Are footballers thick?
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Topic: Are footballers thick?
Posted By: Trap junior
Subject: Are footballers thick?
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2022 at 7:33pm
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I'm inclined to think the majority are. One thing I never get is two players have a bit of argy bargy and they push each other but then it calms down and they start walking away from each other and then other players rush in and try to get involved by ''being peacemakers'' but actually inflame the situation and then the pushing and shoving starts again and it ends up with someone being sent off costing your team. Braindead stuff. another one is a striker is lazy after an attack breaks down and doesn't make any effort to get himself back onside and then suddenly his team has the ball again and he is caught offside when there was a golden opportunity to score had he actually made a bit of an effort.
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Posted By: Cabra Hoop
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2022 at 8:34pm
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Yep, the amount of players who get yellows for little trips or jersey pulls is ridiculous. If you're going to get booked at least give the other fella a proper good smack so he goes hiding and doesn't want the ball again. ------------- " BFC always gives me a laugh........ " |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2022 at 8:45pm
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The way footballers stand around a ref talking to him when he’s waiting to hear from the VAR on a decision As if that’s going to make any difference
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2022 at 8:53pm
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Dumb stuff in the box. I saw McTominay I think it was in some match recently. Its a corner kick and McTominay puts both arms around the lads waist he is marking and yer man tries to mae a run to head the ball and McTominay pulls him to the ground for a blatant penalty and he sits on the floor looking at the referee with his arms out protesting as if to say ''what did I do?'' Defenders have to be lilly white especially with VAR. ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2022 at 1:42pm
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Could probably name on one hand current footballers that i'd admire for whatever reason. Most come across as thick, disconnected arseholes.
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Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2022 at 2:12pm
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I don’t think Roy Keane or Gary Neville or Niall Quinn are thick just to name a few. ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: Het-field
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2022 at 2:20pm
| I don’t think thick. They are just following example. Be it attitudes towards umpires, cliche laden interviews, on field behaviour, it’s all part of the cultural shift in football. |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2022 at 2:31pm
Mickey Kelly GAA Dept of Assimilation of soccer into Gaelic zones ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Het-field wrote:Posted By: Het-field
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2022 at 2:38pm
 UMPIRES, perhaps???
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Posted By: Territorial
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2022 at 6:39pm
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In my opinion, footballers are no more - or less - thick than football fans. Or indeed people who post on football forums. I mean, why should they be? They/we are all basically the same people, who come from the same demographic background.. Of course footballers are inevitably going to be less well educated than the general population, but those people who confuse Education with Intelligence are probably themselves, well, a bit thick. Or snobs. Or both, in the case of rugby fans.  |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2022 at 7:01pm
Now now. Stick to your own threads Terrence. The ones where you live in a deluded world where TE fans are the best fans in the world and are welcoming to all. ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2022 at 7:48pm
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2022 at 3:02am
Alan Gowling (Man Utd) in the early 70s was almost an anomaly. He had an Economics degree and was duly nicknamed Bamber after University Challenge presenter Bamber Gasgoigne. Our own Kevin Moran had a degree on arrival at OT in the 80s. It's not unusual now. Some more recent scholars are Vincent Kompany (Masters in Business), Juan Mata (x2 Marketing, Sport Science), Romelu Lukaku (PR) and Iniesta (x2 Biology, Sport Science).
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Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2022 at 3:45am
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Lampard has a GSCE in Latin, not a degree, big difference. Our younger players are a good example of those who combined education with football. The model here suits it more in fairness. Georgie Kelly and Liam Kerrigan are recent examples of lads who went abroad with a degree behind, a masters in Georgie's case. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2022 at 6:55am
Spot-on, thanks.
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2022 at 8:21am
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Rodney has GCEs in Maffs an Art Graeme Le Saux used to get ridiculed for reading The Guardian ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: longford claret
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2022 at 9:29am
| In the Burnley promotion team to the premier league under Owen Coyle, both Wade Elliott and Clarke Carlisle had University degrees, I think. |
Posted By: Territorial
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 11:30am
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There was an article in The Athletic on the English FA's Academy system. One of the topics covered was young players' Education, including this comment: There have been improvements in terms of the holistic education
delivered within academies, with over 150 specialist education and
player-care staff working across the system. Clubs employ full-time
teachers — Chelsea’s academy has to report its players’ academic
results, which form one of their performance targets, to the club’s
ownership — and have struck up partnerships with local schools, with
rules in place ensuring that every academy player studies for a GCSE
(General Certificate of Secondary Education) in at least eight subjects. “The results achieved in GCSE maths and English by academy players is actually above the national average now,” says [Chelsea's] Saunders. “That’s a huge shift in terms of where we were 10 years ago.” |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 5:24pm
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Rodney Trotter has GCes in Maffs an Art ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Green Cockade
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 5:34pm
| What about Jason “ Trigger “ McAteer ? |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 5:38pm
GCEs in minding corner flags ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: nordlingen
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 9:48pm
| Steve Heighway......degree in economics.....would have been very unusual back in the seventies...... |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 9:49pm
| Manuel Ajanki apparently a mathematical genius |
Posted By: Hotlips_Hoolahan
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 9:58pm
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If you go on the Wikipedia pages of a lot of European, Asian or African footballers, you'll read that they can speak several different languages. Maybe a lot of British and Irish footballers are thick, but I'd say it requires a decent bit of intelligence to settle in several different continents/countries and learn multiple languages. Monolingual lads like Sergio Aguero seem to be outliers. ------------- You know Spider, you're a f**kin' mumbling stuttering little f**k. You know that? |
Posted By: thebronze14
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 10:00pm
the latest edition of Terri loves the premier league
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 10:01pm
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Not talking about education more thick in that they do brain dead sh*t on the pitch as I described on page wan. ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 10:02pm
Terrence has to defend anything British ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: nordlingen
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 10:24pm
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ah I have ya now TJ as in Jethro Tull.....
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 10:42pm
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Stuart Ripley has a law degree now and is a solicitor. Paul Merson has a degree in Quantum Physics Clinton Morrison has a degree in English Literature ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 10:43pm
Thick as a Brick? ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 10:48pm
Dya fink yer funny mate?
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2022 at 10:50pm
Fack off Paddy I'm outta yaw league ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2022 at 6:39pm
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Damien Duff saying Wales have 3/4 of their World Cup over and haven't impressed. Think you'll find its 2/3 of their World Cup over Damien ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Territorial
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2022 at 10:38pm
I do indeed, I think it's a great league - like half the rest of the world, it seems. And I like the EFL, too.
I would say exactly the same for footballers in, and from, other counhtries. Then again, some people have to attack anything British. (Cue more irrelevant garbage from TJ about Belfast pubs, supporters with flags, or the "sin" of Homosexuality)
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Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2022 at 10:41pm
| Jack Grealish said today about something being the best thing since sliced veg |
Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2022 at 10:55pm
Jack Grealish doesn't know what England looks like https://youtube.com/shorts/1_ZRbpNFdt0?feature=share" rel="nofollow - https://youtube.com/shorts/1_ZRbpNFdt0?feature=share |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2022 at 3:22pm
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Suarez and Nunez surrounding the ref and chirping in his ear when he’s waiting to hear from the VAR on an offside and again when a clear penalty has been awarded Do they not watch football? Or could they see from the other side of the pitch that it was definitely offside? Two dickheads
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2022 at 8:54pm
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Swiss player with a headbutt there knowing they are going through. What an idiot. How he didnt get a booking or sent off I dont know ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2022 at 8:45am
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"He has 19 goals in 40 games. Do the maths. Thats a goal a game." ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2023 at 6:28pm
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Arsenal players running in and getting involved in a stupid fracas at the end of the game there for absolutely no reason. Storm in a teacup incident with the keeper and they all rush over throwiing petrol on the situation. So thick. It doesn't even concern them. ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Hotlips_Hoolahan
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2023 at 6:55pm
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Matt Doherty thinks Ireland is in Britain. ------------- You know Spider, you're a f**kin' mumbling stuttering little f**k. You know that? |
Posted By: 9fingers
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2023 at 7:55pm
A fan tried to kick their keeper in the head
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Posted By: t_rAndy
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2023 at 8:28pm
What did he say?
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Posted By: Hotlips_Hoolahan
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2023 at 8:39pm
------------- You know Spider, you're a f**kin' mumbling stuttering little f**k. You know that? |
Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2023 at 6:42am
Id be more concerned if they didn’t support their teammate who a fan tried to attack tbh. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: Cabra Hoop
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2023 at 9:46pm
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I you seen what Podence did with that a corner a few minutes from the end of that match tonight, you wouldn't need to ask that question. ------------- " BFC always gives me a laugh........ " |
Posted By: oldbilly
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2023 at 7:01am
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beyond stupid that was. ------------- No Pasaran! |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2023 at 9:46pm
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Another example there. Liverpool v Everton. Robertson and Pickford have a very mild skirmish. A nothign incident and then a load of players get involved for no reason. Van Dyke isn't even on the pitch. ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: You Tell Me
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2023 at 12:03pm
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Steve Clark has "signed" Angus Gunn for Scotland. Doesn't come across as the brightest tool in the shed in general but maybe not his smartest decision to "like" the tweet below during Euro 2020. https://twitter.com/Pablobenjamin03/status/1635405232594362368?t=fG2MT099IhUR-CInW1C_fA&s=19" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/Pablobenjamin03/status/1635405232594362368?t=fG2MT099IhUR-CInW1C_fA&s=19 A section of the Scots support not taking it well anyway.
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2023 at 6:56pm
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Watching Newcastle v Arsenal and Nketia goes down in the Newcastle box when Arsenal are attacking. Its not a serious injury. More a clip to the ankle or something. He lays on the ground in the box as Arsenal are still attacking and could do with his help. He makes ahalfhearted effort to get up then lays down again only for Arsenal to still have the ball and still attacking and eventually gets up to join in the attack and is able to run around. I honestly wonder at times if footballers are totally thick or just have really poor attitudes and character. ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: BrendanD88
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2023 at 10:13pm
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John Kennedy (no relation) on a yellow card scores a screamer in the Copa Libertadores final in extra time, runs into the crowd and gets a second yellow!
TJ Presidential pun to follow.
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2023 at 10:48am
Was the referee was Hugh Dallas? ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: nvidic
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2023 at 1:57pm
Just turned the game on when a Boca player for a red for a slap, you love to see it.
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Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2023 at 4:04am
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2 players were rolling around in the middle of the pitch as the play was going on around them. Ref didn't bat an eyelid. No one does over-emotion like South Americans. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2023 at 11:57am
------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: athlonecelt
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2023 at 10:53pm
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Chelsea players diving in giving Spurs free kicks late in the game tonight.. Mind boggling stupidity.
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2023 at 6:28pm
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Chelsea awarded last min peno and one of their players getting needlessly involved with Kyle Walker ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2023 at 6:45pm
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What could Ruben Dias possibly have been arguing with the ref after the awarding of that penalty? |
Posted By: eireland
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 8:52am
| If there presidents are anything to go by then definitely. All Turkish league matches suspended indefinitely after a clubs president punched the referee. |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 11:14am
A fcuking moron ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: lassassinblanc
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 11:30am
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He rightly smacked him too, others got a few kicks in too. And the Turks wonder why uefa haven't given them previous euros. Be interesting to see what this means for their joint bid with Italy
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Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 11:34am
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Big difference between being thick and being a scumbag. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: Roberto_Carlow
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 11:37am
| Was it the president who kicked him in the head as well? |
Posted By: Badgersboys9
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 11:39am
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Posted By: lassassinblanc
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 12:23pm
Don't think so looks like he was pulled away after the initial punch
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Posted By: athlonecelt
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 11:11pm
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Jordan Henderson citing the reason he joined Al- whogivesaf**k was the challenge of 'helping to grow the league', is one of the thickest things I've heard. |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 11:15pm
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Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2023 at 11:31pm
Made it sound like he was some type of football missionary spreading the game far and wide out of the good of his heart
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2023 at 6:08pm
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Nunez. Stops running when he might have had a goalscoring opporunity but instead stops and claims for a penalty when there clearly wasn;t one. Never struck meas the brightest of sparks anyway. ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: ConorMac77
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2023 at 6:31pm
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And then Dalot getting booked twice and sent off - both bookings for dissent. 🤦 ------------- The nation holds it's breath...YES, WE'RE THERE!!! |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2023 at 6:41pm
| Salah reacted with dissent after a free went against him and didn’t get a card |
Posted By: Roberto_Carlow
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2023 at 7:05pm
| Nunez clapped the ref after he got booked and mouthed something. No second yellow. Not sure if it's just the usual lack of consistency or the officials scared of Klopp |
Posted By: BrendanD88
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2023 at 7:07pm
The officials should be treated how their colleagues are in Turkey in my opinion.
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Posted By: Roberto_Carlow
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2023 at 7:08pm
Would be a nice introduction to the game. Maybe limit it to the players who cam assault them, no one wants to see the Glazers running on fighting with Michael Oliver.
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Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2023 at 8:19pm
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Too early in the game to send off Nunez for that, but I agree it was worse than what Dalot did. Very harsh to be sent off for showing a bit of passion after winning a tackle and a throw in only for it to be given the other way
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Posted By: lassassinblanc
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2024 at 8:36pm
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https://twitter.com/footballitalia/status/1772359410922172909?t=pJTEd6G9hC3mGjRGOCea9g&s=19" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/footballitalia/status/1772359410922172909?t=pJTEd6G9hC3mGjRGOCea9g&s=19 Obviously guilty of something but if not why would you be a gobsh*te and act the maggot during a drug test??? A bit like Rio Ferdinand when he forgot to go
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