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Worse premiership in a long time
Worse premiership in a long time
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We've sacrificed quality for quantity. They've done more to ensure more minutes are added to compensate for those wasted, but nothing to shore up the constant breaks in play that destroy momentum and ruin it as a spectacle. That's what needs to change.
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In terms of levels of quality - Arsenal seem quite clear to me, Man City are not close to any of their teams from the last 10 years and Liverpool seem to have unbalanced their side and thus caused confidence issues.
You could throw a blanket over the next 12 or 13 sides - Villa were near the bottom not too long ago but now sit 3rd. My team (Man Utd) have had numerous chances to win a game and go 3rd or 4th despite not really being very good. The time wasting/ball in play/game management issue has been going on forever - as soon as plans are put into place teams will find a way around them. It's win at all costs for these managers in particular to keep their jobs and they don't care how dubious, unsportsmanlike or embarrassing their methods are if they get the job done. |
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Got to give Arteta credit; he's cottoned on to the way the game was going early doors. Focus on set pieces, get a team full of groks. Pep seems to have now gone that way too, but without keeping Rodri fit the midfield is too lightweight to be relied on properly. Meanwhile Liverpool went the opposite way and thought this was the time for a 5ft 7 number ten. Oh dear.
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This long throw malarkey has been in and out of fashion for donkeys years , Chelsea beat Leeds in the Fa cup from a long throw in 1970, Dion Dublin was playing for Cambridge in lower leagues at it, and Arise Sir Dave Bassett
 didnt teams start putting players on the touchline to try and stop the long throws ? |
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it feels 10 x worse when watching at a ground ,you can literally go to toilet buy a coffee in the time it takes to take a set piece and its every set pieces, their that programmed to do it,even when a team are all over opposition,opposition on their knees blowing a casket, attacking/offensive team still take an age to get the ball back in to play,the most useless piece of equipment in football now are the cones spread around pitch with multi balls on to get ball in play quicker,everyone just ignores them and waits for ball been used to get thrown back
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funniest thing I've seen this yr at boro,derby only completed just over a 100 passes wasting time from when scoring after 2 mins at every set pieces,reff did nowt ,keeper wasting time, boro came back got in fron 15 mins from end and at next throw in took their time ,reff came over and told boro to get a wiggle on, PRICELESS
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we should take a leaf out of NFL and have special teams that come on for set pieces all players about 6ft 8in with a dead ball specialist
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and a long thrower of course
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Rory Delap was surely the EPL King of the long throw. There's a compilation of Stoke goals emanating from them on you tube.
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they should have a pre season mini prem nxt year with the scottish and irish and welsh teams in america with them, because i believe the scottish premierleague is better than ppl describe,
italys gone nower with there constant apparent talk of beating england in the euros final. apparently Kaio Jorge is signing for a unknown italian side i reakon juventus but its a guess, gb d.jota |
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england/ireland v spain/france
at least 7 n 4 from each nation a double national side mini euros instead of international friendlies no1 seems too like , could just have a mini double nations league. a double national trophy, everton fc last year 'didnt wanna win the league cup' this year they where going for a trophy 'out to wolves' everton now havent won a trophy since before 2000 well before , 30 years or something , everton are in blue shirts there home shirt suits the mersey , praise where praise is due , go for gold moyes u didnt care now u ... |