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FootyEra 18/19 Season |OT 2| Yeovil Ipswich Kilmarnock Everton Spurs
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The warm weather break for Liverpool comes at the perfect time.
The league is theirs to lose this year
Their FA Cup demise is actually quite beneficial to their league run, like you say the timing of this FA Cup weekend is great for Liverpool to get their heads back together and shake off a few knocks, physically and mentally, after City and Palace.
However they could also lose a bit of momentum with it. It's an awkward time, after the City and Palace games. After a period like that some teams will bounce while others might collapse.
Either way coming out of the festive period on top is massive for them.
Many MAny tweets to the writer saying the usual "but here stevie g is praised for pace and power" or "r9 was known for technical" just missing the point.
Agree with this. Needs attention because so many people just don't see the problem with it.
I'm hoping it's part of the plan, chucking Rebbe out and consulting with Siewart when looking for a new director, i.e. let them have discussions about the kind of players he's looking for before hiring.
Apparently the plane transporting Emiliano Sala from Nantes to Cardiff has disappeared, was supposed to land yesterday evening but never arrived. Boats and helicopters looking for it now.
Awful news. Weather is better this morning so more chance of finding them.
Was excited to see him sign, but would be happy to never see him play for us as long as he's found alive and well.
Was excited to see him sign, but would be happy to never see him play for us as long as he's found alive and well.
I'm not too optimistic, his plane has been missing since yesterday evening and they haven't found anything yet, it's looking likely it crashed into the sea :/
Fuck he didn't even want to leave Nantes really, not saying it's the owner's fault or anything but it makes you think "what if"... Really awful news.
Fuck he didn't even want to leave Nantes really, not saying it's the owner's fault or anything but it makes you think "what if"... Really awful news.
"Breaking | Channel Islands Air Search Chief Officer John Fitzgerald to So Foot on Emiliano Sala & the other 2 individuals on the missing plane: "I do not think that they are still alive." More follows. "
Really bloody sad. Hopefully he is wrong.
EDIT: "Channel Islands Air Search Chief Officer John Fitzgerald's interview with So Foot on Emiliano Sala's aircraft disappearance in full: "Personally, I think there is 0 chance they are alive now." http://bit.ly/SalaPlane "
Really bloody sad. Hopefully he is wrong.
EDIT: "Channel Islands Air Search Chief Officer John Fitzgerald's interview with So Foot on Emiliano Sala's aircraft disappearance in full: "Personally, I think there is 0 chance they are alive now." http://bit.ly/SalaPlane "
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I just woke up and this was the first news story i saw. Goddamn tragic.
Goddamnit this is such terrible news. He's been playing in France for several years for various clubs : Orléans, Niort, Bordeaux, Nantes... very likable player. Not the most efficient one but a very hardworking one. He was really coming of age this season.
I really hope for a miracle and that somehow he's found alive.
I really hope for a miracle and that somehow he's found alive.
I was just thinking the same thing about planes. With todays technology you would think it would be easy to find.
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What a fucking retard. He is a piece of shit like everyone who support him
That's so scary that a plane can just up and vanish.
I hope they are found alive and well :(
I hope they are found alive and well :(
Ole pretty much nailed on to stay past this season then?
To be fair, i dont see how we dont lose points at some point these next few weeks. With all the injuries we will be lucky to limp across the finish in 4th.
Kane/Son/Dele are huge misses for you.
You basically need to keep Erikson in an oxygen chamber and wrap him in cotton wool. And to make Lucas go on an etiquette course and hope he hits some kind of form.
Now I kind of feel bad for Llorente not being able to go back to Spain. Wasn't he set for Bilbao at the end of December?
You'll end up in the CL for sure, but need to not totally collapse. I think Poch can rally what's left into a tight unit though, less expansive but a hard team to beat that'll chug through some tight games.
Sala thing is absolutely terrible.
"Pace and power" discussion feels complex to me: it's a stereotype that black players are more athletic, and it leads to some lazy comps (it's an ongoing joke in covering US draft prospects that writers won't make cross-racial comparisons) but, just on average, it...seems true? To take an example from American sports, which tend to be even more reliant on athleticism, NFL positions like running back are 95+% African-American (the most extreme example: there hasn't been a white cornerback to play in the NFL since 2002). Black athletes do seem to be overrepresented on the frontier of speed/strength/size.
That's not to downplay any player's skill level, or excuse those who do. It's clear "power and pace" is often a crutch for analysts etc. who haven't actually watched a player play. On the other hand, getting to the point where we're pretending to be befuddled by Pogba being considered a better athlete than Andre Gomes doesn't seem like an improvement in accuracy.
"Pace and power" discussion feels complex to me: it's a stereotype that black players are more athletic, and it leads to some lazy comps (it's an ongoing joke in covering US draft prospects that writers won't make cross-racial comparisons) but, just on average, it...seems true? To take an example from American sports, which tend to be even more reliant on athleticism, NFL positions like running back are 95+% African-American (the most extreme example: there hasn't been a white cornerback to play in the NFL since 2002). Black athletes do seem to be overrepresented on the frontier of speed/strength/size.
That's not to downplay any player's skill level, or excuse those who do. It's clear "power and pace" is often a crutch for analysts etc. who haven't actually watched a player play. On the other hand, getting to the point where we're pretending to be befuddled by Pogba being considered a better athlete than Andre Gomes doesn't seem like an improvement in accuracy.
Yeah i believe he was supposed to be gone by now. I kinda felt bad for him last game too during that own goal. I imagine he is gonna be under serious pressure going forward. After that og i saw the Facebook forums and Twitter practically calling for his head. I was hoping he would score the winner to get people to chill a bit.
He's in an impossible position. He wanted to go home. Spurs fans don't particularly like him anyway. And now he has to fill in for Sir Harry Kane OBE Saviour of Tottenham during a period they're missing a few key creative players.
I think the argument is that is used in place of also praising their technical abilities being the issue. Basically saying BAME are just physical beings and lack the mental/technical aspects of the game.
Let's say Yaya Toure at City. He absolutely had pace and power; that's true, he was a "beast", but a lot of punditry also failed to mentioned his reading of the game and his passing abilities.
Pogba is a better example of this specific thing while being an excellent athlete who does possess 'pace and power', his strongest attributes are his technical ones in his dribbling, passing and reading of the game. It does him a disservice to just label him a physical powerhouse.
But does Pogba really not get credit for his skills? I hear Pogba praised constantly for his skill level and creativity. Though it seems like the bottom-of-the-barrel football media members don't make it across to America, so I may be missing the most flagrant 20% of discussion.
I dunno, I don't really disagree with what you're saying overall. I'm just cautious because public consensus on these things shifts so quickly from "we should try to be nuanced and accurate in good faith" (agreed!) to "talking about how athletic Pogba is is by default coded racism, go pick up your copy of the Daily Mail." It's not like the Sterling situation where there was no signal underneath the racist garbage -- Pogba is genuinely very athletic, as was Toure whenever he deigned to run, and that's an important part of his game.
There is no denying that pogba is powerful, has some pace and is athletic. Its that those are most often the default words used to describe both him and other black players. He is simply one example of it.
Asian players are also always blessed with a crazy work rate and lifetime supply of duracells, but are also so much more.
To be fair, that was specifically Park, and was very true.
You don't see Son / Kagawa being painted with that brush and they're the two most prominent Asian players aside from Park.
Awful news about Sala, hoping for the best but expecting the worst :(
Well that's Spurs buggered, you can't just lose three key players like that. At least Son will be back in a few weeks but the damage could be done. Guess we'll see
Well that's Spurs buggered, you can't just lose three key players like that. At least Son will be back in a few weeks but the damage could be done. Guess we'll see
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