Martinez is a huge redass but also a great goal keeper.
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He’s the Charles Barkley of Dennis Rodmans.
Just watched the Forest-Villa highlights. Martinez’ save described above was great but, for Forest’s equalizer he pretty much caught the ball, threw it in his own net and then pretended to be hurt.
Peak Martinez.
Just for the record before the game starts: fuck Brighton, fuck their plastic stadium and their plastic Chelsea-loving fans and especially fuck Lewis “I was asleep while my teammates raped a drunk girl just feet away from me” Dunk.
Fuck the fucking lot of them into the English Channel.
ETA: The NBC crew - chaired by Palace fan Rebecca Lowe - made the point that this is not a “derby”, it’s a rivalry. True, but for those of us who lived through the 1970s, it’s more than that; it’s hatred.
EATA: Just a reminder that, for the 2012 Championship play-off semi-final vs. Palace at Brighton, they handed out noisemakers. Seriously. Such a sad little club living on Daddy Bloom’s credit card.
Hark now hear the Palace sing
The Brighton run away
And we will fight forever more
Because of Boxing Day
I’m sure the rumors (that I started) about the Brighton fans already leaving aren’t entirely true.
I hate the Brighton. I hope it’s relegated to France.
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10 minutes to go, and the “Tampax” is empty.
Note the empty seats once the third goes in.
Shorter highlights reel than usual because Brighton is the poster child for sterile possession.
City take the last 5 minutes off and surrender two terrible goals to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I wouldn’t be surprised if Pep said “fuck this shit” and walked away.
There was a large slice of luck about Citeh’s goal too. Good finish but a pure fluke that it got to Gvardiol.
Brighton: the whine that keeps on whining:
Here’s what happened: Palace interrupted a period of pointless Brighton possession and Eze broke upfield with the ball. A Brighton player went to intercede and ran slap-bang into referee Michael Oliver. The rules are very clear on this: there is no reason for the referee to stop the game in such circumstance; zero, zilch, none.
But that’s still unfair on Brighton, some may suggest in ignorance - like this here Guardian journalist and the Brighton manager. I mean, Palace broke upfield and scored when the attack could’ve been foiled before it started. There would be reason to cry over the bad luck if this were the case, but it isn’t.
Eze broke upfield and scored the attack broke down ending up in a corner for Palace from which they scored won another corner…from which they scored after a gaggle of Brighton defenders - including the goalkeeper - whiffed at the ball and it dropped to Palace’s Chalobat following a friendly bounce off Ismaïla Sarr’s arse (for which he got an assist to go along with his two excellently-taken goals).
Brighton were 0-3 down until late in the game when a Palace defensive clusterfuck from a corner gifted them an own goal, courtesy of Mark Guéhi’s arse this time. But, yeah, it’s all about that time when the referee “fouled” Brighton player about 5 minutes before they conceded the opening goal.
This is why people hate Brighton.
Not that we need a reason.
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I like that movie, Brighton Beach Memoirs… Eh? Oh…
With his two goals and an assist performance against the loathsome seaweed on Sunday, Ismaïla Sarr has written himself into Palace’s annals (NTTAWWT). He also has his own chant now, which is high praise indeed.
The obvious choice would be to riff on Bowie’s “Star Man”, and I think fans of his previous teams have used that. But Palace don’t like to recycle other teams’ chants and so they went another way.
Much to my delight, the chant uses the Joy Division staple for its base and you will now hear coming from the terraces “Sarr will tear you apart”.
That’s up there with the Stone Roses’ inspired chant “I wanna be Edouard” that Celtic had for the striker (which Palace fans dropped, sadly) and my personal favorite for our erstwhile full back, to The Clash’s “Rock the Kazbah”, we have “Your wingers don’t like him…Wan Bissaka! Wan Bissaka!”
It’s Carabao Cup week - the other knockout competition in English football. Available only to league teams (unlike the FA Cup that reaches all the way down to semi-pro levels), it has reached the quarter-final stage. It’s a competition that has lost its caché since the supremacy of the Premier League and Champions League took over, but the winner gets into Europe next season, so it has something worth playing for.
To wit, Palace go to Arsenal, kicking off in about 20 minutes (1:30pm CST) on Paramount+.
I’m not expecting much, but Glasner has named an unchanged side from the one that stuffed the fucking Weed on Sunday, save for the suspended Muñoz (a big loss) who is replaced by an academy kid making his first start.
It’s a knockout match, so anything can happen. It will be interesting to see how much interest Arsenal have in this one as they have three bigger fish to fry this season: the Premier League, Europe and the FA Cup.
Bollocks.
At least Palace waited to get knocked out by a good team and not checks notes Preston Northend
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