OhForAGreavsie

When Tottenham were on their good run and looking strong, someone got worried and posted to say things were getting scary and that they might actually win it. I replied that there was nothing to worry about because Liverpool were going to win the league. Well, Liverpool have hardly won a game since and I'm taking the credit of course. I clearly jinxed them. Never since 2012 have I been so happy to be so spectacularly wrong.

I've always liked him but, to be fair, City fans didn't believe in him, he didn't get many starts and City have now let him go twice so there is a lot of evidence against the idea of bringing him back to the Premier League.

LOL. I see what's going on now.

Of course not. That's not how offside works. The key moment for offside decisions is the positions of the players at the moment the ball was last touched by a teammate. The goal stood because that last touch came from an Atleti player, not Mason Mount. The last time a Chelsea player (Mount) touched, Giroud was onside. Had Mason got a touch in that challenge the goal would have been ruled out.

I avoided the Lampard thread because of the behaviour I saw there. Looks like this comment is a lucky choice for my first post to read here because it's big clue about the best way to treat this thread too.

That's what I understood you to be saying although it is in fact exactly the opposite of what you did say.

Interesting. Why not Timo with the spot kick? A foal's a goal but there is a message in the choice of Mason to take the spot kick.

There's another potential confusion here but I know what you meant and everyone else probably will too.

I haven't offered an opinion on the players so you can't make any assessment on my view from that post. I have written on Mason numerous times previously.

He should have been sold before the start of last season. Not because he's bad but because we've seen over and over again that our squad doesn't support a really effective set up with him in the side, and because summer 2019 was the time to maximise his market value.

I sometimes feel the word 'better' isn't enough to transmit the whole story. I often prefer to talk about player A being more 'talented' than player B, or about player A being more 'effective' than player B. Talent speaks of a player's technical quality, of what he can do. Effectiveness speaks about what he actually does. If we could get an honest public comment from TT I wonder if he would say that he agrees Hakim is more talented but that he believes Mason will be more effective overall. I'm not saying that is my opinion but there is a reason why TT is preferring Mason and I wonder if that might be it.

Well we won. Nothing else to be said about this.

Football eh? West Ham must be in shock at this score line.

I'm watching on Sky Mobile but your stream is a good 30 seconds ahead of mine. In fact my notifications hadn't even triggered and they normally beat the stream.

Based on how we feel about this, and on how Arsenal fans are feeling about their team at the moment, there's a fair chance the ground would be far from full on Saturday, covid or no covid.

Tammy would be better than any of those three but if we really need to fill the RWB slot I'd go with Tino Livramento.

Half an inch lower that goes in off.

Never a pen.

I hope that what they all do is seek to set the tier of restrictions which is appropriate to the situation in their city. If tier three is appropriate, it's appropriate and we just have to get on with it.

Goalposts are multifunctional. Sometimes they serve to make shots which are in fact off target look a bit more exciting.

When I saw Tammy coming on I thought he'd play wide right since he did that a lot in youth football. Must have been something tactical SFL had in mind but it didn't play out.

Well I thought that was confirmed before today but ok, I'm with you.

To be fair we knew that before today.

Those passes are missed more often than they are made, else a lot of games would finish 6-5, so I'm not getting at Billy about this but he was the wrong substitute. When you are not playing well as a team you look for an individual moment of magic to get you out of trouble. Tino Anjorin was the man for that task. In all probability he'd have done nothing but what did we have to loose? Roll the die and give yourself a chance.

Liverpool will win the league.