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*Official* English Football Season 2015-16
- Thread starter Furball
- Start date
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
At least we won't sit through any games like Italy in the last Euros
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Turkey would be on about 4-5 yellow cards by now in a competitive game. Bit disruptive to the flow of the game when they're constantly fouling.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Vardy been awful so far. No doubt he'll be described as being 'lively' but he's done absolutely nothing from decent positions.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
May as well just outlaw trying to head the ball in international football.
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
He gets in decent position by being lively though, so.....
Anyway nice of them to gear up for the summer with a missed pen. What is this with Kane taking all the dead-ball situatations, and could it stop please.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yea Vardy certainly gets in more positions due to his pace, movement and work rate. He was obviously much better in the second half scoring and winning a penalty so can't argue with that.
England need to look at who's supposed to being giving them width on the right hand side, because there was acres of space but no-one there for most of that second half.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Can't play Vardy on the wing if you wanna do anything at the Euros.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Vardy missing an England game to get married - what a mug. It's fair to assume when the wedding was arranged he wasn't expecting to be playing for England, but he should see it as an omen and cancel it and do a runner.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
haha this x 1 million.
Niall
International Coach
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...an-gaal-manchester-united-players-near-mutiny
The leaking from Jose's camp was dire but when you read that, its really hard to feel that much sympathy for LVG. His methods may have worked elsewhere but clearly not here and didn't inspire anything bar contempt from the majority of players.
I got to ask though, how the **** does over the age of 12 not know how to boil an egg though?
The leaking from Jose's camp was dire but when you read that, its really hard to feel that much sympathy for LVG. His methods may have worked elsewhere but clearly not here and didn't inspire anything bar contempt from the majority of players.
I got to ask though, how the **** does over the age of 12 not know how to boil an egg though?
Ikki
Hall of Fame Member
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
His reasoning seems confused. It's all well and good to say he wants football to be free-flowing, exciting and dynamic, but that's precisely why the offside rule was introduced in the first place. It's hard to see how removing a rule which forces pretty much all players to work on their coordination, timing and creativity will result in an improved spectacle.
It'd surely be more likely that to encourage strikers to infest the penalty area of the opposition and force the oppo's defenders to stay near them, which would surely result in the sterilisation of movement and diversity more than anything else.
It'd surely be more likely that to encourage strikers to infest the penalty area of the opposition and force the oppo's defenders to stay near them, which would surely result in the sterilisation of movement and diversity more than anything else.
Ikki
Hall of Fame Member
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-jose-mourinho-manchester-city-united-rivalry
Sid Lowe has to be the best football writer around. I can't wait for next season. So many interesting stories next season:
- Mourinho v Pep
- Klopp and Liverpool improving
- Will Arsene have a last hurrah?
- Will Leicester surprise?
- Can Tottenham push on?
- Can Conte resurrect Chelsea?
Sid Lowe has to be the best football writer around. I can't wait for next season. So many interesting stories next season:
- Mourinho v Pep
- Klopp and Liverpool improving
- Will Arsene have a last hurrah?
- Will Leicester surprise?
- Can Tottenham push on?
- Can Conte resurrect Chelsea?
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
For the millionth time I'm going to propose changing the clock to 2 35 minute halves and stopping the clock when the ball is out of play.
You'd get more football played (in really dire games the ball's in play for less than an hour) and makes timewasting impossible.
The offside change is more interesting. I've long been of the belief that it would disincentivise passing football because I could just park myself in the opposition's 6 yard box. I'd be interested to see what's happened in field hockey, which had the same offside rule as football up until the late 80s and abolished it altogether in 1992, and what the consequences for the game has been. Instinctively, if forwards can stay higher up the pitch, then defenders have to stay further back which frees up space in midfield. Quick tempo, fast transition football would instinctively seem to be the way to go if you had no offside (pretty much favouring the Bundesliga as things stand), which I suppose would be more attractive to watch, but there's still no disincentive to teams just parking the bus. Van Basten seems to be most frustrated by teams that defend deep and in numbers and I don't see how abolishing offside alleviates that.
You'd get more football played (in really dire games the ball's in play for less than an hour) and makes timewasting impossible.
The offside change is more interesting. I've long been of the belief that it would disincentivise passing football because I could just park myself in the opposition's 6 yard box. I'd be interested to see what's happened in field hockey, which had the same offside rule as football up until the late 80s and abolished it altogether in 1992, and what the consequences for the game has been. Instinctively, if forwards can stay higher up the pitch, then defenders have to stay further back which frees up space in midfield. Quick tempo, fast transition football would instinctively seem to be the way to go if you had no offside (pretty much favouring the Bundesliga as things stand), which I suppose would be more attractive to watch, but there's still no disincentive to teams just parking the bus. Van Basten seems to be most frustrated by teams that defend deep and in numbers and I don't see how abolishing offside alleviates that.