Premier League Not So Festive Season

SquishyMcSquish said:
:lol:

I don't want to spoil the party because I get why you guys are getting dizzy (Mourinho sacking a weight lifted, then a club legend comes in and delivers a great first performance) and you're totally entitled to it, but come on .. it's Cardiff. You have the new manager effect driving you, nobody in Liverpool or at Manchester City are getting scared yet. I imagine most of their fans couldn't really care less about you considering the gap.

Also, we've heard 'United are back' a hell of a lot of times .. you might wanna wait a while.
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We played just as good against Fulham a bit ago btw. I've seen more than enough false dawns under LVG and Mourinho to just enjoy this and not take too much from it.

It was obvious that some players were underperforming due to the manager. We should be right up there in the top 4 in terms of player quality, but we've been comfortably 6th best. Mou had to go months ago, I'm glad we've finally let him go.
 
Sean Dyche unleashed a furious diatribe about cheating in the modern game after being incensed at what he felt were a series of dives by Arsenal’s players. The Burnley manager, whose team lost 3-1 at the Emirates Stadium, mentioned Mesut Özil and Granit Xhaka as being among the culprits while he also suggested Matteo Guendouzi had been guilty.

“We’re on about blatant, no touch, no contact; about phantom touches and people just jumping up in the air and going over,” Dyche said. “The absolute cheating, dives. No one seems to want to do anything about it, apart from me. If one of their players had been booked for it – he would have been off [Guendouzi was already on a yellow card].

Even at the end, [Matej] Vydra goes through and touches Xhaka marginally on his shoulder and Xhaka goes down and gets a free-kick. It’s centre-halves now – going down after hardly anything. Incredible.

“Kids are watching and copying it. Millions of children. You wouldn’t ruffle your kids’ hair if they came home after school and cheated in a maths’ test. But they cheat at a game of football and it’s OK. The game needs to have a look at itself. It was incredibly bad in the World Cup.

“I want to see people banned because if they were, it would evaporate. I’m not talking about gamesmanship. You clip a centre-forward in the box and he goes down. End of story. I’m talking about blatant diving. Cheating.”

Dyche had a brusque exchange with Unai Emery after full-time. The Burnley manager was asked whether his Arsenal counterpart had been upset about diving. “Of course he wasn’t – it was his players, not mine,” Dyche said. “He just said: ‘You are questioning the referee?’ And I said: ‘You’re absolutely right I was. All the best. Have a good Christmas.’”
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/dec/22/sean-dyche-accuses-arsenal-dives-absolute-cheating
 
SquishyMcSquish said:
:lol:

I don't want to spoil the party because I get why you guys are getting dizzy (Mourinho sacking a weight lifted, then a club legend comes in and delivers a great first performance) and you're totally entitled to it, but come on .. it's Cardiff. You have the new manager effect driving you, nobody in Liverpool or at Manchester City are getting scared yet. I imagine most of their fans couldn't really care less about you considering the gap.

Also, we've heard 'United are back' a hell of a lot of times .. you might wanna wait a while.
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Honestly mate you should be shitting it. We’re gonna beat you to fourth and then hire Poch as our assistant.
 
Nice to see United playing football, that 3rd goal was brilliant. Great start for Solksjaer.
 
Wumminator said:
Can you imagine the City/ Liverpool fans watching this together right now?

Just silently whispering “oh shit” as United score one of the best goals in the league this season for their third.

The jubilation they felt when Cardiff got a dodgy penalty “phew, maybe they aren’t back”

Oh man this is beautiful.
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Bit more preoccupied with the gap we just opened up at the top than mid table teams beating a bottom team.
 
CBA to find the thread, but the BBC website is clearly a city or Liverpool supporter, any amount of dogs at us today. It happens a lot too. Bunch of pricks
 
cyberman said:
Keown has been really over the top in this first half. A Utd player could take a shit in the middle of the pitch and he'd claim its due to all the freedom we have since Jose left.
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To be fair, Jose wouldn't have allowed them to shit in the middle of the pitch.
 
I wonder what Jose is thinking as he watches 'his' side dismantle Cardiff ? I bet he's just starting his 2nd bottle of pinot grigio whilst holding 3 fingers up to the telly & shouting, "3 times you f**king Norwegian prick".
 
He's probably just annoyed at how shitty many of the players were in terms of attitude and commitment by putting themselves and their egos above the club. Same thing as happened at his last Chelsea stint.
 
Sean Douche. He's the one taking them to the Championship, nobody else. He's also a moron if he thinks Xhaka is a centre half....could say the same about Emery though too!
 
cyberman said:
Keown has been really over the top in this first half. A Utd player could take a shit in the middle of the pitch and he'd claim its due to all the freedom we have since Jose left.
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I thought that too. He started way too early, as if he'd had it scripted.
 
Well done to Palace. Townsends goals was one of the best goals I have ever seen.
 
Everton: Pickford, Digne, Keane, Zouma, Coleman, Davies, Gomes, Sigurdsson, Walcott, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin
Subs: Stekelenburg, Baines, Mina, Tosun, Schneiderlin, Niasse, Bernard

Spurs: Lloris, Trippier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Davies, Winks, Sissoko, Eriksen, Son, Alli, Kane
Subs: Gazzaniga, Rose, Lamela, Walker-Peters, Foyth, Moura, Skipp




 
Not really sure how I want this match to go. For Spurs winning a part of me thinks Spurs are the only side possible capable of challenging Liverpool or City should they drop a few points and also I don't want any doubts that Poch should be the man to take over in the summer.

They are also the only side with us in the top 6 that I like.

But then, for this season, I should want all the teams above us to be dropping points.
 
Everton looking the more likely in the first ten minutes.
 
Kane's all round play has come on leaps and bounds, but I swear he's just not as clinical as he was just a season or two ago.

It might just be me, and perhaps just because he's not on top form so far (usually turns it on at the end of the season) but I do feel less confident than I used to when he's in front of goal. Sometimes he seems weirdly hesitant to pull the trigger too.
 
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