Football Rel8d Gripes

[Winston Biscuit]

I had forgotten that it's this time of the season you get headlines of 'x ruled out for season', which means they are out for 2 weeks.

[Hendo]

I had forgotten that it's this time of the season you get headlines of 'x ruled out for season', which means they are out for 2 weeks.

Also x hasn't scored for 5 months or x haven't won a game for 5 months, but includes the summer break and weeks where only 1 game, or no game has been played and actually ends up being 3 or 4 games.

[Winston Biscuit]

I had forgotten that it's this time of the season you get headlines of 'x ruled out for season', which means they are out for 2 weeks.

Also x hasn't scored for 5 months or x haven't won a game for 5 months, but includes the summer break and weeks where only 1 game, or no game has been played and actually ends up being 3 or 4 games.

YES!

similar to 'Its X's first win over Y for 50 years!' and you find they have only played each other once in a cup game during those years as they have been in different divisions the whole time

[Hendo]

I had forgotten that it's this time of the season you get headlines of 'x ruled out for season', which means they are out for 2 weeks.

Also x hasn't scored for 5 months or x haven't won a game for 5 months, but includes the summer break and weeks where only 1 game, or no game has been played and actually ends up being 3 or 4 games.

YES!

similar to 'Its X's first win over Y for 50 years!' and you find they have only played each other once in a cup game during those years as they have been in different divisions the whole time

YES! That also!

[6ft Kerplunk]

Tossing a coin to decide which end a penalty shootout takes place in club competitions. The home side on the night has already had the advantage 30mins extra to try and score a goal with the majority of the crowd backing them. Should just default to being at the end where the away fans are.

[Sutekh]

Tossing a coin to decide which end a penalty shootout takes place in club competitions. The home side on the night has already had the advantage 30mins extra to try and score a goal with the majority of the crowd backing them. Should just default to being at the end where the away fans are.

And the grounds where away fans are on the side of the pitch?

[Lighthouse]

2 legged play off games shouldn’t be settled on penalties if the scores are level. The highest placed team goes through

[Winston Biscuit]

2 legged play off games shouldn’t be settled on penalties if the scores are level. The highest placed team goes through

Aka The Serie B playoff model.

We should absolutely bring it in.

[Dirk Gently]

Won't that just mean the higher-placed team sets up with a 10-0-0 formation and kills the game as a spectacle?

[Winston Biscuit]

Won't that just mean the higher-placed team sets up with a 10-0-0 formation and kills the game as a spectacle?

no. Its just not that big of an advantage that teams set out from the start to do nothing but defend it.

When it comes down to the last 10 minutes of a game then maybe they do that, but they have earned the right to do that over a 46 game season

[Winston Biscuit]

wrttop - basic starting formations offered up by the broadcaster suggesting strongly it tells the story of what's going happen, but in reality they actually offer very little insight into how that team is going to play.

[Dirk Gently]

WRTTOP, when a goalkeeper makes a routine catch and throws themselves down on the ground, ball in hand. It seems to be endemic now, and serves no purpose I can see other than to waste time.

[Franchise FC]

WRTTOP, when a goalkeeper makes a routine catch and throws themselves down on the ground, ball in hand. It seems to be endemic now, and serves no purpose I can see other than to waste time.

Only until the start of next season .... and then only for six weeks, obviously

[paultheroyal]

WRTTOP, when a goalkeeper makes a routine catch and throws themselves down on the ground, ball in hand. It seems to be endemic now, and serves no purpose I can see other than to waste time.

Agreed - my son did this yesterday

[Sutekh]

England never getting the world cup finals despite being one of the few nations with the infrastructure to be able to meet FIFA's ever increasing, over the top demands.

[6ft Kerplunk]

England never getting the world cup finals despite being one of the few nations with the infrastructure to be able to meet FIFA's ever increasing, over the top demands.

Look at the Euros final at Wembley, All the infrastructure in the world doesn't help if our idiot fans give FIFA even the slightest excuse to to look passed us and take the cash from other bidders.

[Winston Biscuit]

England never getting the world cup finals despite being one of the few nations with the infrastructure to be able to meet FIFA's ever increasing, over the top demands.

[genome]

Topical: fans (and now clubs apparently) immediately leaping to corruption over bad refereeing decisions, rather than the far simpler explanation of them just being useless.

[From Despair To Where?]

Topical: fans (and now clubs apparently) immediately leaping to corruption over bad refereeing decisions, rather than the far simpler explanation of them just being useless.

Buying those 36 left backs 2 summers ago is really coming back to bite Forest on the arse.

Just a thought, are they in the same boat as Leicester in so much as it doesn't matter what league they're in next season, they're going to shit the FFP bed regardless?

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Topical: fans (and now clubs apparently) immediately leaping to corruption over bad refereeing decisions, rather than the far simpler explanation of them just being useless.

Buying those 36 left backs 2 summers ago is really coming back to bite Forest on the arse.

Just a thought, are they in the same boat as Leicester in so much as it doesn't matter what league they're in next season, they're going to shit the FFP bed regardless?

If they do no doubt it will all be everyone else’s fault but forest