Premier League 2016/17

glacierSpurs · Jan 22, 2017

Something for Hull to take heart despite a goal down.. Effective going forward, just let down by the final balls.. Hope the second half they can be more direct and get something.

jonathanhotspur · Jan 22, 2017

Marty said:
Yeah he definitely seems to know his stuff. Would love for them to stay up after the way Thompson and Merson acted when he was hired.

What did they say?

Nynorsk · Jan 22, 2017

If Moss was biased in favour of Arsenal, why the red card and late penalty for Burnley? Corruption may excist, but it was surtently not a factor inn this game.

ohtottenham! · Jan 22, 2017

Hate the fact that this Chels team have no European commitments, don’t play a high energy pressing game, both of which mean they’ll have plenty left in the tank for the run in. Bags of f…ing money; huge, talented squad they can use to rotate. And, the worst thing is, they’re Chelsea! Pure blight on the modern game. Someone needs to do something!

Cornpattbuck · Jan 22, 2017

Oh well, at least Liverpool, Man U and City all dropped points. This weekend could've been worse.

Just gutting about how Arsenal and Chelsea (probably) have come about their three points in the end.

Marty · Jan 22, 2017

jonathanhotspur said:
What did they say?

http://www.football365.com/news/mediawatch-special-merson-thompson-and-marco-silva

They were complete dicks about him. As you'd expect.

Shadydan · Jan 22, 2017

Cornpattbuck said:
Oh well, at least Liverpool, Man U and City all dropped points. This weekend could've been worse.

Just gutting about how Arsenal and Chelsea (probably) have come about their three points in the end.

By all accounts it's been a very good weekend so far, the surprises were Liverpool and Man Utd, looking at the fixtures before this weekend kicked off I would have said that we've come out of it very well despite the Chelsea result.

Mr Pink · Jan 22, 2017

That's stone wall penalty ffs

wingvaldsen · Jan 22, 2017

Marty · Jan 22, 2017

They're scared of the big teams. The refs that is.

jonathanhotspur · Jan 22, 2017

Marty said:
http://www.football365.com/news/mediawatch-special-merson-thompson-and-marco-silva

They were complete dicks about him. As you'd expect.

That was a very entertaining read. Pair of gobshites...

kitchen · Jan 22, 2017

Stonewall pen but this is Chelsea and they just don't get those sort of decisions against them...

Mr Pink · Jan 22, 2017

Hull have played really well imo.

Given Chelsea a much bigger test than I thought they would.

Mr Pink · Jan 22, 2017

Hernandez has been the weak link for Hull today. His hold up play has been abysmal.

A better CF, and they could of given Chelsea a lot more to contend with.

ohtottenham! · Jan 22, 2017

ohtottenham! said:
The game's outpaced the officiating capabilities. Refs and linesmen need help.

Rocksuperstar said:
I disagree - it's the demand for exact, perfect, faultless decisions that has taken the game away from refs. Part of refereeing is opinion, people want the human perspective taken away and an unbreakable set of rules enforced to make things "fair".

It won't, it'll just lead to teams and players trying to find ways to subvert the rules, the game becoming micro managed and it will become a pedantic nightmare. Sure, refs aren't perfect, but do we really want to remove luck, opinion and any sense from refereeing?

If refereeing was done to the numbers by computer, games like us against Chelsea last year, where the ref tries to let a few challenges go because of the occasion or whatever - that would be over, called off before half time. Nah, not for me. I'd rather talk about a poor ref decision than a game ruined by over-officiating any day.

Calling it as I see it. Think they need help. What I'm seeing more and more, is the outcome of so many games decided by the officials. Didn't use to be the case, although we've always given refs crap. The game's so much quicker, and played within so many confined, crowded spaces, with quick critical plays.

I don't know what the solution is. Just know that they have an impossible job these days. I agree with you about supporting the human aspect of the game; that's why we love the game. But, the game's changed, and the officials, because they don't have the tools to deal with those changes, have more influence on the outcomes of games as a result.

Mr Pink · Jan 22, 2017

Think huddlestone has been very good, some lovely passing

DIEHARD · Jan 22, 2017

Very impressed by Hull this game

DIEHARD · Jan 22, 2017

ohtottenham! said:
Calling it as I see it. Think they need help. What I'm seeing more and more, is the outcome of so many games decided by the officials. Didn't use to be the case, although we've always given refs crap. The game's so much quicker, and played within so many confined, crowded spaces, with quick critical plays.

I don't know what the solution is. Just know that they have an impossible job these days. I agree with you about supporting the human aspect of the game; that's why we love the game. But, the game's changed, and the officials, because they don't have the tools to deal with those changes, have more influence on the outcomes of games as a result.

Either two refs, one in each half of the pitch alternatively four assistants?

gilzeantheking · Jan 22, 2017

Hull certainly don't look down and out yet.

Mr Pink · Jan 22, 2017

Has Hazard picked up one of those innocuous injuries?

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