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Pip84 wrote:Just caught motd. Although its the spuds, the knuckle dragers have shown their true colours. Dirty cnuts in the extreme
Thought Shawcross' second yellow was justified, he was late and dangerous and in fact I thought he had a sly little kick on rose with his right boot. Two vile clubs...
Stoke always do exactly the same at the Britannia as against us (except take 3 points apparently), absolutely disgraceful.
Just flicked it on Goals on Sunday and Kamara was bashing on about Adebayor elbowing Shawcross in the face despite the lack of evidence. Then referred to him as "poor old Ryan Shawcross" when analysing the red card.
Funny how when it's Stoke involved it's suddenly a crime to brandish a card unless they intended to hurt an opponent. Since when was that a rule? Shawcross steamed in from 15 yards away and made a typical rash swipe at the ball, instead ending up kicking Rose halfway up the shin. I seem to remember another 'honest attempt' to win the ball where kicking somebody halfway up the shin ended pretty badly?
Dyche was worse and actually went so far as to say that it wasn't studs up - I don't give 2 fcuks whether it was intentional or not, the reality is that he was millimeters away from breaking another players leg (that would be his hat-trick wouldn't it ?)
Pip84 wrote:Just caught motd. Although its the spuds, the knuckle dragers have shown their true colours. Dirty cnuts in the extreme
Thought Shawcross' second yellow was justified, he was late and dangerous and in fact I thought he had a sly little kick on rose with his right boot. Two vile clubs...
Stoke always do exactly the same at the Britannia as against us (except take 3 points apparently), absolutely disgraceful.
Just flicked it on Goals on Sunday and Kamara was bashing on about Adebayor elbowing Shawcross in the face despite the lack of evidence. Then referred to him as "poor old Ryan Shawcross" when analysing the red card.
Funny how when it's Stoke involved it's suddenly a crime to brandish a card unless they intended to hurt an opponent. Since when was that a rule? Shawcross steamed in from 15 yards away and made a typical rash swipe at the ball, instead ending up kicking Rose halfway up the shin. I seem to remember another 'honest attempt' to win the ball where kicking somebody halfway up the shin ended pretty badly?
Dyche was worse and actually went so far as to say that it wasn't studs up - I don't give 2 fcuks whether it was intentional or not, the reality is that he was millimeters away from breaking another players leg (that would be his hat-trick wouldn't it ?)
If that's the sort of shite we're going to get from Dyche and Burnley next season they can fuck off back where they came from
Since letting Clattermole get away with a trademark tackle flying through the back of a player Dowd has been dishing out the cards like confetti.
Sunderland started at break-neck speed, predictably after it settled down the quality has been lacking. Cardiff have looked okay in possession but not shown any cutting edge at all and their defending has looked shoddy when Sunderland have been breaking. Letting a corner bounce inside the 6-yard box, deserve to get relegated with that sort of defending.
Oof penalty. Strange one but credit to the striker for staying on his feet and he was massively hampered by the tug. Actually think he's got that decision right. 2-0 and down to 10, have to say that's Cardiff gone. Really looking at the money Sunderland have spent since 2007 their performance since that time is a testament to their succession of poor managers.
Looking at the replay at half time, it seemed that he was initially fouled outside the box and it continued into the box. That could have been a free kick and a sending off.
Then the keeper fouled him inside the box. That could have been a pen and a sending off.
Bit of a strange one indeed. Fair play to him for staying up and also to Campbell at the other end for not rolling around like a fairy claiming a pen when Brown fell on him.
Not difficult to forecast a soft pen for Liverpool or one not given for Chelsea. It's telling that the pundits just declared how brilliant the ref was for Liverpool v Man City. Even ignoring letting Suarez get away with murder in typical Scouse fashion, how is failing to give a stonewall penalty that would have likely changed the result and the entire title race a brilliant performance? If he had made the right decision, the story would have been about the late penalty. As it was, he bottled the call and got it wrong, and the story is about how great Liverpool were/are and his performance is being praised to high heaven.
Even today he failed to book Johnson for fouling Schurrle after being skinned all ends up with Chelsea breaking but couldn't wait to caution Salah for basically the same offence with twice as many defenders back. Absolutely embarrassing stuff from Sterling there, for all my complaining about United and Chelsea's conduct down the years this Liverpool team is fucking disgusting. The amount of blatant blocking, diving, whining, harassing, play-acting, everything that goes on makes me sick. Compounded by their fans who make glory-hunting United twats and window-licking Scum pricks look like balanced and reasoned football fans.
You can see the tactics from Chelsea but they've just not got the players on the pitch to carry it out. They took the sting out of the game early on but without Cahill and Terry they don't look a threat off these long throws and Ba is not good enough to lead a counter-attacking line-up. Schurrle and Salah are pacey and have looked okay so far but they're not Hazard and with a pedestrian midfield three of Matic, Mikel and Lampard they're not offering enough on the counter which is how they could win this game.
