Match Day Thread Hull City v Luton

[AlRawdah]

There is at least one ski resort in Greece. It's on the Pelion, about two hours north east of Athens. I drove past it two weeks ago.

There are ski resorts on the Peloponnese too.

 

[Tigger]

There are ski resorts on the Peloponnese too.

Cyprus has them as well. I know it's not in Greece or Turkey.

 

[jhe10]

It is becoming a farce now every corner or free kick into the penalty area under the rules of the game would result in a free kick to the defending team or a penalty to the attacking team.

It's a sign of how gutless referees are that defenders foul attackers far more than vice versa in the penalty area yet there are far more free kicks awarded against attackers than penalties against defenders.

 

[PLT]

He's seems to have gone backwards since he signed a new contract

By some metrics he's one of the best defenders in the league, but like the rest of our defence he just gets bullied too easily at times. That penalty shout the other night only happened because the striker so easily got round him, Jacob was desperately grabbing and scrambling to recover, and just about did recover to be fair, but the ease with which it became so desperate was really poor. But the most damning thing is the set pieces. We basically never win a header from a set piece in either box.

 

[Gone For A Walk]

It's a sign of how gutless referees are that defenders foul attackers far more than vice versa in the penalty area yet there are far more free kicks awarded against attackers than penalties against defenders.

I remember the days of hard CB's and their tricks, but I'm not sure when it became perfectly ok for a defender to so blatantly wrestle an attacker, be it from a set piece or simply from a ball played forward to an attacker. I know clever attackers (Kane is a great example) back in and have their tricks, but typically it's the CB's wrestling the attacker from behind, hands / arms all over them, yet it's deemed ok. How the hell can it be?

 

[LeftSaidFred]

I was sat in front of Vinnie Jones on a flight the other day. Someone like him please.