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Five Ken McNaughts

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  1. If someone wants to raise a specific criticism of Davis’ brief performance tonight then I’m all ears (because I must have missed what he did wrong). It seems far more simply consider it their duty to jab a finger and say “he’s shit” every time he sets foot on the pitch.
  2. Anwar El Ghazi waited 671 days to return to that penalty area and stick the ball in the Leeds net. Love it!
  3. The whole point about making substitutions when you are losing is you need to change the existing patterns of the game, to impact what has become settled, to cause a shift in the status quo (losing). The evidence before our own eyes says that going from El Ghazi / Watkins / Traoré... to... Trez / Watkins / Traoré achieved nothing. Would going from El Ghazi / Watkins / Traoré... to... Watkins / Davis / Traoré have had a greater impact (greater than nothing)? Given us a better chance of changing the shape of the game? Of altering the status quo? Well, it’s all hypothetical, but, personally, I think so.
  4. I definitely preferred Peter Schmeichel to his ungracious bully of a son. Not sure how it isn’t a yellow card to appeal for a non-existent offside while kneeling on the goalscorer. Not having that at all. Nasty piece of work.
  5. MASSIVE foul throw for the second goal. Both feet off the ground by a country mile.
  6. Clearly not right in mind or body. Top speed down. Stamina down. Sweating buckets from the first whistle. Trying to paper over the absent basics with showboaty flicks and tricks. Enough. Who is this even benefiting? Ross? Villa? Deano? Chelsea? None of the above, as far as far as I can see. Just give the guy some time off and see if he comes back fitter and better.
  7. One thing’s for sure. Either we make significant changes in tactics / personnel / both, or we are just tottering off our stool to get popped right on the chin, 5-0. I only hope Deano and his cornermen realise that.
  8. One of those nights where Jack gets all wrapped up in petty nonsense and never gets his head in the game.
  9. Konsa must be sick of getting into trouble for people wellying his standing leg. Fernandes last season, now Saka. If that had been Grealish in the Saka role, pundits would have been going nuts about him “initiating the contact”.
  10. It seems Jack was booked for telling the ref that a game stopped for a head injury is not restarted with an opposition free kick. A yellow card for saving the officials and PGMOL from another “we-don’t-know-the-laws” calamity. There’s gratitude for you.
  11. For what it’s worth, I like the sound of that.
  12. Che Adams’ foot may originally land on Martinez’s hand inadvertently (at the very least that part is hard to prove), but once it does there’s no doubt his next actions are entirely deliberate: pivoting unnaturally on the foot with the hand beneath it, putting his whole weight through those blades and onto the trapped fingers. Very sly, very nasty and could very easily have put our keeper out for weeks.
  13. I love Dean Smith. But until he learns to make substitutions in a position of strength we will not achieve much.
  14. Good stuff so far! Here’s an idea for Paul Tierney – if the advantage is over in 0.5 seconds and the offending team then break past the fouled / hurt Watkins, maybe give a free kick, eh? It’s not rocket science.
  15. Can see this being really tight. Maybe even goalless around the 80-minute mark. At which point Ashley Barnes will catch the ball, run 50 yards with it tucked under his arm and swallow dive Chris Ashton-style into Villa’s net. Once the ref and VAR have awarded the goal and waved a few red cards at the Villa bench, Burnley fans will take to social media to claim that is how the law has always been applied and Peter Walton will read out some out-of-context piece of legislation ( “...so, because in this instance the whole of the ball DID cross the line, the goal was rightly awarded...”) before the Premier League helpfully “clarifies” that the officials were correct to give the goal, but if it happens again then the handball element should be given precedence. Final score: 1-0.
  16. I was a bit late hearing about this whole twist in the tale, but I can’t remember enjoying 3-4 pages of VillaTalk much more than the ones that have covered it here. Cheers, all! Made me alternately laugh and shout “Exactly!’ for about 20 minutes. The intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Premier League and all its media lapdogs laid bare for the whole world to see. Good.
  17. Well, I naturally respect your opinion, but I don’t see how sliding full length to desperately try and intercept a cross can be looked upon as having “time and options”. Not going by the common meaning and usage of that term in the context of a football match.
  18. I know I posted this once before – after the Man City game – but I think it is worth repeating here. According to IFAB’s own published Law updates for the 20-21 season, this (below) is the ONLY change to the offside law this season. It is an entirely niche scenario about offside after a deliberate handball. It bears zero relation to any decision we have seen on Wednesday or Saturday. The reason pundits keep reading out this (irrelevant) amendment is so they can quote the bit of the text that HASN’T changed and try to convince us THAT is the new ruling. Dan Walker became the latest in a long line to do it on MOTD last night. Those words (“A player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball is not considered to have gained an advantage”) have been in Law 11 for years and (I maintain) they have never been interpreted like this in previous seasons – or even the first half of this season. So why do we keep being told these decisions are because of some new amendment? There is none. And it’s not only pundits doing it. Ex-refs too. I have just finished listening to Dermot Gallagher talking on an overseas PL broadcast where he says: “IFAB wanted to create more goals and they put this CAVEAT in – I don’t think they realised it would occur on Wednesday night and tonight like this.” What caveat, Dermot??? Something, really, really strange is going on with football right now. (From 3:00...)
  19. I agree Schar actively decides to play the ball. But going by FIFA’s full list of criteria to be satisfied (that I posted on page 7), would you say he had “time and options”?
  20. The “analysis” of Watkins’ goal on MOTD is woeful.
  21. I believe it is a case of the four factors that need to be satisfied for a play of the ball to be deliberate (rather than any 1 of the 4).
  22. The “time and options” clarification by FIFA relates to whether interceptions count as a deliberate play of the ball (they say fhey don’t). Rodri should have been flagged offside under Law11 because he was: a) “in an offside position at the moment the ball (was) played” and b) “interfering with an opponent” by c) “challenging an opponent for the ball”
  23. I found something that appears to really get to the nub of the matter. From proreferees.com. It lays out the two competing viewpoints then, very helpfully, gives a clarification issued by FIFA themselves following a controversial goal in MLS in March 2019 (there have been no relevant changes to Law 11 since then)... Note: “The defender has time and options” In the opinion of FIFA therefore, an attempted interception does not constitute a deliberate play of the ball and cannot play an attacker onside.
  24. Exactly. And given the lengths the commentators and pundits went to in order to say that Schar’s touch played Watkins onside regardless of his position, I think we can take it that the Premier League and its broadcasters are all now in lockstep over the new interpretation. A brand new, revolutionary interpretation of a long-established law, halfway through a season, totally out of line with other European leagues and without any announcement, discussion, or even change to the written laws. Unprecedented (and insane).
  25. I hear you @StefanAVFC. The offside Twilight Zone era is upon us. Chaos reigns.
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