Other Games - 2017/18

[andyh]

Chelsea epitomise everything I despise about modern football.

Agreed. Them and Jenas.

[paulcomben]

Finally, a referee who despises the years-long cheating & diving ways of #CFC Hurray! #SpiritOfDrogba

[saunders_heroes]

Jenas, “he had a right to go down”
Why, because he touched his shoulder? Do fuck off, Jenas.

[London Villan]

6 FA cups in last 20 years... i hate that fact.

[Risso]

Jenas is a terrible, terrible pundit, one of the very worst.  He always comes across as a right mardy miserable twat, and most of what he says is wrong.  I do wonder sometimes how certain ex-players end up working in TV, as he hardly had a stellar career, and he comes across very badly on screen.

[London Villan]

Savage.R is another one.

[saunders_heroes]

I think the only qualification needed for an ex player to become a pundit is the ability to string one sentence together. Mind you Ian Wright still manages to get on the telly regular.

[olaftab]

Gary Lineker signing off  "Well that's it for tonight Chelsea are through so far so good". Disgraceful bias.

[TopDeck113]

One of arguments for the likes of Jenas being a pundit is that he knows what he's talking about having played the game. That is palpable nonsense.  The only thing Jenas's career has left him qualified to comment on is the inner workings of a physio's treatment room.

[andyh]

One of arguments for the likes of Jenas being a pundit is that he knows what he's talking about having played the game. That is palpable nonsense.  The only thing Jenas's career has left him qualified to comment on is the inner workings of a physio's treatment room.

To be fair, he could also give a run down on the workings of pitch watering systems.

[VILLA MOLE]

Jenas, “he had a right to go down”
Why, because he touched his shoulder? Do fuck off, Jenas.

Thankyou. When did it become a non contact sport ?
 
It is just not acceptable at any level. Can you imagine doing that on a Sunday game in the park 😞

[adrenachrome]

Jenas, “he had a right to go down”
Why, because he touched his shoulder? Do fuck off, Jenas.

Thankyou. When did it become a non contact sport ?
 
It is just not acceptable at any level. Can you imagine doing that on a Sunday game in the park 😞

When I played, many years ago I must admit, there was never any situation in which it was allowed to lay your hand upon the opposition. In the last few decades wrapping your arms around an attacking player seems to be de rigeur. We used to allow the shoulder charge, now we allow sumo wrestling.

Same with tackling with the wrong leg. Look at the handbooks and it is not there as a legitimate tackle. Now it is commonplace.

[Nev]

VAR solves nothing because it is still inherentley a matter of opinion, be it the ref on the pitch or the ref staring at multiple screens.
The biggest problem with the game is not that mistakes are made but that managers and players, while accepting that they themselves err, cannot accept that officials do as well. Unless, of course, it is in their favour.
Further to that, the pre-meditated intention to decieve, or "cheat" as it was once known, on behalf of managers and players has made the officials task all the more difficult. Sort that one out and maybe the right call will be made more frequently.

[kippaxvilla2]

Gary Lineker signing off  "Well that's it for tonight Chelsea are through so far so good". Disgraceful bias.

Much as I hate the smug jug eared idiot it was actually ‘so var so good’ in reference to the video replay cock up.

[olaftab]

Aha missed that subtlety in his delicate tone.