The English Football Thread

[samzilla 517]

This season is crazy.  Looked up some stats after seeing a comment here.  5 teams at the halfway mark are at 2 points per game!  Going back 10 seasons, this has never happened before!  So yeah, it is frustrating that we haven't been able to pull away more.  Any other season and we would have.

Over the past 5 seasons, in 3 of them, there have only been 2 teams on 2ppg at the halfway mark.  1 season had 3 teams on 2ppg at the halfway mark.

Had to go back 10 seasons to find an example of 4 teams being 2ppg at the halfway mark.  Didn't look further back than that.

[Jase 43,479]

12 minutes ago, -Kaplan- said:

To be honest, the English interviewers ask the fucking stupidest questions.

"You don't look happy." Who the fuck cares what he looks like. Ask about the actual football. 

To be fair, the interview did ask the game.

5 minutes ago, Irakozium257 said:

The tone of interviewer is also very provocative, like he deliberately is triggering Pep to answer emotionally in a reactive way. Way worse than Shreeves telling Ivanovic he won't be in the CL final.

It's hardly provocative. Normal tone, the usual questions being asked after a game. There wasn't any reason for Guardiola to get all tetchy and petulant. Imagine Mourinho had done that...

[Special Juan 27,101]

Mike Dean should be fucking suspended, he has been horrendous for far too long and very inconsistent.

Terrible ref.

[Jase 43,479]

Equally tetchy with Sky Sports too...

 

[Thendo 1,088]

Never a red that...If anything that overreaction from Phil Jones should've been a yellow, ridiculous!

[Special Juan 27,101]

Officiating in this game has been atrocious. Miles offside.

[lucio 5,391]

Mourinho gifted a win ,0% chance he wins that 11v11, 

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Never a red, never on side for the 2nd. Truth is United would lose a lot if they miss on Champions League football for another year, FA won't allow it to happen.

Jones' two footed tackles go unnoticed, but the first time he's on the other end it's a straight red card. When it should have been a yellow at most. Comical.

[Special Juan 27,101]

Pep is speaking like that because he is under huge pressure, massive in fact.

[Milan 17,835]

Incredible from Dean. Week in, week out. He focuses more on his antics than the actual stuff on the pitch. Someone suspend him please.

[MefiX19 1,092]

Mike Dean should get fired, not like its his first time being so shit, also should get banned from refreeing spurs games since he supports them, AND ALSO the fucking linesman shoud get eye surgery or something since he is blind. Won't be surprised if FA asked for it since they want to make league more competitive and they can't see their love child Man U being 6th, but guess what? They are still fucking 6th.

[kmk108 1,186]

3 hours ago, Jason said:

That went well, Jurgen...

 

It is true. Hopefully we can get some more separation tomorrow, but considering we're in almost record-setting form, it's annoying to see another team not too far away.

[kmk108 1,186]

Searching "Manchester United" on Google News and only one story making note of the refereeing, and it had the title of "Manchester United FINALLY get refereeing decision after Feghouli tackle on Jones" by the Manchester Evening News 

Finally get refereeing decision? What about all of the offside goals given to United this season? Or the tackles Rojo wasn't sent off for?

[11Drogba 2,000]

Klopp has been here for a year. All he delivered is more lost finals. How annoyed he must be that he keeps losing when it matters the most.

Klopp = CHOKE ARTIST

[guddy6969 188]

Re: Sunderland 0 vs Liverpool 1

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[BoyBlue96 990]

Not saying the Dutch FA is much better than the English one, but here the referees don't get so much "protected" like in England. Here, referees get penalized if they made big mistakes and can whistle a second tier game for 2 weeks straight.
Mike Dean, excuse me MANC Dean has been doing this for over 17 years now and the cunt never gets penalized or something. Ridiculous.

Lucky Mourinho. Didn't he have the most bad luck or something? Bet he didn't say that after the game.

As for Guardiola, you can easily see he's under huge pressure. If he doesn't get top 4 he's out. Same goes, still, for Mourinho. If they don't get Champions League football next season they're both gone. And by god please let that happen.

[Fernando 6,376]

30 minutes ago, BoyBlue96 said:

Not saying the Dutch FA is much better than the English one, but here the referees don't get so much "protected" like in England. Here, referees get penalized if they made big mistakes and can whistle a second tier game for 2 weeks straight.
Mike Dean, excuse me MANC Dean has been doing this for over 17 years now and the cunt never gets penalized or something. Ridiculous.

Lucky Mourinho. Didn't he have the most bad luck or something? Bet he didn't say that after the game.

As for Guardiola, you can easily see he's under huge pressure. If he doesn't get top 4 he's out. Same goes, still, for Mourinho. If they don't get Champions League football next season they're both gone. And by god please let that happen.

I doubt they will be out. 

It's mors like if next season there is no progress then they are out. 

[Leif 6,006]

Either Arsenal finally melt into the Europa League where they belong, Guardiola/Jose will meet their end as a top manager, or Liverpool hearts will be broken yet again. The end of this season will be immense.