Not ONE tweet about Emi Martinez and match fixing following Bruno Fernandes' first United goal at Villa Park.
But cretins are all over the place making daft comments and insinuating match fixing following the CIV keeper's howler last night at #AFCON2021
Anything to diss AFCON
Watched the replay of that Salone equaliser and I fear for the Ivorian keeper. He could easily have bust his knee. He tried catching the ball and sliding on the turf. Pitch was not having it, bumped him high up following impact on his knee. Naturally, he dropped the ball..
If Steven Caulker had not followed the ball, the goal does not happen. Even then, the goalscorer lost his footing but managed to scuff the ball home.
Nothing even close to extraordinary happened there. But, it is AFCON, so let us make wild comments and skits.
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#TeamEquatorialGuinea are playing with 10men in this match. He might go on to score (I will be shocked), but their no 9 is the worst player I have seen at this #AFCON2021
What exactly is wrong with the Algerians? Why are they so disrespectful of the ref? Whingeing all about.
Equatorial Guinea have scored o!
IF this game ends like this, the final group game between Algeria and CIV will be WAR. Wow.
Just watching on my TV screen, I felt very sorry for the players out there. In that game, they did not even have a cooling break.
Even JJ Okocha remarked in the SS Studios...
....that the players who are mostly Europe based will suffer in the heat.
I felt it was only going to be a matter of time for us to have a medical emergency.
You watch Sikazwe yesterday and feel that something was medically wrong with him.
CAF should do something about...
The early kick-offs. They should provide a lot of water around the pitch and insist on specific times for cooling breaks. We are fortunate that Sikazwe did not collapse or come to more harm.
I felt so sorry for him in those last 5mins. He was not himself.
What I am reading. (Apologies @DoubleEph)
Absolutely fascinating book on tactics and what the managers that employed them said was their reasons. Hopefully one day I will have a sit down with @Zonal_Marking and discuss some of the stuff in there
@dwinnera's book Brilliant Orange gets a good plug.
Still on #ZonalMarking
"I was a defender who wasn't really a defender" - Ronald Koeman.
Fella scored 239 goals in his career. That is ridiculous. More than Patrick Kluivert!