Never thought I'd feel sorry for Haaland, but the guy gets 5 goals in a Champion's League game - no player has ever scored 6 - and Pep subs him! What a mean git
Jurgen Klopp - is he the new Henning Wehn? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64959699 Liverpool have a 1% chance of beating Real Madrid tonight. They have less than a 1 in a million chance of overturning a 5-2 deficit against them. I like a German with a sense of humour though
Nice to see people attacking the head of FIFA - they really seem like a horrible organisation and I'm still hoping for the bigger countries to pull out and do something without the likes of Sepp Blatter or Gianni Infantino. Frankly FIFA seem light years away from the likes of mots football fans the world over, and whoever is in charge inevitably ends up 'in it for themselves'. https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-at-fifa-remain-more-dangerous-than-his-words
FIFA is just like the IOC, or the European Commission (to some extent). These organisations are a new kind of pseudo Super-Nation; without a physical territory (aside from a swanky head office in a wealthy and safe city somewhere) but with all the power and influence their elite leaders could ever want. Paying lip service to democracy and diversity etc. while getting into bed with evil Dictators and Regimes that don't give a wet slap about Human rights and murder their own people. A breed of Bureaucratic despots, kidding themselves that they're making the World a better place while they feather their own nests.
Mitrovic should get a 10 match ban. I'm sick and tired of players bullying referees. Don't care how upset he was - you don't touch or shove or square up to a match official. Referees are being assaulted all the time in grass roots football games. What Mitrovic did will only encourage more idiots to attack referees. And VAR isn't helping either. The ridiculous delays and decision reversals are only ramping up tension.
Well Rishi Sunak should be happy enough, he wanted to get senior citizens back to work And I don't blame Palarse for being so petrified of relegation that they'd take Woy back as their best bet to avoid it. Then once they're safe look for someone else. When we went down our Board didn't seem too bothered. Just assumed we'd bounce straight back... For some reason Alan Pardew's memoires were not titled 'Charlton Athletic - my part in their downfall'. Surely an oversight.
Well well. Scotland deal out a good 2-0 win to Spain ( over 70% possession to the Spanish and about as effective as Chsrlton on a tuesday night in Stockport). Makes England's recent performances against Scotland look a lot better. The news on Spanish TV tomorrow will be fun!
Wednesday salvaged a point in the end. the Tractor boys will fancy their chances for an automatic spot though. 4 points back with one game in hand, and winning matches like it's going out of fashion. Even Plymouth aren't totally secure.
Sadly too many people only want to look at one set of stats; what trophies Chelsea have won since Abramovic took over. Or rather what trophies they have bought. Chelsea, Man City, Newcastle Utd. Those three have pretty much unlimited resources. When the Qataris get hold of Manchester Utd they will have unlimited funds too. It may be great for the Prem in the short term. But it's no good for the longer term future of English football. Add in Arsenal and Spurs, both now little more than giant hospitality corporations, and who have you got left? Liverpool I suppose, along with the likes of Brighton & Brentford.
Mitrovic gets an 8-match ban for pushing a ref, while in Mexico a ref gets a 12-match ban for kneeing a player in the groin. I wonder how Roy Keane would have reacted to this particular style of refereeing?
Refs should be able to batter players with impunity but not in the women's game. They're on about abusive chanting again on the radio. Simple solution; Fans should be warned before games that their team will be docked points if tragedy chants are heard. One point deduction for the first match where it's heard. Two points for the next instance (etc). That would shut them up.
On Charlton Live last night Dean Holden was very entertaining, also very impressive, but the main thing he quietly slipped in is that he expects LEEAABUURRN to be at Charlton next season.
