The Ted Lasso of the premier league (Jesse Marsch) seems to be playing out the famous Morecambe and Wise sketch.
He has all the right players - but not necessarily in the right order.
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Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 6th February 2023, 8:39 AMThe Ted Lasso of the premier league (Jesse Marsch) seems to be playing out the famous Morecambe and Wise sketch.
He has all the right players - but not necessarily in the right order.
Ha ha. They let him bring in 3 compatriot USA players and then sack him. Now we have a team of very fit headless chickens trained to play soccerball whatever that is.
Hovering in the red zone again with two MU games on the bounce. But we now have the feared New Manager Bounce so we'll win em both, lol. Football's turning into a long running sitcom.
And I wrote that before his sacking was announced.
I was not surprised though, they have some brilliant players but not much cohesion.
The young Gnoto (19) could be anything.
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I bloody love football me
Nathan Jones sacked then. Mary Wilson and her fellow-Supremes will be devastated.
If VAR can't get it right what is the point?
There's a simple way to sort the problem - scrap the offside rule altogether!! AND you would then have a more exciting game too!
You can't scrap it
But it's does need radically changing
Needs to favour the attackers much more than the defenders certainly
Chalking off goals cos the striker was about an eighth of a friggin inch offside
It's bullshit
Quote: lofthouse @ 13th February 2023, 11:44 PMYou can't scrap it
Honestly, I would like to know why - to me it's just an archaic rule that probably meant something in days of yore, that now needs kicking into touch, and it would stop all the debate and argument once and for all
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 13th February 2023, 11:33 PMThere's a simple way to sort the problem - scrap the offside rule altogether!! AND you would then have a more exciting game too!
That rule still baffles me. I thought it was just because I wasn't born and raised with the game, but the fact that the UK had to explain the rule in the back of a coin tells me that it probably needs changing.
It's to stop, what was called 'camping.
Where a player could just stand by the goalkeeper waiting for a long ball over the defence.
"Goal-hanging" we used to call it.
Then just have a defender or two standing with them - I still say it is a shit rule that ruins the game, which can have an exciting run at goal spoilt because some player's pinkie finger is over some imaginary line decided upon by one or two officials, in the heat of the moment.
Farcical.
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Of course Neville was such a success himself in his four months as a manager at Valencia with 3 wins in 16 games, no clean sheets, a 7-0 loss to Barcelona and a red card in a Europa L:eague fixture v Bilbao.