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Match Sporting (H) - UCL - 26/10, 8pm

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Playing well doesn't guarantee anything, but it does tend to improve your chances of winning.

Playing poorly sees us on 8 points from 5 in possibly the weakest CL group of all time, that's not down to this one bad call, that's down to us having been pathetic.

The side need to wake the fuck up, not excuses it away by blaming a shit VAR call.

The way I see it all those moaning about being robbed are the ones feeling sorry... I'm fucking angry, at our own players.
I barely remember Leicester playing well for much of the season in 2015/16.... yet they managed to win the thing!

Playing well doesn't always equal victory....
 
Apparently you can be offside from a backwards pass/header. If the receiver of the deflected pass is ahead of the ball when it is played, it is offside. But why did it take 4 minutes then? I thought they were using a semi automated system in CL?
The time must have been taken deciding whether the ball was deliberately played.

Will be interested to hear whether the semi automated system was used as the lines and the specific frame the image was taken from (there's like 3 balls in the image squashed onto each other) looked dodgy as fuck to me
 
It’s as though some fucker made the decision that we aren’t going to progress to the next round but we didn’t do ourselves any favours with our lack lustre performance for the first 75 minutes

Too many donkeys like Dier who had an absolute mare so what did we do?
Bring on another one in Royal!

Shambles
bazil, i don't give a shit how good or bad some were!
As far as I'm concerned, they can play as if they had another profession!
THFC belongs in the round of 16!
This club is something special!
I'm sitting in the Waldstadion and constantly looking at my iPhone!
Now I'm wondering who's more important to me!
 
Another one said
“it’s a funny old game “

Not tonight it isn’t but we can’t just show up for the last 15 minutes

That’s the problem

I agree. It’s funny, for 70 minutes I was fuming about our lack of intensity. Then we got that little bit of hope with the disallowed goal, and now I’m more annoyed with that than the fact that we left it all to do at the last minute, which is the bigger issue really
 
Just heard someone in TV says it’s when the guy passing the ball first touches it, not when he releases it. I’d bet that BS is not drawn from when it goes on Royal’s head, but from a split second later when it comes off the head.
You can tell from the image, it's left his head but also on his head (because it's technically impossible to take the proper frame when the cameras don't run at a high enough frame rate)
 
Since when has playing well GUARANTEED you of a win...

Likewise playing badly guaranteed a defeat?

There are SO many examples of winning ugly, in the last minute, even though you stunk the place out for 89 minutes (how else do you think George Graham's ArseAnal won everything they did?)

Yes, we played badly in the 1st half, but fuck me we rallied in the 2nd, and kept on RIGHT until the end.... when, let's face it, Fergie's Utd or Klopp's Liverpool REGULARLY won late on.... and were lauded for it...

But when WE do it, and it's inevitably disallowed, we somehow got what we deserved?!

Nah mate, fuck that... we were denied an unlikely, undeserved win.... but guess what, it happens to PLENTY of other teams.... and they get away with it!! fuck it, for a split second we were through, until VAR decided otherwuse.... and for now we're not.... Yet...

Fucking hurts tonight, but we need to USE it.... not feels sorry for ourselves!
I think it's one thing to not play well and nick a win. That first half performance though was more than just not playing well. To go out and play like that, at home, in a CL game where we know a win guarantees us qualification I find absolutely baffling. There was a total lack of commitment, effort, desire from every single one of them. They were walking around at times. I was tearing my hair out watching it. I cannot understand what can cause 11 blokes to go out and play, to a man, in that manner. It was more than just a case of not playing well. And for me that is worrying. I cant understand it.
 
bazil, i don't give a shit how good or bad some were!
As far as I'm concerned, they can play as if they had another profession!
THFC belongs in the round of 16!
This club is something special!
I'm sitting in the Waldstadion and constantly looking at my iPhone!
Now I'm wondering who's more important to me!
^ get on Xhamster mate. Cheer yourself up ⬆️. The other travellers won’t mind if you use earphones.

Safe home.
 
bazil, i don't give a shit how good or bad some were!
As far as I'm concerned, they can play as if they had another profession!
THFC belongs in the round of 16!
This club is something special!
I'm sitting in the Waldstadion and constantly looking at my iPhone!
Now I'm wondering who's more important to me!

You’re hooked mate

My condolences 💐
 
1 game left top of the group. In our hands, that’s all you can ask for. Need to move on from this fast and not let that injustice drag us down.

Dreadful first half, much better second half.

Hopefully, Kulu back for Marseille.

Thought Bentancur was outstanding tonight.
 
At what point do we stop blaming managers and blame the players?

Dier missed 3 tap ins tonight, kane and son played like shit, perisic has been dreadful since coming in. Bentancur is the only one I can praise from tonight really, maybe Romero

Lloris is dreadful and has been for a while

We’ve had dozens of managers and none have made a difference, either it’s them or the constant, which is the players.

Conte won the title with an inter squad that’s worse than ours let’s be honest. We’ve got so much dross we need to flush out and we keep buying more, paritici needs to be given complete transfer control and if he’s shit we’ll sack him and move on, but these ‘club signings’ need to stop, conte doesn’t want them
 
Playing well doesn't guarantee anything, but it does tend to improve your chances of winning.

Playing poorly sees us on 8 points from 5 in possibly the weakest CL group of all time, that's not down to this one bad call, that's down to us having been pathetic.

The side need to wake the fuck up, not excuses it away by blaming a shit VAR call.

The way I see it all those moaning about being robbed are the ones feeling sorry... I'm fucking angry, at our own players.
The bolded is simply no where near true. That's just bullshit from rival fans who want you to believe it. This group isn't a Group of Death by any means but its not even the weakest group THIS year. Group B is worse than ours. And, historically, its much easier to qualify from a group with 2 major clubs and 2 minnows than it is 4 decent if not spectacular sides.
 
You can’t celebrate any goal anymore. They can be pulled back even 5 minutes after for reasons no one understands
I still maintain if all fans agreed together to NOT celebrate the next goal their team score, it would soon send a message out to VAR....

It's like we're not allowed to enjoy ANYTHING any more... There's fuck all out there in the world to enjoy anyway right now.... a last minute winning goal in a poxy game of football shouldn't be ripped away as well....

or maybe it should!

I'm sure the plastics, and the day trippers, and the half and half selfie stick brigade had a great night!

I just hope all the people who asked, got Sonny's shirt!
 
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