Personally I prefer owners who don't say anything. Markus never did. Once they start they don't know where to stop and end up thinking they can comment on team selection, formations and tactics. Ask any Sheffield Wednesday fan....
I haven’t seen this before, but it’s a classic. I’ll be reading this blog every time we have a game now https://leagueoneminus10.blogspot.c...MBlqN_mFhPS94sT0LaBmo69Qd6fe2MlCalijzGJ1tDUm4
Yeah that was an enjoyable read despite the subject. Think that's written by Glen de la Cour who is also a regular on Total Saints Podcast which also makes for a good listen every week if you have the time.
Owners like Markus Liebherr are so incredibly rare. Even the generous rich ones who want to invest in their clubs are usually crooks. We had one in a million there; then he died. That is just so ****ing Saints - the Southampton way; strike gold, then watch it turn to iron pyrites.
Very apt following Tueday night's events “Good judgement comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad experience.” (Will Rogers, American actor 1879-1935)
Do referees terrible performances never get reviewed? I'd say that there have been so many inexplicable decisions made that they shouldn't really just be removed from refereeing Saints. How bad do you have to be to get demoted down the leagues? Or is it simply a case of, it doesn't matter how bad you are we have no referees to take their place? Or it doesn't matter how bad you are, we are an old boys club and we will pretend that nothing happened?
I’ve listened to Glen’s insights on the Total Saints Podcast many times, but I’ve never actually read his blog before, which was clearly a mistake. That one absolutely nailed it, and I loved the Dean-Scott dialogues particularly. As RSS said above, if you haven’t yet, give TSP a go, which Ben Stanfield generously posts on here every week. As you say Dave, Leagueoneminus10 is now a must-read!
The daylight rule makes all the sense in the world. The offside rule is supposed to stop you ruining the game by goal hanging. If there is no daylight you are still leashed to the defender. It is not supposed to be harness to stop attacking play. Whoever wrote the rule was a moron tbh.
What should happen is Bednarek gets his red card rescinded and Martial charged by the FA for deceiving the officials.
My first experience of the offside rule, like most people’s, was playing football in Games lessons at school. The PE teacher reffed, with no linesmen, and had to judge from behind the play whether an attacker was offside, so there had to be a reasonable gap before a whistle was blown. Later I ran the line a couple of times in inter-school matches where the rules were more strictly applied, and the consensus was that an attacker making a run early enough to leave clear daylight was a good enough reason to raise the flag. Watching professional football at the Dell, the general viewpoint was that all referees were blind and incompetent, but it wasn’t until Match of the Day came along and the famous Action Replay was invented in the late 60’s that anyone ever questioned the parentage of a linesman, as up until then, no one ever really thought that they did anything controversial. Suddenly, however, incorrect offside calls were there, in black and white on our screens, and the can of worms was open. When top flight match officials turned pro in England in 2001 and the PGMOL was formed it was the beginning of the end, and VAR has been the final nail. The officials have, it has to be concluded, become too powerful for their own competence, with Mike Dean being the prime example. Offside has to go back to being “clear daylight” or supporters will give up the game completely. As for VAR, I’m done. Enough already.
