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  1. If my bosses constantly covered for me, told me my work was great and nobody was allowed to criticise me, I'd probably struggle to care about the quality of my work too.
  2. Based on the info we have, I think Kamara is around the end of the year/early next year. Diego probably a month away if it's a hamstring, and Konsa was "3 to 4 weeks" with a knee injury, so another 2 weeks?
  3. Would be interesting to see what semi-automated offside would say for the goal. I have a feeling clubs will vote against it again though, I think they like the dubious nature of lines having to be drawn, and delays during the game.
  4. Saw some people saying they thought the new ref was alright on twitter. Absolute dog shite. Basic decisions completely wrong, lost control of the game, and bottled giving Traore a second yellow. He's like every other ref.
  5. Agreed with this. No contact on the ball, heavy contact on the player. This is a objective view. You can not call them grey areas and it's mad that the correct result hasn't happened.
  6. I'm assuming you mean the Ollie penalty, which I agree with. The Moreno offside was correct. He was offside, no matter how minimal. The assistant referee also put the flag up. We can't argue that VAR gets involved too much, but then also say they should be over turning on field decisions that are correct at the same time.
  7. Maybe I'm thick because I don't know what this means. How can it be a penalty but also correctly not a penalty? I 100% get it on certain grey areas, minimal contact, player looking for contact, did they get a slight ouch on the ball, was it enough, etc. but here I'm baffled.
  8. Transfermarkt has this. Guardola left, Fergie right. I don't think it would be super surprising if Fergie spent less. Newcastle were the highest spenders in the PL from 92-Roman take over.
  9. Regarding this incident specifically, I don't see how a cnclusion could arise that it's not a penalty. The attacker: -Doesn't try to initiate contact, actively tries to avoid it by trying to hurdle the keeper -Is in clear posession of the ball The goalkeeper -Lifts his arm up in an attempt to reach the ball, directly tripping the player -Makes no contact with the ball I'd be genuinely interested to hear views of anyone that doesn't think it's a penalty, and why. I can't get my head around it.
  10. KC really struggling to do anything. 49ers gotta take advantage here and put the pressure on.
  11. I do think offside is by far the toughest thing to officiate in football... but in open play. For a free kick it's actually unforgivable to get it wrong. I'm genuinely startin to lose my love for the game. I watched 3 games this weekend, all of them decided by 1 goal, of of them a big decision has gone against the team that's lost by 1. They are literally deciding games, what's the point of actually playing football at that point?
  12. Devoid of any confidence. Spends way too long on the ball every time he gets it, has no idea what to do and panics. I do feel a bit sorry for him in a footballing sense, because we've grown so quickly as a club and he's been left behind, and he arguably wouldn't playing anyway if Konsa was fit. He's not good enough, and I think he knows it. But we've not really got any other choice than to play him.
  13. I am well and truly a broken record at this point. Another game where the referee has played a massive part in the outcome. Not a foul. Not a corner (offside). Goal as a result. VAR is deflecting the issue from the actual problem in football right now. Ange is right in that blue cards will kill the game.
  14. I agree regarding Botman, but the Dubravka one is about as textbook as it gets. Awoniyi does everything right. Tries to stay up, tries to avoid the keeper by hurdling him, and Dubravka lifts his arm and trips him. I'd be really interested to hear the VAR recording on this one as I'm not actually sure how they've reached their conclusion.
  15. We live in a world where a referee, assistant referee and a team of referees in the VAR room can look at the Forest penalty incident and all of them think "no penalty". The state of refereeing is ruining the sport to a point of unwatchability. There are s few goals in a game of football, that big incidents often decide the outcomes, and it's unacceptable for them to so routinely get them all wrong.
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