People keep saying this about Saka but he’s on pace to outperform his G/A from last season. He’s 4 goals and 4 assists in 11 games where Jesus and now Odegaard, two of our most productive offensive players, have been absent for most of those matches.
I get it, he’s not as electric as Salah, Vini, or even Martinelli, so the eye test is extremely deceptive when looking at his performance. But he is doing just fine.
Liverpool comeback was 2005, but HARD agree on all of this. Truly was incredible.
Don’t forget we had some SLAMMING adverts back then. Joga Bonito especially.
People can pretend it has nothing to do with race, but they’d be completely full of shit. I am not saying that the institution itself is racist, although I am sure they have some prejudicial practices that they may be unaware of, but it starts from the bottom.
I cannot tell you the amount vitriol I received as a CHILD reffing games. Now, imagine you are trying to go through the ranks of Sunday leagues, conference league games, and hopefully up to the professional ranks. Imagine the racial abuse you’d receive if you were a person of color. We can’t protect our own players from receiving racial abuse. Saka, Sancho, and Rashford levels of racial abuse from Euros would be every single weekend with referees of color. Anytime they made a game-changing decisions, there would be fans racially abusing those refs. It is already happening at lower levels, and they drop out.
In America, I was given a stat that something like 60% of refs would quit after their first year and 85% wouldn’t last longer than 4 years. That is an abysmal retention and attrition rates.
I am old enough to remember Uriah Rennie, but he was reffing before social media. Now it is only worse because the abuse isn’t limited to on the pitch.
I’m sorry but your birth doesn’t determine the generations, lol. If you weren’t born during Fergie v Wenger, then you might be 18? younger? Which means you haven’t even been watching football long enough to comment on the best rivalry of this generation.
United Forward vs their romantic partners
FTFY
Man I am crying about all of it. I don’t care if it was UEFA, the Rashford Red Card was fucking atrocious. I didn’t see the Liverpool call but I also cried about the abysmal communication that disallowed Liverpool’s goal against Tottenham too. And I will cry when any team is fucked over by the refs. Refs are making headlines more than players are, and that is a problem.
Holy shut this feels like a reference I should be familiar with…
Everyone complains when people confuse coincidence with irony but this is a conflation of hypocrisy with irony. Maybe not even hypocrisy.
Well you hit the nail on the head. It’s just a lack of empathy with other fans or the desire to mock rivals supersedes empathy.
ETH isn’t the joke Reddit has claimed, or the media for that matter, but so much context will always go missing. Saliba is constantly referred to as one of the best CB in the world and the best of his age, yet his absence the entire final run of the season is ignored in the bottle narrative. Nvm Tomiyasu and others injured as well.
Same with everyone shutting on Liverpool last year but you’ll notice as soon as players were coming back from injury it was their usual deadly selves.
And now it’s Man United. Martinez is top five defenders in the league, he’s gone, the entire starting back line questionable. Of course they’ll struggle. But it won’t stop the mocking and to be fair, it hasn’t stopped me from giving my cousins and mates a hard time about their form.
A slide tackle is inherently dangerous. Taking a side step is not. If you can’t tell the difference then I can’t engage in a bad faith discussion where we play hypothetical.
He should be responsible for his body
Yes, and that’s true for other players too. If you dive into a 50/50 challenge at shin height with your head, it’s not a red card for the other player.
Rashford was stepping to his side, perfectly within his right with where he had possession of the ball. If the Copenhagen player puts his foot or leg under that step, that’s on them.
Never a red for me and its baffling to me how many people say it is.
I’m clearly becoming more and more out of touch because that’s never a red, but I’m seeing a pretty even split of opinions. Just wow. Shielding the ball. What’s next, players slides you while you’re running normally and if you step on him then it’s a red.
This has to be one of the most benign maneuvers I’ve ever seen given a red.
Game’s not gone. You love to see it. Still one of the wildest things I’ve witnessed as a fan of the sport and have nothing but the utmost respect for this man for the fortitude of character and spirit he’s shown through this entire, unthinkable ordeal.