🚨 Jürgen Klopp has launched a scathing attack on the cooling breaks being used during this World Cup. 👊
"Football is being held hostage by executives sitting in air-conditioned offices.
These breaks are being presented as a shield for player welfare, a noble weapon against the heat. In reality, they are nothing more than a golden cage built for sponsors.
When I saw players standing around during cooling breaks while television timeouts dictated the rhythm of the match, I couldn't help but ask myself: who is the World Cup really serving?
The supporters? The players? Or the advertisers?
A World Cup match should flow like a river. Instead, we are building dams in the middle of it so commercials can be shown.
It's dangerous for the spirit of the game. Football used to be the main event, but it now risks becoming background music for an advertising show."
He didn't hold back. 👏👏
Leeds have suffered just five defeats in our last 29 matches across all competitions.
Only Man City (5), Arsenal (5), Bournemouth (7), Man Utd (7) and Aston Villa (11) have suffered fewer Premier League defeats this season than Daniel Farke's Leeds (12).
Seriously impressive.
🚨🎙️| Joe Cole on the Spurs vs Leeds United game and how Leeds got absolutely robbed to help Spurs escape relegation:
🗣️ “Listen, I’m trying to understand how football fans are supposed to trust this anymore because what we saw in that Spurs vs Leeds game was absolute theatre. You freeze the live image and Dominic Calvert-Lewin is CLEARLY onside. You can literally see daylight between him and the last defender. Then suddenly VAR pulls out this cartoon animation with lines drawn from places nobody can even explain properly and now he’s magically offside? Come on.
And the worst part is what happened after it. If DCL is onside and from the real broadcast angle he absolutely looks onside, then the entire phase continues and you’re talking about a blatant penalty on him by Destiny Udogie in the box. Udogie doesn’t get the ball, clips the man, stops him getting through, and somehow VAR completely wipes the whole thing away because of an offside call that looks manufactured from a computer model instead of reality.
This is the problem with modern officiating. The live image says one thing, the ‘3D model’ says another, and conveniently the decision ends up favouring Tottenham in a relegation battle. That’s what’s going to infuriate people. Because if this happens to Leeds or Everton, everyone says ‘unlucky’. But when it’s Spurs needing points to survive, suddenly we get forensic geometry and invisible body parts deciding football matches.
People keep saying ‘trust the process’, what process? Fans are watching a real image with their own eyes and then being told to ignore it because a cartoon graphic generated five seconds later says otherwise. Football’s becoming less about the game and more about who can manipulate freeze frames best.
If that’s given at the other end against Leeds, I guarantee nobody overturns it. No chance. That’s why supporters feel like the game is being controlled instead of officiated. Spurs got away with one massively today, and Leeds fans have every right to feel robbed.”
Leeds have been beaten just FOUR times in our last 23 Premier League matches. Since December 1st, only Manchester City (1), Bournemouth (3) and Manchester United (3) have suffered fewer defeats in the top flight.
Some going that. An epic turnaround from a tough position.
Leeds are now undefeated in SEVEN consecutive Premier League matches and become the first newly promoted side since Middlesbrough in 1998/99 to have two runs of 7+ matches without defeat in the same top-flight season (courtesy of Opta). #LUFC
Dominic Calvert-Lewin has scored more Premier League goals this season than:
- Benjamin Sesko
- Ollie Watkins
- Hugo Ekitike
- Jean-Philippe Mateta
- Bryan Mbeumo
- Mohamed Salah
- Cole Palmer
- Raúl Jiménez
- Bukayo Saka
- Phil Foden
- Nick Woltemade
Leeds signed him on a free transfer in the summer 🍿
@zachkaye_afcb It doesn’t matter.
Sunderland have made some cracking signings but their back line is no where near good enough, same with the keeper
Leeds very much the same, and they have a keeper crisis too.
The gap is to big, I’d maybe give Burnley the chance of staying up because Parker