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Anyone see the Southampton v Bournemouth game and the penalty miss? It was exactly the same as Harry Kane's miss there. The pitch and ball moved and it was missed - high and wide. Now, if the home players know of the problem and the away team don't, that's somewhat unfair?

What next? More booby traps? Tigers appearing from under the playing surface like in Gladiator?
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Anyone see the Southampton v Bournemouth game and the penalty miss? It was exactly the same as Harry Kane's miss there. The pitch and ball moved and it was missed - high and wide. Now, if the home players know of the problem and the away team don't, that's somewhat unfair?

What next? More booby traps? Tigers appearing from under the playing surface like in Gladiator?
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Gary Lineker tweeted "Harry Arters penalty kick has just landed on the Isle of Wight".

<laugh>.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
Zaha continues his audition for a move to Spurs, if the media are to be believed:
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Nicely done, to be fair.
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Would vastly prefer him to Barkley tbh. Sissoko, GKN and Njie out and bring him, Sessegnon and Isco in and I'll be a happy bunny.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Anyone see the Southampton v Bournemouth game and the penalty miss? It was exactly the same as Harry Kane's miss there. The pitch and ball moved and it was missed - high and wide. Now, if the home players know of the problem and the away team don't, that's somewhat unfair?

What next? More booby traps? Tigers appearing from under the playing surface like in Gladiator?
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I don't know why this isn't being taken more seriously. Whether intentional or not, it's worked to the advantage of the home team on at least two occasions and stopped a couple of goals going in. If the penalty was missed by a Chelski, ManU or Citeh player there would be uproar!
 
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Watching Swansea v Boro.
Player gets fouled, perpetrator gets booked and the injured player gets treatment.
The injured party didn't have to leave the field afterwards, because the player committing the foul was booked.

This rule was introduced at the start of the season, apparently.
Does anyone else remember seeing another example of it happening? I don't.
 
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Watching Swansea v Boro.
Player gets fouled, perpetrator gets booked and the injured player gets treatment.
The injured party didn't have to leave the field afterwards, because the player committing the foul was booked.

This rule was introduced at the start of the season, apparently.
Does anyone else remember seeing another example of it happening? I don't.
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Had heard about it, but considered it in the same way I view a Unicorn or Father Xmas!! Never seen in real life <laugh>
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
Watching Swansea v Boro.
Player gets fouled, perpetrator gets booked and the injured player gets treatment.
The injured party didn't have to leave the field afterwards, because the player committing the foul was booked.

This rule was introduced at the start of the season, apparently.
Does anyone else remember seeing another example of it happening? I don't.
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Yeah, it's happened a few times. The refs slow things down by checking on the player first, if they need treatment and then card the player to give a bit more time for recovery.

Pretty sure that's exactly what the ref did when Surman got sent off against United. The ref checked on Mings who'd been elbowed first, then got the physios on and lastly went over to give Surman the second booking.
 
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Celtic win the SPL with eight games to spare. Eight.

Yawn.
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28 wins, 2 draws and +63 goal difference. Competitive. <ok>
Can't knock Brendan Rodgers, as he's done well there, but Scottish football as a whole needs an overhaul.
Nobody outside of Scotland gives a crap, as we all know what's going to happen and they're not producing young talent, either.
 
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28 wins, 2 draws and +63 goal difference. Competitive. <ok>
Can't knock Brendan Rodgers, as he's done well there, but Scottish football as a whole needs an overhaul.
Nobody outside of Scotland gives a crap, as we all know what's going to happen and they're not producing young talent, either.
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I would find it very easy to knock Brendan Rodgers actually.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
28 wins, 2 draws and +63 goal difference. Competitive. <ok>
Can't knock Brendan Rodgers, as he's done well there, but Scottish football as a whole needs an overhaul.
Nobody outside of Scotland gives a crap, as we all know what's going to happen and they're not producing young talent, either.
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Many people point to Rangers' expulsion as the catalyst for the horrendous drop in quality throughout the Scottish leagues, but tbh I would actually lay the blame firmly at the feet of the Premier League in this country. Casting my mind back to the early-mid 90's, I remember there was almost an annual debate about admitting Celtic and Rangers to the PL. At that time, they could field teams and boast of transfers that made even big PL clubs green with envy. But as the golden pendulum began to swing firmly in the PL's direction, the teams south of the border were getting steadily wealthier whilst those north of it were financially stagnating. The truth of the matter is that by the time Rangers were demoted 5 years ago, both they and Celtic were already fielding sides that would've seriously struggled in the EPL. The proof of the pudding is in the dearth of players who have moved south to the EPL and actually been success stories. Beyond Wanyama, Van Dijk and Forster, who in the past 5 years+ has moved to the PL and stood out for their quality? If anything, the reverse is now true - the SPL has become a glorified playground for EPL misfits, failures and journeymen.

Just a glance at the TV deals tells you all you need to know about the disparity between the two leagues - a disparity that I firmly believe (despite being very young at the time) simply didn't exist to such extreme extents in the early years of the PL. Scotland's most recent TV rights deal runs for 4 years and is worth £60m. Ours, by comparison, runs for 4 years and is worth just short of £6billion. That's 1% of our revenue. One percent. Celtic and Rangers have followings far, far larger than the likes of Bournemouth or Palace, but their TV revenue will be just 1%.

The gap is too great to bridge. Rodgers has done well, as he has used his time managing in the PL to identify which misfits, journeymen and failures are worth bringing up north. The Dembele signing was a very good piece of business too. But the reality is that Celtic will never again be a force to be reckoned with on the European stage, and the SPL in general will never be a reliable source of young talent. In hindsight, moving the Big Two to the EPL all those years ago may well have been the best thing for them.
 
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