Weird feelings of football

There was a period between 2004-2008 when Liverpool and Chelsea played each other in every CL quarter finals.

FSW never lost to Mourinho.

Avram Grant never lost a game in 90 minutes while managing Chelsea. He only lost in ET / Penalties.
 
Robertd0803 said:
The Champions League semi between us and Arsenal in 2009 at The Emirates remains the only Champions League game to be played in natural day light.
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Peanut Butter said:
Liverpool v Chelsea always makes me think of a CL tie played in daylight too.
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Our match against Barcelona at Wembley is probably the only final played under daylight too.

Maybe Bayer v Dortmund too
 
A game where a star player is suspended/injured and theres a huge deal made about him missing it will always result in a win for the team he plays for.

Case in point-Neymar suspensed for the Madrid game and yet Barca will win. Us losing at Anfield in 2009 to a Liverpool minus Gerrard and Torres. Arsenal losing last season to us minus half a team.
 
Robertd0803 said:
A game where a star player is suspended/injured and theres a huge deal made about him missing it will always result in a win for the team he plays for.

Case in point-Neymar suspensed for the Madrid game and yet Barca will win. Us losing at Anfield in 2009 to a Liverpool minus Gerrard and Torres. Arsenal losing last season to us minus half a team.
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Neymar and Thiago Silva out against Germany WC14.. oh wait.
 
An overseas player with a strong international reputation will be widely declared as poor and overrated if he fails to perform in front of British cameras.
 
Pogba is a better free kick taker than Zlatan even though Zlatan has scored a few free kicks this season and Pogba hasn't.
 
Poor old Spurs will play great for these three or four seasons and not win anything.
 
If Harrera played in the Spanish league, he would start more often for the national team probably instead of Sergio Busquets
 
The cameras at Anfield are positioned on a hot air balloon, miles above the stadium.
 
Sammy Lee has been on the coaching staff of every Premier League club.
 
Every efn time an announcer says a stat that something hasn't happened at you team's home ground in a fecking 100 years -it happens. i.e. Fat Sam have never beaten LFC at Anfield.
 
njred said:
Every efn time an announcer says a stat that something hasn't happened at you team's home ground in a fecking 100 years -it happens. i.e. Fat Sam have never beaten LFC at Anfield.
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Perfectly true. What's even better is you usually sit there with a nice fat bet and wonder what just happened.
 
njred said:
Every efn time an announcer says a stat that something hasn't happened at you team's home ground in a fecking 100 years -it happens. i.e. Fat Sam have never beaten LFC at Anfield.
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This sort of thing felt like it happened every weekend during the Moyes season.
 
Left-backs often make great free-kick takers, but rarely right-backs.

Probably something to do with them having more options.
 
Every hipster/flavor of the month team is composed of players who play exactly the same and all look interchangeable between them

example : Atletico Madrid in 2014 had like 6 bearded spanish dudes that played and looked the same and had simple names like Raul, García, Saul etc

Napoli this season has like 4 midgets that play the same, Borussia has like 4 new young dark gelled hair dudes that are all up and coming..

usually these players are heavily involved in muppet transfer fests
 
Every mid table team who drop points to lower positioned teams in May will be declared as being on holidays
 
Whenever Anthony Martial gets the ball there are always three opposition players immediately on him.
 
Also, Manchester United players are not allowed to move unless they've got the ball.
 
Since joining Arsenal, Danny Welbeck has only been fit for one game a season: the home game against Man Utd.
 
Competing on more than 1 front suddenly has become too hard for English clubs.
 
Madthinker said:
Left-backs often make great free-kick takers, but rarely right-backs.

Probably something to do with them having more options.
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Man this is really interesting. I can't think of any right backs who take free kicks, Srna the exception.

But left backs off the top of my head Guerreiro, Kolarov, Alaba, Smelzer, Blind, (Can I count Bale?)
I wonder why this is.
 
Kurosawa said:
Man this is really interesting. I can't think of any right backs who take free kicks, Srna the exception.

But left backs off the top of my head Guerreiro, Kolarov, Alaba, Smelzer, Blind, (Can I count Bale?)
I wonder why this is.
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Dani Alves gives it a go.
 
Kurosawa said:
Man this is really interesting. I can't think of any right backs who take free kicks, Srna the exception.

But left backs off the top of my head Guerreiro, Kolarov, Alaba, Smelzer, Blind, (Can I count Bale?)
I wonder why this is.
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Maybe because left backs tend to be left footed, therefore having fewer players to compete with for free kicks from the right half of the pitch. That would make them more likely to practice them and become proficient at free kicks than right footed right backs who will (generally) have everyone bar gk, lb and lw to compete with for left sided free kicks.
 
Kurosawa said:
Man this is really interesting. I can't think of any right backs who take free kicks, Srna the exception.

But left backs off the top of my head Guerreiro, Kolarov, Alaba, Smelzer, Blind, (Can I count Bale?)
I wonder why this is.
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I was only thinking of Premier League players, so you could put Irwin, Baines, Riise, Pearce, Dicks and Harte in there too.

Anustart89 said:
Maybe because left backs tend to be left footed, therefore having fewer players to compete with for free kicks from the right half of the pitch. That would make them more likely to practice them and become proficient at free kicks than right footed right backs who will (generally) have everyone bar gk, lb and lw to compete with for left sided free kicks.
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Sounds plausible enough.
 
Madthinker said:
I was only thinking of Premier League players, so you could put Irwin, Baines, Riise, Pearce, Dicks and Harte in there too.



Sounds plausible enough.
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Irwin the exception there, being right-footed.
 
A foreign player who commits many fouls and gets carded often is called "cynical" and "dirty".
A British player who commits many fouls and gets carded often is called an "honest pro" or a "no nonsense player".

When your team plays defensively and wins, it's a tactical masterstroke.
When your opponent plays defensively and wins, it's anti-football.
 
Rooney tried to save us from his inevitable decline by requesting a transfer, twice.
 
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