I was referring to Arsenals fixtures! They have two toughies against Man City one of which is Thursday evening in the premier before they play us Sunday lunchtime.
If a player takes the ball to the corner, the majority of time he then spends the next minute making no attempt to play the ball but preventing the opposition from playing it! Then it goes out of play and the whole process is repeated. It is a form of time wasting and therefore ungentlemanly...
Aresenal play Man City on Thursday night (after playing Man City in the league cup final) then play us Sunday lunch. Clutching at straws but with two high profile games before playing us, and a short recovery time...maybe we could just sneak something!
Hopefully if they are relagated by then, the shackles will be off, and they will be playing out of their skins to try and secure a new contract or put themselves in the shop window! Often a relegated team suddenly finds a bit of form. Let's hope that scenario plays out!
We need someone to work out statistically, all the remaining results based on home and away form, head to head, league position, goals scored per game, clean sheets, injuries to key players, player averages, bogey teams, how the opposition has done against newly promoted teams, if the next match...
I think if there were 8 on the line plus the goalkeeper then it wouldn't be a direct goal scoring opportunity. I think my original point of doing away with penalties for those frivolous decisions is getting lost in some technicalities! Jese's 'dive' on Saturday when the ball was sailing out of...
The next round of premier league matches are as follows:
Leicester v Stoke
Bournemouth v Newcastle
Brighton v Swansea
Burnley v Southampton
Liverpool v West Ham
West Brom v Huddersfield
Watford V Everton
Leicester, Brighton, Burnley, Liverpool, and Everton wins would suit us.
Draws between...
Yes Shawcross on Dunk was a stonewall penalty! Dunk on Adam happened so quickly it looked like an unbelievable tackle. Even watching over and over again in real time it still looks an unbelievable tackle. Lawrensonesque! I think the 'handball' element which you can't see in real time was the...
Hypothetically it wouldn't have been a penalty. Even if Stephens was adjudged to have committed a foul then it would have been a free kick from that spot! But your point has raised another point.. goalkeepers now don't get an automatic red card, so should outfield players? Is a yellow card and a...
Defender bringing down an attacker, goalkeeper bringing down an attacker, deliberate handball on the line...you don't need me to explain. Something that the ref feels is an illegal attempt to prevent a direct goal scoring opportunity!
Injured or those pretending to be injured can get treated on the pitch whilst the game goes on.
And a player having to leave the pitch after the physio has been on...what's that all about!!? A defender could be injured in a challenge that's not his fault, the ball goes out for a corner, and he...