Football thread 2022/23

[Scruff]

The Villa - West Ham game is the sort of stuff the Geneva convention on Human Rights was drafted for. As Billy Butcher would say, it's 'fackin' diabolical'.

[deerokus]

It's always a good day when your team messes up the formatting of the BBC sport score box.

 

 

I don't know why they insist on calling Jota 'Neves Filipe' but it makes this look even funnier.

 

[Naysonymous]

Fuck’s sake.  

[SMD]

Is that Gerrard gone then?

[Chindie]

1 minute ago, SMD said:

Is that Gerrard gone then?

 

No.

 

But it fucking should be.

[theredstar]

1 minute ago, SMD said:

Is that Gerrard gone then?

We can only hope so.

[SMD]

What I don't get is when he first joined Villa, he tightened them up at the back. Rangers were pretty handy too. What's gone wrong?

[Chindie]

I'm not saying that was predictable, but it was bloody obvious we weren't winning that.

[Naysonymous]

Gerrardball is absolutely woeful.   We've got some great players at the club, but having them all stand as far from each other as possible and hoping that eye of the needle passes come off didn't work six months ago and it's still not working now.   We've lost to Bournemouth who have been awful this season, we've lost to West Ham who hadn't even scored until they play us and now we play Arsenal (away) and Manchester City (home) within the next week.  

[Chindie]

2 minutes ago, SMD said:

What I don't get is when he first joined Villa, he tightened them up at the back. Rangers were pretty handy too. What's gone wrong?

 

He's not a very good manager.

 

He has a single tactic, which doesn't work and is spectacularly easy to exploit 

 

It worked for Rangers because he could realistically expect to have the best team, by a distance, in 99% of matches, and the season he won the league Celtic went off the boil.

 

In England, he's basically never got the best team. He had a new manager bounce and a few times we've played decent football but too often it completely fails.

 

I also suspect his man management is diabolical. Certainly he has favourites - he drops Buendia all the time when he's the only player that reliably creates anything, he made McGinn captain for some reason who has been dire but will not be dropped... And so on.

 

He's shit.

[Naysonymous]

16 minutes ago, SMD said:

What I don't get is when he first joined Villa, he tightened them up at the back. Rangers were pretty handy too. What's gone wrong?

 

 

Turns out his tactic at Rangers was to have the 11 best players on the pitch.   

[wev]

That's not a bad front three for Forest (though not as good as Spurs' front three)

[wev]

Oh no, that looked so easy

[wev]

Mind you they're not doing too bad attacking Spurs either

[bradigor]

Forest playing really well. As long as they don't go two down they can get something from this

[wev]

2 minutes ago, bradigor said:

Forest playing really well. As long as they don't go two down they can get something from this

Ssssshhhhh 😂

 

Johnson has been excellent this first half, as has Williams

[bradigor]

There is a good balance to them. That's for sure 

[SMD]

Steve Cooper is massively underrated, him and Potter are easily two of the best managers in the country at the moment.

[wev]

Feels like Forest may have missed their chance to equalise, lots of excellent opportunities just not got that extra level to make them count. I know there's another half to go but I think Spurs will be better in the second half

[wev]

That's a foul from Kane for me. Looks like Cook arm was up from being off balance

[wev]

Henderson!

 

That was Crossley v Linekar 😁

[spork]

Henderson would be the perfect goal keeper for Manchester United this season

[wev]

Ah well, I expected a bigger scoreline in Spurs' favour. Forest just haven't made the most of all those touches in Spurs' box, they need to work on being more clinical but if they continue to play like they have done today they'll be alright.

[bradigor]

Haha Richarlison you prick

[SMD]

For a promoted team that's basically not played together, Forest are remarkably coherent. I reckon with time and cool heads, they'll be okay as the season goes on.

[wev]

Carragher basically saying he doesn't condone what Johnson did but he totally does condone it 😂

[bradigor]

Disgraceful that from Hjoeberg 

[ryodi]

3 hours ago, SMD said:

Is that Gerrard gone then?

Villa’s next two games are Arsenal and Man City. I expect the club will let him lose those to games so Sean Dyche has an easier fixture list when he takes over.

[Shimmyhill]

Forest look a tidy side and I’m sure they will win plenty of games - bit of clinical finishing and they could have got something but Spurs didn’t really get going as has been the story of the season so far!

 

Still, I’d rather be picking up points while we get going and looking decent at the back than the usual poor starts we have.

[Fry Crayola]

5 hours ago, deerokus said:

I don't know why they insist on calling Jota 'Neves Filipe'

 

I've noticed this before where a player is commonly known by a nickname or shortening of his full name, and they use the whole surname (or surnames) instead.

 

Same thing here with Fabio Carvalho yesterday: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62614438