The General Football Thread

I think I have mentioned before, about my niece’s son being attached to the Bristol City juniors, but that his parents had been contacted by the Saints.
He’s only 8 or 9, but has just signed an academy contract, for Bristol City, bless him.
I have seen a couple of photos, and the signing set up was just as you would expect it to be for a first team signing, sat behind the big desk with an official photographer there to record it. They even had a shirt with his name on the back of it. How good is that.

 

Chelsea and England footballer Danny Drinkwater has been charged with drink-driving after a car crash.

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You want my advice Danny, Drinkwater.

 

Danny Driveslower

 

That is hilarious. Is that a pen @tomw24

 

Rose handball VAR pen. Same as PSG, a no from me.


........saved............

 

Justice.

Come on Spurs ffs.

 

It's more of a penalty than the PSG one, in my book.

If UEFA guidelines are that the PSG one was a penalty (which it absolutely was not, in my book), that had to be a penalty.

 

There's more pens in this game!

 

Had it hit his hand I'd agree. But not his elbow. He was bringing in to his body.

 

Yellow card

It honestly baffles me beyond belief that anyone really believes that var is going to be of benefit to the game. Mental.

 

Tasty game this.

 

Again though, giving that as a penalty isn't VAR's fault. That was given as a penalty because of UEFA's (rather, um, interesting) guidelines on handball. Had the referee seen in real time what he saw using VAR, he would have given a penalty in real time.

By all means have a go at UEFA or the rule makers. That's completely fair game in my opinion. But I disagree with having a go at VAR, just becomes it assists in implementing those rules. If that's a penalty, it's not VAR's fault it's a penalty. All VAR has done is correct what was apparently an incorrect decision.

 

Spurs look really dangerous. Quite impressed how they've started.

 

That's not a VAR thing, just a handball rule interpretation thing. And UEFA say it's a penalty, so...

(that interpretation will be in the England soon, if you don't hate it enough already)

stole brendy's point there apols - but now I think about it I'm not sure why the ref didn't give it first time round. It's a bit new to everyone I guess.

 

Well it kind of is because without it we could have just avoided that whole 3/4 minutes of nonsense.

It shouldn't be used for handballs full stop imo, looking at fast paced incident normally involving a shot and looking at it frame by frame or stills is just a ridiculous way of looking at it.

 

That stadium is a big bonus for them. Seems superb.

 

The new handball rule is just so wrong. Don't know why they've got so super anal about it.

 

There’s a touch of the Danny Cipriani about Harry Winks.

 

There is argument for that. At the end of the day, what VAR is and isn't being used for is an arbitrary decision.

But if you don't use it for handballs, then many people will continue to use the old line of wanting consistency across referees (which is the second worst line/cliché in football, in my view, after "he's entitled to go down there"). Those types of instances will be given as penalties when the referees see them, and not given when the referees don't. So you're somewhat leaving it down to pot luck as to whether the referee sees it or not, when it comes to you and your team.

It still leads back to whether it's right that these types of handball should now be outlawed.

 

Just aim for the midriff when you are close to the area. That's what I'd be telling the lads who play in the CL. Massive chance of a penalty every time.