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Plissken

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2 hours ago, glb said:

This doesn’t really have a point, just always had a fascination with stadia. Grounds like Roots Hall, with what feels like its entrance through a terraced house, are near enough museum pieces, curious flashbacks to distant era.

 

You're me, and I claim my five pounds. (I love seeing behind the scenes of stadia.)

 

I don't have any nostalgia for those grounds though, although I don't mind watching footage and thinking about it.  Far too many of them - in hindsight - were crumbling deathtraps.  I've been in crushes at Old Trafford, Anfield, the Hawthorns and any number of lower division grounds.

 

I do want to get to Kenilworth Road before they knock it down though.

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2 minutes ago, Plissken said:

McNeil to Tarkowski.  One of those moments where it is obvious in hindsight what was going to happen.

 

That was like his third pop from a corner wasn't it?

 

Watching out of intrigue given they got Dyche. It's bloody impressive.

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Dyche has managed to improve Everton and set Arsenal back about two years. Pretty impressive.
 

2 minutes ago, Plissken said:

 

You're me, and I claim my five pounds. (I love seeing behind the scenes of stadia.)

 

I don't have any nostalgia for those grounds though, although I don't mind watching footage and thinking about it.  Far too many of them - in hindsight - were crumbling deathtraps.  I've been in crushes at Old Trafford, Anfield, the Hawthorns and any number of lower division grounds.

 

I do want to get to Kenilworth Road before they knock it down though.


Agreed. Similarly no real nostalgia, more a fascination of what was acceptable for supporters to be herded into. Remember the bogs at Craven Cottage just being a concrete box, with a channel carved out on either side. The channel probably went straight into the Thames. And they were posh bogs compared to some.

 

There was also that shit period when a lot of clubs were upgrading their stands, and seats were just bolted onto terraces. At least rail seats are becoming more viable.

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6 minutes ago, Naysonymous said:

Rio Ferdinand’s first thoughts as a pundit were to defend Frank Lampard.  
 

Everton were superb today.  Held Arsenal at arm’s length with ease.  Dyche will keep them up.  

 

He's his friend. They practically grew up together. 

 

Also, Everton still only have 18 points. I don't get why football fans and pundits take one game, one result and base everything on that one game alone. Man City lose a game and it's the end of Pep's era, Everton win one game and they're going to be safe. 

 

You have to look at ten or fifteen games and judge a new manager on that. It'll take weeks for Dyche's brand to start being effective (or not) on the pitch.

 

Arsenal were poor. 

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Nothing to do with that game, but it'll be interesting to see how raising the threshold for VAR interventions again will work out. If they've decided to properly close ranks to protect the institution it's no surprise they've got a copper in to do that, but it does feel like they've agreed once and for all it was undermining them so the best solution is just not to use it anymore. It'd be all for casting it into the sea, but it does feel absolutely mental to change the rules mid season yet again. It'd be typical to have a system that was the worst of all worlds.

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8 minutes ago, Art Vandelay said:

It’ll be interesting to see when Villa fans get fed up with it turning into a game of basketball every week. Fun until it’s not!

Villa will win more games than they lose if they keep playing like this; Leicester have been pretty fortunate so far in this game. 

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Crazy start to the Newcastle game. A disallowed goal in the first 30 seconds, then Sky cut back from the replay of that to Newcastle scoring again. It's clocked at three minutes, but there had only been a minute's play at most.

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3 hours ago, neoELITE said:

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Oh hell yes.

 

This season has been shit for us so far, I'm bloody loving this. 

 

We'll be absolutely fine under Lopetegui. He's already showing why he was idolised at Sevilla. 

 

I've waited 12 years to get one over Liverpool in the league so I'm going to enjoy my Saturday night!

 

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