General Football thread

We need to stay humble.

If the unthinkable happened, Derby went up and replaced us as we were relegated, their fans would love it and we'd be quite cross, but worse things happen at sea. We have no divine right to be in the top tier.

But we still have every chance of turning it round and staying up. If so, I'll feel free to laugh at Derby as they fail to reach the promised land.
 
pebble said:
No, stood right in front of the keeper then ducked at the last minute. And plays for Liverpool. Clearly offside.
Click to expand...

Liverpool are right in comparing their goal and the one in the Wolves game, the only thing is they should both have been disallowed. In fact the Man City goal in the Wolves game was even worse as he barged into the keeper too. The problem with the new offside rules (and the handball penalty rules) are that everything is open to interpretation , rather than a clear offside rule or the old deliberate handball rule.
 
Last edited:
Thewolf/jimmygordon said:
BBC Article:

Brennan struggling at Spurs and not even made Wales squad:

"All he does is score tap ins"

Brennan Johnson: What's up with Wales and Spurs 'mystery'? - BBC Sport https://share.google/JHPI7eCDXm6ayy8qn

Looks like hes hit a brick wall with his career
Click to expand...
He's the same as he was at Forest.
"All he does is score goals"
is an interesting criticism, but kind of valid too. His passing is average, he doesn't take players on very often. Speed and goals is all you're getting with Brennan, but that's plenty for some sides.
 
Johnson came in at a difficult moment but, with injuries to other players, he ended up playing tons that year and he was actually pretty good."

It helped that it was then-Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou who signed Johnson, who scored 23 goals in all competitions during his first two seasons.

"He fitted what Ange wanted from wingers," Pitt-Brooke adds. "Really high and wide, scoring goals where a winger goes down one side, pulls the ball back across the box, and the opposite side winger taps it in. Johnson was good at both delivering that cross, and also tapping it in at the far post."

Under Postecoglou, Spurs won the Europa League - with Johnson scoring the winner in the final against Manchester United - but the Australian was sacked this summer after the club finished 17th in the Premier League.

Thomas Frank replaced him - and the Dane replaced Johnson with Kudus.

"Frank wants to play a different way, and he wants his wingers to do a lot more on the ball than just score tap-ins," says Pitt-Brooke.

"Spurs paid £55m for Kudus, who doesn't score many goals, but everything until he gets to the opposition goal is much better than Johnson.

"At the moment, I don't think any Spurs fan would have Johnson in their first-choice team. It's not really clear where he fits."

Johnson has managed four goals in his 17 appearances in all competitions this season but, according to many supporters and pundits, does not offer much else.

"He doesn't really do a lot apart from scoring goals," says Pitt-Brooke. "There are obviously worse things to be than a guy who's just known for scoring goals, but I think people would probably have expected him to have done more.

"He's a bit of a mystery."
 
Disallowed goal by Liverpool, Robertson deemed as interfering with play, Ref and VAR gets it wrong, apparently, and Ref gets banned from officiating two clubs. Still say he was interfering. But it was Liverpool.

Tiernay gets rule wrong, gives drop ball, but because it was Forest nothing done. But it was Liverpool.

Where is consistency.
 
Polly 433 said:
Disallowed goal by Liverpool, Robertson deemed as interfering with play, Ref and VAR gets it wrong, apparently, and Ref gets banned from officiating two clubs. Still say he was interfering. But it was Liverpool.

Tiernay gets rule wrong, gives drop ball, but because it was Forest nothing done. But it was Liverpool.

Where is consistency.
Click to expand...
I thought Webb on that mic’d up programme said that the decision was ok I believe he said something along the lines of “it wasn’t unreasonable to disallow it” I think he then went on to explain that it’s one of those situations that has a degree of subjectivity about it so opinions might differ. MI Michael Owen thought the goal should definitely have stood but he would wouldn’t he.

If the ref has been stood down because the decision was deemed to be wrong then things within PGMOLdont really add up, there’re surprise. He’s probably been punished because it penalised Liverpool & that is clearly against the rules
 
You must log in or register to reply here.