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Well wasn't expecting that from Dean.. Good sub..

We can't put up with this until the 89th minute

Maybe we traded a var decision for promising to use no subs

We are playing roughly every 3 days, we need to rotate anyway.. Not force the same 11 for the entire 90 mins

No movement on the bench

Maybe not.. But mcgrath do we need trez on for traore

Adams stamps on martinez arm there..

Come on deano this is gonna cost us

Sanson on for mcginn now please, then 10 mins and trez for barkley

I think that may have been a test of that offside rule... Couple of players go early, doesn't matter if they are offside as long as they don't touch the ball. Doesn't work if the defence don't follow.. Which they didn't.

Hmm... Get barkley off now? Offering nothing obs..

Am I the only one who thinks barkley played really well (first half obs) Don't quite get the criticism - him and jack play so well together Barkley is class..

Exactly. lost 4 out of 5.. well... We lost 1 tonight- where we completely outclassed burnley ; but managed to lose. 2 we lost to major corruption to the 2 teams sitting first and second. We played well in both and matched each team pretty much. I think the other was when we played our under 16-s against last season's champions. I think we are doing more than ok.

First half we were great to watch - some of that one touch passing was awesome. How we lost I don't know - well mainly because of shite second half. But I know who i'd rather be watching for the rest of the season, and it ain't burnley. Its a horrible one to lose , sure, but we did play some fantastic football..

I don't believe it.

Martinez thinks the defender is taking it out, by the time he realises its to late

That's awful

You might be right

As far as I can remember, it all began with the 'not offside if not interfering with play'. If you are not interfering with play, you shouldn't be on the pitch. Its nonsense. We need to go back to calling offside when *anyone* is offside ; regardless of whether they might or might not be in someone's field of view or might or might not have touched something..

This story up on bbc now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55814673 It seems that all the professional bodies agree that the goal that we all said was offside, and should not stand, was OK when it was scored against us by Man City ; but if anyone tries it in the future, it's not allowed and will be penalised. So they admit it was incorrect - do we get a replay ? But referees group the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, rulemakers the International Football Association Board, and European governing body Uefa have since offered clarification on how such an incident should be interpreted in the future. "Where a player in an offside position immediately impacts on an opponent who has deliberately played the ball, the match officials should prioritise challenging an opponent for the ball, and thus the offside offence of 'interfering with an opponent by impacting on the opponent's ability to play the ball' should be penalised." The statement from the Premier League added: "Accordingly, if a similar situation to the one involving Rodri's impact on Mings occurred in a future match, then the impact would be penalised for offside."

Nah Watkins is offside when the ball is played, but as we know that doesn't matter. The Newcastle defender plays the ball before Watkins touches it, making him onside. The exact same rule that was used against us at city.

No by the rules it was definatley onside. Definatley. We have gone through those rules pretty throughly recently.

I was thinking that. El ghazi on for Jack, maybe?

I'm trying to calm down before being infuriated by watching Gary Lineker spin out the premier league BS ; now they've had a couple of hours to think about it.

I think this is spot on - i was pretty happy with how we played. I'm not sure what exactly happened with the covid situation, but it might be the case that a couple of these players have had covid over the last 2-3 weeks. I wouldn't have thought anyone could play a full premier league game just days after recovering from a severe respiratory disease, but who knows ?