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The Perfect Element posted:Empty stadiums again soon as well I reckon, judging by continental Europe. Cases are already up 10% over the last week, and the weak piss NPIs the government have just announced are about as much use as a Newcastle back 4. Of course in theory you're supposed to be fully vaccinated to get into grounds now, but I don't think West Ham are an outlier in enforcing this by having a bloke in hiviz shouting "You had your vaccine?" at about 1 in 10 people who pass him after the security line, with literally no followup.
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sticksy posted:Would blowing bubbles be a vector to spread it throughout the entire stadium Adding that one to the "Things Klopp will use to excuse bottling it at the LS yet again" file. TheRat posted:Only if the bubbles burst Luckily they don't, just like my dreams they fade and die.
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King of False Promises posted:Spurs' game against Brighton has been postponed. https://twitter.com/SpursOfficial/status/1469007934898253825 They've also got the game against Burnley, postponed due to weather, to reschedule. Obviously they have to get the Rennes one done *soon* because otherwise it delays the entire rest of the GM Euro Conference or whatever the gently caress it is they're playing in, and the entire Prem is already booked up solid with two games a week until the New Year. I'd also assume, with 10 days isolation, they'll need to postpone their midweek game next week, which means they'll probably have to be doing two games a week for a whole month at some point in the new year even before you factor in possible FA Cup and other games. Those two international breaks in autumn are looking like a particularly loving brilliant idea right now.
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sticksy posted:
Seconded, but about the top 4.
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Dec 10, 2021 08:18
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Keep the league places as they are, especially relegation zone.
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greazeball posted:4 clean sheets in 5 matches in November, definitely huge defensive problems in the side What was the fifth match and who was at least partly responsible for 66% of the goals they conceded in that match though?
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Bape Culture posted:Yer mam My mum's been dead for 5 years and she'd *still* have done a better job at the corner for the third goal. Zouma might at least have tripped over her urn or something.
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Dec 10, 2021 18:16
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Sell him to West Ham, watch Moyes turn him into the best centre forward in the world.
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/lauriewhitwell/status/1470406393962315785 Is there a definitive list of which clubs have active cases at the minute?
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the sex ghost posted:Crooked man city not postponing tonight's game in the middle of a spike in infections, desperate to sneak a win past a Leeds team that's not even running on fumes because the fumes have run out. Sad! Leeds players are all safe from infection because Bielsa never lets them stop running long enough for the virus to catch up.
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Dec 14, 2021 10:55
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TBH I prefer Newcastle's current plan to avoid Premier League rules from next season.
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tarbrush posted:That would be the absolute worst thing I mean it's already a Big Sam squad - a bunch of blokes who all run very fast in all directions to no apparent benefit plus one talented midfielder/forward who looks all the better for being surrounded by cloggers. In fact has anyone seen Bielsa and Allardyce in the same room at the same time? Has anyone checked if that "Spanish" he's supposedly speaking isn't actually just Brummie with some extra vowels added at the end?
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the sex ghost posted:Banging my big drum with 'end the season right now with the league positions as they are' written on it Gonna assume this was the plan all along and the blatantly bent reffing of the last week has been an attempt to ensure as many Big 6 clubs are in the top 6 as possible.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:thomas frank is probably right that they should just cancel everything this weekend It's loving insanity they're even playing the games, let alone letting people into stadiums.
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https://twitter.com/unluckyfootie/status/1472592524493697029 is this a new covid symptom?
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vyelkin posted:these days, if you say you like Phil Collins, you get arrested and thrown in jail Huh, turns out there *are* some circumstances where I Back The Blue.
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CyberPingu posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttDbJxXsjl4 Only if Eric "Shut it" Samuels can be bought back out of retirement. (context: ITV did a series called The Game about the East London Sunday League Division 4, including trying a couple of things that they wanted to see implemented in coverage of professional football, particularly mic'ed up refs, leading to the refs - particularly Mr. Samuels here, resplendent in a 1970s kit despite it being 1991 - being the real stars of the show. He's actually still alive (and doing two jobs despite being in his 80s now), I'm fairly certain he'd at least be willing to take a turn on VAR and explain his wacky decisions)
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https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein/status/1472864433609314315 Lingard can't leave Manchester because the wallet inspector told him he'd be right back.
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Jose posted:seems to me he knows he's gone anyway and wants the massive signing on fee instead I think it's more likely that West Ham have switched priorities and he's now like fourth or fifth priority behind desperately-needed cover in central defence and up front so are unlikely to make a bid and he's realised the only other team seriously interested in him are - riches or not - probably better-than-evens to go down, so he'd rather pick up a couple of substitute appearances at 120k/wk and see what comes up next season. It's just funnier if you take it at face value and he's sitting there going "*This* time I'll get picked!".
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FullLeatherJacket posted:three-a-side, on a loving boat I assumed this was a reaction to the second best Nike advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ItX_bPR1o but then realised it's 20 years old and felt even sadder and older than normal.
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Dec 20, 2021 18:53
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greazeball posted:Brazil airport come on  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvTS_bZisQ I realise this is the second Hackney Marshes reference I've made today and wonder if I should be getting that looked at. (I can't find the longer version other than in resolution somehow even lower than this, but if anything it's even funnier that somehow Steve Stone gets into the cut down version. God, what a poo poo era for the England team that was, when the actual dictionary definition of "journeyman midfielder" was being hyped as the Next Big Thing and I swear to god if one of you mentions Declan Rice...)
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Just Chamber posted:Footballers are thick so I suppose this shouldn't be so shocking but jesus christ I'm willing to bet in at least some cases it's coaching staff discouraging it both because they're dickheads and also because they don't want to risk a player missing a day or two of training to side effects.
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Dec 21, 2021 21:51
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Now there's an advanced stat, David Moyes is now third in the table of all-time PL games won as a manager after Ferguson and Wenger, having just overtaken... Harry Redknapp.
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the sex ghost posted:I assume he's a fair ways off the top two but would love to see him just grind on for another decade to prove you don't need trophies to be a winner Ferguson 528 Wenger 476 Moyes 237 240 games, with the 45.65% win rate he's had at West Ham, means he could celebrate overtaking Wenger in 14 years, then another 3 years to catch up to Fergie. He's only 58 now (yeah I was surprised too) so it's not impossible.
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Bape Culture posted:Is there a site that shows worldwide channels broadcasting games? I want to figure out how to watch a 3pm game on New Year’s Day. Can’t believe it’s not on any uk channels tbh Bank holiday games are Saturday games for the sake of the broadcast agreements IIRC. It's ridiculous that we have this hangover from the days when live games started being broadcast free to air and clubs were terrified nobody would bother to turn up if they could sit at home and listen to Brian Moore's dulcet tones. Anyway to your question - surely, if you were in the mood to risk making the Baby Jesus cry by stealing copyright material - you already have a preferred streaming provider and can just wait for the kick off and grab it from them?
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I went to look up world record transfers to see if there were any funny outliers there (not particularly, other than marveling at the kind of inflation that makes Neymar worth 40 times more than Maradona) but hoo boy there's some hilarity to be mined in the list of world record manager moves, especially whenever you see a St. George's Cross:
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tarbrush posted:His fancystats are as good or better as when he was at Villa. He's moving the ball into dangerous areas and beating players, he's just getting a few less primary assists and goals. Given he was basically the only real attacking threat at Villa that's not really surprising.
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