Our best hope of an easy ride in that game is to hope the toon are already relegated by then, which given current performances is not an impossibility...
That one got me as well. It was the (unwitting) reductio ad absurdum of 90 + minutes of Arsenal whining. "Ref, the keeper stopped my shot!" No doubt it was a great game for neutrals, and very watchable, especially in the first half. Simpson was unwise to commit the foul which got him sent off. But I have a great deal of trouble believing an Arsenal player would have gotten sent off for the same offenses. In fact, I’ve watched a number of Arsenal players not get sent off for worse this season. Vardy’s pen was a pen, and is almost always given. It and similar pens do raise a question--does luring the defender to commit himself, then tapping the ball away and making no great effort to avoid a collision, constitute some form of simulation? I don’t think it does, but I can see the argument.
I thought the Mahrez dive for a penalty was appalling and thought he should have been booked, not the first time we've seen that ugly part of his game.
On the penalty topic : http://www.myfootballfacts.com/Premier_League_Penalty_Statistics.html Check out the Leicester data (especially for away games) .
French police are using the PSG v Chavski match tonight to replicate the security situation for Euro 16. For their part Chavski are helping them replicate Euro 16 as John Terry won't be there.
I'm with you on this. I regularly think about this option- especially them with Townsend. Would he ask not to play? If by a freak accident we did 'it', would he ask to celebrate with us? Anyway, enough daydreaming-back to reality.
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...s-van-gaal-with-tim-sherwood-says-paul-parker "Man Utd should replace Louis van Gaal with Tim Sherwood, says Paul Parker"
It would complete the parallel between LvG and AVB. Reasonably successful the first year, but dull football killing the team the second year. Lots of possession, no end product, the fans and the team losing heart.
As stupid as this idea sounds, it might actually work in the short term. Sherwood would just pick an attacking side with their better players in correct positions and massage a few egos. He's Redknapp-lite. 'Arry without the experience, tactical know-how or knowledge of the transfer market. I don't think that there's that much wrong with Utd's squad and the fans would embrace an attacking focus. The results probably wouldn't be any worse and I'm sure that they'd play more attractive football.
The current issue of WSC underlines one problem Man Utd face these days: a bunch of Ferguson's ex players being given punditry and/or commentary spots to say how Man Utd aren't playing like a Ferguson team on a weekly basis. While there are countless ex-Mousers employed by the BBC, Sky and BT to say how the whole country wants Liverpool to be great again (without asking the rest of the country if they agree - hint, we don't), the last pundits who could be seen as keepers of the flame were Hansen and Lawrenson as they played under Bob Paisley and a Kenny Dalglish who was still in possession of his mental faculties. As for the current proliferation of ex-Mouser pundits, most of them played for Roy Evans or Gerard Houllier, so they can't exactly say "It's terrible that Liverpool don't play like a Roy Evans team" as Evans only won a solitary League Cup and never came close to challenging for the title. A bunch of sites are quick to jump to the "blame the foreigners" line, singling out Veretout, Cissokho and Ayew as the reason for their collapse - as if they're somehow undoing the sterling work of Lescott, Richards, Agbonlahor and Grealish...
"Man Utd should replace Louis van Gaal with Tim Sherwood, says Paul Parker" They could replace Van Gaal with a Waxworks model and very few would notice the difference. Oh, sorry, I forgot. The waxworks model would probably cost less than £250mill.
not sounding arrogant or ahead of myself etc...how many games do our players have to play to qualify for a winners medal in the PL. I was thinking about the way team unity is massive for us, that it would be a shame if the likes of Vorm missed out.
It used to be ten, now it's five - as evidenced by Jack Rodwell having a winner's medal for 2013-14 despite playing one full match and having four sub appearances totalling just eighteen minutes that season. As it stands, the following players have not yet qualified for one Winks, Yedlin, Fazio - 0 matches Vorm, Pritchard - 1 match Wimmer - 4 matches
