You can’t booze in your seats. You can’t enter at any gate like in American sports so you need to enter in the right location as your tickets. Away fans are segregated, usually physically. Other than that it’s like any other sporting match. It helps if you know the songs. Probably you’ve already bought tickets but like many sports it’s best not to sit too low as you can see a lot more in the middle tiers
So cool!! Jealous. Have fun!
Since the Saints are LFCs AAA affiliate I’m sure they’re all playing for a promotion. Fully expect Ward Prowse to sign in January.
think LFC can do better than Ward-Prowse
Doesn't hurt to learn the chorus of this song. Terrible arrangement, terrible song, but Irons fans love it.
Thanks for the primer…and the above is what I generally sense - they’re not Arsenal or Chelsea or Man U in terms of global brand, but they’re well followed by the locals.
Mate, don't think for a second that these two teams are scrubs, mid table, not much going on. There will still be over £500Ms worth of talent on the pitch. Both sides have had top 7 finishes in recent years, which is no mean feet in such a tough league. Leicester nearly made top for recently...flubbed in the last week. They won the FA Cup season before last.
In terms of the season overall, you’re seeing two teams who did much better last year (7th for West Ham, 8th for Leicester) than they are currently doing this year, so there’s that tension in both fan bases. They’re in somewhat opposite form right now, West Ham has lost three of their last five, Leicester has won three of their last five.
Because it didn’t do anything that would cause him to fall to the ground. He felt a brush of contact and kicked his legs out at a weird angle.
He learned the lesson they all do, well except Adams Traore - there’s no benefit to fighting through the contact.
The league is so packed this year. Chelsea at 21 points is in the 7th or last spot to earn a place in a Europe league next season. Southampton on 13 points is in 17th or the last place above the drop zone. That’s nuts. Any of the sides in the middle, including these two, are a run of three wins away from staking a claim to a top spot, or three losses away from a relegation scrap and a sacked manager. My team, Everton, looked like they were on the upswing after trouncing candy’s Crystal Palace two weeks ago, but they got pantsed by Leicester at home last week and fans are nervous- we almost went down last season. If we win today we could finish the weekend 11th going into the WC break, and in decent shape to push on, lose and we could be in the drop zone.
I was introducing my 7 year old to Messi highlight videos last night. It’s easy to forget… Not only was it impossible to take the ball off him, it was nearly impossible to get him off his feet. He used to get absolutely crunched and would stick with it, often creating something as a result. That Messi has evolved to react to contact as well, unfortunately.
Concussion protocol at work…
JFC. Just coming back to this match.
Reminds me of a story Pique told in some interview. When he and Messi we’re in the academy together, a coach was yelling at the defenders “get the ball of him.” The defenders he’ll back, “we can’t! He’s too good.” So the coaches replies, “then knock him down!” And the defenders tell back, “We can’t even catch him!”
It would help if Pep would use his bench instead of making 1 sub in a match where his team looked out of ideas in the first half.
This was quite interesting. A protester zip tied himself to the goalpost at Everton last season
