Danny

Yes, in a topic about racism, discussing a moment of racism within a game, bring up something else in that game that is entirely not related to racism at all?

How sexist of you

Didn’t see the interview but the quotes don’t seem that bad?

Walker has to go centre back imo, far too good there for us not to use him

Squad announced: Judging by the amount of defenders I assume this means we're going with a back 3. Good to see Bellingham get a call up, Lingard is deserved too. Also great to see Ollie Watkins called up, completely deserves a cap. Saka is seen as a forward apparently but I would have him ahead of Luke Shaw at left back if we're going with a back 3. The the "best"/expected line up is below, but will imagine there'll be a lot of gametime for everyone Henderson James - Walker - Stones - Maguire - Shaw Rice - Mount Foden - Sterling Kane

@DeadLinesman got kicked in the balls so hard his hair fell out

Neil Lennon and Alex McLeish went to Bolton and Brum? Brendan Rodgers literally left Celtic early to go to Leicester. I do think though it’s premature to assume Gerard will leave, with the success he’s had he will want multiple title winning sides and more cracks at European competition. Cannot imagine him joining Palace though seeing as they don’t have money to spend or the recruitment network that Leicester have

How comes you managed to finish on a decent points total last season vs this season under him? Was it just a season of the Steve Bruce "magic", let the lads do what they want and the revel in the freedom before getting bored?

Clearly you don't sack Klopp as he'll have this team up and running again at full tilt in a season or two, but fuck me when things go bad for him they nosedive

There are no other football games though, if you want to play a decent football game you have to play FIFA, so it’s disappointing to chuck 40-50 quid on a game that has very clear faults in its gameplay

Plus you have to buy it before finding out how shit it is

You are a proper denier of genuine criticism aren't you? Won't hear a bad word against Fifa or Eddie Hearn Personally I've no problems playing Fifa most years, last year's got a bit dodgy in places but was still a very enjoyable and playable game. 21 is just dogshite though, it's no coincidence that the same problems about this years version have constantly been brought up

I hate to be the one to say it but it might be time for you to meet someone else

Please never say that again

I never rated Kelly that high myself, seems to be technically a good boxer who could go on to become a world champion, but showboats too much and doesn’t have speed to pull off the way he wants to fight

One day you’ll get a chance to play our first team

Can’t wait to get inside the ground when the time comes, been far too long not watching Brentford at home. Love the look of the ground

Started watching Bloodlands, first episode was class and straight into it. Can’t go wrong with Nesbitt. Shame the BBC are living in the 90s though playing 1 episode a week, put it up to binge you numpties

Euro 2021 is a ball ache, think a few players will be taking a short term hit to t try and get into contention

The more I try to play this piece of shit the more problems you come away with, the basic mechanics of the game are so off the boil. Players just stand still and don’t track back, like 2 meters away, don’t even make an attempt to get into a defensive position. Which means if you try and manually do it you lose control of the back 4. Tackling is just non existsent, so many times you put a tackle in and it’s this laboured and clunky lunge forward that apparently the computer can read with ease. I literally just put a tackle in on a player who was cruyff turning, anticipated the defender would try and take him as he came back. No, he lunges after the turn happens and is no where near the ball. Just such an inferior game to FIFA 20 which is annoying cos I don’t know how many more career modes I can do. Have EA even acknowledged how bad the game play is? I’ve never seen so many complaints for game play for any edition of FIFA, it really is just a clunky run and shoot game.

Downloaded this again because it’s such a waste of money not to be playing it, but Jesus they haven’t fixed a thing. Defending is still bad, the player changing in key areas is still bad and your defenders actual movement to the ball or oppo is so laboured and takes forever. Depending on the team I either batter teams 4/5-0 or get into stupid 3-3/4-4 battles, at a certain point within the area it is just not worth having a goalkeeper in goal. Game is saturated with goals it becomes like a BTEB NBA game

I do think the Dortmund comparison's are lazy but there is maybe some truth in it that if the system stops working the team falls to shit. But Klopp won consecutive titles whilst managing 3 finals in the German Cup x2 and the Champions League. He took that team as far as it could naturally go whilst also losing Sahin, Kagawa, Gotze and Lewandowski consecutively, the latter 2 being really big losses. This is what happens with system orientated managers, once the system is broken for whatever reason they struggle to fix things and instead rely on replacing large parts which takes a season or two. Liverpool's team has broken down with injuries, he's going to need time to replace certain members of the team.

Really wasting Kane's best years is Levy now, at least under Poch there was progression towards the title

Why would you have to consider the advantages? Surely if you voted for it specifically you should know? Surely those advantages that you should know straight off the bat are why you voted to leave?

Would be amazing if true, especially if Ashley realises he needs to put money in Rafa's pocket too rather than Bruce's, or Pardew....or whoever