If ever you wonder whether VAR helps corruption in football, that’s a prime example of inexplicable. That second was a penalty clear as day - we had softer ones against us last season.
Regardless of that Steve Cooper's performance has been remarkable. Took over Forest at the bottom and got promotion. Probably won't survive, but who knows?
Glad it was Jon Moss’s last game, he’s a poor official, but what is the point of VAR if not to overturn poor decisions like that. An entire season of effort for Huddersfield wasted because of poor officiating. 100% guarantee both decisions would have been given against Norwich in the PL
I'm really falling out of love with football, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Obviously, this is partly due to the awful season we've had, but it's not just that. I've spent some of the day online looking at fan reactions to possible investment in the club, and that seems to be all that matters. No excitement about new players or anything to do with the game. Just a huge sigh of relief that maybe we'll get our snouts in the trough along with everyone else. When I compare football to the only other sport I follow - badminton - it's chalk and cheese because money hasn't destroyed that. And then there's VAR. A huge majority of the fans don't want it, but what do the fans matter?
I can understand your feelings, Gozo, but the interest is in further investment rather than a takeover. Hopefully that fits into evolution rather than revolution and further development of Webber's model rather than 'snouts in the trough' behaviour.
I know, Rick. I'm in favour of investment, too, because I realise it's the only chance we have of becoming even slightly competitive. The game has improved in many ways since I was young, but in many other ways it's got worse. The days when Huddersfield (three times in a row) or Portsmouth (ditto) could win the league because their area just happened to have a generation of good players who were managed well havelong gone. OK, that's way back when, before anyone on here was even born, but Forest and Derby winning the league because they had a phenomenal manager? No way. Nowadays the clubs would be stripped bare of all their young talent and the manager picked off as well. Even clubs like Ajax and Porto have no chance of being part of Europe's elite anymore, so how can smaller regional clubs in England even imagine getting to the top of the greasy pole? One thing this season has done is made me change my mind about a European Super League. I want the Big Six (or is it the Big Seven now that Newcastle have unlimited access to funds?) to just go away and form a cosy little clique with a handful of Italian and Spanish clubs, play each other four or six times a year, francise themselves in the US and China and the Middle East, until all the glory hunters get bored and the whole thing collapses. Meanwhile the rest of the Football League can start to dream of winning something again, of being the best at least in England, even those clubs way down the current hierarchy. I realise a lot of my recent posts have been rather acidic; I think because this season has made me realise that the Farkeball dream was only ever that - a dream. What's the best that can happen to our club after this woeful season? Smith's pragmatism works, he gets us up and we come 16th for a few seasons in a row playing attritional football. In other words, we become Burnley. Not much of a dream, is it?
Unfortunately those teams who want a super league want to stay and compete in their domestic leagues as well as I read their intent.
That's right. They backed off quickly when it was suggested that they be kicked out of the PL. I also doubt that City fans would accept attritional football either. We've always been a passing side, but that doesn't have to mean always passing out from the back.
Then I hope the remaining teams make it quite clear that if they leave, they leave and there's no coming back.
Ukraine have had 3 good chances. Jock keeper makes 3 exceptional saves. Gilmour is playing, but you would never know
Slava Ukraine! Hanley did well enough with a 6.7 rating on WhoScored, but Gilmour sank to 5.9 before being subbed off after 68 minutes.
