Not much to say, I hope they get through, more fixtures the merrier. In fact a mouse CL win would probably help us if we are still there with a chance of the league at the end.
I'm risking an RCL here, but Fulham are currently beating Leicester away and they've scored a penalty. I do not understand this season, at all. It's utterly mental.
As soon as I transferred Castagne and Rodriguez into my fantasy team, Leicester and Everton both lost form immediately
Yeah, a bit of luck it will be so mental, a team that hasn't won the league since 61 might do it this time <tin hat> <rcl>
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Ollie Watkins has taken six penalties so far in his career. He's now missed four. Why is he still anywhere near one?
Are you seriously complaining when you've drawn a semi-professional team in the 8th tier of the Football League? Arsenal have lost their last 3 home domestic games, by the way. Not as if we're in scintillating form.
Of course it's all random. But if you asked Derren Brown if he could fix a draw to make it look random and fair, I bet he'd say he could.
Pathetic VAR intervention at the end of that match costing Villa / gaining Spammers 2 points. They can argue as much as the like about the science of positioning the lines but there are so many flaws in the system they are simply deluding themselves. For example, if the original line they are comparing against is not 100% accurate then no matter how much they deliberate over where to put the comparison line, and which part of the body counts, then the result is bollocks isn't it? And as far as I know the first line is when the ball is played but that cannot possibly be known to the fraction of a second required to make the second line meaningful.
Completely agree but the solution is tricky, because it has to be an objective measure. If they knew the uncertainty in the measurements was say 5cm they could say you were onside if you were within that margin but it would still mean that some calls were made on being 1 mm over that. Since VaR has clearly demonstrated that the offside law can't be correctly enforced by current technology, why not just abolish it?
Anyone know what will happen to Newcastle now the whole squad has to isolate? Will they have to forfeit vs Villa or have their youth teams escaped the virus?
I thought that the defender was all over Watkins too, but that never seems to factor into it. I've seen players pushed into offside positions on free-kicks with increasing frequency, too.
Why do they think that the Fuchs one is stonewall, but Robertson's was vaguely debatable, despite him making far more contact? Hmm... This isn't a foul, though: please log in to view this image If they'd have given it though, it would still be the right decision. Why are the officials so bad in the Premier League? Poor, poor, poor.
That's not as bad as the one against Haller that should've been a penalty but they gave Villa a FK for. Or the yellow card Fornals got when Grealish threw himself to the floor, screamed in agony, and then started clutching the wrong leg. (VAR even looked at that one for a possible sending off FFS!) or the blatant hand-ball just before they were given a penalty for a tug on a shirt that somehow managed to propel Trezeguet forwards (funny that the cheating **** cut his head open doing it).
The Trezeguet dive was bullshit. That's not a penalty. He barely touched him. I don't understand why you'd review a foul for a red, see that it's not a foul and then let the yellow stand. Seems a pointless thing to ignore. Didn't see the Haller one, so I can't comment.
