*Official* English Football Season 2014-15

[wpdavid]

Galatasaray are absolute gob ****e. Have bottom place sewed up already so a draw in Brussels isn't awful.

It would be an absolutely golden result now. Arsenal have been shocking - completely off the pace in pretty much every area of the pitch, and being totally outclassed now. Anderlecht have been first to everything. Not for the first time, the pre-match commentators have been made to look absolute idiots, the way they described an Arsenal win as a foregone conclusion.

 

[Ikki]

We'd actually be a decent team if we had a defence.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It would be an absolutely golden result now. Arsenal have been shocking - completely off the pace in pretty much every area of the pitch, and being totally outclassed now. Anderlecht have been first to everything. Not for the first time, the pre-match commentators have been made to look absolute idiots, the way they described an Arsenal win as a foregone conclusion.

You just had to jinx it didnt you

 

[wpdavid]

That is an absolutely outrageous result in Brussels. Football bloody hell, and all that.

 

[wpdavid]

You just had to jinx it didnt you

I'm pretty happy with my night's work. Don't ask me why, but I've long had a soft spot for Arsenal. But they really struck lucky tonight. Anderlecht look like they should be a really decent team before long.

 

[grecian]

I'm pretty happy with my night's work. Don't ask me why, but I've long had a soft spot for Arsenal. But they really struck lucky tonight. Anderlecht look like they should be a really decent team before long.

'twas a classic smash 'n' grab really. You love them if you're supporting the side, truly gutting if you are on the receiving end.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Oh yess, Ludogorets won today! Were so unlucky in their first two games

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Sets up the last 3 games in that group brilliantly, Liverpool have to play a lot better to qualify. Couldn't call who is going to go through.

 

[Cabinet96]

People and pundits genuinely having a cry about Balo swapping shirts when at half time. Jesus football fans are strange sometimes.

 

[sledger]

To be honest, I think people definitely do overreact massively about this sort of thing. But at the same time, I do think that swapping shirts at half time is generally not the done thing.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

When you are 3-0 down at home it is not a very good idea as it can be seen that you don't care by some. Obviously it has tonight but Balotelli is Balotelli and they knew what they were getting when they bought him.

 

[Nate]

Sakho in, anyone but Glen, and anyone but Balo starting, and I think it fixes a lot. But Real Madrid were magnificent.

 

[Pothas]

The main issue has to be that he swapped his shirt with Pepe, I mean really of all the players.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Swapping shirts shouldn't really be seen as a big deal IMO and he shouldn't really be vilified for doing it.

However, people do see it as a big thing and that in itself makes it an absolutely stupid thing to do.

 

[cpr]

Without wanting to sound too obvious, but if you are swapping shirts at HT, then what the **** do you think your doing when the 2nd half is on?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I'm fairly sure players get new shirts at half time.

 

[cpr]

The point is, swapping shirts is a post match tradition, to show mutual respect and admiration for an opponent after a hard fought game, to do it at HT is pretty much signalling to all watching 'I'm done' mentally IMO, it says to your fans you aren't up for the challenge of a second half, and pretty much makes you a laughing stock in that rather than focus on winning the game, you're more concerned about getting the souvenir you want.

 

[Pratters]

Doesn't a bit of shirt swapping happen in football games at HT nowadays any ways though?

 

[cpr]

Yeah, and is always rounded upon as disrespectful to the players team

 

[GIMH]

I'm fairly sure players get new shirts at half time.

Bloody hell, the whites give our players two for a season