The result as is sets the relegation trap door at 37 pts. Which means the Spanners are probably safe.
Bloody heck,Maggie,I think you are right. Now I can't count. (The IRS have just hit me for 20,000 dollars because of mixups when Paula became fatally sick!..and things got mixed up for our 2020 taxes. But,that's no excuse!!!!!) Strange,though that both North London teams went down the pan together!?
Not sure if this is the right place for it, but I'll put it here anyway. The behaviour of managers and players towards match officials this season "has not been good enough", says referees' chief Howard Webb: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65609045 I slag them off on a daily basis, but I agree with him. It's part of why they're ****, in my opinion. What sort of masochist would want to be a Premier League ref, never mind a lower level one?
The PGMOL are a bunch of nasty little c**ts, only too willing to throw their members under the bus when they are embroiled in controversy but in the right. For example, the first instance of player hostile swarming the left, give one such player a yellow. When they get sent off due to two yellows etc they would on paper soon get the message. But once certain managers or media hacks start their baby screeching, the PGMOL will withdraw the officials from the next equivalent game. Meanwhile, clubs should : 1. have it in player T+Cs that if such behaviour occurs, players will be fined 2. try to instil the rugby union ethos in the squad (captain +/- offending players only in front of the ref)
And why is it allowed to happen when it doesn’t in other sports? I think part of the answer lies in the fact that many of the rules themselves are frustrating, whoever applies them. Some need redrafting or have clearer guidelines on their interpretation. Offside, handball and tackling, in particular. A lot of the protests by players, managers and fans are because there is too much subjectivity, leading to different interpretations or too much pedantry (offside and handball decisions are laughable at times).
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He was charged with 230+ offences on November 17th. He had just scored both goals in a 2-1 win at City. Their next game was the 2-2 draw against us on Boxing Day, where he got their 2nd. He's scored another 9 since and earned them about 7 points from goals alone. He also got two assists which were both in games that they won 2-0 and he scored in. That's basically another 4 points, in my opinion, which makes 11.
No, but Toney's easily their top scorer and he's very important to their direct game, too. He has 21 goals and 5 assists, which is double the g/a of their next player. Bryan Mbeumo is on 7 goals and 6 assists, mainly playing off the right wing. A number of those are either for or from Toney, though. They started Wissa up front in their last game against a depleted, distracted West Ham. He's got 5 goals and 2 assists in 35 appearances, but they've been a mix of starts and subs. They don't really have proper, direct cover for Toney.
Also beggars belief that Southgate called him up to the England squad when this was all still hovering overhead.
He is not the only player who keeps playing with serious allegations hanging over them. Some clubs actually suspended players accused of various matters. One player lost his job eventually. because his contract ended before charges were dropped for insufficient evidence.
