Match Threads Manchester Utd vs Spurs - Match Thread

[Dougal]

Still buzzing after yesterday's result I only wished I could go into the office today with my shirt on, but we're all working from home nowadays.

The wife has gone to work in her Villa top. All Watford fans around so not too much reaction. Thing is, she did it a few weeks back when Villa stayed up and Watford went down. Proper wind up merchant.

 

[Matrix]

And Pogba’s stud rake, and Bailly’s Achilles stamp. A bit of gamesmanship on the other hand is beyond the pale

Thats why I love what Lamela did to them. Fire with Fire. It’s not right but it had to happen. No more Mr Niceguys with these top 4 clubs.

 

[Tucker]

Enjoy

Don’t know who these people are, but that Geordie fucker is really annoying. Clearly starved of attention as a child.

 

[Romulus]

Damn international break ffs.

just when we're getting into things

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Don’t know who these people are, but that Geordie fucker is really annoying. Clearly starved of attention as a child.

I actually don't mind The True Geordie, been subbed to him for a few years. He started as a football podcast thing then became super popular and turned into a bit of a Youtube celeb, was the presenter for that stupid boxing match between... I don't know, was it one of those social media brothers and some bloke from England? He's had his ups and downs but generally he's not that offensive.

 

[Tucker]

I actually don't mind The True Geordie, been subbed to him for a few years. He started as a football podcast thing then became super popular and turned into a bit of a Youtube celeb, was the presenter for that stupid boxing match between... I don't know, was it one of those social media brothers and some bloke from England? He's had his ups and downs but generally he's not that offensive.

Just reminded me of the arsehole in every pub that has to shout everything and be the centre of attention.

 

[Thenewcat]

for me the tackle by shaw is a straight red, it’s a very dangerous tackle as Lucas is away and not thinking about the challenge coming in. When you play you can protect yourself from a heavy challenge by altering yer body to take the impact in another place. Shaw can be clearly seen hanging out his arse then having a look at Lucas before the challenge. Cowardly tackle that is very reminiscent of challenges that were made in previous eras of the game

Also worth noting Solskjaer’s horrified reaction in the background on the replay, seemed to have forgotten about that by his post match interview when he was very disappointed in Lamela

 

[TheChosenOne]

I would loved to have seen the "All or Nothing" cameras in the dressing room at h/t & f/t.

 

[WhiteHeartLowe]

This is hilarious,

 

[TheRevolution]

Watched the match on Sky. Pundits were unbelievably poor. Its a shame we didn't play after Liverpool got thumped - id like to see if Sourness could get more bitter than he was yesterday. Evra was unprofessional. I think we all want a little insight and analysis from the pundits it was piss poor yesterday.

Spurs were wonderful. Sky woeful.

They're just upset that we gave their favorite club the pipe.

I thin they should get used to it

 

[Who’s our next manager?]

Shaw endangered Moura's safety therefore red card. Travelling at the pace Lucas was, taking him out like that could've resulted in serious injury (to both of them actually).
For someone who suffered an horrific injury himself, that was cowardly and reckless from Shaw.

And this is where refs don't understand football because most of them never played it. Fine, they can follow rules but when it comes to understanding the game they don't get it. That was a malicious, nasty foul (not even going to call it a tackle) borne out of spite and frustration and a yellow card sends a message to other players that they may get away with it. Pogba did it too, sly prick.

Where was VAR, checking to see if one of the hairs on Son’s Head was offside (even wind assisted) when he scored?

 

[Mr Pink]

Damn international break ffs.

just when we're getting into things

Strangely I think that it works in our favour.

Had West Ham been this Sunday we could still of been on a high and underestimated them.

Maybe.

 

[Who’s our next manager?]

Quite different players though, right?

True but we have played Son,Moura and Dele as temporary strikers during Kane’s absences so I reckon Watkins would be more useful up front.

 

[Wig]

Enjoy

This is wonderful, enjoying it almost as much as yesterday's game!!

 

[buckley]

I think Baily could have been sent off twice once for The scrape down Son's Achilles and once for treading on Kane .
The Shaw one was nailed on red.
The Pogba one is a tackle I have seen from him before high boot on the thigh I think it was Dele last year he had done the same foul on a player from another club and Neville said the classic words " he is not that type of player " the third time he did a similar tackle he was sent off . So it seems that the tackle on Hoijberg is the first in his next sequence of three bad tackles before he will be sent off .
Its such a shame as he is "not that type of player " when every other football follower knows he has previous for this type of tackle and he is exactly this type of player. So much bias on sky and not one spurs man in sight at the match or in the studio and as Jose says " no respect"

 

[wirE]

A good read and nice to see that some of the Manchester fans are not deluded after last nights loss

 

[Cavehillspur]

Enjoy

That United fan big baby lol

 

[Shadydan]

 

[DJS]

This is hilarious,

And he has Martial in his ff team as well! ??

 

[King Yid]

There was talk of a bluesky idea that IFAB had a couple years ago. It was after Burnley played Cardiff when Cardiff were last in the PL and in that game, the amount of time the ball was actually in play was 47 minutes in the 90 - the remaining 43 minutes was spent in players rolling around after a foul, wiping the ball on their shirts before a throw-in, players virtually crawling to the touchline when substituted, the usual clutter.

They then analysed a whole load of games and found that, on average, in every 90-minute football match, the ball is in play for only 60 minutes, 30 minutes is spent on other activities - a massive difference to the 4 or 5 minutes usually added on at the end of each half.

What was then suggested (and this wasn't a concrete proposal, just a mind-exercise type thing) was that games could consist of two 30-minute halves, but that the clock would stop whenever the ball wasn't in play. That way, players can roll around on the floor to their hearts content and it would make no difference. They could put on a tutu and dance the Bolero and it would gain their team no advantage (other than perhaps incapacitating their opponents through laughter). Essentially, no time-wasting.

It was intriguing and I did think it wouldn't be a terrible idea, because the time-wasting itself wouldn't go away - ultimately, you'd still spend 90 minutes (plus half-time) watching a match - but it couldn't be used to gain an advantage and may help get rid of some of the irritating aspects of football.

That said, Jose being a master of the dark arts, I wouldn't want to see anything get in the way of that until we'd added a few pots, so I'm currently a massive fan of shithousery, time-wasting (where it benefits us) and possibly even seeing Erik Lamela in a tutu.

I remember seeing something similar - stopping the clock when the ball is dead would certainly stop time-wasting which, for me personally, is the most frustrating form of cheating, but as you allude to above, 90 mins of actual play would likely result in a match that lasts over 2 hrs.

This will cause scheduling problems with Sky and BT - imagine pre-COVID that most matches followed fairly closely from each other with only 30 mins or so between games that are televised. There will be uncertainty when a game would actually finish, then on top of that is the loss of advertising revenue if there were only a couple of minutes prior to games televised on the same programme.

BUT, I couldn’t care less about Sky and BT’s coffers. I hate time wasting with a passion and would love to see the same energy that has been wasted on VAR being spent on finding a viable solution to the above.