The Rolling Football Thread: season 2024/25

[DuncinToffee]

Football fans join in to share the joy, the heartache and VAR frustration ⚽

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.”

Casemiro was fantastic in midfield for Liverpool today! 😁

That's not what I said, is it?
The Ref applied the laws of the game as he saw it.
And as we know: ref's decision is supposed to be final.

I'm interested tho - after what I wrote about what happened to (possibly) van Fijk how did you come o the (frankly daft) conclusion I think it's OK to let violent conduct go?

You said "So anything after that is moot", which pretty much implies what I said.

That's fine, I was trying to understand why you wouldn't think it was violent conduct...

Yes, he was! Great game all round

You've got to love the San Marino fan account

https://x.com/SanMarino_FA/status/1831794834837008841
SAN MARINO WON. THAT’S THE TWEET.

First win in 20 years. First ever win in a competitive game!

Last time San Marino won Arsenal won the PL...👀

San Marino Fan Account is brilliant. Thoroughly enjoyed their live tweeting yesterday.

Off to Ireland v England tomorrow. Not a fan of international breaks but good to see our boys Hume and Ballard do well for NI yesterday

RIP Ron Yeats, Shankly's colossus in defence.

I’m travelling with patchy signal, so haven’t caught all the Eng-Ireland Nations League match so far (and I realise it doesn’t matter that much in the grand scheme of things). Came on here to say though that I saw we’re now 2 goals up and the goals have come from none other than Rice and Grealish, who both used to represent Ireland 😂 must be bloody galling for the Irish fans! I’m not at all gloating - just finding it a bit mad. You couldn’t make it up haha.

FFS! Now Ødegaard has gone off injured.

This is going to be a long season...

I think maybe we need a bit more of the dark arts-Chelsea pulled Palmer because of injury-already training with first team. City pulled Foden and seems to be ok. Odegaard hobbled off after Brighton and we still let him go.
Rice with his suspension is not available.

I love Odegaar's passion playing for Norway but these pointless (glorified friendlies) so early in the season are ruinous.

And before the NLD too.

Odegaard is in my FPL team.

We had Seamus Coleman injured in the match against England.

Chelsea haven't included Palmer in their squad for the league phase of the Europa Conference Leagues either.

Well, we (Arsenal) have been very luck for the last couple of years so I suppose we were due our share of injuries at some time.

They seem to have come at the worst time though.

I guess Saka will play the full 90 minutes tonight before coming off injured...

Nations League Eng-Fin recap, for all those who would like one: just our Harry doing what he does best! 🥳🥳

Golden boots.

Still no Silverware though...

Saw someone on twitter saying why can't he sub Saka off for one of the many players that are clearly much better than him 😂

He’ll get it one day! I have faith 🤩🤩

Well, there was this one...

ah the ol' Torschutzenkanone. I love that one.

What are our predictions for the North London Derby this weekend? I think 2-2. Shared points 🙌 Son and Porro to score for Spurs and Saka and Havertz to score for Arsenal. A very rough guess obviously - and maybe wishful thinking 😂😂 but we’ll see!

Well, Jarred Gillett is the referee so presumably Saka will be sent off for being repeatedly hacked down. Or, I guess more likely, Romero will get away with absolutely nothing for trying to choke Havertz.

Missing Rice (grr), Ødegaard (grr), and Merino.

Still, Martinelli and Sterling should be able to destroy their high back line...

Be interesting to see if Nwaneri starts though.

Hat-trick for Sterling!

In a way, it takes the pressure off when we can't play our best team. At least we have an excuse if we lose.