FA Cup third round and onward 2016

Conference goals yeah I got some of those.

So proud of former Spurs defender Dorian Dervite and has magnificent goal for Eastleigh yesterday.

we taught him that

Tasty game this. Amazing work from Wasilewski earlier, managing to take out two players with one tackle, including one Leicester player.

Gray looks good.

He does. Great touch and pass from Onomah to set up the attack that led to the Spurs goal as well.

Yep. He looks really bright.

Watching this twenty minutes behind. Carroll and Dier much much wasteful in their passing than our central midfield has been, but really good stuff so far, allowing for soft setpiece concession.

The romance of these two amateur guys having the chance to commentate a big match like this, presume they're milkmen or something the rest of the time?

Oxford though.

Ack. That was good.

Ahhhh spurs......I missed ye, ye cunts

God help me....I missed ye

Who exactly are we crossing to, not that I'm not enjoying us creating all these nice crossing opportunities?

Midweek will be fun.

Towards the end I was starting to think that Alderweireld would make a pretty good deep lying playmaker or marauding winger.

intended to go to the Cardiff-Shrewsbury game but my mate decided he couldn't be arsed so we watched it on tv. it was bad to the point of being upsetting

2-2 in the Spurs game was fair just about

I am on the train to Liverpool fully expecting a loss, but looking forward to it all the same. Apparently we've sold out an away allocation of 6000 which isn't bad for us on a January Wednesday.

have a good time tim :) if you can force 5 corners that should be good for 3 goals at least.

Haha that goal against you at ours must've been the first time we scored from a corner in like 2 years.

That edgy moment when a bunch of randoms have come in the pub and you're not sure how they'll react when you cheer Exeter

Think Davies just sealed it, he's not and never will be good enough.

May not be tested

Carroll too

Wow our passing is fuckin *awful*

Can we really be skimming by so much on alli's dynamism and Kane's presence?

<3 Son

Davies though...

Carroll at least picks a nice pass.

Davies with a nice cross or two but really hard to see what else is at epl level

Jaysus tho our crossing is nice tonight.

The one game we don't play Kane but ah well

I can't see Carroll improving the rest of his game enough to be a regular, though I said similar about Kane enough times,

Dier might grow into a DM but his passing and decision making are poor and slowing the team down. Davies makes too many mistakes.

i don't think I've seen the team play particularly well since West Ham in November but it would be churlish to complain too loudly about the general air of efficiency.

Think Spurs have been largely dece since I've been watching but Leicester not offering much tbh

"Spurs wasted an opportunity to put the tie to bed" aka go 2-0 up after 55 minutes

is it me or this shit getting more prevalent in commentary

Getting quite fatigued with playing Leicester by now but Okazaki's furious run is always entertaining to watch.

Bolton Eastleigh looked like a proper humdinger though.

Great pass.

Jonathan Pierce is giving the most senile 90mins of commentary I've ever heard.

xp to self then he was like "Leicester need to score here" when they were 2-0 down with 30 seconds of injury time left. wtf

benteke is so crap at one on ones in stoppage time

Son wasn't great but two moments of quality were prob always going to be enough in this one.

Pos: wimmer looked really solid at cb, vorm both solid and nice and vocal, which lloris lacks. Bentaleb clearly a good option squadwise. Walker had a good night and even below par we looked likely to react best to a bounce

Hey: we always seem below par and rely on a bounce. Seem extraordinarily willing to give the ball away, not even by positive intent just by shit or dangerous passing. Eriksen and lamela really poor. Entire midfield waving their feet at tackles. Nobody can perform the Kane role. Davies is solid in a really bad way.

And ranieri p much just admitted throwing it.

Was gonna say it looked like Poch cared more but also fuck it, u play to win

Both teams played essentially a second string but Leicester could seriously have won the FA Cup, in fact it was pretty likely.

Going to Anfield for a bit of a sing was fun, and being in Liverpool (I haven't been here for something like 20 years) is too. The game was a bit underwhelming: we all knew we had no chance when David Noble wasn't in the squad, on top of the other injuries we have, but at least that meant we could get on with enjoying the occasion without being bothered by troublesome hope. Would have liked the home fans to be a bit more interested but can fully understand why they weren't.

Trying to remember when I last saw TWP score a goal that good.

Although due to in-law loyalties I'm all Derby tonight.

The next 70mins or so of this are going to be dire though.

was the goal a curler from just outside the left-hand side of the box into the top right corner? that's like the classic stereotypical good rooney goal that he scores every so often. in fact on one of the few occasions I saw him play in the flesh he scored that exact sort of goal.

"I think you can write things down too much"

ile board description

Haha yes

Why are we starting Kane, Eriksen and Lamela?

Respect for the competition?

Maybe aimed at avoiding a replay. Against a team bottom of league one.

Fuck, the camera just pulled away from that Colchester player but you could see his legs twitching in a really disturbing way. The look on the other players' suggested a grim one.

Missed that

We look shaky at the back, not fair to pick on fullbacks as clearly them caring about not conceding needless goals is not the poch way

Carroll vg there

Attempting to get an autograph off Michel Vorm is probably the single lamest thing I've ever seen a pitch invader do.

Noted as such by savage tbf

MK Dons v Chelsea is bare jokes atm, there could plausibly be ten goals if it carries on like this

Chelsea should be about six up.

Oscar has a first-half hattrick so this is now only of interest to see if he can get five or more, which means he will probably be subbed at halftime

can't see much in the fifth round draw to suggest that this year isn't going to be the most boring FA Cup of my lifetime

also refamiliarising myself with how astonishingly incoherent Lawrenson's co-commentary was in this game, even by his own standards. he seemed high

Jesus guus stop staring at me

Well that was entertaining

Come on you Tigers

Lol could've nicked that

Definite penalty we got away with, and now walker looks fucked. Busy start.

I like to think we're hoping adebayor not cause we care much about him but because we know he's likely to react appallingly and get sent off

Booing

One clattering, one nutmeg on Adebayor and a near own goal for Kyle Walker. Interesting 15mins he's having.

Funny one this. Son is v quick on the break huh

Am.really enjoying this hardman Tottenham outfit tbh

Good finish!

Two wonderful goals from Payet today.

payet has been superb all season but this is the vine which brought me the most joy https://vine.co/v/eFEeqvDbM3J

Palace in decent control of this, no real complaints

I think it's pretty obvious this isn't going to happen. A replay would be bad.

Was that going in before the offside touch? Really stupid pass attempt from bentaleb to lose the possession.

absolutely love that Lukaku goal, it was like watching Jonah Lomu

Lukaku >>>>>>> Chelsea

"a legend is being born here tonight" who the fuck is this co-commentator

rofl

Costa red (aggressive nuzzling)

looked like he had a bit of a nibble

10 v 10 now, don't think that's a yellow for Barry if Cesc doesn't shriek in mock agony over very little

guessin the ref was looking for a little parity after barry's foul on costa, idk

pretty obvious yellow

yeah it looked more deliberate than just late on second viewing tbf

Watford one up.

Stunning second. Geudioura thunderbolt.

BOSH

Arsenal fans leaving with half an hour inc injury time to go

hmm

wouldn't have too many objections to this going to a replay

Just want to pop my head in and go WOOF at that Geudioura goal.

it really is amazing how LVG has managed to make a fundamentally simple game look like the most difficult thing imaginable

fucker should be court-martialled for crimes against football

Tremendous day of football so far.

Payet should be off for that

Atkinson has had an absolute shocker

Fuuuuhhhhkkkkkk

and there it is

wasn't even a free either

Swap ye lvg for poch

Shtill in three competitions

ah well, at least I'm another couple of hours closer to death

decent hit tbf

https://gfycat.com/PlushAnxiousAvocet

fucker should be court-martialled for crimes against football

Absolutely

Lol at the guy directly above Rojo covering his eyes the whole time
Payet knew it was in as soon as he hit huh

One of the BT analysts was complaining there wasn't much spin on it and De Gea should have kept it out.

his positioning isn't great but like...

Its not the spin, its the placement. You don't always have to fool a gk to beat them.

Ugh chris

hilarious non-penalty/red card earlier too

Ikr

Thank god for lukaku

and again

the right result i think but christ what a shitshow. leicester should be heartened playing both of these soon

Fuck off.

Not sure why smalling didn't leave the cross for lukaku to clear tbh

ffs. Wycombe are knacking up an otherwise in-the-bag 5 fold. I thought these fuckers were supposed to be plucky little cup specialists.

ohh the magic of the Cup

Ah this is where we at. Wolves trve cupfighters etc

yeahh! I knew posting on here would incite a goal.

lol good ol' Akinfenwa pulling me out of the shit!

Lol.

Hudders cruisin. Tempted to put something on Preston tbh

could well imagine an upset there.

Lincoln wrecked my 24/1 sevenfold unfortunately.

just waiting on Dale and Wycombe to finish

well I'm 76 quid richer. The best thing is that it was a free £10 bet I got from a refund when 1 let me down on a 5-fold last week

excellent

Looks like I get to say "fuck off" three months earlier this season.

that makes it 21 years since we won an fa cup match, exiting at the third round for the 48th time in our history (only level with plymouth)

a blackburn fan i know excitedly suggested he and i should attend when the draw came out. seemed unprepared for my response

21 years since we won an fa cup match

I knew it was bad but this is literally unfathomable

some record is that, jeez I hope you bought some money today.

to give u an idea of the task, the last win needed the trevor sinclair goal

best mic drop ever though tbfttl

the principle of karma rly seems to impact qpr more than most

jfc preston just cocked up an open goal for 2-0

:D

arsenal just cocked up an open goal for 1-1

Maybe it's because my formative experiences as an Evertonian were FA Cup runs with thrilling home wins in front of capacity crowds, followed by agonising exits ('77 & '80 semis, '81 quarters), I really really hate going out of the Cup. I think my dad was the same (never heard the last of the '53 semi). Maybe also because, by January, it's the only possible thing we can win.

Home defeats seem especially bad. I never saw a Gordon Lee side (Gordon Lee ffs) lose at home in the Cup. (We did, but I wasn't there).

(League Cup. Doesn't count)

actually winning the cup didn't shake the bitterness then? :)

No, not really. Actually being at Wembley to see us lose to a Frank Jr goal in 2009, 29 years after Frank Sr scored that stupid bobbling 119th min header for West Ham at the Elland Rd semi replay brought it all back. Football is awful.

truth

the only truth

in our admittedly feeble cup run defence btw this from lfw is also spot on. the worst thing about the 21 years is we were barely ever moved to give a fuck

While it’s typical football fan madness to complain about the outcome of a random draw, is there not a fucking bone in that velvet bag they could maybe throw us one year? [..] Three ties with Blackburn, four separate matches with Luton Town, three with Sheffield United, three with MK Dons, two with Nottingham Forest, two with Burnley, two with West Brom – it’s like watching the plates go round and round in a motorway service station café.

Re: QPR - reached the 4th round in 2012 and 2013, surely? Beat MK Dons and WBA after R3 replays, respectively. Doesn't make it much better, mind...

(Checking a bit further, QPR have won seven FA Cup ties since reaching the quarters in '95)

Rashford loves the FIFA finish <3

https://vine.co/v/5VEma6rpLrl

roll it just over the line, stop it, pick it up, gently jog back imo

bah this is what i get for not checking my own facts. damn u internet

- 96 vs tranmere was the last time qpr passed the 3rd round without needing a replay
- since 96 qpr have reached the 4th round four times: 2000,01,12,13
- since 96 qpr have been pitted against the exciting luminaries of chelsea(x3), arsenal (walloped by six), everton (walloped by four), and charlton

still wank

when was the last disrespectful tap-in? dimly recall a lower league kerfuffle a few years ago maybe

Having been kicked from pillar to post in one match, a 15-year-old [Robbie] Fowler was made to write a letter of apology to Bury’s reserve team manager after rounding the goalkeeper and stopping the ball on the line to kneel down and head it in.

tangentially relevant perhaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea6t_FCQ6Vc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38542870

nice to see bbc comparing ali al-habsi to a genocidal iraqi politician, because they both have the same first name.

^^ you tweeted that as well and I'm probably daft, but how are they comparing him to a "genocidal Iraqi politician" exactly?

They're comparing him to the cousin of a genocidal Iraqi politician, no? The original joke was in pretty bad taste too

oh wait, it's a direct quote from the commentator

Ahhh... "Content not available in your country', I cant see the vid, thought there was something in the text. N/m.

Hearing a female commentator on MotD now, a first?

Jacqui Oakley's been on there for ages

Never heard her before, soz. But good to hear.

Anyway, LG was implying that the BBC were making a comparison to Chemical/Comical Ali with their headline. But the commentator says "it gets more comical every time you see it" at the end of the clip and I doubt he was inferring anything

I refuse to believe that Millwall beating Bournemouth is the "biggest cup upset of the weekend". Just fuck the very idea of that being an upset.

Pleat described a Sutton players attributes today as being "tall, strong, black" so anything's possible with the Beeb

Oh man

we have a commentator on local bbc who always compares the likeness of any non-white players with one particular 90's era non-white player. It doesn't matter if there is no discernible likeness at all, it is always "he looks a bit like Baldry" who he probably once described as our very own Trevor Sinclair.

how's Children Versus Child Murderer going

damn, i'm edgy

nice to see joe gomez back

Jimmy Tarbuck, the only man never to make Ian St John laugh

Leeds united getting handed their own arses in that first half, but there is no way the big lads up front for Cambridge can run around like that for another 45

ffs as soon as I put RL commentary on for a laugh they equalise

sounds like there are some silly punts in the Cambridge defence :(

Leeds woke up and it all went to shit

Was jansson ever a member of a Belgian electronic body music group? Could definitely see him marching about in a leather apron

congratulations to artisanal Sutton Utd

awoooooo

Just turned on the telly, what the shit!?!? :D

deservedly so too

Pub's got the sound down on the tv and a cool jazz playlist, it's helping

liverpool kind of blew it there, gary

80% possession, one shot on target.

I just hope the Liverpool board never realise we got the better half of the dynamic duo at dortmund:p

gives us a chance to focus on (fucking up) the league

We already fucked that up. This week has been a p impressive fuck up of a promising season even by lpool standards

As much as anything it's good to see the improvement under Lambert. It'll be a miracle if we do owt in the Champo this season but we look like a team for the first time in 18 months

origi, sturridge, firmino all playing badly lately. the xmas season looks to have taken a lot out of them. klopp training them too hard, maybe?

i'm in the us so just saw the lineup and feel less bad about it. no consistency with all these changed lineups for cup games etc.

they really should try to sign somebody just to give the place a lift tho - i mean assuming there's a good option available, which there may not be.

Spurs looking to steal Liverpool's thunder.

Penalty for 2-0 Wycombe.

another club suffering would be nice

poor Rochdale, we are cruising at 2-0 and Wagner is giving the Mooy a run-out to torment them.

some cajones from wycombe

they already have a tradition being a classic plucky underdog in the FA cup, but if they pull this off it will be a famous win for them.

yeah they beat someone in the 90s, right? some italian striker unless i'm mistaken.

oh spurs just equalised

Spurs winner in the 96th!

oof that hurts

wasn't going in either

gits

xxxp you're thinking stevenage v newcastle in 97 if i'm not mistaken. giuliano grazioli

murder!

ah boo

Plus nobody I know got killed in south central LA

wycombe beat leicester with a striker they'd found on teletext or something

roy essandoh

didn't have to look that up

swear

p sure they beat us as well with jermaine easter grabbing the only goal at the valley during our prem relegation season

ahh yeah essandoh

I thought Wycombe had a few more famous cup runs, but it is probably part encroaching senility and all L1 clubs look the same to me these days :p

they really should try to sign somebody just to give the place a lift tho - i mean assuming there's a good option available, which there may not be.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 28 January 2017 14:48

Yeah, its hard to get players in January. Klopp said recently that the players he wanted are not going to be sold by their clubs

Did Welbeck just work a Salt Bae tribute into his celebration?

lol @ mane missing the pen that gets him back to Liverpool

Took Mrs DC to a Spurs game for the first time today and it was a decision that paid off in the end but god that was a grim first half. Would have thought Sissoko might have found his level but apparently not.

Ade Akimfenwa is the single least mobile footballer I have ever seen and yet weirdly terrifying every time he waddled in the direction of the goal.

i was half joking before but carter-vickers rly must be a caulker clone making a box challenge that moronic. unpunished!!!!

Happened to be in Oxford yesterday, LOL Newcastle.

if Wycombe had held on yesterday would've been the most magic of the cup Saturday i can remember ever

Fellaini and Schweinsteiger in midfield today. Worth keeping an eye on

Leeds juniors down to ten and eight minutes away from being knocked out by Sutton.

good work Sutton. Now to savour some of the bleating on radio leeds - best fa cup 4th round in years!

"Leeds juniors" not really though! only three raw kids starting and one on as sub

so this is walking football

genuinely concerned Schweinsteiger might go into cardiac arrest

nice to kevin amankwaah get his journeyman's glory re sutton

and craig eastmond finally vindicating a hoy hoy

vindicating all those times i used to sign him to my rising Burton Albion team in FM2011

What are the fans singing? It's the same song that was being sung at the Leicester game I'm sure.

Schweinsteiger to Fellaini. Textbook

Kevin Amankwaah was v popular at Exeter, there was a good song about him which rhymed his surname with "tractor".

I feel bad for Matt Grimes, who seems to be having a terrible time at Leeds.

welcome to realiti

Clever linking up play from the lad imago there.

apparently we got Spurs in the rehearsal.

looks like we're winning this thing the easy way

Hudders vs ManCity <3

Oxford are taking down the entire North East brick by brick

I don't think they will let Mooy play, but nothing special at the moment and we owe them bigtime for that 10-1 defeat in the 80's that was televised on MOTD.

a 10-1 defeat in which Supermac protested that two of them were offside and changed the course of the game.

Man City did recently let a £12m signing play(+ he did score) against them in the CL while on loan at Celtic, so maybe a chance they will let Mooy play. who knows.

Was hoping for more premier teams to be playing each other, so that the smaller clubs get through, is the draw configured so that doesn't happen? Or could that have been possible?

it's all abut the hot and cold balls

they do fish about with those balls, it always seems like bullshit every year.

This is all endearingly hapless and stupid so far.

can't believe how much the BBC commentators are flattering a fairly pedestrian Spurs, they sound like parents at a kids' game

Nice that Berbatov has taken time out of his job working in Next to appear on the panel though.

I heard a Fulham fan on 5 live the other week calling them the "Barca of the championship". Anyone coming out with that kind of shit deserves a good shoeing.

Both surrounded by tapas bars, makes sense.

Is the United Blackburn game as comedic / aggy as it sounds?

pretty boring tbh

sweet finish by Zlatan tho

Sutton/Arsenal v Lincoln City
Tottenham v Millwall
Middlesbrough v Huddersfield/Man City
Chelsea v Manchester United

nice

Someone at the FA is desperate to keep Wenger in a job for another season.

wenger has nothing to gain from beating sutton and lincoln, everything to lose

spurs/city/chelsea/utd sorting them in the semi would be another death-knell though

tbh i'm pumped for a guaranteed non-league semi-finalist

wenger has nothing to gain from beating sutton and lincoln

Uh, apart from an FA Cup semi final appearance.

Chelsea for the double though. 2-0 vs. Middlesbrough in the final.

smdh

to all of that

Ospina; Gabriel, Mustafi, Holding, Monreal; Elneny, Xhaka, Lucas, Reine-Adelaide, Iwobi, Walcott.

This fucking guy.

They'll swat them without fuss tbh

Given its his only chance of a trophy and the club are begging him to pull his head out of his arse this feels like a deliberate inflammatory gesture. Just purest stubbornness.

Holding? Who the fuck?

Lol and they don't play their next match until the Saturday after next, this is purest pussy shit.

is he supposed to put out a full strength side vs a non league side on a plastic pitch to prove he's a big winnery winner or something

Forgot about the plastic pitch tbf.

I just feel deprived of the spectacle of watching Ozil and Sanchez playing in this shithole. I know they're still dying slowly on two other fronts right now but you'd think he still wouldn't take a chance of somehow bungling this.

"People for whom Costa is a coffee and Kane is a stick".

RIP Nando Torres.

lol NO GIFT FOR YOU

Lol. Nacho is on tho iirc.

Probably the most laid back streaking moment ever

meh

"and he's got the presence of mind to let the ball go through his legs.......... tries to get a touch actually"

Red card that cunt and kill his children

Sow salt unto his veg patch

just beat millwall ok

Deacon seems like he could be a somewhat adequate L1 player.

Shame that for all their fighting and spirit Sutton really cannot play a decent pass or cross over more than 20 yards.

Gordon bennett, that should've been the equalizer

Collins with another English hero tackle there. Calling it now he badly injures someone tonight due to the ref leaving him on here and not killing his kids.

Ospina lol.

Don't even know why I'm watching this, any underdog goodwill I had disappeared when I saw their sponsors. And arsenal are arsenal

Arsenal devalued the cup when Wenger made Walcott captain. Just disrespectful.

Worth watching for the slow motion shot of the substitute keeper eating a pie.

Gotta love this manager and Deacon.

Let us not forget they beat Leeds. They deserve some sort of cup for that.

well that's a nice start

Harry Bunn, Man City reject!

killer finish for the goal

Niiice Bunn stun

ah this is all but over then

well this went to shit quick

Wagner had his chance in the home game but rested players, mind you tbf we did win the next game so maybe not a terrible decision in retrospect, oof Jack Payne close there.

Listening to the hackneyed garbage that comes out of that arrogant geordie twat's gob at h/t is a good enough reminder that we have a far more important game coming up anyway.

Gonna be a winks son and trippier kind of day

Kane looks off already. Eesh.

Who's the moronic sub commentator

All he sees is dele alli tapins the stupid cunt whether the ball was on or not

Kane ankle roll looks pretty bad

Jesus

Kane replaced with Eriksen sucks to be janssen

Fucking beat them or else

Beat them and the ref obv

Of all the players to leave one on i wouldn't pick wanyama tbh

Lovely finish

Love it when a small player just lets a galoot (or two) at it on a high ball and take the inevitable bounce

wallop!

He's been miscontrolling everything but when he's finally got his foot on it he's looked on his game today

Let the cuntish begin eh

Mass brawl, five-game suspensions for their entire squad imo

Which one of the krays is this

I keep imagining Vincent Janssen standing there in front of the mirror, night after night, trying and failing to perfect that celebratory handshake that no one's bothered to teach him.

ah that was another beauty

Shocking first touch again from son there

Not gonna slag walker who brings a huge amount to the gig but man oh man trippiers delivery gives us another attacking dimension altogether

Three nil

Another great finish

Now would be a really good time to bring Janssen on, we'll almost certainly need him in the coming weeks and it's his best opportunity to score a confidence goal.

Yep

Two pretty clear penalties could've boosted his coffers today too but arguably the penalties are just becoming a stat to beat him with

And a nice one at that!

Yay!

Get im off

haha

Son ht

Singing "we're going to Wembley" feels wrong when we've already played four games there this season and lost three of them.

Goalkeeper lol.

state of this Utd team

...it might just be crazy enough to work!

Kind of been saying that

oh ffs

maybe not

Oliver is such a fucking sump

Mourinho hasn't given a shit about this game imo

Rojo was very good for United. Pogba looks like he's lost the will to live

5 match ban for Rojo to come I presume. What a fraudulent team with their tactical rotation of fouls on Hazard. Nice trolling from Conte of Mou after the game by calling Utd the strongest squad in the league.

Think Keita of RB Leipzig is the only central mid I'd take ahead of Kante this season.

Rojo's had a great season, he's a real scrapper. Still makes me nervous as hell watching him though, you always think there's a card just round the corner. Bit like Herrera really.

Ashley Young ran his socks off, but jesus christ, he cannot kick a ball.

best game I've seen willian have for a while

I hope Kante isnt on teh drugs cos the amount of running he does is superhuman

What a fraudulent team with their tactical rotation of fouls on Hazard.

good thing Oliver made up a new rule to compensate for it!

Chelsea XI: Courtois; Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Ake; Moses, Kante, Matic, Alonso; Willian, Batshuayi, Pedro

Tottenham XI: Lloris, Trippier, Dier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Wanyama, Dembele, Son, Eriksen, Dele, Kane

no davies! no hazard or costa and fabregas still not starting

Davies is no loss at LB, Vertonghen is a very useful player and his passing range from the deep flank is going to be interesting. But Dier is not a strong CB.

Not like poch to shoehorn but clearly felt that he had to keep Son in while keeping the trio of Dembele, Wanyama, Dier in the team.

Can't call this at all.

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte: "I took this decision about our starting XI. At this moment it is part of the season whenever we play any game it is important to have a player in your mind and make a decision.

"You risk in the same way if you start with Diego or Eden or they come on. I try to make the best decision."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Shit start Vertonghen caught out left and then everyone caught out centre.

Looked saveable tbh

urgh rubbish start.

Watching in glorious comfort at home but if they go 2 up inside the first half I'm off to the pub

Welp

Yeeeeeas

Nice cross

Still think the shape of this team is all wrong, the defenders and Son are all pulled out of position by Davies not being in the team. And we know what happened last time we tried to play Chelsea without a proper left back.

that is kind of an astonishing finish

Oh god not JT

XPost I'd say he learned that from Robbie

Moses jumps, but terrible slide in by Son

Wanyama all over the place and wtf is son playing lwb for

ffs

We've been excellent

Chelsea have attacked three times, scored twice and had our best CB booked

Were getting killed in a very select way essentially

Son should never have been in the position to make that tackle in the first place. Poch has fucked up with his team selection here.

Eriksen's been v good but idk what Wanyama is supposed to do tbh

Wanyama has let balls and players past him and chosen not to tackle four or five times and has given our defence a problem every time

I've had to eat my words about him because he's been essential all season but he is writing cheques for Chelsea today.

That corner ffs

Whoaaaaaa

that were good

This is Eriksens day

Wonderful

Sweet goal

Amazing from Eriksen just then.

this is what willian gets for signing for chelsea

medals

Damn

Can't really argue with that.

Lost all balance. It'll go to 6 before we get another

Not a bad performance but swatted away when it was required, it's not entirely negative to remind this squad what winning looks like tbh

Four goals from five shots on target.

That's what winning looks like!

Ah it's not so bad, not embarrassed or anything

It's not. Spurs played really well. But eh

A great game. I wonder how Spuds would be doing if Danny Rose hadn't got injured. A rare defeat for Poch tactically but still a great performance. Gutted to lose when you've shown so much quality.

Danny Rose is absolutely crucial to the tactical balance of the team. If he'd been fit the initial XI would have been completely different and moreover we wouldn't have been treated to the absurd spectacle of of two right backs on the pitch at once.

It seems fairly obvious that in a game like that you play as close to you first choice defence as possible. I see the tactical rationale behind playing Trippier but otherwise it made no sense.

Essentially Poch needed Wanyama in the team and couldn't bring himself to drop one of Son or Dier. Both of whom have been excellent of late.

we wouldn't have been treated to the absurd spectacle of two right backs on the pitch at once

try being a Utd fan lol

It's a very bad result, and I agree that Walker and Davies (in absence of Rose) should have started, and Son on bench.

The odd thing though is that we didn't really lose because of these bad tactical decisions. When Hazard scored on 75, Walker had replaced Son, Trippier was at left-back (and probably not doing much wrong) and we had been dominating the game for 75 minutes, having scored two sublime goals. At 2-2 we were camped in their half for long spells.

So ultimately the result seems to come down to the late turn of fortunes. Which has something to do with CFC's strength in depth - ie who they could bring off the bench, vs the total lack of game-changers on ours.

* = we had been dominating the game for 30 minutes, from 45 to 75.

btw I also felt Lloris was unusually poor, even though I'm not certain he was specifically much at fault for the goals - maybe the 1st and 3rd.

I only saw the second half and from my perspective Spurs were all over Chelsea (....until Chelsea scored twice)

Yes that is accurate!

excellent day today
cya later sparky

3-1 at home to the Posh. despicable cowards all. Bruce out

Leeds going out to Newport, Saiz sent off for spitting - I think.

RED CARD - Samuel Saiz

Newport 2-1 Leeds

I mean, what on earth is happening here.

Robbie Willmott, who has been immense for Newport, is showing referee Mike Dean his shirt. It would appear he is pointing to blood.

Dean consults his assistant, turns and gets the red out for Leeds sub Samuel Saiz.

Truly odd.

even that bellend of a ref can't spoil the Cup Magic today.

It seems Dirty Leeds fans have a historical hatred of Dean, but last year he made a fool out of himself by awarding them a pen against Barsnley, for a clearly a yard outside the box incident.

West Ham medical staff are currently doing a fingertip pitch search for Josh Cullen’s teeth.

Stream for spurs match is from a fans mobile in the stands

I can dig it

I can remember a similar, but more amusing occasion where play was stopped until Iffy Onuora's missing contact lens was found.

xp

those submarine streams from the stands can be a mixed bag, but most of the streaming sites are shite these days.

Cullen's teeth a good metaphor for Moysey's toothless Hammers performance. I feel for Shrewsbury.

r/s

r/streams fyi

When we play any of the big dogs there is usually an acestream link (which gives you a hd stream thru vlc player if you don't know it). But the rest of the time I use the Reddit stream page, which has been full of dud links this season.

when I said Submarine, I think meant the Periscope app.

lol Arsenal.

was just going to ask if a brief Arselol would be appropriate

Player manager, Kevin Nolan :O

No, hold on, that's Notts County, it's not that's funny.

Forest don't even have a manager.

lol at four minutes of added time, absolute undisguised trolling

Fam out

look forward to the fam greeting this with calm equanimity

also really looking forward to a public debate about video match-ruining technology

Not much midfeld creativity going on here

#THFC: Vorm, Trippier, Foyth, Vertonghen, Walker-Peters, Dier, Wanyama, Sissoko, Dembele, Llorente, Kane (C). #COYS pic.twitter.com/tsjaXEWorV

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) January 27, 2018

Bench just announced and Eriksen must have recovered from illness but not sure if 100%

#THFC substitutes: Gazzaniga, Sanchez, Davies, Oakley-Boothe, Georgiou, Dele, Eriksen, Son. #COYS

^ maybe not as they've since deleted that tweet

Well there's eight names there lol

Eriksen just took a turn for the worse

#THFC substitutes: Gazzaniga, Sanchez, Davies, Georgiou, Oakley-Boothe, Dele, Son. #COYS pic.twitter.com/vWVSBwqJtC

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) January 27, 2018

Looking forward to Moyes' post-match interview tho

Boring team in execution and lack of youth/squad involvement

just seen who you're playing

almost fpd groovypanda for even bumping the thread ffs

Why do cunts who write poems to be read on BBC montages never think that the length of the sentences matter listen cunts scansion is not a long green onion

lol you should be losing

(yeah i'm watching this now ffs)

ah frank nouble, of course. one of our more hapless players of recent years

Lol Tottenham

I think poch should go and I'll just support madrid

Dier is a shit centre half

your child left-back looks like the only one who wants to score

Who could possibly have seen that coming?

ahaha

Like watching a jol team

tbf this lot look like at the very least a good L1 side

newport otoh, championship maybe?

Sissoko some coward on top of everything else

If KWP was taken off then poch out

Son 'll save youse, per usual

just boggling at sissoko

Son saves us, per usual. Great flick.

Gary Birtles commentary the crowning glory here

This Liverpool game is certainly entertaining

what football's been missing all these years is the delightful stop/start rhythm of American football

Lucky Liverpool spent £75m to shore up their defence

what kind of losers get drubbed at home by West Brom?

:( there’s no need to be like that.

oh it was a sick self-burn, don't worry

https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2012/02/12/wolves-1-west-brom-5-match-report/

Is that true about lawrenson

team var

ah Wigan v Man City, should be a blinder

Brighton away!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVXUkEoWkAAMshv.jpg
good old Spotland is keeping it real.

Hey congrats! I tuned out when I saw brum was 1-0 up, glad it turned out alright.

Kongolo was getting rave reviews on RLeeds commentary, if we do actually manage to string together another win or two then maybe he'll be influential. But at the moment Town have regressed badly. They might need to think about a better game-plan and level of performance than saturday's if they want make the 6th round!

Good to hear about Kongolo; seems he's involved in some messy agent-swap affair, he's due for a tribunal the coming days iirc.

Town def needs a better game plan, to stay up also. We can't have Town going down and Wolves going up; it'd destroy the EFL thread proper.

15 minute delay to the Coventry game

I'm excited! i think we're gonna get done about 5-1 but still excited

Realistically it's gonna be hard to be more inept than Hull

ha they were about 16-1 we're at 10s last time. i looked

I nearly stuck a fiver on them for a giggle, took all of 90 seconds to realise that would've been a poor decision

dreams over
robins out

at least you put MK out of the cup, enabling me to be sitting here in their lovely new stadium, celebrating my 31st :)

Aww congrats dude!!

Happy for Locadia, soz nxd

haha its fine :) and happy birthday imago!

textbook jonson clarke harris

hb imago, 3pts off the made-up twats will do nicely. I waited til FT not to curse it.

:) very gracious! it's been a good day. cheers to you too LBI/nxd!

the state of that var call

Why did that VAR still for Mata’s goal look like it was done on snapchat? pic.twitter.com/QvkfuVgngH

— Graham Dickens (@GrahamDickens) February 17, 2018

look at those fucking lines

Conspiracy!

straight as an arrow is that!

Some goal from rondon

So that's that then

Our new superstar player is called moira

Way to take the shine off it Murphy you sour orc cunt

Pretty much

Not undeserved.

:-o Poch

just passing by, carry on

Pathetic defending all half tbh

Full backs don't see it as their job

Midfield certainly don't

Jesus we're easy to play simple against

Son having an absolute stinker all he wants to do is play wall passes

we've still to go to spotland this season so more defending like that will be a welcome sign

If sissoko can pick a pass through you then Harry winks should be ashamed of his showing thus far

winks' showing is over

What is a defender doing having legs around Dele poor decision should have cut them off

jokes

Oh my goodness

Lolz

loooool

If these lads hadn't changed attitude at half time they'd have scored ten

Tidy finish that

Poch out lol.

Poch out for sure

No kane no verts no clue

Dele was a diver and he's always down

lol

Kyle Walker still a liability.

what the hell was that defending lol

Can't see City not getting a goal back in this ten minutes tbf

(but fingers crossed eh)

City have had 83% of the possession with 10 men. Good old Kyle.

The look of disbelief on the Wigan lad's face immediately after scoring was amazing.

Will Grigg is on fire imo

well then

I would hate to be the team City play next.

Wigan stadium announcer whacking Oasis on immediately after the final whistle was some first rate shithousing by the way.

lol xp

they're playing arsenal twice on the trot fyi

...

sorry i'm new here

impossible nearly to believe but sometimes our stentorian site moderator has a joke in him

gotten a bit naughty

Wonder if Aguero gets looked at pushing the ref after the card & him going after a fan

New levels from city when things don’t go their way pic.twitter.com/vVujgjhHTp

— nick c (@onlyfoolsunited) February 19, 2018

Absurd.

Forced into agreement with Robbie Savage ffs.

FA replays aren't on the BBC?

lol xp

It’s on BT Sport tonight l

About the only broadcaster I can't receive, shame. Will make due with SV & RSavage

hope rochdale are savouring that special wembley atmosphere

All penalties this VAR is no good if ref is a cheating cunt

Slightly mollified but delay is shocking

lol great pen mate

Five minute wait to see whether a foul was inside or outside the box, crowd booing, players rolling eyes, penalty, Son stutters on the run, Son Booker, back to VAR to see if it should be disallowed.

Son what the actual fuck

at least everyone gets to stand about in a blizzard for 10 minutes

But how is it a booking how is it not just a replay what actual rules is this man playing

this is one of the worst officiating performances I've ever seen

I always thought you had to retake...?

Lol

woooooooooo!

Illegal feinting my sainted aunt

I believe var can work and I believe this implementation is an attempt to say they tried and it couldn't be done

Good work spurs good work lads magic of the cunts

Would've expected a "VAR is a cunt" from Deems by now tbh.

var out man

When is poch gonna face the type of questions Wenger is at press conferences

deems with the textbook false flag accusation there lol

agree that VAR should only be for really obvious stuff

There is no justification for a thirty second delay the ref has a like he can ask for a ruling while game goes ahead so that he has a yes/no as soon as a break occurs

Also the ref is a cunt

Sijoko

The ref is a fuckin psychopath

The cunt is on a dare

It's a marketing campaign from virgin

Seriously

He's now demanded a retake of the kick off seriously this guy's nuts

uh oh refs on a call

Good finish

Lamela gon get sent off rite

Get involved

#bbcfacup or text 81111

Duncan, Isleworth: Despite all the criticism VAR has got every decision right. Could this match go down in history as the most perfectly officiated game of football in history?!

Duncan, please join ILF immediately.