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We're 5 points behind Arsenal, if we win all of our remaining games we'd be likely to finish second. 30/04: Arsenal v PSG CL SFI 04/05: Arsenal v Bournemouth 08/05: PSG v Arsenal CL SFII 12/05: Liverpool v Arsenal 19/05: Newcastle Utd v Arsenal 26/05: Southampton v Arsenal I don't think that will happen, but I'm backing us to finish top 4, not having to rely on that bonus spot. Hopefully Joelinton is OK to play.

For me, VAR should be (as was originally proposed) only for clear and obvious errors (and offside - although the current rule is bollocks) as such if VAR can't see something is wrong in 30 seconds, it's not clear and obvious snd we should stick with the onfield decision.

I am shocked to my core to hear about a BMW driver not checking their mirrors. It's completely unheard of.

it works a treat

There's a multitude of ways they could use VAR better but they seem to be completely against putting these completely simple things in place.

One of the worst things about VAR is a referee not making a decision on the pitch because he knows VAR will check it, and then VAR deciding there isn't enough to overturn the referee's "decision". But the referee has explicitly made no decision. So you end up with them both opting for the "no decision" route and now it's somehow no one's fault that a decision got missed. I t's fucking idiotic. If the ref isn't sure, he should be able to say "lads I missed that one, could you please review and let me know."

Mossad, GRU or just independent cyber cunts?

I don’t mind this but a cup of something is by volume not weight

It's hard to believe that VAR could actually lower the quality of refereeing but it has. I'm still sticking with VAR being the worst thing that has happened to football in my lifetime. It hasn't made any reduction in the amount of controversial decisions, the discussion now is just around whether VAR made a mistake rather than the on field ref, and it's slowing games down to a ridiculous degree. A lot of the time the supporters don't have any clue why the referee is delaying a restart. If anything is going to make people fall out of love with football it's VAR.

Since the introduction of VAR, on-field refereeing has becoming lazy IMO. Far too many examples where an on-field ref has chosen to not make a difficult call in the security that VAR will dig him out if needed. Evidenced in part by knowing if he's sent to review on a screen, you're practically guaranteed his decision is being overturned. I can only think of one example (Oliver I think) where after reviewing the footage he stuck to his original decision.

I don’t normally like criticising refs but he was out of his depth on Sat. The Bruno disallowed goal was a joke (the defender pushed him into the keeper as well), I’m not sure if Burn tripped Ben Johnson and although Murphy was tugged back there has been numerous incidents recently like this that didn’t get overturned.

Now that the title is decided and the relegation places are done there's only two things to look out for according to the BBC, the race for Europe and....

Do they pronounce "twenty" and "20" differently or something?

Kudos to the Knight Ryder, it looks like he was ahead of the curve writing football songs in his articles.

There was at least two VAR checks in that first half on top of the sending off. One minute of added on time was quite frankly ridiculous. That was honestly one of the least competent refereeing performances I've ever seen (and I'm not even taking the disallowed goal into account as I think pretty much every ref would have made the same decision). He completely lost control of what should have been the easiest games in the world to referee.

There was an ex-factory manager who did tours of our place for pocket money who was called 'The Northumbrian Piper', when I asked why he was called it, I was told it was because he had a colostomy bag.

The Irish being investigated by counter terrorism? Is it September 10th 2001? Did my Time Machine work?

BMW I reckon he accidentally knocked an indicator on was utterly distracted ” What de feck is dat flashing light to be sure, to be sure, so it is”

He'd get Pickford these days.

Unrelated but when I was at physical rehabilitation in the army one lad had both lower arms blown off in a mortar attack. Everyone called him safe because he was armless.

The new Bridget.

I've just accepted my role as the parent of a serial killer.

We got her a collar with a bell on it when she was relentlessly murdering just mice. There was about a week of no murders, and then they resumed so she obviously worked out a new technique - I assume holding the bell still with her front paws and wading in on her hind legs.

Lad I worked with had the same hand thing as Beadle and was apparently known as Clock at school.