Today’s Other Football: Saturday 28/08/2021

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Wonder what herr keyboard teeth will blame that on

Everyone by the looks of it at the end.

Imagine getting a penalty on review and a red card for your team and then moaning about the ref because your team created £#%&! all.

Nice to see them huff and puff like that.

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

I think game three is far too early to start worrying about ‘lesser of two evils’ games. Let’s save those for December when we’re 9 points off the pace and out of the CL in the group stage

ALWAYS take the lesser ......

nobody talking about Chelsea's 100m quid forward offering absolutely £#%&! all for the entire 2nd half besides awful touches and watching the ball sail over his head?

Originally Posted by Sparky***

nobody talking about Chelsea's 100m quid forward offering absolutely £#%&! all for the entire 2nd half besides awful touches and watching the ball sail over his head?

They’ve picked their camp on that one. He’s the ‘final piece of the jigsaw’ and he’s matured since leaving England.

Personally, I think he looks like exactly the same player that I never wanted. One that looks like he’s constantly running either uphill or downhill.

Great result.

Chelsea impressive. If Lukaku plays like he did at Inter I think they will be the team for us to beat. Not very impressive today though.

Originally Posted by saffers

Great result.

Chelsea impressive. If Lukaku plays like he did at Inter I think they will be the team for us to beat. Not very impressive today though.

Chelsea flirted with being a footballing team under Lampard. Youth, open football and all that. They tried that for 18 months and then binned it immediately.

They're now back to being what they've been largely since 2004. A pragmatic, tight, disciplined unit with a big battering ram up front.

This new rule about tackling could turn out to be the best rule they've implemented since doing away with the passback. The amount of times Jorginho hurled himself on the floor at the slightest touch in the 2nd half expecting free kicks was a joke. No other intention apart from stopping the game. That, above all, needs to stop. We need football matches in this country to start ebbing and flowing again, not this 'you attack, we foul you, then we attack and you foul us' shite that's been going on for a while.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Chelsea flirted with being a footballing team under Lampard. Youth, open football and all that. They tried that for 18 months and then binned it immediately.

They're now back to being what they've been largely since 2004. A pragmatic, tight, disciplined unit with a big battering ram up front.

This new rule about tackling could turn out to be the best rule they've implemented since doing away with the passback. The amount of times Jorginho hurled himself on the floor at the slightest touch in the 2nd half expecting free kicks was a joke. No other intention apart from stopping the game. That, above all, needs to stop. We need football matches in this country to start ebbing and flowing again, not this 'you attack, we foul you, then we attack and you foul us' shite that's been going on for a while.

On the other hand I’d like to see City get away with less snide fouls. Absolute kings of it. Happens so often too.

Originally Posted by NedKelly

On the other hand I’d like to see City get away with less snide fouls. Absolute kings of it. Happens so often too.

yeah that too. we need to find a balance. it's one thing to ignore players throwing themselves on the floor though at the slightest touch... but it's another when you see things like Fabinho today, completely chopping down Kai Havertz as he was about to bear down on Liverpool's defence. Not even a yellow card. He did the same thing several times and yet gets no card.

I’m glad Neville and the commentator picked up on it a few times during the match

Good to see Juventus flourishing after getting rid of the man who was holding them back.

Watching MOTD, Brandon Williams had a £#%&!ing nightmare of a game.

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

Watching MOTD, Brandon Williams had a £#%&!ing nightmare of a game.

I hate to break this to you - but he’s shit

Originally Posted by Sparky***

I hate to break this to you - but he’s shit

You are breaking nothing to me, SIR.