Recent content by GuybrushThreepwood

I completely agree that Pep can't be criticised for not managing 'lesser clubs'. It's a positive for him, that his stock has remained high enough for him to continuously only manage 'heavyweights' during the past 16 years (and when he leaves City he'll surely be in very high demand). Although...

If Liverpool don’t win the title this season (like the rest of you I hope they don’t), they’ll have won one league title in 34 years, having only been in serious title contention during 8 of those 34 years (4 times pre-Klopp and 4 times under Klopp). And they’ll have won the same no. of league...

Yep before the Covid shutdown they were 25 points clear of 2nd placed City with 9 games left, who for it’s worth had a game in hand. City’s last game before the shutdown was the 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford with Utd securing a first league double over them for 10 years. So Liverpool needed 6...

After the humiliating 5-0 defeat away to Bristol City on Wednesday, I certainly wasn't expecting that result today ! Sammie Szmodics scoring 30 goals in a struggling, under-performing team, has been a hugely impressive individual team. We often have among the top goal-scorers in the...

I only mentioned the hand of god as it was brought up in several previous posts. However the myth would be that England were robbed / cheated out of a place in the 1986 World Cup by Maradona, when their players were breaking the rules and downright cheating throughout the game including many...

The hand of god felt like beautiful and fitting revenge by Maradona, after he had already been cynically hacked down throughout the game and elbowed off the ball multiple times. I was happy to have my photo taken with the hand of god statue in Estadio Azteca ! Even accounting for the fact that...

Djokovic has had a poor record at Indian Wells / Miami since 2016, when he won third 3rd consecutive Sunshine double and 4th in 6 years. And he has suffered quite a few upset defeats in masters series events. I personally think he shouldn’t have even made the trip to the US. Indian Wells and...

I got mixed up between him and the Portuguese player Hélder, who played for Newcastle on loan in 1999/2000 (when his parent club Depor won the La Liga title), most notably scoring against Sunderland. I was very young at the time though !

In the 2002 title race, people of course mainly remember Inter throwing it away on the final day of the season, leading 2-1 away to Lazio before losing 4-2 and therefore the Scudetto to Juve. But Roma were involved in a tight and exciting 3 horse title race, and ended finishing 2nd, one point...

Yes Dominic Adiyiah failing to score an illegal goal to send Ghana through / Uruguay home after cheating to win the originating free-kick, and missing his penalty in the shoot-out to contribute to Ghana’s elimination, meant that he in-particular got what he deserved !

Agreed the Chelsea game beforehand was far more significant. They went into the Chelsea game with the title race in their own hands, and had they drawn it the title race would still have been in their own hands afterwards. However losing that game, meant that they went into the Palace game with...

I’m not claiming that Luis Suarez is a misunderstood avenging angel. I’m claiming that the notion that Ghana were robbed against Uruguay in 2010 was and continues to be a ridiculous myth. There’s a big difference. It’s very silly if some people harp on about the handball, when the sequence of...

The whining over Dortmund’s winning goal against Malaga in 2013 being offside, when Malaga’s goal to go 2-1 up in that same game also should have been ruled out for offside, was definitely over the top. Pellegrini brought it up a few times when he managed in the Premier League, notably when he...

The ridiculous notion that Ghana were robbed against Uruguay in the 2010 World Cup. Many people forget / ignore the facts that the same player whose shot Suarez blocked (Dominic Adiyiah) threw himself to the ground to win the originating free-kick (Fucile was nowhere near him) so clearly that...

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