Truth be told hardly any United fans or players appealed for a penalty last night. They all looked happy to accept a corner. Even the commentators - who had already watched a few replays of the Kimpembe block - seemed surprised when the ref trotted over to watch the VAR. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he was going to give a corner until a voice sounding remarkably like Gianni Infantino crackled in his ear piece saying something along the lines of "It's marginal but it'll make great television."
That's the problem with modern day football...it's ALL about tv viewers and sod all to do with those paying huge amounts to attend. Kick off times being changed to suit tv with no thought of how fans will get home. We played 8pm on Saturday night away at Wolves and Leicester and had the late kick off away at Cardiff on New Years Day. Fans of every team could provide similar examples.
Yip, Lets hope soccer never become really big in the US or we will have one o'clock in the morning kick-offs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_AsJMQkrY9p2R Well forgive me for shedding zero tears...
I've already posted this on here somewhere CK, come on, get up to speed otherwise we will have to call you CK in August
Whilst I have no sympathy cause of how they are run, but 2 years running they've done over by poor refereeing. Barca got away with murder in their 6 goals 2 years ago.
Would any manager want to be there? They are not going to continue to pay the same high salaries of sign the biggest players. If a manager fails at RM, they are soon out. All of a sudden it looks like a poison chalice. I would guess that they would be attractive for a super rich investor, but without that, they are in for a torrid time.
It's growing. New team Cincinatti started this week losing to Sporting Kansas City with 40,000 behaving like it was a rock concert! Fans there pretty much have to fly everywhere!!!!
Poison chalice, yoiu say? In that case, should like to nominate Jose Mourinho. He deserves a little of his own medicine.
MLS attendance has long been the same story: the average attendance is inflated by a Seattle and (since moving into their new stadium in 2017) Atlanta regularly attracting crowds of 40,000+ yet the rest of league fluctuates wildly, for example in the 2018 season Minnesota attracted 52,000 for one match against the LA Galaxy but their average was around 19,000 while the likes of DC United and Chicago Fire were bringing in four-figure attendances at points last season (as were Columbus Crew, although that's more due to fans staying away in protest at their owners plans to move the team to Austin) while one US Open Cup match between Houston and Minnesota attracted just 1930 fans Add to that the average being boosted by the addition of new franchises, for example the 2015 season saw the average bumped up and by complete coincidence that was the season Orlando City and The Sheikh Mansour's American Team were added, just like how the average jumped in the 2011 season where the Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps were added and again in 2012 when Montreal Impact were added, since the initial interest spike inflated the average - but aside from Seattle (and, at the time of writing, Atlanta) the interest often doesn't last, for example between 2002 and 2014 Colorado lost 25% of their crowds
Slightly different approach to the highlights from BT. Interesting to see it being experimented with. Makes the push in the back on Son look really blatant when you see it from the ref's view.
