I'd suggest just because someone scores a lot of penalties doesn't necessarily make them a "good" penalty taker totally agree. It should surely be about pushing the % chance of success in your favour as much as possible, and that is by placing it in the most difficult position. The nicer ...

one of those odd situations coming up on Thursday where a game has to have the last few minutes played as it was abandoned previously. final 18 minutes of Udinese Vs Roma will be played, with the teams starting at 1-1 also Fabio Cannavaro just became the Udinese manager for the final 5 1/5 games of ...

Ignoring the finances is what leads tp the pressure to succeed no matter the cost and clubs being in regular crisis over their existance, regular administrations and points deductions and financial doping I am talking about from a fans point of view So am I. There's constant fan pressure to spend m...

Leicester Vs Southampton tonight.

Southampton losing means they can only finish in the play offs, but also that result will surely also mean Leicester are going up automatically too?!

never cheered for Southampton before but will be tonight.

My friend asked me, what would i rather, Reading progress to later rounds of the cup, or a replay against a big team and all the money it brings. I without a second thought said progress as far as possible. He was very surprised. I really dont give an oxford about the finances. Why would i cheer th...

Inter win the league after beating AC Milan 2-1

Currently watching the Cartagena Vs Oviedo match. Big at both ends of the table!

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.

Fans prefer trying to get sympathy from claiming they are victims, rather than just accepting someone made a wrong call

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. https://i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk/incoming/article24538617.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200b/4_PAY-England-fans-walking-around-the-west-end-befo...

Also, it could be one of those odd occasions where a team, Colchester this time, having 2 games in hand rather than just the 1 that those teams around them have, could work against them. Colchester currently 3 points clear of relegation with a better GD by 7 and have 2 games left to play, but those ...

Screenshot from 2024-04-22 15-20-19.png Donnie's amazing run continues with another win at the weekend making 9 wins from the last 10 games. A win against lowly Colchester tomorrow and they will be into the play offs. Would be an extraordinary turnaround of a season by them having been in 21st plac...

final day of league 2 is on Saturday at 3pm. last day shenanigans for the 3 EFL divs is usually moved to a different time or day isn't it?

St-Ettiene's great 2nd half of the season continues, this time coming back from a goal down and a man down to win 2-1 with goals in the 91st & 94th minute!

5 games to go and they are 1 point away from an automatic promotion place

There's also a problem that the decision given affects the game from that point on, whereas with cricket the ball is dead and they can judge things at their leisure. If a linesman flags for offside the game stops, so if VAR proves that decision was wrong then how do you recover from stopping a prom...

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.

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 th...

as a general point and not a dig at people here, I can't help but think that all areas of football have now become so analysed that even company bottom lines are now debating points for fans and the extra profit they might make becomes a thing to get enthused by. I don't want replays to go because ...

Pre VAR no-one would have complained at the goal standing. Gutted for Cov This is always my feeling. Offside pre-VAR was a lot more around actually being in front of other players, anything reasonably level was deemed fine. What i will say is this, we are the only country that does it like this. Yo...

as a general point and not a dig at people here, I can't help but think that all areas of football have now become so analysed that even company bottom lines are now debating points for fans and the extra profit they might make becomes a thing to get enthused by. I don't want replays to go because t...

football has been going sh*t for some years now, but the speed in which its sh*tness is growing has been accelerating a lot more recently