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***Official*** English Football Season 2018-19
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Magrat Garlick
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Low bar to clear, Deila is a better manager than Solskjaer.
wpdavid
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I wish I'd put a tenner on the Poch being Man Utd's next manger 48 hours ago.
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I don’t think we’ll get him. Solskjaer really suits the owners because they don’t need to pay him as much and he won’t push back against anything they try to do. Even if they do go for Poch I think he’d be odds-against to take the job. Real Madrid would surely want him too.
Niall
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I'd agree with that. His dream job is the Real one. Once the current chap is binned, I think he will take it. Levy will obviously get a fortune from Spurs.
Watching the game tonight, was a reminder where United are lacking, full backs who can actually cross and Sancho despite his rawness is such an obvious transfer for United, Woodward will ignore him and probably sign Douglas Costa.
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Cabinet96
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Have a Spurs mate who works for ESPN and apparently Poch loves Spurs more than the Spurs board loves him. They wouldn't be that unhappy were he to go because he's a pain in the arse to work with.
That said last night was probably the reality check to Solskjaer's credentials that will stop him getting appointed on a permanent basis.
andruid
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Poch is very very strange, which I think would get more negative attention at United, especially if he replaced someone as well liked as Solskjaer.
I’m sympathetic towards Solskjaer, he picked our best team, which is still much worse than PSG’s team, then two important players immediately got injured. I wouldn’t say the result is his fault at all. But he’s had a lot of luck in the job too.
Furball
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My favourite Pochettino thing was the way he pretended he couldn't speak English for about a year at Southampton.
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I know I’m becoming a crashing bore with my constant ranting about VAR, but I think as it comes in I’ll gradually pay less and less attention to top level football and get more involved with local leagues. Football with VAR doesn’t feel like real football to me.
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Yeah, I mean I don’t find it game-ruining now, that’s just where I see it going. I’ve been going to watch my team’s games while injured and realising how much I prefer that level of football, for reasons that VAR will make much starker.
sledger
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Yeah. I imagine this is noticeable to some extent when you are at a live match at the very top level as well tbh.
Interesting point on the whole though. Tbh I think Top level football stopped feeling like "real" football to me about ten years or so ago.
I can't pinpoint when it was exactly, but it suddenly struck me one day that watching top level football felt like a very polished, clinical, synthetic and superficial, holly-woody thing. It had just become too professional. I would then to go watch Brentford with Pothas and think "this actually feels like a game played by real people". Not this glitzy glammy thing.
Don't get me wrong, the quality of play/standard of players/levels of athleticism are all much higher than even ten years ago. But sometimes less is more, and I miss the atmosphere of the 90s (if not the much of the substance of the 90s/early00s) when pitches were still muddy bogs and things just seemed more fun and random generally.
People have no doubt been saying this sort of thing for years of course. And I'm not saying I don't enjoy watching top level stuff, I evidently do. But I certainly don't have any great attachment to it. Nor do I really identify with it much these days.
Interesting point on the whole though. Tbh I think Top level football stopped feeling like "real" football to me about ten years or so ago.
I can't pinpoint when it was exactly, but it suddenly struck me one day that watching top level football felt like a very polished, clinical, synthetic and superficial, holly-woody thing. It had just become too professional. I would then to go watch Brentford with Pothas and think "this actually feels like a game played by real people". Not this glitzy glammy thing.
Don't get me wrong, the quality of play/standard of players/levels of athleticism are all much higher than even ten years ago. But sometimes less is more, and I miss the atmosphere of the 90s (if not the much of the substance of the 90s/early00s) when pitches were still muddy bogs and things just seemed more fun and random generally.
People have no doubt been saying this sort of thing for years of course. And I'm not saying I don't enjoy watching top level stuff, I evidently do. But I certainly don't have any great attachment to it. Nor do I really identify with it much these days.
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andmark
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This may or may not be related, but I once saw a sign in a pub saying "Don't let your kids grow up thinking the Premier League is a TV show". It sort of hints at that feeling of separation what Sledger's getting at. I can sort of empathise with Sledger's view, especially for the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid. It feels like those clubs are held up as untouchable gods, and so to compare them with anyone else makes the rest feel more real and even wholesome in some cases (e.g Ajax with their great history).
cpr
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Bit of a strange one, but I think where you view the action from makes a difference. Normally with Prem games you are getting 3rd tier gantry cams or are sitting in elevated stands, which does give a feeling of slickness to the game. Watching a lower league game live is done much nearer pitch level, and seeing a game at that angle looks more frentic and more of a sport rather than a production. Shots look more exciting when you can't quite tell how wide they were as they passed the post, likewise penalty area play just looks like a 15 man scramble from stood around the halfway line.
Going to see Trafford FC (thankfully the old man hasn't tried to drag me to watch Salford yet) can feel exciting, however having watched Morecambe from the directors box (giving a more elevated view), it just looks really, really **** football.
Going to see Trafford FC (thankfully the old man hasn't tried to drag me to watch Salford yet) can feel exciting, however having watched Morecambe from the directors box (giving a more elevated view), it just looks really, really **** football.
Furball
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Ajax's disallowed goal in the first half was a joke.
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Yeah these effects are huge. Sometimes when I watch football on tv I’m sort of seeing it like it’s a game of Fifa. Whereas on the touchline I think about what I’d do if I was playing.
Being able to hear the action makes a big difference too. Tackles make a crunching sound that you hardly ever hear on tv, and it makes the game seem much more physical.