Today's Football

[Derek27]

BLV about 5 seconds ahead of ITV4 where I am.

[greenmark]

WHU v Brentford - 2-0 7 minutes. That Moyes guy is rubbish isn't he?

[Kai]

Will have to wait for them to play each another 19 times in the 5th round vs coventry to tell me my analysis is shit

No worries, long shots almost always miss their mark, as Lynch would say

But better to go for those than sure thing bankers

[Fugazi]

Will have to wait for them to play each another 19 times in the 5th round vs coventry to tell me my analysis is shit

No worries, long shots almost always miss their mark, as Lynch would say

But better to go for those than sure thing bankers

I've been watching the game - Maidstone attacking well, rare to see a lower club not park the bus in these games. Let themselves down early with some terrible schoolboy errors. Feel like they definitely had value... I love cup games!

No VAR is a bloody godsend

[Kai]

Brentford need to stop messing about after Everton got some of their deducted points back

[greenmark]

Oh my word. What a lovely goal from Emerson. That's one to treasure.

[jamesedwards]

Interesting read. Nice to see your thoughts on this. (Not having a dig at you/ Klopp/ Liverpool with the following) The whole "most special trophy" and above "No doubt one of the greatest matches in club's history" narrative is dubious. Coin flip trophy. Liverpool 1.9 ish at the off. Chelsea are 11th and very ordinary. Liverpool are on for a quad. Klopp is far superior to Poch. I think everyone is forgetting its the league cup. If they had beaten a full strength Arsenal or City then fair enough but they were 1.9 and they got up on the line. However leg 1 of the quad is in the bag. Onwards and upwards. Peace out.

Agreed. Very overhyped imo. Check out the Liverpool starting XI age vs Chelsea.

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[Kai]

Eh, I still like the first narrative better

But before we let Chelsea off the hook and ignore the fact that their squad of wonderkid internationals got outplayed by a team with 5 academy players during ET let's briefly also look at the cost.

Players aged 23 or under used in final:
Liverpool - 7
Chelsea - 8

Cost of signing those players:
Liverpool - £38m
Chelsea - £390m

Maybe one thing we can all agree on is that Chelsea got scammed

But no, obviously I would probably agree that for some neutrals etc it's nothing special really, what I said was mostly for LFC fans. It could have swung either way, and that's fine

[Fugazi]

Eh, I still like the first narrative better

But before we let Chelsea off the hook and ignore the fact that their squad of wonderkid internationals got outplayed by a team with 5 academy players during ET let's briefly also look at the cost.

Players aged 23 or under used in final:
Liverpool - 7
Chelsea - 8

Cost of signing those players:
Liverpool - £38m
Chelsea - £390m

Maybe one thing we can all agree on is that Chelsea got scammed

But no, obviously I would probably agree that for some neutrals etc it's nothing special really, what I said was mostly for LFC fans. It could have swung either way, and that's fine

Yeah price doesnt reflect the players actual ability.

Cant believe some of the garbage purchased. I remember when Chelsea signed Kezman as Abromovich was mates with him

[MemphisFlash]

testing out my New Footy Columns in Guardian

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[Kai]

Yeah price doesnt reflect the players actual ability.

Cant believe some of the garbage purchased. I remember when Chelsea signed Kezman as Abromovich was mates with him

No doubt they brought in a lot of talented young individuals and some are showing that potential already, but that clearly doesn't instantly make a top team

Scammed in terms of inflated transfer fees and those 8-9 year contracts, how tf are they going to get rid of those that don't work out

Liverpool seemingly took so many L's in the summer transfer window with Caicedo and Lavia in particular so that felt a special W for us seeing how their cheap replacement Endo bossed it, and proud of the teenage academy lads that are tasting senior football for the first time for rising to the occasion and helping secure a trophy for themselves so early in their career

Unsure about Poch but can't forget how many big injuries Chelsea had all season as well, I would probably give him another season

[Fugazi]

Yeah price doesnt reflect the players actual ability.

Cant believe some of the garbage purchased. I remember when Chelsea signed Kezman as Abromovich was mates with him

No doubt they brought in a lot of talented young individuals and some are showing that potential already, but that clearly doesn't instantly make a top team

Scammed in terms of inflated transfer fees and those 8-9 year contracts, how tf are they going to get rid of those that don't work out

Liverpool seemingly took so many L's in the summer transfer window with Caicedo and Lavia in particular so that felt a special W for us seeing how their cheap replacement Endo bossed it, and proud of the teenage academy lads that are tasting senior football for the first time for rising to the occasion and helping secure a trophy for themselves so early in their career

Unsure about Poch but can't forget how many big injuries Chelsea had all season as well, I would probably give him another season

To be honest its a joke how quickly teams cycle through managers.

Beggars belief how good man utd may have been, had they just stuck with Moyes since Fergie. Multiple managers, none better than the predecessor

The same Moyes many hammers fans wanted out a week ago...

[MemphisFlash]

seems to be doing the trick

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[jamesedwards]

seems to be doing the trick

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Nice!

What method are you using for the scores and what do you reckon the accuracy rate is?

[jamesedwards]

Luton 13/1 to beat Man City in the cup tonight, is surely great value? They usually put up a good game vs the top sides, and City will have their 1.5th side out.