Midweek Fixtures (14/15/16 Dec).

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Tuesday, 14th December 2021
Norwich City v Aston Villa, 19:45 BT Sport 2
Manchester City v Leeds United, 20:00 BT Sport 1

Wednesday, 15th December 2021
Brighton & Hove Albion v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 19:30 BT Sport 2
Burnley v Watford, 19:30 BT Sport ESPN
Crystal Palace v Southampton, 19:30 BT Sport 3
Arsenal v West Ham United, 20:00 BT Sport 1

Thursday, 16th December 2021
Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur. 19:30 BT Sport 3
Chelsea v Everton, 19:45 BT Sport 2
Liverpool v Newcastle United, 20:00 BT Sport 1

[Mac76]

cmon Leicester ffs

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Citeh 2-0 Leeds, Foden and Grealish.

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Norwich 0-1 Villa, Ramsey.

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Citeh 3-0 Leeds, De Bruyne.

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Citeh 4-0 Leeds, Mahrez.

Oh dear.

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6-0 now, De Bruyne and Stones. :haha:

:sleep:

Norwich 0-2 Villa, Watkins.

[GP]

7-0

Where's Michael Masi when you need him?

[Marc Overmars]

City looking ominous again.

Bit of a slow start then a mid season winning streak to take charge of the title race. We know how it ends.

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Ake with the seventh.

Bielsa. :doh:

And yeah Citeh will probably do it again.

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7-0

Where's Michael Masi when you need him?

Infinite cheat mode v infinite cheat mode?

The Universe would implode.

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Burnley v Watford is postponed now also.

:doh:

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Palace 1-2 Southampton, Zaha, Ward-Prowse and Broja.

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Brighton 0-1 Wolves, Saiss.

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Palace 2-2 Southampton, Ayew.

[dazthegooner]

Leicester vs Spuds postponed.

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This is getting a bit ridiculous. Tottenham have three games to fit in somewhere along the season. :lol:

[Mac76]

People starting to call for the weekend's fixtures to be called off as a 'circuit break' - i think they should just end the season now with teams in their current positions tbf ;)

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Man Utd v Brighton postponed now. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

5 games called off this weekend. :lol:

What a mess.

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Liverpool 0-1 Newcastle, Shelvey! :lol:

[Letters]

1-1 now :(

I think we know how this goes

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2-1 Salah.

Fun whilst it lasted.

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Chelsea 1-1 Everton, Mount and then Braithwaite.

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Villa v Burnley is postponed. :rose:

[dazthegooner]

Two hours before kick-off as well shouldn't be allowed close to the game.

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Newcastle v Man City and Wolves v Chelsea are being played. :faint:

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0-1 Citeh, Dias.

That is abysmal defending.

[dazthegooner]

Wouldn't worry of reported the £1b odd that Newcastle will spend on a complete new team will just keep them up :unsure:

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0-2 Cancelo.

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0-3 Mahrez. :rose:

[Letters]

And now it’s 4. Sterling :lol:

[Letters]

Which is how it finished.

And Wolves 0 - Chelsea 0 is a FT score too!

Come on, Liverpool. You know what to do…

[Mac76]

K*** scores 1-0 :sick:

[Ollie the Optimist]

Kane should have been given a straight red.

But because he is a good honest English lad, no red card

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Dele Alli somehow missed. :lol:

[Mac76]

Jota!

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Spuds 1-1 Liverpool, Jota!

[Mac76]

Sounds like there should have been a pel for 'pool?

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Alisson is a bit of a clown when he has to come outside of his box.

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Jota Is Boss

[Ollie the Optimist]

Sounds like there should have been a pel for 'pool?

Yeah it was a nailed on penalty for me

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AA. :haha:

[Globalgunner]

Obvious shove by Emerson Royal on Jota in the box. VAR says no pel

[Mac76]

K*** :haha:

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Kane. :haha:

What a chance that was.

[Mac76]

Robertson 1-2 :lol:

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Oh dear. :lol:

[Mac76]

2-2 Sonofabitch :sick:

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Liverpool. :doh:

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Alisson. :haha:

QED.

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Fight fight fight!

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Why isn't that a red for Robertson?

[Mac76]

Robertson off :ilt:

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It's going to be changed at VAR to a red.

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Totally deserved in fairness, no intention for the ball whatsoever.

[Globalgunner]

Totally deserved in fairness, no intention for the ball whatsoever.

Just like the Kane ankle breaker in the first half

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I'm sure that's probably true.

[Mac76]

hate to say it but I think spuds will nick this :(

[Globalgunner]

Pool midfield is their weakest link. Keita is bang average. Technically just above Xhaka. But he is not a walking red card at least

City is taking the title

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Son. :haha:

[Mac76]

2-2 phew...

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2-2 FT.

Spufs. :lol:

[Letters]

That’s ok. Would have preferred a Liverpool win - we clearly aren’t going to catch them anyway - but a draw will do.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Totally deserved in fairness, no intention for the ball whatsoever.

Fully agree it’s a red card.

But a Crystal Palace player did exactly the same to Saka earlier this season and VAR did fuck all.

The standard of these referees is appalling

[Letters]

VAR should mean fewer mistakes and more consistency.
That demonstrably hasn’t happened.
Although I thought it was used well in the Euros.
It’s the right thing to do in principle

[Marc Overmars]

Pool midfield is their weakest link. Keita is bang average. Technically just above Xhaka. But he is not a walking red card at least

City is taking the title

I think what they get from their fullbacks though is insane and totally helps cover up any weakness through the centre. Trent and Robertson are better wingers than players who actually play the in position. In the case of Trent he’s better than a lot of playmakers too.

[Letters]

Spurs could have won that yesterday.
They looked worryingly good going forward at times.

[Mac76]

Fully agree it’s a red card.

But a Crystal Palace player did exactly the same to Saka earlier this season and VAR did fuck all.

The standard of these referees is appalling

Agreed, the last thing they do is apply the rules evenly, you can see they let all kinds of other thoughts to get in the way, no-one seems capable of doing the job purely objectively

[Ollie the Optimist]

Agreed, the last thing they do is apply the rules evenly, you can see they let all kinds of other thoughts to get in the way, no-one seems capable of doing the job purely objectively

It’s why i think they need to remove the referees from VAR.

There should be a completely separate team of people who operate it. That way, they are not worrying about protecting their mates on the pitch but rather making sure decisions are made properly.

[Marc Overmars]

Spurs have forfeited their Conference League game with Rennes. They’ve basically eliminated themselves. Says a lot about that competition. :haha:

[Marc Overmars]

Spurs could have won that yesterday.
They looked worryingly good going forward at times.

Conte is a very good coach and I’m not surprised there’s been an instant upturn in their form. I don’t know who their games in hand are against but I feel we are in a bit of false position at the moment having played 2 and 3 games more than United and Spurs. Hoping their new manager bounces wear off ASAP.

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Bottle job playing against 10 men I say.

I think it's Leicester, Brighton and Burnley, their games in hand, all away games. Being thrown out of the Europa Conference gives them a chance to play them from February onwards I suppose.

Man Utd's are Brighton at home and Brentford away.

[Letters]

Spurs have forfeited their Conference League game with Rennes. They’ve basically eliminated themselves. Says a lot about that competition. :haha:

I was pissed off on the last day of last season as I didn't think Spurs would beat Villa so was just sorting out the St Totteringham's Day bunting. Annoying.
But then when I saw what they'd qualified for I did think it might not be the worst thing that we didn't.
Although I think we'd have made much less of a mess of it than they have.

Oh and I agree about Conte, I'm worried he'll sort them out. Just hoping Levy does his thing and it'll all go to shit again.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59732905

Premier League clubs say we'll carry on as we are. :unsure:

Guess the money is too much to resist.

[Ollie the Optimist]

I read on BBC sport this morning that the reason Kane didnt get a red card was:


BBC Sport was told one of the mitigating factors behind the decision not to dismiss Kane for his first-half challenge was the fact Robertson lifted his standing leg out of the way of the Spurs captain's tackle.

So if he doesnt lift his leg, it gets snapped in half so Kane gets a red card. If he lifts his leg, then no action needed? How is it now up to the players to avoid injury rather than punishing those that make reckless leg breaking tackles

[Mac76]

I read on BBC sport this morning that the reason Kane didnt get a red card was:



So if he doesnt lift his leg, it gets snapped in half so Kane gets a red card. If he lifts his leg, then no action needed? How is it now up to the players to avoid injury rather than punishing those that make reckless leg breaking tackles

please don't try and look for any of this to make sense - you'll be happietr when you realise it just doesn't... :)