The VAR guy was none other than Stuart Attwell, who awarded the ghost goal to Reading against Watford in 2008. The complaint was made by Nottingham Forest on their twitter account and the club will be facing serious trouble, but they were denied three penalties by VAR and the last two decisions (a hand ball by Ashley Young with his arm outstretched and a tackle from behind on a Nottingham Forest player, which failed to win the ball) looked like clear penalties. Apparently Nottingham Forest had asked that Attwell be removed from VAR before the match because he is a Luton supporter, but I think that his incorrect VAR decisions were probably because he has a long history of being a poor referee.
Was thinking that Gateshead were managed by former Watford 'non-favourite' Mike Williamson, but they're not - they're managed by our former goalkeeper-who-never-actually-played-for-us Rob Elliott. So rather than not feel sorry for them, I do... Who said I can hold a grudge...
What a great comeback by Coventry but poor Man U. Well exactly - that is my point; We have all had poor decisions. Were they really outrageous decisions then or just ones that get given by one ref one week but not another the next?
Udinese are now in talks to appoint Fabio Cannavaro (previously linked multiple times with the #watfordfc job) as their new head coach - following the departure of Gabriele Cioffi.
The Athletic's article from a few days ago - about why EPL matches may be regularly played in the USA in the not too distant future. Money rules I suppose - and if anyone has a voracious appetite for the stuff, it's EPL clubs and players. Ironic that they don't want to play cup replays in their own country but are happy to jet off to America for a match. Absolutely no thought given to the fans - if this comes about, I wonder how many will drift away to watch games in lower leagues? https://archive.is/JXGb1
Ot players for that matter who want less games and travelling but end up with more ! Unfortunately money does rule sadly .
This season's NRL fixtures kicked off with two games in Las Vegas. On the face of it, a mini success as the attendance for the double header was 40K+ - but there were 14K Brisbane Broncos fans and 6K Sydney Roosters fans there - so the locals weren't too enthused. I honestly doubt that Aussie League fans would put up with that sort of travel on a regular basis - it would bankrupt them.
Presumably the games would be played at USA local times which are 5 to 7 hours behind us so the fans who could not afford the trip would be watching in the early hours of the morning and because of enforced advert breaks ie Super Bowl the games would last anything to four hours they would lose whole nights sleep It would be the death of the EPL in this country, they might just as well form the European Super League and reform the 1st and 2nd leagues as they were ie 22 teams in each with promotion and relegation, revert the FA cup to its old format and the FAs of the Countries that have lost their biggest clubs to form a new governing body with a new European Champions Cup for Champions only and a new EUEFA Cup for the runners up and a European Cup Winners Cup for the Cup winners etc And when nobody watches meaningless games played by over hyped and over paid players and when the Elite teams want to return they can rejoin at National Leagues North or South Imagine the excitement in the results show National League North Liverpool 1 Manchester United 1
All getting a bit silly now surely? How does anyone know if Cardiff would have stayed up had this poor guy not died and played! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckmj4gedjr5o
You have to feel sorry for them - but I don't get why they are trying to sue Nantes. It was an unfortunate incident, and a very costly one, but someone had to bear the brunt of the cost. I'm assuming that the transfer documentation had been signed, so why should Nantes have to pay anything - he was no longer their player? To be honest they should go back to CAS and sue them- the argument appears to have started there. As an aside, we all know that we live in what has become a litigious world and something like this was bound to happen - so you'd think there would be some form of insurance available to cover such situations. But you're right - there's no guarantee that expensive strikers will score goals at the rate purchasing clubs expect them to - Fernando Torres the £50m flop springs to mind - Cardiff are being unrealistic claiming that in my opinion. A bit like Rangers last week - threatening to sue Dundee when their match there was called off because it rained and the pitch was waterlogged - silly and unrealistic.
According to the inquest, it didn't have anything to do with Nantes. After signing in Cardiff, Sala wanted to go back to Nantes to say goodbye to friends there. The flights there and back were organised by a Cardiff businessman at the request of Sala's agent - apparently because he was too scared to ask Cardiff's owners to do it. The businessman was later jailed for not checking whether the pilot had a current licence - which he didn't.
