goal

Having watched MOTD this morming, I thought Fab should've saved their 4th goal It's difficult to assess 1v1 with keepers. They have to spread if they want to narrow the angles which leaves a gap through their legs which they can stop by going down early which then leaves them vulnerable to the ball...

I've read a lot of posts complaining about us switching to a low block, but that isn't what happened (IMO). We never really controlled the gam even when we were leading, mainly due to alvarez's absence. They had already missed a couple of decent oppurtunities before Gordon's penalty crime. Bringing ...

If this fixture was at Stratford and we got a dodgy penalty to get back to 2 3 I think we'd all expect to get at least a point. Antonio can only do 60 minutes now. The substitution made perfect sense. Did it work? No, but that's football. What works on paper doesn't work in reality sometimes

Gordon did do the same trick for the first pen, but could claim he was shielding the ball. For the 2nd he was not in possession of the ball and just sticks his foot in the way. VAR refs just don't understand football

My extended family made exact same comments when we spoke yesterday. MOTD started at circa 11 minutes with Villa’s first attack. In reality, we came out and piled in for 10:55 mins and nothing shown of it. This on a day when only one game. Imagine how much coverage one game would have got if it was...

The audio has been released on the last minute Villa goal that wasn't. It sounds like they are desperate to disallow it, even rolling the tape back to look for a phantom offside as that would be easier to disallow it with. And there's the problem. It's not "Is there any reason this goal is not...