General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

He's a very underrated manager probably the best manager from Britain and Ireland. Not given a penny to spend was a joke

I wouldn't worry about Rodgers he will spoof his way into anotherr decent job following his same old pattern about blaming owners for not backing him.

Maybe if he actually learned to coach a team how to defend he might do ok.

He is nowhere near the standard of Pep, Klopp, Tuchel or Conte

He can't be seem with the likes of Potter, Arteta, Frank, Veria or Lage as the up and coming managers

To be fair he is better than Lampard & Gerrard

He will soon be heading for the journeyman manager role like Moyes

I expected him to leave at the end of last season. Leicester have stagnated as a club and that only means they’ll regress. Rodgers did a good job with them, two top 5 finishes. European football. An FA Cup win, their first ever as a club. That’s as good as it gets for a club like Leicester bar that freak league title with Ranieri. He should have got out while the going was good.

I was going to comment on this. Everton should be all over this if he walks, annoying and all as Rodgers is, he would be a serious upgrade on Frank!

Do people really think Everton will go for another ex-Liverpool manager?

I think Carragher said it best. It would have been inconsistent to send him off, based on the refereeing we’ve seen to date, but that knee high clearly intentional fouls should probably be a red card.

The yellow cards for a professional foul and the yellow card for a dangerous challenge shouldn’t wash either away if you do both at once.

No, the logic is that knee high should be a yellow and a professional foul should also be a yellow. The idea that these should wash each other away is far too open to gamesmanship, which while not violent conduct, still massively increases the risk of serious injury.

Those kinds of tackles should only be allowed as part of a mistimed genuine attempt at the ball. They shouldn’t be allowed as intentional attempts to foul another player and should become red.

It would be fun to see soccer trial a black card like hurling.

If the last man back takes out the attacker anywhere on the pitch its a penalty. No more chopping down the counter attacker on the halfway because you know it's just a yellow.

Yeah, there’s probably some merit to having a card for professional fouls/tactical fouls that aren’t yellow or red. It would decrease the amount of them fairly quickly (there’d definitely still be situations where it was considered the percentage play.

The only problem is you’d get all the usual outrage from people who hate anything that didn’t exist in football in the 70s (usually as a way of convincing themselves that they’re harder than they actually are).

Eh shouldn’t that number be 1?

One possible solution for a tactical foul could be an advanced free kick. The black card in Gaelic doesn’t stop cyclical play, it merely punishes it in an inappropriate manner.

Doesn’t seem to be any posting on social media about it either. I’d say a very hostile atmosphere is what they are hoping for? If the game is cancelled Liverpool should get the points. There just isn’t time for rescheduling matches this season due to this type of thing.

How long into the game before Sky pan the camera to Alex sitting in the stands or Ronnie sulking on the bench if he doesn't start.

Yep. Nothing will hurt them more than the drop in share price that sitting in relegation will bring. Add to that having to repay tickets and surely the tourist fan tickets will dry up if people keep going to Manchester for nothing.

Not a fan of it though. A soccer team is not worth the agro and settling or the stress to the average staff.

If this game is cancelled, then Liverpool should get the points. It will be the 3rd occurrence of this particular fixture that is being targeted for these protests and game cancellations etc. These large events don't happen before other games.

I'm all for protesting against these type of owners and loading debt etc but purposely targeting one other team to get their game cancelled in order to highlight this is not on tbf. Constant protests before multiple games in a row and not affecting the games would be effective too I reckon.

Anyways, looks like it hasn't got off to the best start as these fans, wearing their brand new kits, have got distracted by the new shiny toy.