Yet another damp squid on sky last night.
Watched the first half and then went to bed.
Is it just me or are more and more of these 'big' games just a complete pile of shit?
Is the premier league dying a slow death?
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Yet another damp squid on sky last night.
Watched the first half and then went to bed.
Is it just me or are more and more of these 'big' games just a complete pile of shit?
Is the premier league dying a slow death?
Thought it was OK myself.Nice feisty derby.Seen a lot worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Lecter
Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by GRUMPYS DEN
Maybe the second half improved then but what I saw was bloody awful.
Pretty sure neither team had a shot on target.
Although I do seem to recall Everton having a corner jus before half time.
Yes-really!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Lecter
Sums up all I dislike about the premier league. Very few U.K. Born players and fewer still local players - how the hell can you expect a foreign player to get up for a derby?
Everton are one of the few clubs left with a tradition stadium and yet they're planning to leave goodison according to the commentator.
At half time I went upstairs to wrap presents and watch the prince harry show.
I got fed up after about 20 minutes hardly any shots just huff and puff around Everton's penalty area.
The Premiership is dying on its feet and all the ever increasing hype will not make the quality any better
Saying you enjoyed a Liverpool game will turn you into a social leopard around here.Quote:
Originally Posted by GRUMPYS DEN
I think that's pretty unfair. All of the foreign players will have grown up with just as much understanding of what the merseyside derby is about as any UK players born outside of Liverpool.Quote:
Originally Posted by TH63
If anything, I'd say it's generally the foreign players who give more of a **** about fans and what the games mean to them than UK players in recent years.
Did you really say that ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloo
Or is it the new "in" joke?
I think someone's gonna make you an escaped goat hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Baloo
With a nice little twist in the end .Quote:
Originally Posted by GRUMPYS DEN
Everton played like lunatics in the first half trying to break Liverpools rhythm.
It was obvious they couldn't keep that tempo up in the second half and Liverpool started to rip through them with their better players
Nice bit of drama with a goal in the dyeing minutes.
Liverpool miss Coutinho , great player.
I have to agree. Plenty of effort and skill in certain quarters but lacking in real quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Lecter
I happened to watch it all, (admittedly driven by my penchant for seeing Liverpool fail) and I thought Everton might have a chance to spoil their neighbours' title aspirations if they battled like they did against Arsenal last week.
It was a brave effort and almost paid off but not quite with Liverpool getting a late late equaliser after 8 (yes eight!) Minutes of stoppage time.
The reds were certainly the better team and probably deserved to win after dominating possession and territory, but eight minutes of IT I thought was excessive and Everton just ran out of legs.
You do wonder though, particularly as most of the best players in the world are playing over here because of the Sky money, whether this will go on and we see China being the draw.... Sanchez reportedly this week being offered a staggering 500K per week by Pellegrini! :yikes:
:sherlock:Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Didn't the goal come in the fourth minute of injury time?
Better add that I enjoyed an egg last week between Ulster and Clermont last week to compound the felony then!!:xmashehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloo
Yes I think you are right but when you've shot your bolt for 90 minutes, to a man they were knackered, seeing 8 minutes go up is very deflating.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
Let's face it, the officials want to make the PL as exciting as they can and Chelsea currently looking like they are running away with it.
I didn't see the game so I don't know why there were eight minutes added, but I have read that the ref actually allowed ten minutes injury time in total (six minutes after the goal), so I'm not convinced your theory is particularly watertight.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
I'm not trying to convince you though.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
For others who may be interested, I have a feeling that the Everton keeper going off might have been a fair chunk and he had to play at least another minute anyway for the goal stoppage in IT.
Barkley should get a 3-4 game ban for that.
Then he should be banned by koeman for a month for being so turd.
:xmashehe: Yeah, maybe that or they don't want Chelsea to get too far ahead.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
He got a yellow.Quote:
Originally Posted by LordKenwyne
So he'll get nothing else.
The same as that manure defender who should have got a red (twice).
I was a bit disappointed Welsh youngster Harry Wilson didn't make their bench. He had been training with the senior squad in the build up to the game. It will be good for Wales when he eventually breaks through. Ditto Woodburn if decides he is actually Welsh enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by TH63
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Originally Posted by lardy
Okay this wasn't the main topic of conversation, probably my fault, and I concede (well it is Christmas, my gift to you :xmasthumbup:) I may have been slightly blinkered due to being blue for the night.
Don't be so naive though that you don't think that zero corruption exists.
For example, you cannot deny you've seen an official exaggerate injury time or even just take pressure off a team that is flagging defensively by blowing for something petty.
Officials are influenced, we have all seen referees slated by a top manager and dropped from officiating involving his team again (your own Sir Alex on more than one occasion :biggrin:)
Hopefully with Mane going off to the African Cup of Nations in January we'll see Wilson and Woodburn get more of a chance at LiverpoolQuote:
Originally Posted by Gabalphaville
There was the keeper injury and the fracas for the Barkley tackle to sort out so eight minutes was about right.The Liverpool goal celebrations were overlong and he was probably justified in adding time for that-he did play about 10 minutes.I didn't hear either Manager complain about it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
:xmashehe: Sorry, I'll tone it down next time.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Interesting debate. Big club bias exists; I remember the ref making two of our players go off as they had treatment just before a corner when Liverpool were down here (Suarez had blasted the ball from a free kick). Skrtel scored of course, and I doubt a ref would have done the same for the home team at Anfield.
Whether it's corruption, which implies something organised or a directive, I'm not sure.
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Originally Posted by MacAdder
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Originally Posted by lardy
I thought Liverpool WON !!! :xmashehe:
:yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Nightmare of Elm Street proportions :xmashehe:
:coat:
Yes, that's why I put it in bold and put a :sherlock:Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Obviously too subtle for you, I should have used giant letters and different colours... :hehe:
:calmdown:Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
Anyway, I thought you were gna tone it down! :biggrin:
I'm putting it down to my eyesight which isn't great these days :tongue:
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Originally Posted by lardy
Put what in BOLD ?
+++++++ (that's plus) The post was not aimed at you, it was aimed at EQUALISER !!!
So yes, both of you are OVER MY HEAD SMILEY :xmashehe:
PS:----Just been to Morrisons and it's frigging manic out there, all for ONE FRIGGING DAY. !!!