Live Match Discussion 2022/23

[lemonjelly]

The bigger scandal is the football authorities allowing so many parasite gambling companies into the game via adverts and sponsorship and then being surprised when a player who is time rich with money to burn might actually start gambling.

Players should be banned from betting on football but it's got to be hand in hand with regulation on their prominence in the game.

Agree so much with this.
I understand & agree that footballers should not bet on football, but read an article recently that explained well the contradiction in requiring footballers not to bet whilst at the same time making them semi ambassadors for gambling companies. The article included photos of toney in 5 or 6 different football shirts all with gambling sponsors plastered all over.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't buy that at all.

Like a lot of us, I'm old enough to remember widespread tobacco advertising. Full on billboard ads on streets, standalone adverts for the likes of Hamlet cigars on TV, headline sponsors for F1/snooker/darts. Even the book for football tragics like me was "The Rothmans". Don't see me smoking 60 a day, do you.

I doubt players look down at their shirt and think "hmm, I fancy a bit of that".

Gambling advertising is too prevalent (although they have taken some steps to improve that - I believe that pre-9pm, you can no longer show gambling adverts during a live match, including HT in all but a tiny minority of fixtures) but that's a daft argument.

 

[Tony Towner]

I see the hypocrisy, but see the equivalence as weak. If he was sponsored by Snappy Snaps he wouldn't suddenly run out and buy a camera

 

[Mel Evo]

Absolutely hilarious from Peter Walton on the Chelsea game right now. A definitive “no pen, referee got that right” when asked to watch the replay thinking it wasn’t going to VAR. Then it does, later than he thought, he’s asked again on the same footage and he goes for “I think now he’s looking if it, erm, hit his hand and, yes, this should be a penalty”. What a farce his input is.

 

[jdrodrigues]

Benfica is giving Brugge a proper thrashing.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Rafa Silva looks a superb talent

 

[jdrodrigues]

5 - 0 now.

Oooof

 

[Kenny]

Scott Parker looking for a new job tomorrow then

 

[ROVERT47]

No wonder Germany ain’t up to much at the moment if that Sule is one of their current centre backs.
He looks like a Sunday League player who’s had about ten pints on Saturday night.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Scott Parker looking for a new job tomorrow then

Had no idea he was the manager

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Benfica is giving Brugge a proper thrashing.

Really interesting article on Benfica making hyper millions from transfers on the BBC website today.

 

[ROVERT47]

Don’t like Chelsea but pleased for Graham Potter one of football’s good guys.
They don’t deserve him really.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

No wonder Germany ain’t up to much at the moment if that Sule is one of their current centre backs.
He looks like a Sunday League player who’s had about ten pints on Saturday night.

He's a disgrace. More out of condition than Paul Butler 2002.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

He's a disgrace. More out of condition than Paul Butler 2002.

God mode Robert Huth, always looked wank at Bayern so I've no idea why Dortmund wanted him.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

God mode Robert Huth, always looked wank at Bayern so I've no idea why Dortmund wanted him.

He was free

He is absolutely shite.

 

[leedswolf]

Had no idea he was the manager

Neither does he...

 

[Templeton Peck]

Fuck off Spurs you twats

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Awful performance.

 

[jd1981]

just a nothing performance 3 games in 7 days in 3 different competitions 0-1, 0-1, 0-0. Bruno Saunders sorts of stuff.

 

[The Bion]

Not Harry's fault though, oh no. Spurs fans had better hope he's a 1 club man, says Rio.

He literally tried to leave, you dumbass.