David Cook

In a long-standing love/hate relationship with Chelsea FC. @NotaProjectCFC

[David Cook @dmacook]

CL - Chelsea 1 Man City 0 - Goodnight!

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This PSG Barca game would be an absolute classic if it actually meant something.

[David Cook @dmacook]

@RichardDeller1 @barkway_ken @burnsieboy65 A mix of ITV and Sky was fine I think but two paywalls now is too much.

[David Cook @dmacook]

Also, much of the programming around football has changed. No more Grandstand, Football Focus, Soccer AM, Goals on Sunday, Soccer Saturday is crap, MOTD isn’t very needed anymore. Super Sunday has been turned into a fan channel.

👴

[David Cook @dmacook]

Various things have made me feel this way:

- VAR
- Feels like tourism has skyrocketed since COVID
- Forced atmospheres/gimmicks/content creators
- PSR
- Data dominates everything
- Players join academies as soon as they’re out the womb and are robots

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@RichardDeller1 @barkway_ken @burnsieboy65 Yep. Man City v PSG looked a fun game but it feels like a friendly because there’s so little jeopardy.

[David Cook @dmacook]

@barkway_ken @burnsieboy65 Yep. It’s all a race to the bottom.

Also add to my list TNT’s Champions League coverage. It’s never been the same since they got the rights.

[David Cook @dmacook]

As much as Bournemouth, Brentford and Brighton have done well and deserve credit, there’s just something a bit soulless about it all. Spreadsheets running football. Turning from an art into a science.

I can see why even if your team win the league it’s all not quite the same .

[David Cook @dmacook]

Various things have made me feel this way:

- VAR
- Feels like tourism has skyrocketed since COVID
- Forced atmospheres/gimmicks/content creators
- PSR
- Data dominates everything
- Players join academies as soon as they’re out the womb and are robots

[Dave @djg23]

I’ve supported Arsenal for over 30 years. I’m a season ticket holder and we’re successful.

Yet I’ve never felt more disconnected from the club.

I’ve written about why, and what I miss about the game I fell in love with.

https://t.co/nM559xHBQE

[David Cook @dmacook]

@Garysonfire @ZG1999_ Would be ridiculous as they could then just sack the league off and have the advantage in all the cup competitions.

[David Cook @dmacook]

Because a vast majority of the coverage and discourse around English football is catered to those three clubs.

[WH Fan Place @WestHamPlace]

Jamie Carragher on Liverpool games

Gary Neville on Man Utd games

Alan Smith on Arsenal games

Why do Sky think we want to hear their bias nonsense while watching their unbearable teams play football?

[David Cook @dmacook]

Sounds familiar

https://t.co/QAIIoaO0r2

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

"Would you look at that!"

DIEGO GOMEZ SCORES FROM THE HALFWAY LINE! 🤯

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@GoonerSpark2012 @burnsieboy65 Without Chelsea and Man City’s spending 31 out of 34 PL titles would have been won by the red cartel. United would have won eight in a row from 2006-13.

[David Cook @dmacook]

What a better team we are without Sanchez, Fofana and Gusto.

And as much as it pains me to say it, we’re better without Reece right now, both as a midfielder and as a leader. He’d still start at RCB for me but the club don’t want to play him there.

[Simon Johnson @SJohnsonSport]

Alonso says Gusto missed the game with illness, first experienced symptoms yesterday. #CFC

[David Cook @dmacook]

Seeing a zero next to the opposition’s name…

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That’s the kind of win we used to get at Bolton, Blackburn, Stoke et al back in the day. It was a mature performance away from home against a shithouse bogey team who were unbeaten. Feels a big step.

[David Cook @dmacook]

That was bloody brilliant. That was Chelsea. That’s what I want to see.

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We have to expect teams like Everton will try and beat us by bullying us. So far we’ve stood up to it well but got to keep our heads.

[David Cook @dmacook]

Newcastle decided to go down the Blueco route of signing potential.

Tonight, they’re getting pumped 4-1 by a promoted side that’s had 35% of the ball and beaten them with direct counter-attacking. The keeper and CF rabbits in the headlights.

All feels very familiar.

[David Cook @dmacook]

“It’s a sad sad day here at Anfield, where the establishment who have an entitled right to success have been humbled by a club that should never dare of having the audacity to try and compete with them.

“Full time here, Good 0-3 Evil.”

[David Cook @dmacook]

The Sky commentary’s attempts to bring everything back to the narrative of good vs evil is boring and pathetic. Stick this result up your wrong’uns.