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  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Wasn't the hand of God goal not only a hand ball but clearly off side?
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    Benny wrote: »
    Wasn't the hand of God goal not only a hand ball but clearly off side?


    No. The ball actually came from an English defender.

  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    edited January 2018 Posts: 9,117
    jobo wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    Wasn't the hand of God goal not only a hand ball but clearly off side?


    No. The ball actually came from an English defender.


    It's something I've never noticed before but the defending is terrible. At 00.19 you've got three defenders running towards the ball so that when it gets hooked back over Maradona is in acres. Why didn't one of them pick him up and block his run into the box?
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    @TheWizardOfIce You are an old fart ....just like me he he ;)

    The guy really knows how to hurt. I'm sat in the shower with my clothes on at this moment. He's like Christopher Hitchens with a Salah fetish.
    001 wrote: »
    Hurry up and tell your boyfriend jobo.......
    001 wrote: »
    You and your girlfriend ( wizzer )

    I'm starting to observe a repetetive undercurrent of homosexuality with some of his alleged 'put downs'. Whether this is merely due to the paucity of his wit or an obsession with gay sex that would make for an interesting Freudian analysis (and possibly go some way to explaining his Salah infatuation) is debatable, although I would lean towards the former.

    I don't know about the rest of you but I have to confess to a curiously voyeuristic fascination in watching a man have a protracted mental breakdown over a series of days and weeks.

    If that comment was a right hook in a boxing match,the opponent would have been floored.

  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    It’s curious there are still people in 2018 who use homosexuality as an insult.

    Mr 001 must have missed the turn of the century.



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    jobo wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    Wasn't the hand of God goal not only a hand ball but clearly off side?


    No. The ball actually came from an English defender.


    It's something I've never noticed before but the defending is terrible. At 00.19 you've got three defenders running towards the ball so that when it gets hooked back over Maradona is in acres. Why didn't one of them pick him up and block his run into the box?

    Yes, it is. Also on the famous second goal.

    That is one of the main arguments for why I think Messi is superior. Defenders and defences today are simply far better. They are better physically fit, faster, better organized, more concentrated. They sit tighter together and the tempo is higher. One player runing the show on his own is a greater accomplishment today.

    Although this is England in the quartet final of the World Cup, they defend worse than what you would expect of Getafe in the Copa del Rey... or even Liverpool ;)
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    It’s curious there are still people in 2018 who use homosexuality as an insult.

    Mr 001 must have missed the turn of the century.

    I imagine he's got the Are You Being Served, Man About The House and On The Buses box sets.
  • 001001
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    It’s curious there are still people in 2018 who use homosexuality as an insult.

    Mr 001 must have missed the turn of the century.

    I imagine he's got the Are You Being Served, Man About The House and On The Buses box sets.

    Never heard of those shows you seem to like. :)

    The only boxed sets i've got are Bond, Star wars and the James box box Boxset. :)

    Why can't these 2 clowns, Wizzer and Job be boyfriends if they like. Respect....... :)
    Does it HAVE to mean they are GAY does it ? I don't Fink so.........

    To the long suffering English fans. I think i know the Answer anyway knowing the hoodlum mentality of the English fans. Probably only The wizzer who demonstrates the hoodlum mentality on a daily basis. And probably barryt007 too :)

    Do you think that Maradona took an illegal drug (e.g steroids) in the 1980's besides the other stuff he was taking at the time?

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    On the subject of 442oons:

  • 001001
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    Liverpool v Man City should be an interesting game.
    Hopefully Liverpool can smash them.
  • JohnHammond73JohnHammond73 Lancashire, UK
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    Certainly hope so.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Disappointed Chelsea could only muster a 0-0 draw against a 10 man Leicester.
    Conte's reasoning 'they're tired' , isn't good enough I'm afraid.
    Still should stay in 3rd place, so it's not all bad.
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    That's Real Madrid's second home loss in a row against Villareal. I watched some of it, and actually it is some of the better stuff I have seen from them in a while now. The main problem was that the man at the end of all the through balls and accurate crosses was... Ronaldo... He scores on every 48th shot this season (true statistic).

    They are 16 points adrift now. Barca can make that 19 tonight. Not that it matters anymore... Atlético and Valencia are the real challengers at this point.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    I keep seeing everyone going on that Liverpool v City is a 'big game'?

    Is it really though? It makes no odds to them if they win, lose or draw as they league is already won so its only big in the sense of us holding off Spurs for 4th. I know Sky have to pretend there is something at stake but is two teams scrapping for a play off to sneak into the CL all the Premier League is reduced to these days?

    Genuinely think we've got every chance of turning them over actually. They haven't been amazing recently and we are one team who could really test how good their defence actually is. And in the previous game before Mane went it was end to end.

    But obviously the Minger factor will probably prove decisive hence I have gone Aguero for my fantasy league captain - take note from Pep Jurgen, he bought Bravo and he was shit so he binned him. He didn't keep plodding on with deadwood just because he didn't want to crush his confidence.
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    I see it looks kike Sanchez is not playing for my lot today and Van Dijk isnt playing for Liverpool as well.

    Im not looking forward to the Bournemouth game .
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    I see it looks kike Sanchez is not playing for my lot today and Van Dijk isnt playing for Liverpool as well.

    Im not looking forward to the Bournemouth game .

    Probably downed tools as City have tapped him up in the tunnel.
  • DCisaredDCisared Liverpool
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    Ha ha love the breakdown shout on the previous page wiz. I wish there were some way that each post could show a location tag. I suspect our resident mentalist would be somewhere near Dundee by now.

    Yep @barryt007 No Van Dijk for us. No bother though, we've king Klavan to score the 95th minute winner!
    P.s up the cherries!
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    I see it looks kike Sanchez is not playing for my lot today and Van Dijk isnt playing for Liverpool as well.

    Im not looking forward to the Bournemouth game .

    Probably downed tools as City have tapped him up in the tunnel.

    The way players are nowadays it wouidnt surprise me.
    DCisared wrote: »
    Ha ha love the breakdown shout on the previous page wiz. I wish there were some way that each post could show a location tag. I suspect our resident mentalist would be somewhere near Dundee by now.

    Yep @barryt007 No Van Dijk for us. No bother though, we've king Klavan to score the 95th minute winner!
    P.s up the cherries!

    Indeed,my foot up the Cherry's arse he he ;)

  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    DCisared wrote: »
    Ha ha love the breakdown shout on the previous page wiz. I wish there were some way that each post could show a location tag. I suspect our resident mentalist would be somewhere near Dundee by now.

    Although I dare say wearing some Salah branded boots rather than bare feet!
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    DCisared wrote: »
    Ha ha love the breakdown shout on the previous page wiz. I wish there were some way that each post could show a location tag. I suspect our resident mentalist would be somewhere near Dundee by now.

    Although I dare say wearing some Salah branded boots rather than bare feet!


    May Mohamed be with him! ;)
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    I love Alan Partridge,driving to Dundee in his bare feet,stuffing Toblerones down his throat.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    jobo wrote: »
    DCisared wrote: »
    Ha ha love the breakdown shout on the previous page wiz. I wish there were some way that each post could show a location tag. I suspect our resident mentalist would be somewhere near Dundee by now.

    Although I dare say wearing some Salah branded boots rather than bare feet!


    May Mohamed be with him! ;)

    We need to take care. It's only a matter of time he blows himself and us up for insulting the Prophet with the outrageous slur that he's not as good as Maradona.
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    Wilshere looking solid. Team performance overall, not that much.
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    They are doing better than i thought they would,should be leading.
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    They are doing better than i thought they would,should be leading.

    Yeah, I feared the worst, but somehow Arsenal has not let in a goal yet. Better up front in second half, and maybe they'll get a win?
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    They are doing better than i thought they would,should be leading.

    Yeah, I feared the worst, but somehow Arsenal has not let in a goal yet. Better up front in second half, and maybe they'll get a win?

    THat was a penalty to Bournemouth though,bloody Iwobi again,he is such a waste of space.
    Maybe we deserved a bit of luck after the incorrect penalty decisions agains us lately.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    They are doing better than i thought they would,should be leading.

    Yeah, I feared the worst, but somehow Arsenal has not let in a goal yet. Better up front in second half, and maybe they'll get a win?

    THat was a penalty to Bournemouth though,bloody Iwobi again,he is such a waste of space.
    Maybe we deserved a bit of luck after the incorrect penalty decisions agains us lately.

    Presume Wenger will be going mental at the ref for not giving it post match? Or, and I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, let me guess - he was unable to see that particular incident?
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    Goal, Bellerin! Needed that now, Arsenal!
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    Those alternates for Arsenal are dreadful. From a distance, they look like they've tucked in their shorts, with the waistband all the way up past their abdomen.
  • edited January 2018 Posts: 17,756
    Goal Bournemouth. Horrible defending – again…

    Make that two…
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