Premier League Gameweek 1 (9th, 10th, 11th August)

Pogue Mahone

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So had Aguero scored, but VAR had seen that Aguero had in fact stopped during his run up, but just looked like a slow stagger on first viewing, you would not welcome VAR disallowing that goal due to the rule break?

It’s not daft in the slightest. You just don’t like it for some bizarre reason.
So had an eagle swooped down and picked the ball up in its beak, while 50 feral hogs invaded the pitch...

Why are you mentioning things that didn’t happen?
 

SquishyMcSquish

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Can we talk about how West Ham have barely troubled City with players like Haller, Fornals, Lanzini and Felipe Anderson?

I mean, that's as good as it gets for a non-top 6 side, yet they still play like shit.
It's absolutely classic West Ham. They sign a bunch of decent names for decent money without any real plan or idea of how to put them together. They've been doing this for years now.

Will still turn up against us though the cnuts.
 

Sara125

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The fk West Ham have just been given was the exact same challenge at the other end in the build up to sterling’s goal :lol:
 

SilentWitness

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West Ham are defensively terrible. Said it in the Leicester thread but that's the reason that us, Leicester, West Ham and Wolves will struggle I reckon compared to the top 6.
 

esmufc07

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The game was fecking dire up until the VAR decision. You could have been excused for thinking it was being played behind closed doors. The disallowed goal was the first time we actually heard any emotion from the crowd whatsoever.
We shouldn't be relying on VAR to make football entertaining.
 

AltiUn

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It looks like both City and Liverpool will finish at around 100 points this season. I hope i am wrong in this but they simply play with too much quality compared to everyone else.
They’ve only played one game, bit early to see what’s happening yet.
 

VorZakone

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What's the point of TV money if these non-top 6 sides allow themselves to get battered, even with new shiny players?
 

ivaldo

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Penalties are easy to score, if taken well. The sort of encroachment we regularly saw was never enough to change this fact. Retaking penalties for minor infringements like this is just so stupid. Aguero hit a shit pen and got away with it, thanks purely to VAR. Fecking daft.
What's daft is knowing this will be looked at any encroachment will be penalized, and doing it anyway. You can bet your left nut the next time they concede a pen they'll make sure they don't fall foul.
 

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Can we talk about how West Ham have barely troubled City with players like Haller, Fornals, Lanzini and Felipe Anderson?

I mean, that's as good as it gets for a non-top 6 side, yet they still play like shit.

You can bet your bottom dollar that they will turn up against us though.
 

BluesJr

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We honestly need to leap on the next Klopp/Guardiola. It’s the only way we’ll get back.
 

Sarni

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You can bet your bottom dollar that they will turn up against us though.
Because we are much worse than City, not because of some mythical ‘game raising’. If anything City are the team to beat these days.
 

Klopper76

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Is that you Pep?
Yeah, I got bored during the game. When the camera comes back into me at the end I’ll probably go up to Sterling and do some weird dance to explain to him how he should’ve had two hat tricks.
 

legolegs

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Penalties are easy to score, if taken well. The sort of encroachment we regularly saw was never enough to change this fact. Retaking penalties for minor infringements like this is just so stupid. Aguero hit a shit pen and got away with it, thanks purely to VAR. Fecking daft.
No he got away with it thanks to West Ham not following the rules. It's as simple as that.