Premier League

[K-Hod]

They got away with one there, that was a definite penalty for me….

[Ianrally]

So you can pull an opponents shirt in the box and it’s not a penalty. What a bloody farce

[simongarnerisgod]

embarrasing officiating,the ref and the ***** in the var office clearly terrified of giving a penalty at that time,last time i looked in the rule book,it was a foul if you pulled someones shirt🙂

[K-Hod]

1 minute ago, Ianrally said:

So you can pull an opponents shirt in the box and it’s not a penalty. What a bloody farce

Pulled it twice, I felt. Abysmal decision, that.

[DE.]

Imagine it would have been given if the other way around, but oh well. Still a shit result for Man Utd and I'll never have any sympathy for Kean's mate Moyes. 

Edited 23 hours ago by DE.

[chaddyrovers]

4 hours ago, DE. said:

Sacking Cooper to bring in RVN was a massive gamble. I think Cooper would have at the very least kept them above three other teams this season. As it stands it may be a decision that costs them their place in the PL, although they still have time to course correct thanks to the bottom four all being at a similar level. Can't see them staying up if they keep Ruud though. 

Cooper lost the dressing room there plus falling out with some players

1 hour ago, DE. said:

United might as well have saved £15m and kept Ten Hag. Amorim has somehow made them even worse and I don't see how it gets any better long-term without spending money that they seemingly no longer have.

Beautiful. 

Maybe Ratcliffe should have listened to Dan Ashworth and hired Marco Silva or Thomas Frank

[Hasta]

Not sure why it takes 3 minutes to decide the ref has made a “clear and obvious” error.

[DE.]

42 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Cooper lost the dressing room there plus falling out with some players

I don't know enough about that situation to comment, but it's fair to saying hiring a very inexperienced manager as replacement was extremely risky. 

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, DE. said:

I don't know enough about that situation to comment, but it's fair to saying hiring a very inexperienced manager as replacement was extremely risky. 

I read an article on the athletic website about the problems at Leicester like Recruitment, squad morale, falling outs, etc. 

[DE.]

Not looking good for the bottom three. Impressive win for Wolves away at Bournemouth, whilst the others all got hammered by mid-table sides at home. At least Ipswich can legitimately note they were in League 1 two seasons ago. Leicester and Southampton have only had one season out of the PL and already look well below the required standard. 

[sharpysharps86]

46 minutes ago, DE. said:

Not looking good for the bottom three. Impressive win for Wolves away at Bournemouth, whilst the others all got hammered by mid-table sides at home. At least Ipswich can legitimately note they were in League 1 two seasons ago. Leicester and Southampton have only had one season out of the PL and already look well below the required standard. 

Leicester had a genuinely better chance with Cooper in charge. Obviously his face didn't fit (poor choice of words).

Sadly it'll be 2 seasons in a row where the promoted teams all come hurtling back down. Makes me wonder why I'd want to see Rovers in that league again, knowing that they'd likely get stuffed every week....but then I remember its just about the only hope we have of getting new owners in.

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Leicester had a genuinely better chance with Cooper in charge. Obviously his face didn't fit (poor choice of words).

Sadly it'll be 2 seasons in a row where the promoted teams all come hurtling back down. Makes me wonder why I'd want to see Rovers in that league again, knowing that they'd likely get stuffed every week....but then I remember its just about the only hope we have of getting new owners in.

i take encouragement from brighton,bournemouth and brentford,if they can succeed then there is no reason why bigger clubs who get promoted can`t,you`ve got to get your recruitment spot on imo

on rovers getting back in the big league,we don`t need to worry,it`s not happening unless the indians **** off

[47er]

2 hours ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Leicester had a genuinely better chance with Cooper in charge. Obviously his face didn't fit (poor choice of words).

Sadly it'll be 2 seasons in a row where the promoted teams all come hurtling back down. Makes me wonder why I'd want to see Rovers in that league again, knowing that they'd likely get stuffed every week....but then I remember its just about the only hope we have of getting new owners in.

also parachute money.Burnley living off it.

[DE.]

One of the issues with the three promoted teams going down two seasons in a row is that it gives the existing Prem clubs two additional seasons to continue strengthening at that level, which in theory makes it increasingly more difficult for the teams coming up. 

I don't think we're at a 'closed shop' point yet, as it's always possible for an existing PL team to implode with poor recruitment, but it's worrying to see two consecutive seasons of the promoted teams all going down - as seems likely to happen now.