It's Your Round

He’s not actually injured, just playing the long game to not jeopardise his move to Villa.

I wild carded in a new team before this last game week. I’m now stuck with three players on the bench that never play and three Villa players that will miss a week. With only one transfer to sort it out. Great!

Yeah, it’s fine if the people being photographed have consented, but I know of plenty that haven’t.

Thinking about toys I had brings back some good memories, but what about toys you were never allowed to have? Me, and most kids I knew, always wanted one of these but were never allowed. I don’t know why, did adults know something we didn’t about them? Were the syrups laced with LSD perhaps. Who knows.

Edit: bad page break! In reference to @mottaloo’s post.

I feel a bit like that. I’ve had people at work wanting to take photos of me so they can promote whatever it is I’m doing at the time on the business social media accounts. Kinda pisses me off, I’m not on Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter etc.. for a reason. I don’t want my face plastered all over it without my consent. It’s happening loads on MS Teams this year, people slyly taking screenshots then plastering them all over LinkedIn. Wish they’d all just feck off. I guess that makes me a grumpy clearing in the woods, but like all grumpy clearings in the woods, I don’t care.

Cool, this means my wife will be in the first stage of vaccinations. I should add that I’m not married to a 90 year old, my missus just works there

Celebrity Kung Fu Gruffalo is my highlight, it promises to be one hell of a show.

Yeah taking a flight doesn’t seem necessary at all, what’s wrong with a couple of coaches? A three or four hour drive with the players sat relaxing on a luxury coach is no hardship. If the players can’t handle that, then maybe they should have checked where Newcastle is before signing.

I’m sure at times he wishes that he’d never scored those goals at Brentford. Especially when he’s sat in the dilapidated, stinking changing room at the sty, looking around at the group of ugly misfits wondering where it all went wrong.

We could play both teams at the same time. A bit like a royal rumble, with less violence as VAR wouldn’t like that. Maybe have two footballs on the pitch at the same time. Then charge fans £65 to watch this new and exiting product.

If the rules were supposedly saying that games would still go ahead with a minimum playing squad of 14. Then how many of their players have actually tested positive? Some, a few? What’s to stop another team deciding to request postponement if they have a couple of key players out? Could Liverpool have requested to postpone their game when Salah, Shakiri, Keita and Alacantra were isolating? The precedent has been set now, what’s to stop any team doing this. I should say, I don’t have a problem with player and staff safety. That comes first, and it’s debatable whether football should even be played at all right now. The problem is with the way it’s been handled, much like the governments handling of the pandemic, it’s a sack of shit.

We did play well last night, and we really should have had the three points on the balance of play. Silly little mistakes and some unjust VAR officiating undid the largely dominant display. If we keep playing like this and can cut out the errors, we’ll win more than we lose.

Play it or forfeit. The only two options I would accept.

The relationship thread is still open, I’m sure there’s handy tips there to help you fellas... even at your ages.

This completely passed me by! Not a good draw that for Liverpool, they’d have had high hopes for winning the cup. Never mind!

Team one. Then I’d drop Southgate and tell him that he needs to prove himself in the U18s. Team three is the best though on balance.

The thing is, even with a reduced number of VAR calls, they will still get it wrong. It’s the people interpreting it that cause the issues, not so much the technology itself (although the camera quality is terrible).

It wasn’t that long ago that they changed the offside guidance to say that the attacker should be given the benefit of the doubt, where the linesman is unsure. That made sense, surely we want more attacking play and goals in the game? It’s entertainment and goals are entertaining. This current obsession with hand-drawn lines and millimetres on 3mp camera, is not entertaining.

I did, I was already complaining that he’d booted into nowhere

These decisions are ingrained in him, it’s an automatic choice - garlic Mayo (chilli is for foriners), naan bread (pitta is for girls, and 100% Bruce would go for your throat if you even hinted at suggesting he have salad on it.

Just remembered that perfect ball through to Elmo towards the end. Defence splitting and superbly weighted, only for Elmo’s first touch to spaz it out of play and ruin any chance of an opportunity.

I do regularly question why Mings is constantly just guarding space on corners. Time and time again, the opposition’s biggest players are free to attack the ball. The zonal marking doesn’t seem to be working very well, maybe time for a change?

If they’re unable to field a team and have to forfeit, I’d expect VAR to rule all three of the awarded on paper goals out.

I’d be calling for a lengthy ban if that was the case.