Live Match Discussion 2022/23

[Johnny75]

Debatable.

It isn't. Football is about entertainment, nothing beats a goal.

 

[Alan]

It isn't. Football is about entertainment, nothing beats a goal.

Football is competition first. Not that my opinion there is unknown.

If we were scraping by with a bunch of Stearman-esque escapes I'd be less entertained, but watching us be so disciplined defensively brings its own equal amount of joy. Different, certainly, but no worse.

 

[Tony Towner]

Try paying £600+ to watch this. What we are seeing at the moment is better than losing, I don't overly have a beef with it, but let's not pretend it's entertaining.

 

[Alan]

I'm not pretending, I genuinely derive a lot of joy from the style of football we're playing at the moment.

Obviously the money involved is a variable I can't really control for but certainly from afar I'm more than entertained at the moment.

 

[Tony Towner]

I can't tell you how you feel, so respect your view. I'd suggest it's a minority one though. I can respect what we are doing, but it's not entertaining and the lack of goals at both ends are undoubtedly linked given the way we set up. Take a defender out and we score more goals, how many more would we concede as a result is the question

 

[Alan]

Oh, it's 100% a minority opinion, I've no doubt of that.

 

[Tony Towner]

New year, but City are still getting penalties for diving

 

[Alan]

Nah, pen for me. Xhaka pulls his shirt.

 

[Jack Regan]

Arsenal hit the self destruct button. Raul levels of stupidity from Gabriel.

 

[Alan]

Arsenal

 

[Tony Towner]

It's both. He still dives though

 

[slink]

He doesn’t get the penalty though if he doesn’t go down and it’s a blatant foul. If they gave penalties when players were fouled but stayed on their feet then less diving happens.

 

[Tony Towner]

He doesn’t get the penalty though if he doesn’t go down and it’s a blatant foul. If they gave penalties when players were fouled but stayed on their feet then less diving happens.

City do it all the time though - Silva, Mahrez, Sterling, Jesus, Grealish. Perhaps it's professional, I just think they've become an unlikeable bunch of scumbags. They get the penalties because the refs are desperate to give them.

 

[AndyWolves]

Not a penalty for me until xhaka grabs his shirt. Silva activity runs into Xhaka

 

[slink]

City do it all the time though - Silva, Mahrez, Sterling, Jesus, Grealish. Perhaps it's professional, I just think they've become an unlikeable bunch of scumbags. They get the penalties because the refs are desperate to give them.

Oh they do, they all dive a lot but that’s a clear penalty once Xhaka grabs the shirt. The challenge wasn’t a foul but pulling his shirt is so it had to be given.

 

[Alan]

I can’t decide if Ramsdale should do better with that.

 

[SSB]

20 bottles thrown by Arsenal fans and not one hit the target.

 

[AndyWolves]

I can’t decide if Ramsdale should do better with that.

Middle of the goal about 6 yards out. Not much the keeper can do there

 

[Tony Towner]

Walton speaking shite for a change.

 

[Charlie Wolf]

Ahhh! And the impeccable Peter Walton confuses the life out of the everyone further
So the reason for referring the ref to review was the shirt pull, but if he doesn’t dive it doesn’t get referred…what absolute bollocks