24 25 English Cup Thread
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4 of the final 8/9 have never won the FA Cup, and the non-PL team isn't one of them:
Villa-7 wins/4 seconds
City-7 wins/7 seconds
Preston-2 wins/1 second
Forest-2 wins/5 seconds
Ipswich-1 win
Palace-0 wins/3 seconds
Brighton-0 wins/2 seconds
Fulham-0 wins/1 second
Bournemouth-----never
Villa-7 wins/4 seconds
City-7 wins/7 seconds
Preston-2 wins/1 second
Forest-2 wins/5 seconds
Ipswich-1 win
Palace-0 wins/3 seconds
Brighton-0 wins/2 seconds
Fulham-0 wins/1 second
Bournemouth-----never
Jussi
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So Spurs couldn't score against City at home, yet Plymouth can score against City on the road.
Shambolic if I was a Tottenham fan.
Gordon has to be one of the most unlikeable players I have ever seen in my history of watching football. If Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has a slapable face in the NHL, Anthony has a punchable face in the EPL
Shambolic if I was a Tottenham fan.
Gordon has to be one of the most unlikeable players I have ever seen in my history of watching football. If Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has a slapable face in the NHL, Anthony has a punchable face in the EPL
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Spurs must love their rent-free place in your head.
hatterson
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So I see Oliver watched someone get kicked in the face yesterday from a few feet away and didn't even award a yellow at first? lol, he's so awful.
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LOGiK
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Pointing and laughing at a downed player after a blow to the head/face is pretty much the fastest way to become a villain.
(the face/head area can be very fragile.... one slight hit in the right spot (or the wrong spot) can drop anyone)
Very odd break down he had.
It's not just that. He dives in every single game, throws himself into goalkeepers and gets pens. He is a trifecta of a douche.
LOGiK
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Mentioning throwing themselves down on a anticipation of or slightest contact really has been unpunished from what i saw this season (mostly EPL this season) and I guess the players caught on because they do it to the point of embarrassing.
Either enforce calling simulation or only give penalties on legit scoring chances. A player fouled in the back corner of the box, with no chance/intent on scoring, playing a pass back is fouled and that awards a free point bank spot kick? Too easily abused.
Now I may be going off on my personal opinion but I loathe when teams are at a standstill and they go penalty hunting. Laying on the ground throwing their hands up. Really....
apart from time wasting that is my biggest gripe of this season.
hatterson
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This is one of the biggest failings of VAR.
Theoretically VAR should be finding situations where a player conned a ref and letting the ref fix that. Those cons can either be completely simulating contact or it could be initiating the contact and absolutely chucking yourself to the ground.
Unfortunately VAR has taken the approach of basically saying that a pen stands if there was any contact at all, no matter how slight. And even in the cases where a referee has been sent to a monitor to review his call and determined that actually there was no pen, they never award a simulation yellow. Additionally, if a referee didn't call a pen live, it has to be a really blatant foul for VAR to get involved.
What that means is that a player is heavily incentivized to go down all the time for any reason. If they can convince the referee live, they're extremely likely to have it stand and even if it doesn't, they're not going to be punished for the attempt. Conversely, they're disincentivized from staying up because if them fighting through contact causes a referee to decline a penalty live (which we've seen many times), VAR is never sending him to the monitor to check it over.
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Savant
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All game. That was not an isolated incident.
LFC look exhausted from midweek. I don’t know if they were just trying to save gas that first half or something but they haven’t showed up
There’s an argument that they should have had a PK for Trippier handball in box but to put it lightly that would have been against the run of play
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I never watch this competition, but as a Newcastle fan, I’m watching today.
Nice to even watch them in a Cup final.
Nice to even watch them in a Cup final.
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Savant
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They called the interference on the other guy. It’s coming though. They can’t run. They look like Man City right now. Negligent not to make those subs at half time.
Savant
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Why is LFC the only team to be held to the standard that if it’s not not a quad it’s a bad season? No one even thought they could win the league this year. This narrative is dumb
Carlzner
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Yeah Arne start the same trio up front as last game, brilliant one boss
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Savant
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Hated that lineup from the jump. Last few games feel like Slot has done what Klopp would have done and I don’t mean that as a compliment. That was not the button he needed to push
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Savant
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It would be something. I mean I think today you kind of have a trophy desperate team against a team that played 120 minutes midweek against elite opposition and we are seeing the trickle down effects of that for sure. The right team is in front. Definitely think Slot got it wrong today
If this team is dead tired and plays like Man City has this season, the league is not on lock by any means. Not like our players are going to get a break during internationals either.
