Weekend Football

[Sutekh]

Kieron Tripper missed a penalty. Since then there seems to have been an outpouring of support and solidarity for him, including an oppo player from the game he missed the pen in. Now Newcastle fans are organising a minutes applause for him to show their support.

I don't understand things anymore

Seriously? How stupid is the game getting?

[Winston Biscuit]

Luton confirm that Tom Lockyer suffered a different issue at the weekend to the one he did in May, and he has now had a defibrillator implant put in, which is the same thing Eriksen had put in

[Snowflake Royal]

Kieron Tripper missed a penalty. Since then there seems to have been an outpouring of support and solidarity for him, including an oppo player from the game he missed the pen in. Now Newcastle fans are organising a minutes applause for him to show their support.

I don't understand things anymore

Seriously? How stupid is the game getting?

WTF?

Did he miss because he died?

[Winston Biscuit]

stop being so mean hearted you lot

We Stand With Tripps!

[WestYorksRoyal]

Luton confirm that Tom Lockyer suffered a different issue at the weekend to the one he did in May, and he has now had a defibrillator implant put in, which is the same thing Eriksen had put in

Have they confirmed whether he'll play again?

[Sanguine]

Luton confirm that Tom Lockyer suffered a different issue at the weekend to the one he did in May, and he has now had a defibrillator implant put in, which is the same thing Eriksen had put in

Have they confirmed whether he'll play again?

Will be much too early to say. The device has been used before - and years before Eriksen - and allowed footballers to resume their careers.

Andy Van Loo was one of the first examples I think. Link below shows him collapsing on the pitch in 2009, and at ten seconds, the device bringing him back to life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iZN2kmcgeg

But Lockyer's future will depend on his own individual circumstance, extent of any damage to his heart brought about by cardiac arrest, ability to get back to full and then match fitness etc. And of course whether he wants to. Even with an implant like this, I don't know if I'd ever be able to get over the mental hurdle of pushing myself physically knowing I am more susceptible than others to suffering cardiac problems. Fabrice Muamba has the implant fitted, but of course never returned to playing.

[NathStPaul]

Not sure how anyone has the bollocks to carry on playing after going through that, much braver than I would be in that scenario.

Given Lockyer has had two such incidents of on field collapse I'd be personally advising him to step away from playing, it just isn't worth it. You have to think of your family in that situation and put yourself in their shoes a little bit.

He is a young man and he is captain of his side so obviously he has some sort of leadership qualities. He could become a really good coach/manager, time is most definitely on his side on that front. We have seen in recent history a few players who have had to retire very young who have gone on to have decent managerial careers. Nothing stopping Lockyer following suit.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Leeds hammering Ipswich in the Championship early kick off could be a real momentum changing result, much as I want Ipswich to do it.

[Winston Biscuit]

Zinchenko done twice in the same goal

[Winston Biscuit]

Great game this

[Winston Biscuit]

[Sutekh]

Liverpool done by the VAR idiots yet again. How on earth was that handball not given as such in the first half?

[Winston Biscuit]

Was just reading that Sunderland fans were booing and shouting abuse at their new manager today in his first game

[genome]

Boly sent off for being fouled. Odegaard handball as well.

Every fcuking week.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Was just reading that Sunderland fans were booing and shouting abuse at their new manager today in his first game

Loads left early and the ones that remained were as you say booing and shouting abuse at the new manager at his first game

[Silver Fox]

Liverpool done by the VAR idiots yet again. How on earth was that handball not given as such in the first half?

It was on in the Nags with no sound on and I was bemused to say the least that it wasn’t given but now that I’ve seen MOTD I really don’t know what they were playing at.

Possibly not as badly done by as Forest were though and to think people were probably worried about a girl refereeing

[Sutekh]

Liverpool done by the VAR idiots yet again. How on earth was that handball not given as such in the first half?

It was on in the Nags with no sound on and I was bemused to say the least that it wasn’t given but now that I’ve seen MOTD I really don’t know what they were playing at.

Possibly not as badly done by as Forest were though and to think people were probably worried about a girl refereeing

Looked up the VAR ref for Liverpool yesterday and it was David Coote (think he's the one that didn't see anything wrong with Pickford's assault on van Dijk a couple of seasons ago!). He really doesn't have a good record.

[BRO_BOT]

Luckily, Chelsea have shat the bed worse than us

[From Despair To Where?]

Was just reading that Sunderland fans were booing and shouting abuse at their new manager today in his first game

Loads left early and the ones that remained were as you say booing and shouting abuse at the new manager at his first game

Pretty standard behaviour for Sunderland fans.

[Sutekh]

NewcastLOLe.