2022/23 Soccer Thread: Finals Week(s)

My God. Just fire everyone at United.

It's the best comedy on NBC.

Holy sh*t.

It's a Bee team against a B team.

Neville called it men vs. U-9's.

He's right.

Prederick wrote:

When Mou said finishing 2nd with United was his greatest achievement, I laughed it off, but.... erm...

What this tells us is we all over-rated Brighton.

Also, despite being moved by his recovery, I am all here for the Brentford fans absolutely roasting Christian Eriksen in the first half.

Erik Ten Games…..

Bees?!

Until Manchester United fix things at the top (the "open-heart surgery Ralph Rangnick talked about when he was hired) they'll continue to be be an expensive mess.

Meanwhile, two games in for Fulham, and I feel like we should be genuinely disappointed at only having two points. Hoping that bodes well.

Nobody could have seen this coming:

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/st...

We understand Manchester United want to see a change in Cristiano Ronaldo's attitude or they may have to consider terminating his contract.

Thereby giving Ronaldo exactly what he wants. You’d think they’d do the same for half the squad at this point.

Edit: and for those of us old enough to remember the days of Brian Clough, great to see Nottingham Forest win today.

Conte vs Tuchel hype! Handbags at dawn!

Anthony Taylor is not Chelsea's best friend there. Cucurella lining up for the next game with the Havertz haircut.

Mr Bismarck wrote:

Conte vs Tuchel hype! Handbags at dawn!

Anthony Taylor is not Chelsea's best friend there. Cucurella lining up for the next game with the Havertz haircut.

Match of the Day 2 tonight (for those of us that get it) is going to be highly entertaining!

Sorbicol wrote:
Mr Bismarck wrote:

Conte vs Tuchel hype! Handbags at dawn!

Anthony Taylor is not Chelsea's best friend there. Cucurella lining up for the next game with the Havertz haircut.

Match of the Day 2 tonight (for those of us that get it) is going to be highly entertaining!

IMAGE(https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/chelsea-manager-thomas-tuchel-clashes-with-tottenham-hotspur-manager-picture-id1414835732?s=2048x2048)

Mr Bismarck wrote:

Conte vs Tuchel hype! Handbags at dawn!

Anthony Taylor is not Chelsea's best friend there. Cucurella lining up for the next game with the Havertz haircut.

As a Spurs fan, this was all very entertaining. We were clearly the lesser team today, but thanks to the ref's "Let them fight" attitude (or VAR's continued impotence), we escaped with a point.

When you consider last season's finish, this was beyond highway robbery; it was felony murder.

I'm just happy to see Hassenhuttl continue the proud tradition of modern managers forcing the 3-5-2 well past its obvious failure -- then immediately finding success when switching back to the a 4-4-2.

Also, is it okay to dream of a relegated United? Kind of like those few minutes after you buy a lottery ticket?

LilCodger wrote:

Also, is it okay to dream of a relegated United? Kind of like those few minutes after you buy a lottery ticket?

Many are. I'm probably not the best to comment there though.

LilCodger wrote:

I'm just happy to see Hassenhuttl continue the proud tradition of modern managers forcing the 3-5-2 well past its obvious failure -- then immediately finding success when switching back to the a 4-4-2.

Also, is it okay to dream of a relegated United? Kind of like those few minutes after you buy a lottery ticket?

Definitely. Worst case they sack ETH, bring in a dude like Dyche, and he simplifies things to the point where they can just talent their way to enough points.

But I would love to see it.

There's "against the run of play" and then there's whatever Zaha and Palace just did to Liverpool.

Huh. Who knew Darwin Nunez was part Scottish? And from Glasgow, no less!

Anyway, congratulations to Manchester City, the 2022/23 Premier League Champions!

EDIT: Nevermind! They've still got Luis Diaz!

Prederick wrote:

Huh. Who knew Darwin Nunez was part Scottish? And from Glasgow, no less!

Anyway, congratulations to Manchester City, the 2022/23 Premier League Champions!

EDIT: Nevermind! They've still got Luis Diaz!

WHAT!!!! Never mind guess we will stick with Lyndon Dykes. Didn’t like him anyway honest.

My takes from this game are:

1. Nunez will learn. But my word that was remarkably stupid. And deserved.

2. Even with 10 players Liverpool are all over Palace

3. Not a good refereeing performance.

4. These phases when Liverpool can do everything but put the ball in the back of the net. My word they are annoying.

So i'm not giving the trophy to City yet.

I am, however, stenciling "MANCHESTER CITY" onto it.

Well Liverpool play United next which is just perfect.

So a few games in how are we all feeling about our teams performance? For my part Queens Park have had a good start, to be honest if we stay up I’m over the moon this season playing away from our home ground and probably promoted a year too early after the play off victory I am just enjoying having had a win against thistle was great and we haven’t looked totally out of our depth. Bedding in 8 new starting players is never easy so I am overall very happy.

bbk1980 wrote:

So a few games in how are we all feeling about our teams performance? For my part Queens Park have had a good start, to be honest if we stay up I’m over the moon this season playing away from our home ground and probably promoted a year too early after the play off victory I am just enjoying having had a win against thistle was great and we haven’t looked totally out of our depth. Bedding in 8 new starting players is never easy so I am overall very happy.

You're asking the wrong person!

We've lost some - OK, one - Major player for us and it shows. Firmino is a shadow of who he was, and as tonight's game has made clear, some of our new signings need to learn how the Premier League & English game works (looking at you, Darwin Nunez). I still think Diaz is finding his feet a little, and is still getting to grips with some of the physicality the English game has. We look like a team that has lost some critical players and had some injury enforced ones, and it needs to all bed in a little. It's not the end of the world.

All that said it's the second game of the season and still far too early to make that many judgments especially that City have it all sown up.

EDIT: And I am more than prepared to be castigated for this, but is it me or is this all just a storm in a tea cup? They were incredibly poorly chosen words by Souness for sure, but I don't think they were the direct criticism of the Women's game that so many people are taking them for? Or is that just me?

The former female Tottenham player I follow on Twitter agreed that he was clearly not referring to the women’s game at all. And as I said, that the women’s game has far less diving and crying in it.

There was a time when giving people the benefit of the doubt was considered virtuous, but the zeitgeist seems to be that slandering everyone and taking the most uncharitable interpretation is the thing to do, often for imaginary internet clout.

I missed yesterday that apparently Barcelona is targeting ManU'sAaron Wan-Bissaka and Diogo Dalot, which.... just amazing. Comedy on comedy.

Sorbicol wrote:

EDIT: And I am more than prepared to be castigated for this, but is it me or is this all just a storm in a tea cup? They were incredibly poorly chosen words by Souness for sure, but I don't think they were the direct criticism of the Women's game that so many people are taking them for? Or is that just me?

No, I agree with you and Feday. In context, it's clear that he was talking about enjoying the physicality of the Spurs-Chelsea game. Using the term "a man's game" is indeed a poor choice of words, especially when you're sitting next to Karen Carney, but we've all heard that phrase before, and we know what he means.

The modern world is so exhausting, with social media erupting into a mighty froth over every tiny thing.

Anyway. Here is Souness, turning a man into a woman with a textbook castration during his Rangers days: