Weekend(s) football - 12/22 January 2024

[UlversToon]

The Premier Leagues' idea of a winter break.

Fri 12.01.2024:

Burnley 1-1 Luton Town (7.45pm) TNT

Sat 13.01.2024:

Chelsea 1-0 Fulham (12.30pm) TNT
Newcastle 2-3 Manchester City (5.30pm) TNT

Sun 14.01.2024:

Everton 0-0 Aston Villa (2pm) Sky
Manchester United 2,2 Spurs (4.30pm) Sky

Sat 20.01.2024:

Arsenal 5-0 Crystal Palace (12.30pm) TNT
Brentford 3-2 Nottingham Forest (5.30pm) Sky

Sun 21.01.2024:

Sheffield United 2-2 West Ham (2pm) TNT
Bournemouth 0-4 Liverpool (4.30pm) Sky

Mon 22.01.2024:

Brighton & Hove Albion 0-0 Wolves (7.45pm) TNT

[bodacious benny]

FPL carnage this weekend with injuries and people away for AFCON and the Asia Cup!

[Colly]

We do the draft version which obviously means you don't ship players out for short term issues as you're unlikely to get them back, so my bench is currently Salah, Mitoma and Kudus...

Fortunately I've had Toney sitting there since August so the timing is perfect.

[bodacious benny]

We do the draft version which obviously means you don't ship players out for short term issues as you're unlikely to get them back, so my bench is currently Salah, Mitoma and Kudus...

Fortunately I've had Toney sitting there since August so the timing is perfect.

If I had Toney I’d be captaining him this weekend 100%!

[UlversToon]

Come on Hatters you can do this!

[UlversToon]

Chelsea up to 8th for now.

[ALF]

Shocking refereeing deciding both games so far this week.

[bodacious benny]

Palace are really bad.

[bodacious benny]

Toney back Toney scores.

[bodacious benny]

Brentford 3-2 Forest with 20 mins left - entertaining!

Wood scores again!

[UlversToon]

Eventful end to the Sheff Utd game - two red cards and a penalty equaliser all in added time.

[seaside nipper]

Eventful end to the Sheff Utd game - two red cards and a penalty equaliser all in added time.

Tale of two aherm, penalties
One wrongly awarded after joke mid air hysterics from Mcburnie than a stonewall penalty not given after Bowen hauled down,
I think the referee wanted out asap as he never allowed the time…there was at least four mins before Sheffield Utd took their kick.
Crazy stuff

[Colly]

The pen was given in the 96th though, there was only a minute to play. I didn't think the decisions were quite that bad, the Sheff Utd one looked a foul in real time so I can understand VAR not seeing it as a clear and obvious error, and the other they didn't really show the full sequence where there was clearly pushing both ways. Doesn't help that the punditry team was the West Ham brain trust of Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole, who Joey Barton inexplicably doesn't whinge about. I'd still happily scrap VAR...

Just catching up with MOTD, didn't see many Arsenal fans complaining that "you can't touch a players back" when Gabriel got that first goal!