That was a snoozer. Handbags the most exciting thing in the game.
Last half hour Liverpool didn't look as if they were desperate for a win given that they should have been and that Everton weren't interested in going for it.
Absolute dominant performance by Spurs! Great pace and relentless effort from start to finish!
COYS!
Loved it. Thought the back four out of the slip-up by Rose played great. Pretty solid performances from everyone on the pitch with the exception of Mason, who I thought struggled a bit, and Dembele, who always looks like he's processing his thoughts two seconds slower than everyone else.
Loved it. Thought the back four out of the slip-up by Rose played great. Pretty solid performances from everyone on the pitch with the exception of Mason, who I thought struggled a bit, and Dembele, who always looks like he's processing his thoughts two seconds slower than everyone else.
Agreed.
I thought Lamela had a poor showing too. but overall, the team is moving in a positive direction and is looking great up front! Chadli, Erikson, Kane are absolute quality!
I thought Lamela had a poor showing too. but overall, the team is moving in a positive direction and is looking great up front! Chadli, Erikson, Kane are absolute quality!
Lamela is just such an enigma at this point. Harry Kane is getting all of the glory, but I also think Kyle Walker deserves some praise. The team's back four has been much stronger since he's been back and he's been terrific going forward on the right side.
I heard on Football Weekly last week that Dembele's youth team didn't have goals or something, so they just dribbled to a spot to win
his play makes complete sense when you consider that, he barely if ever loses the ball, he can dribble past almost anyone, but he has no killer instinct to shoot or create any chances
So I caught a replay of the Arsenal-Tottenhame game. That was a fantastic match, for a relatively impartial viewer. I'll repeat what everyone else is saying, Harry Kane is a player. Let's see him on the senior England team asap.
Allardyce, who has received criticism in the past for his side’s own style, admitted West Ham struggled to cope with the aerial balls, with Manchester United playing 30 more long passes than their opponents.
He told Sky Sports: “We couldn’t cope with 'long-ball United', it was 'thump it forward and see what they could get'. In the end it paid off.
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it's sad when Big Sam mocks you like that ... it's even worse when he's totally right. Absolute shocker of a game, United were shambolic.
Getting sickening to watch. He's killing talent.
Dump RvP or Falcao on the bench, or both and let Rooney, Herrera and Di Maria play in the positions that they excel at. Get Janujaz on and just let them play football.
You honestly couldn't, if you tried, make United a more boring team than they are with the talent available. The most boring safe manager in the PL.
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in other news, that new TV deal is ridiculous. More than £5bn over 3 years ... wow.
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Premier League football clubs and players were left rubbing their hands at another huge hike in income after competition between rival media companies Sky and BT drove an increase in their TV rights to more than £5.1bn.
The latest TV deal, which covers the three seasons from 2016-17, means that the two companies will pay an average of £10.2m per match, a 70% increase. Under the current deal they pay an average of £6.53m per game. BT will pay £960m over three years, a modest increase on their current £738m outlay, and Sky has paid almost £4.2bn, almost double the £2.3bn they paid last time. The total outlay from both companies is £5.14bn.
Sky, the pay TV giant that has seen its success umbilically linked to live top flight football since 1992, retained the greater share of matches – it will show 126 matches per season, the maximum allowed under the rules, and has retained its coveted Sunday afternoon and Monday night slots. It has also won the package that includes up to 10 Friday night matches for the first time.
But BT Sport, the challenger that drove a 70% increase in value under the current deal when it paid £738m over three years, increased the number of games it will be able to show from 2015-16 from 38 to 42. While Sky’s cost per a game has increased 70%, BT’s has only gone up 18%. Its packages include the Saturday tea-time matches, including nine “first picks”, and a mixture of midweek evenings. Its executives immediately claimed they had given Sky a bloody nose by forcing up the price it had to pay. But Sky will be relieved to retain its dominant position.
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore refused to divulge how many bidders there had been but said it had been a “dynamic” process and that that it was “presented to by lots of people who would distribute in different ways”.
