Didn't help that he sacked the CL winning/league winning first team trainer and his team to replace them with goons like Phil Neville
oh, thank fuck. orstein said edwards turned down chelsea, saying he wants to take time off. i don't want dude with chelsea money and the infrastructure they'd put together.
I agree with your take on things I actually think it’s a bit of what goes around comes around Many of the dodgy things I’ve seen going on in penalty boxes over the years have been Chelsea tactics or Chelsea players They pretty much invented all that crazy blocking off of goalies or strikers running into the box
That run down the touch line looked very strange .. kinda looked like the tall , gangly, skinny kid at school who never did sports day
Apart from ... Moyse took over a premier league winning team ... they weren’t a hopeless set of players !! ::: “ It was important to me to leave an organisation in the strongest possible shape and I believe I have done so. The quality of this league winning squad, and the balance of ages within it, bodes well for continued success at the highest level whilst the structure of the youth set-up will ensure that the long-term future of the club remains a bright one. “
It's a great example of a poorly managed transition... All the institutional knowledge was washed out of the front office and first team over a couple of years
Tuchel brought it up in his post-match interview. I think there would be more talk about it if it wasn't also for the havertz foul. But I also tend to agree with the commentators that a lot of time passed between that foul and the goal. The offside obstruction was the more egregious call. Never follow a legend. Best thing to happen to Mikel was losing the job to Emery the first time around.
What’s Fergie going to say as he’s leaving, I’ve left behind a squad whose key players are in their late 20s and 30s? RVP, who at 28 carried United to their last Championship with 26 goals and 9 assists in 35 starts, under Moyes only managed 12 goals and 3 assists in 18 starts. Moyes inherited a team with Carrick and Evra at 32, Ferdinand 34, Vidic 31. Ferdinand in particular went from 26 starts in the Championship season to 12 starts under Moyes. The defenders replacing Vidic and Ferdinand, Smalling, Evans, and Jones, we’re never quite good enough. In fact, aside from Rooney, the young players Fergie touted were never quite good enough. Fergie knew it was time to get out.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...sea-have-issues-with-referee-comment-football The result of all this will be Tuchel gets punished and the PGMOL rallies around Taylor and we as fans will continue to be subjected to poor refereeing.
The NBA retired #6 league-wide, which I thinks is a questionable practice BTW, as great as Bill Russell truly was. And I was reminded of other league-wide bans: 42 in MLB, 99 in NHL Thankfully this practice hasn’t reached the EPL yet, but I was a little surprised to learn that some big football clubs have retired numbers for their iconic players: Ajax #14 Napoli #10 West Ham #6 Ps. I also didn’t know that many footy teams don’t assign #12 to honor the fans.
Both Robinson and Russel were superstars, but their numbers were retired for their contributions outside their sport as much as for their impact in their respective sports.
FWIW, Atlanta United "retired" 17 in honor of the fans, who are called the 17's since the club first played in 2017. I think that's a nice move. Sent from my moto g power (2021) using BigSoccer mobile app
Exactly Utd were quite poorly run in the final years of Fergus Even with RvP they still needed a huge ref tilt to win the league Obviously Fergus choosing his own successor was peak hubris
Absolutely true. Not sure if Gretzky falls into that category however. And regardless of all this, I still think the practice of retiring numbers league-wide is quite questionable.
oh, 100%. i agree with you and the commentators that, once the ball got to the box, play had been allowed to go too long to call back. but it shouldn't have even gotten that far considering the assistant was standing right there. but, yeah, for me that offside obstruction was absolutely horrible. and, like i said, for me, they also missed it on son on kane's chance/miss in the 61'. i feel like it helped both wenger and arteta to have had rioch and emery as that sacrificial buffer.
christ. that's a fucking sell job by andersen - i hate that bullshit - and the idiotic referees fall for it every single time. granted, yeah, you lead with your head and you get a red. that's consistent (if shitty). but andersen instigated it and should at least be carded as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/wpbnb8/second_angle_of_the_darwin_nunez_red_card/ No one really started it, just normal jostling on a corner. Nunez escalated it by trying to headbutt Andersen during the play, then actually did it when Andersen called him out for it after. The only thing I'd "blame" Andersen for is going down like a cartoon character, but if you don't go down, you don't get calls. Refs need to be better about that, so I don't ever really blame a player for selling contact.