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equinox wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 04, 2025 7:02 pm
I bet the Al Shabab fans are absolutely ecstatic about this signing.

& let's hope that Josh Brownhill has the same hunger as the El Kebab fans...

Already got my coat.

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It's always a tragedy when anyone dies, especially someone with so much life ahead of them. For that, you have my deepest sympathies. However, I must echo Tony, Notts and Bacchus here. We have enough misery in this world, with few places offering temporary relief where we can lose ourselves in the m...

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claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 04, 2025 3:17 pm
No idea why it says the 1 they sued in my post either

Freudian slip... Oh and I meant 'Yoro' not 'Loro', not sure what I did there either

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claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 04, 2025 2:57 pm
Has there been a wider image of the full pitch, when I watched the goals back Sunday morning the defender to the left of Foster looked deeper then the 1 they sued to judge Foster at first look but I haven't seen one.

Seen a few even UTD fans saying that Loro was playing him on there as well!

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No I don't think Foster gained much of an advantage, but that's not really relevant to the point that I'm making. And regardless of whether he gained an advantage, he was given offside by the AR, so would have been offside by any laws of the game that I'm old enough to remember. The AR's decision w...

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 04, 2025 2:16 pm
As in people who don’t make up the law, I guess you’re probably correct.

"I was just following orders"

Seriously though - do you think Lyle gained any tangible advantage to score a goal there, from the available data?!

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The kind of people who think that's offside are the same ones who’d sit like lemons at temporary lights guarding five metres of fresh air at 2 a.m., with not a car in sight.

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 03, 2025 3:09 pm
Saudi is probably a safer place to live than the UK right now, in fairness.

Not if you're a journalist.

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The Muric chants whilst Trafford was playing were very distasteful - admittedly, I didn't think Traff deserved his place in the side (vocal about it on here as some will remember!), nor did his performances warrant keeping him in the side, but the sneering / chanting against one of our own players a...

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Ightenhill_Claret wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 6:26 pm
Looks like we have a battle on our hands with this one. Can see this one dragging on…

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/s ... ew-driver/

Been a long, old 17-year slog to land Driver - let's hope we're now in pole position.

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... Almost like playing nonsense forms of cricket such as The Hundred before an important international series has negative consequences!

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Strange to sell Ederson for £12m when he’s only 31. Keepers have played PL into their 40s. Trafford was Peps first choice but he needs a good replacement for all the games they play. Donarummar just happened to be fortuitously surplus to requirements at Paris. Traffords 84.5% save record outstrips ...

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To be fair they have also played us with Onuoha, Adam Johnson and Gareth Barry and scored 6 as well as Steve Howey, Richard Dunne, Richard Edghill, Kevin Horlock & Danny Tiatto and scored 5 Aye but who else was on the pitch in those games? Some good players there as well! Not to mention, we didn't ...

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City could start Oscar Bobb in goal against us and still smash us I disagree. It's a far cry from their teams of 2017-2023, which were filled with powerhouse players throughout the spine, with a bit of flair in key positions. Players like Cherki, Bobb, Doku, Reijnders, Nunes, Gonzalez, Lewis are no...

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Agreed, if he'd have gone to Newcastle it'd have been best for his career.

I also think City are on the decline, they look crap and are nowhere near the powerhouse of a team they once were (Rodri & Haaland aside).

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Legend - a far better player than often given credit for, with more to his game than just a left foot as some people seem to think.

I wish him nothing but the best.

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Hard to say really to quantify it, I'd agree that it's ALKs best window -

Big Les looks absolutely mint, like, could be better than Berge (at a younger age).

Still some question marks about CB and RWB, but other than that, we've done really well.

8 / 10.

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 6:39 pm
That’s Joe Worrall isn’t it?

Not really, I wouldn't call Worrall a 'physical specimen'.

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burnley007 wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 6:06 pm
I think Mengi has shown he can play in this league, which is a big thing to us. Less risk, less time to adapt.

Can't see a problem with it at all.

Injury history:

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/teden-m ... ler/548470

Very problematic for a young player, imo.

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I'd have hoped for a big more than Mengi. We need an absolute physical specimen (appreciate they aren't easy to come by) to play that central CB position. 6ft3 +, chucks their head onto everything. Not to mention, it's another player who's had significant time out with various injuries and we have e...

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Shame it's on that podcast, I have similar feelings about JH as David Ginola has...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuw3Jag9HtA

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Technology has improved sports such as Tennis, Rugby and Cricket. It’s ruined Football. I would give VAR a max of 1 minute to see if a clear and obvious error has occurred- if after the 60 seconds (countdown timer!) it cannot decide - then as in cricket you go to ‘umpires call’ I.e. revert to the o...

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claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:33 pm
They scored 13 in 1 game less than a week ago...

... took me a moment

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Not sure why you'd want to sack Amorim now -

Look at the number of shots/chances they've created vs conceded in all their games this season; they are a much better outfit than given credit for, imo.

As for Ten Haag, it's very premature from Leverkusen; makes the board look daft.

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If you have three letters like that, rather than trying to guess the word one using the already discovered letters, in this instance, * O * V E R, try a completely different word that uses none of those letters, to try and locate the two missing letters.

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Villa look stale - nowhere near the side we played 2 seasons ago.

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Match Stats xG United 3.54 Burnley 1.2 Shots United 26 Burnley 6 On target United 6 Burnley 3 Possession United 62% Burnley 38% We were not "robbed" but unlucky not to get a point at the end Add the xG for Foster's goal, which was wrongly ruled out, and take away theirs for the penalty, and it even...

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Has Hurzeler come in fancy dress today?

Dressed like Blofeld in the Roger Moore era!!

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May as well sack the whole thing off and not have laws then. I'm being a bit silly admittedly but we should be striving for consistency instead of guess work and interpretation. The laws of the game are too flaky. From game to game no-one knows what an offside is, what a handball is and what a pena...

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 31, 2025 1:17 pm
Yoane Wissa via instagram

What a tosser.

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If VAR is going to be used - and let's face it, it's here to stay in some capacity - then the laws of the game need to be better. At the moment the two just knock heads because it's all so vague and ambiguous. VAR should iron out the inconsistencies but it can't do that because the laws of the game...

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Haven't read the whole thread but... Tired of the Premier League. Just three fixtures in. Bored of the same theories and controversies. The money is distasteful but what really distances supporters is the incessant intent to turn the sport into some biased algorithmic virtual reality retrospective ...

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martin_p wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:44 pm
He falls forward because Anthony let go. I’m afraid the physics work in this particular instance.

He falls forward because he threw himself to the ground.

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Echo the comment that I expect him to get dropped if we sign Luis.

Think we will see Tchaona and Luis start after the international break. Then we will really have pace, power, and panache in our starting XI.

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Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:42 pm
We helped make a very, very ordinary side look good.

Not so sure they are, Buxton.

They fair battered Arsenal at home the other week, just couldn't put the ball in the back of the net.

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blatherwickstattoos wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:11 pm
It’s extremely hard to get a break. A lot of it (if not most of it) comes down to luck. From personal experience it’s crazy how one coach or manager can make or break you

Like that in many walks of life, sadly. Just got to keep hammering the nail...

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Struggling to see how scoring 4 goals in 3 PL games is negative. Off you pop.

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Scott is spot on.

It sounds insane to me what people come out with to try to justify these decisions. Trying to quantify a dynamic sport like we're looking at binary data. It's properly f*****g mental.

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It's not a great graphic, but there is a vertical line drawn from Foster's shoulder, and one drawn through the defender's arm. Assuming they both line up with the red line on the grass, that is offside. Anyway, it matters not what we think. That was the decision and I'm not going to spoil my Saturd...

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Another good game from Lyle today. Looked a proper PL number 9. Very nearly on 3 goals in 3 games right now too, without mentioning the overall outlet he’s been providing up there. Ball bounced off him a bit at times but very clinical with the finish and should have had another. Incredibly tough gi...

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Penwortham_Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 30, 2025 5:58 pm
Should have done better with the penalty, lost us the point

Have to be trolling? He was our MOTM today.

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I'm sick of football matches being decided by dubious refereeing decisions. They're attempting to dissect these high-intensity moments into objective fragments, resulting in nonsensical rulings. Goal-line technology works—everything else doesn't. Decisions shouldn't be based on freeze-frames and slo...

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Dubravka 8
Walker 5
Ekdal 7
Esteve 6
Hartman 5
Bruun Larsen 5
Cullen 7
Big Les 8
Hannibal 5
Anthony 6 (minus for the brain dead shirt pull)
Foster 8

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PL stinks, par for the course.

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Not so sure we should park the bus or drop off like we have done. Showing them too much respect again.

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Mental half this.

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******* set piece

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United played like this against Arsenal btw. They absolutely whipped them but couldn't score.

Cunha going off has slowed them down a touch. Let's just hope that SP got his HT team talk right!

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Defensive set pieces so far this season are a massive concern, we look all over the place defending them.

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Ramsey and Tchaouna changes for me, for Hannibal and JBL.

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