Premier League 2018/19

[Owen]

It's only 1-0... 😅

 

Google doesn't fancy Cardiff's chances.

[Arjen Robben]

Spoke too soon

[Owen]

Cardiff can still win... 😰 

[Arjen Robben]

[MDK]

Aww, I'm glad Son got the first proper goal at Nike Hart Lane

[Arjen Robben]

Kane secretly fuming

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Even through my laptop speakers I could tell that the cheer at the new stadium was LOUD when Son scored....and the following song boomed out like the bigger European stadiums.

[Owen]

I never thought that Cardiff could win tonight, but hey, there's a possibility that they might end up surviving in the Premier League, but it mostly hinges on how Burnley do against Bournemouth, and then if we can beat Burnley. I'm hopeful, because Burnley have an awful last 4 games (Chelsea, Man City, Everton and Arsenal) and while Cardiff do have to go against Man Utd and Liverpool, they also have Fulham and Crystal Palace in that last 4. I HAVE HOPE, OKAY. No doubt we'll end up getting relegated anyway, but I have hope for my bluebirds!

[stokeriño]

Chelsea win comfortably... It's funny how a team can score goals when the best players get picked.

[The Lusophone]

39 minutes ago, stokeriño said:

Chelsea win comfortably... It's funny how a team can score goals when the best players get picked.

Revolutionary that is. 

[Lineker]

New stadium is amazing.

[Lineker]

Quote

Danny Rose has revealed he cannot wait to walk away from football because he is so disgusted by the racism that blights the game – and the response of the authorities to it.

The Tottenham left-back was racially abused on England duty last week during the 5-1 Euro 2020 qualifying win against Montenegro in Podgorica. The 28-year-old was subjected to monkey chants from the stands in the first half and he heard them even more loudly at the end of the game after he was booked for a foul. Rose’s teammates Raheem Sterling and Callum Hudson-Odoi also had racist abuse directed at them.

It was not the first time Rose had suffered in this way. In October 2012, when playing for England Under-21s in Serbia, his every touch was greeted by monkey chants. He was also hit by stones when he went to get the ball for a throw-in.

“I’ve had enough,” Rose said. “At the minute, how I programme myself is that I just think: ‘I’ve got five or six more years left in football and I just can’t wait to see the back of it.’ Seeing how things are done in the game at the minute … It’s just – whatever, isn’t it? I just want to get out of it.

“That’s how I feel. I feel I’ve got five or six more years left and I just want to enjoy football as much as I can. There is so much politics and whatever in football and I just can’t wait to see the back of it, to be honest.”

Rose expressed dismay at how some incidents are dealt with harshly but national associations can be let off with what amounts to a slap on the wrist when it comes to racist behaviour. To illustrate his point, he brought up how Mauricio Pochettino was given a two-match touchline ban after the Tottenham manager confronted the referee Mike Dean at the end of the 2-1 defeat at Burnley in February.

There was widespread criticism of Uefa in 2012 when the governing body ordered Serbia to play their next under-21s fixture behind closed doors and fined them €80,000. Other fines have been substantially smaller. Montenegro face a partial closure of their stadium, at least, for their next Euro 2020 qualifier if found guilty by a Uefa commission on 16 May.

“Obviously, it is a bit sad [to feel like this] but when countries only get fined what I’d probably spend on a night out in London, what do you expect?” Rose said. “You see my manager get banned for two games for just being confrontational against Mike Dean. But yet a country can only get fined a little bit of money for being racist. It’s just a bit of a farce at the minute. So that’s where we are at in football and until there’s a harsh punishment, there’s not much else we can expect.”

Pochettino said last Friday he would not hesitate to call his Spurs players off the field if any were subjected to racist abuse. “I was over the moon to hear that,” Rose said. “I spoke to Gareth [Southgate, the England manager] after the Montenegro game and he wasn’t aware. I didn’t mention it at half-time so he wasn’t aware of what was happening until he heard it right at the end.

“The manager was a bit upset because he told us it was the first time he’d been involved with something like that and he said he didn’t know what the right course of action was. He said he was fully behind me if we wanted to walk off. I just wanted to get the three points and get out of there as quickly as possible.”

Rose said he had been forced to prepare himself for the prospect of racist abuse in Montenegro after what he had endured in neighbouring Serbia. “I sort of prepared myself for what happened,” Rose said. “Had we not been winning, the yellow card that I got at the end might have been a red one. I’m fine. I prepared myself for it, we won and now we just wait for whatever punishment – if any punishment – happens.

“It happened in Serbia so I thought there was a possibility it might happen again and it did. I looked up straight away in the first half and I know the exact time it happened. It didn’t affect my game. I’m a big boy now and I know that three points are obviously not the most important thing when you’re going through something like that but I just wanted the team to get three points so that we could move on.

“I wasn’t too upset to talk after the game. I just didn’t want the focus to be on me and a small minority of fans doing the chants. I wanted everybody to focus on a great week we’d had with England.”

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[Baddar]

I seem to recall Rose speaking about depression etc before and being a professional footballer isn't all it's made out to be. He seems to be fed up of it at this point. 

[MDK]

Not even Shane Long could miss that

[DavidMarrio]

I hate Southampton...

NABY'S GOT A GOAL!!!!!!!

[MDK]

Is this a match or a recruitment fair?

[Colly]

My TV is really struggling with Alisson's kit. He's just a big pink blur.

[MDK]

Oh, Naby... Fallon d' Floor nominee

[DavidMarrio]

1 minute ago, MDK said:

Oh, Naby... Fallon d' Floor nominee

He makes contact with him. But Naby was never gonna get the ball. Knocked it way too far in front. 

[MDK]

1 minute ago, DavidMarrio said:

He makes contact with him. But Naby was never gonna get the ball. Knocked it way too far in front. 

Splish splosh