Weird feelings of football

Everytime Pogba changes his hairstyle he has an average or rubbish game straight after.
 
Goals scored in off the crossbar will always be up for goal of the month.

They are invariably beautiful to watch.

Whilst I'd imagine every single goal ever to hit the crossbar first is always instinctive and the player isn't aiming for it, have you ever played Crossbar Challenge? It's certainly not easy and that's when you're aiming for it so they always seem more spectacular as goals when they go in off the woodwork during a match.
 
Andrea Pirlo played Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series.
 
Bottom half Premier League teams who sign a proven striker for around £10m will flop, whereas signing a foreign striker for around £1m will succeed.
 
Whenever a big team faces an opponent that fields one of their former promising youngsters, they lose or drop points. Always.
 
Every Arabic person is a Real Madrid fan.

Every Indian person is a Manchester United fan.

Every South American is a Barcelona fan.
 
Every time a small club manages to sign a "big" player/highly rated wonderkid, they always end up benching them for someone vastly inferior and thus it never pans out.

Examples...

Iturbe at Bournemouth getting benched for Stanislas.

Bojan, Affelay and Bony getting benched for Peter Crouch and Jon Walters.

Feghouli getting benched at West Ham.

Boufal getting benched at Southampton.

Ben Arfa and potentially Markovic getting benched at Hull for the likes of Meyler.

Etc etc.

I even remember Mascherano getting benched at West Ham for some rubbish player. Can't remember who it was now.
 
Everytime I check the scores and Arsenal are losing by a couple of goals to an inferior team, they end up winning the game with an injury time goal.
 
A player scoring 4 goals in one match doesn't seem right. A hat trick seems better than 4 although scoring 5 seems amazing. Maybe it's the odd numbers which are more appealing. Maybe I have some sort of OCD.
 
A player scoring 4 goals in one match doesn't seem right. A hat trick seems better than 4 although scoring 5 seems amazing. Maybe it's the odd numbers which are more appealing. Maybe I have some sort of OCD.

I see what you mean. Hat-trick? Great play, that player's had a stromer. Four goals? Hmm, something's not quite right here. Is the fix in?
 
I see what you mean. Hat-trick? Great play, that player's had a stromer. Four goals? Hmm, something's not quite right here. Is the fix in?
Yeah maybe the goal after a hat trick devalues the performance. But when I hear of players scoring five (very rarely) it seems like a masterpiece. I dno actually. Even 5 is dodgy. A hat trick is probably the best :lol:
 
Every time a small club manages to sign a "big" player/highly rated wonderkid, they always end up benching them for someone vastly inferior and thus it never pans out.

Examples...

Iturbe at Bournemouth getting benched for Stanislas.

Bojan, Affelay and Bony getting benched for Peter Crouch and Jon Walters.

Feghouli getting benched at West Ham.

Boufal getting benched at Southampton.

Ben Arfa and potentially Markovic getting benched at Hull for the likes of Meyler.

Etc etc.

I even remember Mascherano getting benched at West Ham for some rubbish player. Can't remember who it was now.

Those highly rated wonderkids are usually luxury players that you can't afford to have blow hot and cold when you're in a relegation scrap.
 
Yeah maybe the goal after a hat trick devalues the performance. But when I hear of players scoring five (very rarely) it seems like a masterpiece. I dno actually. Even 5 is dodgy. A hat trick is probably the best :lol:

Probably because it has a name for it, if four goals was named Quatrick scoring four goals would be so sick, but you just say he scored four goals and y' know it doesn't seem that special. For five goals Pentatrick or something better. It's all about the names :D
 
Those highly rated wonderkids are usually luxury players that you can't afford to have blow hot and cold when you're in a relegation scrap.
Define a "luxary" player.

The majority of the time those teams are choosing dross over talent and thats why they get relegated. If you're a Stoke and you have Bojan, why would you play Jon Walters? I cant understand it.
 
When there's a midweek game for all the teams we always get the later day.
Also Match of the Day if another of the big teams plays midweek they put on a special edition of the show on, but never do for us.
 
Define a "luxary" player.

The majority of the time those teams are choosing dross over talent and thats why they get relegated. If you're a Stoke and you have Bojan, why would you play Jon Walters? I cant understand it.

Oh don't get me wrong, in my eyes I'd rather risk the talent of someone like Bojan over Jon Walters but there's a stereotype over players like Bojan not being the type of players you want for a scrap. They go into hiding when you need them to put a shift in and grind out results, on that front Jon Walters is exactly the type of player you'd need.

Of course, once the new season starts I'd really expect to be playing Bojan, Shaqiri, etc but alas, it never works out that way.

Just something that appears etched in the minds of British managers and Hughes in this example is no exception.
 
Us never looking like scoring in open play
 
1. United, this season, doesn't really take games that serious until it's 10 minutes left. They believe it's a pre-season exhibition game and when it's minute 80 they realise it's actually not and they need to score.

2. CL-final 2002 between Real Madrid and Leverkusen ended 1-0. Zidane scored the only goal that game and there weren't any other goals scored that game.
 
2. CL-final 2002 between Real Madrid and Leverkusen ended 1-0. Zidane scored the only goal that game and there weren't any other goals scored that game.

I refuse to believe that Berbatov played in that game, he suddenly emerged on to the scene in 2004 in my eyes.
 
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If you play the worst team in the world more than 3 times a season you will not beat them every time and if you play a league and cup game very close together against the same team you will knock them out of the cup while drawing the league game.
 
If you play the worst team in the world more than 3 times a season you will not beat them every time and if you play a league and cup game very close together against the same team you will knock them out of the cup while drawing the league game.

Haha that's so true.

I've got another one. If you have dangerous free kicks or a corner it's much more effective to bend it towards the goal and not away. Then you just need a touch or sometimes it even goes in without anyone touching it. I guess it's just a weird feeling and not a fact since United always seem to do the opposite this season. Don't know how many times I've seen Blind take corners and good free kicks on the left side of the pitch and Rooney or someone else right footed take the ones on he right side. Irritates me every time.
 
Haha that's so true.

I've got another one. If you have dangerous free kick or a corner it's much more effective to bend it towards the goal and not away. Then you just need a touch or sometimes it even goes in without anyone touching it. I guess it's just a weird feeling and not a fact since United always seem to do the opposite this season. Don't know how many times I've seen Blind take corners and good free kicks on the left side of the pitch and Rooney or someone else right footed take the ones on he right side. Irritates me every time.

I have a mate who's obsessed with this. I see his and your logic but I hear "we should swing this in... oh we're not doing!... stupid, we should use the ball's momentum to our advantage" every single time we take a corner when I'm watching the match with him.
 
Our inswingers are nearly always caught with ease by the goalkeeper, as we don't block him like a lot of teams do.

Our dead ball delivery is lousy. It was great that one season RVP took everything.
 
There are more Liverpool fans in Thailand and Australia combined than there are anywhere else in the world. Every west African is either a fan of Arsenal or Chelsea, whilst every southern African is a United fan.

All Chelsea fans are pragmatic and level-headed. All Arsenal and Spurs fans have delusional tendencies.

Alan Pardew, Sam Allardyce and Tony Pulis are manifestations of a single being.
 
Seamus Coleman is somehow always on the scoresheet for Everton's home wins
Gary Hooper was called up for the England squad

Every time a one man team gets called a one man team, they bring up stats that show otherwise and how good their squad is. Once the player's gone we see the regression to the mean
 
There are more Liverpool fans in Thailand and Australia combined than there are anywhere else in the world. Every west African is either a fan of Arsenal or Chelsea, whilst every southern African is a United fan.

All Chelsea fans are pragmatic and level-headed. All Arsenal and Spurs fans have delusional tendencies.

Alan Pardew, Sam Allardyce and Tony Pulis are manifestations of a single being.
Every bag of charity clothes sent to Africa contains at least 6 Chelsea shirts.
 
There are more Liverpool fans in Thailand and Australia combined than there are anywhere else in the world. Every west African is either a fan of Arsenal or Chelsea, whilst every southern African is a United fan.

All Chelsea fans are pragmatic and level-headed. All Arsenal and Spurs fans have delusional tendencies.

Alan Pardew, Sam Allardyce and Tony Pulis are manifestations of a single being.
You've clearly not seen BlueCelery then ;)
 
If you play the worst team in the world more than 3 times a season you will not beat them every time and if you play a league and cup game very close together against the same team you will knock them out of the cup while drawing the league game.

Unless it's Villa or Spurs in which case you'll always win.
 
Demarai Gray, Nathan Redmond, Matt Phillips, Jordan Ibe and Andros Townsend are all basically the same player.