Having recently (with reluctance) watched a few EPL games whilst on a cruise, as there was limited sport to choose from, must say the games were boring by and large, and virtually 4-quarter squares of the pitch where five-a-side style football is all the rage. Can't say I miss it since giving ...

Ha ha. Anyway Cyril, is that “grumpy Aussie Ange” in trouble with Levy? Even though he’s had to play teenagers after all that big list of senior injuries? The injuries are merely masking his incompetence and hopeless coaching. Even when we had a full first team out and were winning games, we were gi ...

TBF you were a country mile better than us all over the pitch and if you had a half decent striker, you'd have scored about 5. I only said the other day, how long can Arteta hide behind us not having a proper striker.. against sh!t defences we get away with it Havertz has scored 7 goals and gone ...

North London is Red again :-D #foreverinourshadow TBF you were a country mile better than us all over the pitch and if you had a half decent striker, you'd have scored about 5. I only said the other day, how long can Arteta hide behind us not having a proper striker.. against sh!t defences we get ...

A massive loss for Australias WC campaign. Harry Souttar will be sidelined for up to a year with an Achilles tendon injury, ruling him out of the remainder of the Socceroos’ 2026 World Cup qualifiers. Agree. Harry’s height will be missed, as will his tackles. And his distribution had improved mar ...

North London is Red again :-D #foreverinourshadow TBF you were a country mile better than us all over the pitch and if you had a half decent striker, you'd have scored about 5. I only said the other day, how long can Arteta hide behind us not having a proper striker.. against sh!t defences we get ...

Just when Ange had a couple of good matches along come the Scousers . :grin: 3-6 at home must hurt. Aussie Ange has gotta watch his back. ps, a commentator raised an interesting question: has anyone kept stats on how many goals are scored from playing out short goal-kicks from the back, and how ...

DryCreek wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:58 pm Home game, 20 March in Sydney.

Its a surprisingly long time in between games.

Tied to the FIFA International Day calendar.

Europe shuts down international games over the Northern Winter.

I watched the last 20 minutes of the Rangers Spurs match. OMG the Spurs defense is woeful. They always look like they will be scored against. The attack looks ok. Ange has big problems, and I suspect he will be gone soon. Cyril silent about his Totteringham drawing against the Scottish Jocks ...

eagleboy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 5:32 pm Arsenal v Manchester United wow. So early.

Who is televising FA cup this year?

I think it’s Octopus.

Handball should be handball, intentional or not. More so offside. If you are in an offside position when the ball is played forward, then you're offside. None of this "not involved" BS Not involved in the attack is exactly that, not involved. It’s here to stay. They’re trying to mitigate the effect ...

Massive crowds in Perth. Not!

And Aussie Ang didn’t have bad Uruguayan boy Rodrigo Betancur who’s on a 7-match(!) suspension.

ps, did I read somewhere that ManCiteh is facing D-Day soon about their naughtiness to do with Financial Fair Play irregularities?

I don't know if I get up early enough to watch this. Good to have Goodwin back. Match Details Bahrain vs Subway Socceroos Wednesday, 20 November 2024 Bahrain National Stadium Kick-off: 5:15am AEDT Broadcast: Paramount+ Nah, you can do it Eagleman! Set that alarm. Be like Uncle Con. Haven’t missed a ...

Yeah, nah - a thoroughly disappointing performance! Didn’t even know Irvine was on the pitch until the 45th minute when he botched a shot. Still second in this Group with Bahrain 🇧🇭 losing to China. Hopefully Straya 🇦🇺 can win in Bahrain on Wednesday 20 November (4.45am, not on free-to-air TV) and In ...

Disgraceful Murdoch rags. The CrowTiser has them 9 pages back in the sports pages, with the Australia B v. Pakistan crickette T20 game back only 4 pages.

The OZ broadsheet has 3 lousy paras previewing the game, while Marco Monteverde (soccer writer) concentrates on the T20 game.

Caught the amazing end to the Fulham versus Brentford game at Craven Cottage when Fulham scored 2 amazing goals in stoppage time to win 2-1. (As an aside, it looked like nothing has changed grandstands-wise in that stadium since Australia famously beat England 3-1 with goals by Popovich, Kewell ...

Cooper wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 2:45 pm Unlikely anyone picked that winner.

I did. I placed a lousy $5 on and won $313. Should have bet $100!

But, “gamble responsibly” and “you win some, you lose more”.

Caught the amazing end to the Fulham versus Brentford game at Craven Cottage when Fulham scored 2 amazing goals in stoppage time to win 2-1. (As an aside, it looked like nothing has changed grandstands-wise in that stadium since Australia famously beat England 3-1 with goals by Popovich, Kewell ...

haywood djablowme wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 3:16 pm

eagleboy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:05 am Love the EPL. City and Arsenal losing.
A Chelsea win over MU will make my weekend.

No Ohhmygod, no Arsenal, it's starting to look that way

Damn. How many shots just on the wrong side of the post or point-blank shots blocked?

Lucky lucky Newcastle!

The Bourne Identity wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 5:27 am

Con M wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 6:22 pm

The Bourne Identity wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 5:22 pm I'll be in bed.

Oh no! But it’s at 7.40pm.

In Adelaide maybe, but I'm usually only in Adelaide for the first week of every month.

Oh? So you’ll miss Straya versus Saudi Arabia at 7.40pm Thursday 14 November?

Seems more topical to go under current headings “EPL 24/25”, then “EPL 25/26” etc in the World Football forum.

Crystal Palace 1, Totteringham 0.

Arsenal 2, Liverpool 2. Arsenal robbed of a third goal at the end by the referee when he deemed jumping to head the ball goalwards a foul.

Australia’s midfield were a bunch of plodders without any creative spark. Japan 🇯🇵 7 China 🇨🇳 0. What will happen to Australia 🇦🇺 when they go to Tokyo? you should be more worried about what will happen to them when they go to Indonesia :lol: Japan are in a different league, they're not your peers i ...

Gotta love a Cherry on top ;-) Not playing golf mate, or you only play when the Spuds loose :lol: Sunday mornings I'm up at 5 to watch the Spurs game, then watch the highlights of the other games, tee off at about 7.15. I enjoy a bit of par-3 occasionally with relatives at North Adelaide. But I ...

Nice One Cyril wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2024 6:13 am Gotta love a Cherry on top

Dumb referee and VAR missed the fact that the sprinting right-back (White?) would have made it so that it wouldn’t have been the ‘last defender stopping a goal-scoring chance’ scenario.

Saliba has a good chance of getting off on appeal.

Eliteguiden wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2024 10:55 am Austria managed to stop him overnight.

The Norway captain did hit the post though. Yeah, Austria was good.

I was going to go with my son and friends to a local pub to watch the game this evening on a giant screen. But 9 pubs in eastern Adelaide confirmed after a ring-around that they don’t have Paramount+. Some of them didn’t even know their Country 🇦🇺 is playing this evening (Tuesday 15 October) in Japa ...

I was going to go with my son and friends to a local pub to watch the game this evening on a giant screen. But 9 pubs in eastern Adelaide confirmed after a ring-around that they don’t have Paramount+. Some of them didn’t even know their Country 🇦🇺 is playing this evening (Tuesday 15 October) in Japan ...

How bad is this? This Country’s World Cup Qualifier can’t be viewed by the majority of the population on an evening when there’s bugger all other live sport on because it’s hidden away on some pay-for-view platform. And it’s not as if people can wander down to their local pub to watch on a giant scre ...