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New linesman flag prototype spotted

Raise the safety flag !!!!

Your logic only holds if players only clatter posts/get hurt when there's an offside not given. Offside or not, foul or not, players get hurt.

Craig "IT'S A POTENTIAL DEATH TRAP" Hayton

I’d rather have 100 PL goals chalked off than see one Newcastle player hospitalised because of the linesman going too late with his flag.

In any of you watched that game, you’ll know the offside was blindingly obvious. That’s the point I’m making. When it’s too close to call, let the phase play out. But everyone in the stadium knew it was offside. The commentators even said “the flag will go up here”. Stupid rule. As Alex says there’s no perfect solution and they really need to see what can be achieved with AI / semiautomation.

We could have the VAR stop play for the referee to review if it would have been correct to flag

I don't agree. Immigration is a great example. Most people who want immigration to go down understand only one side of that issue. They do not understand for instance that social care will be decimated, that pensions will be threatened, that certain sectors will struggle with impacts felt throughout the economy. Most of them don't even understand that immigration is a net positive on the economy. People sort of drift through life thinking that governments make these choices out of some Marxist agenda, whereas in reality the choice to permit immigration is a response to an economic need. I am yet to see an anti immigration voter properly contend with both sides of that issue, and thats what I mean when I say people don't understand these issues as fully as they'd need to in order to make an informed decision. I debate with the fuckers day in, day out. I can see it.

Allardyce that must have been embarrassing

Looks like we need a new rule for how far offside a player needs to be to flag immediately. It’s the only way.

PardewedYP

These fucking wankers bragging about how many cats they've got when I'm down to zero.

I really couldn't give a fuck if I never see another derby again. I've loved some of them, I've seen more victories than defeats but these days I'd be just as worried they put one of ours out for a season than anything else they do with the actual football and if they hit lucky in staying up I'd hate to see them given the chance to improve. Also you'd see them being really not bothered at all about the Saudi club during a derby, the cunts had a complete meltdown about us being given a whole end and a shit football ground bar being given over to us, they'd be no bother at all and would treat it as though they were playing Charlton Athletic or Bristol Rovers I'm sure.

Aye, it’ll be nice to see them dust off Kevin Ball again about 2 months in, until they appoint some other fucker nobody has heard off.

It really pissed me off when Derby ruined the Mackems' place in football infamy by breaking the record the cunts themselves had had the decency to teduce further and I for one would relish them having the opportunity to reclaim their accolade.

Brexit voting, run down, Farage rioting Sunderland, fuck em.

I did think it was slightly odd that there was a thriving Italian gay scene in Turkey until I looked at the map

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/may/14/matt-ritchie-my-dream-is-coming-to-an-end-you-have-to-reinvent-yourself

That was meant to say mate, not late I’m in the two cat club too and would be devastated if this happened to one of mine

The FA job will be much more low key for him. No one had heard of him when he last did the same role and it'll be the same again. With England the entire responsibility for the senior teams' performances belong to the managers so he can sit quietly being a rat in the background.

He’s got a very questionable record at the FA iirc. Wasn’t he embroiled in some scandal there previously? That’s along with Allardyce being his recommendation for the England job

I don’t think there’s an obvious perfect solution. Unless you can get the AI offside technology to eventually work in real time (or almost) but it’s difficult to see that with the nuances of phases of play / players not interfering. It does seem daft when someone receives the ball and they’re clearly about two yards off though to then let play continue.

precisely this. their six in a row came at a time when for me at least I couldn't have felt any more detached from the fucking abomination of ashley's sports direct fc. I'm far more interested in seeing an end to the league stranglehold the bindippers and man city have over us than I have beating the mackems 7 times in succession. the former will win us a league title.