Football Thread 2021/22: pre-seasons in the abyss

[Wonderful Butternut]

Atletico game is great. Ref just straight redding people for dissent

V. strange performance. Let's them away with 2 or 3 blatant yellows in the first 20 minutes, then goes to book Felipe, who whines about it and gets cunted straight off the pitch. Then he books half the Athletico team for crying about it.

Maybe if he'd laid down the law early and shown a yellow to Koke or Felix early on for cynically stopping counter-attacks, like he's supposed to, he wouldn't have found himself with an Athleti player doing a Surprised Pikachu Face when he finally does punish a foul properly.

It is still funny, mind.

Radio is insistent that Felipe was straight redded for the cynical challenge itself. Which would be interesting if true, as you rarely see that.

Ref's off his meds if he pulled a straight red just for the challenge. I have to assume Felipe's said something stupid before the ref's even got the yellow out so the ref's decided to go straight red rather than book him for the challenge and then again for mouthing off.

[Chollis]

Think I agree with PETER WALTON that the challenge was a very orange yellow and he just turned it red by ignoring 3 calls from the ref to come over after the challenge

[bgmnts]

Blackburn getting a pasting by Fulham. Just the 5-0 so far.

[jobotic]

Nah, it's six

[bgmnts]

Seven*.

[Osmium]

Atletico game is great. Ref just straight redding people for dissent

Danny Desmond Makkelie is a Dutch professional football referee. Besides refereeing he works as a police inspector...

It showed. Boy was a total bellend.

[Kankurette]

Martinez now linked with Newcastle. Presumably because Graeme Jones.

[chveik]

hopefully they won't go after Favre, he could do a great job there

[Kankurette]

Why the shit would Martinez want to manage Newcastle anyway? He's got a pretty cushy job.

[boki]

It really takes something for an English managerial job to be this much of a poisoned chalice.  Long may it continue.

[monkfromhavana]

I'd piss my pants if the first signing made by the ISIS-supporting mega rich overlords was getting Andy Carroll back in.

[Twonty Gostelow]

According to Mirror Sport and probably others it was a proposed clause that Emery be sacked if they were relegated that put the willies up him.
https://www.football365.com/news/emery-furious-villarreal-break-clause-newcastle-brief-excellent-howe-interview

Seems unlikely that was the reason, but who knows.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Surely that would make Emery keener to sign? Unless he was dying to manage a Championship club.

[boki]

Probably worried that he'd have to collect his cards from the embassy.

[Kankurette]

I have to admit, one advantage of Unai Emery not managing Newcastle means we won't get loads of people going "lol he says 'good ebening' lol".

[Captain Z]

Realistically Conte won't have changed things overnight, but I won't accept anything less than 10-0 to Spurs.

[bgmnts]

Just noticed that poor Everton are going to be the sacrificial lambs for the glorious return of Conte in the Premier league, so be prepared Kankurette!

[Kankurette]

Yeah. About that.

[Captain Z]

The stoppable force meets the moveable object.

On the basis of the opening 10 minutes I would now settle for a 1-0 Kane penalty win.

[Kankurette]

"Balls to Kane," says Son.

[Mobius]

fuck sake spurs aren't shit anymore, i was enjoying that

[Mobius]

i posted that at 3-0 and it's now 3-2

[chveik]

Conte has a dreadful track record in Europe

[Kankurette]

Spurs.txt

[imitationleather]

Roma losing to Bodo/Glimt again.

[peanutbutter]

Assume Emery was just reminded how horrific England's media is and realised it wasn't worth the grief.

[Kankurette]

He's probably having flashbacks to AFTV.

[imitationleather]

Three red cards in this Spurs game, including the Vitesse goalie.

[Captain Z]

Can't help thinking we'd have been better off with Kane on the pitch.

[Wonderful Butternut]

Howe agreed in principle to be next Newcastle manager.

Less glamourous than the previous links, but possibly more sensible given their current position.