Super excited for the Chelsea vs. uh... Quarabag? game! Nothing says Champions League like flying to Azerbaijan on a Wednesday afternoon!
What a bummer VAR continues to be. Live fouls not being called are now readjudicated in slow-mo. It takes so long.
It was meant to fix "clear and obvious" errors. If you can't tell right away, let it go. IMHO. And I'm of the opinion that slow-mo fools one sometimes. Sometimes a foul doesn't look as bad as when you can see it at speed, because you lose some of force of the foul in that view.
Yeah I’m fine with ball over the line or not, red card off the ball not seen by an official, and even some offside stuff but it’s hard to know where to draw the figurative line. I enjoyed watching the game before VAR when were argued about referee decisions and VAR hasn’t changed that. Most goals now just go on trial before the celebration can truly begin and that is such a killjoy.
You’re right. I don’t. I haven’t been as focused in on English football as I’d like to be. Fill me in on the plight of the Foxes.
Leicester are riddled with financial issues. They had a wage bill of 206 million when they went down a couple seasons ago. They narrowly escaped a points deduction last season, and there is still a potential points deduction looming. Players that should have been gone like Choudhury, Faes, and Vestergaard are still at the club. They barely made any signings over the summer and have essentially no money to work with, it is a very precarious situation at leicester. Maybe I was being dramatic in saying they will go down to league one, but they are definitely not coming back up any time soon. The director of football and the chairman are both idiots who need to get gone.
Everton are up 1-0 with about 20 minutes to go at Old Trafford. What's interesting about this is that Everton have been playing with ten men since the 13th minute because Gana got a red card... for slapping a teammate. I don't think I've ever seen that before.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/cewj4l18g0nt Sunderland played Newcastle for the first time in almost 10 years. Just imagine if there was one Hell is Real match every 8-12 years. Pro/rel in MLS, anyone?
Fulham won away to Burnley yesterday. Apparently, it's their first away league win at Burnley since April of 1951. Makes Ohio State fans seem a little needy by comparison.
Has the hotel Nancy is staying in been burned down yet? Celtic 1-3 St. Mirren in the Leagues Cup final.
I think they said it was the 33rd league meeting in that stretch. Meaning Fulham had lost 32 straight there. So they weren't in the same league all the time, but they weren't total strangers, either.
https://www.premierleague.com/en/tables?competition=8&season=2025 There's about 16 games left and the season is just about wrapped up. Something about the EPL being exciting?
Maybe it's just because my beloved Valencia has been a shit show for a while now, but I think this is the least I've cared about European soccer in the last 20 years that I've been watching and following it. Same damn teams year after year. I think MLS takes the (faux) parity a bit too far, but I'd rather have that than what most European leagues have.
Bayern has already scored more goals in half a season than the next two teams--combined. The only time they've lost a championship recently was when Leverkusen went undefeated through a whole season and cup. The only game they lost was the Europa League final. It took that to win a championship. Bayern is actually on pace to beat that Bundesliga record of 90 points.