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Due to your sunny disposition I suggest you put the book down and read something a bit more uplifting.

^ This 100% Jota went down 5 minutes after the miniscule of touches against us and he still got a pen, it's fucking laughable.

As if Salah and co stay on their feet if that happens to them! We know they don't and we know what happens next. Longstaff and NUFC don't have the fear factor that the likes of Klopp and Liverpool do. It's not corruption but it's an unconscious bias/fear that discriminates against the non-sky faves.

Just started reading 'Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World' Fuck me, some grim reading to start with. We've seriously fucked the planet eh? There was a part last night that said we have known for half a centenary what we are doing to the planet and still nothing drastic is being done.

Bin Dipper just walked in and we played YNWA, he wasn't happy

Aye I thought he could have stayed on his feet, but its a pen. If thats any Top 6 team thats a pen.

I think he felt the touch and went down. I bet he has a shit reputation with the referees. I think there have been at least two other similar incidents this season (Liverpool away and Milan away that I can recall)z i felt like he could have stayed on his feet but it’s probably still enough for a penalty. I can see why the ref thought it was soft in real-time. anyway, we deserved to lose so I’m at peace this morning. That team was a Bruce team. Hopefully Eddie goes back to 4 at the back now.

Still fucked off with Longstaff.

You've only got a particle? Sorry to hear that.

Is your serial killing vehicle off the road? You've got too much time on your hands. 🙂

I think Gemmill did.

I'm looking forwards to Webb's tortuous explanation for that abomination. 🙂

On the replay it also looked like VAR would overturn it.

This seems like it would be good in the short term but bad in the long term. I hope that football doesn't go down this route but it seems like the Americanised bullshit is here to stay and only getting worse. It means that teams with basically no supporter base will potentially become juggernauts and compete for titles on the basis of zero history or support (except for bandwagon jumping nonces) because their competition is hampered. An example is the Melbourne Storm in the Australian NRL. They're a wonderfully run club that poaches numerous Queensland players from the Brisbane region and has dominated the upper end of the competition ladder for a decade or more on the back of a good coach, solid planning and preferential treatment from the NRL administrators in the interests of "breaking into the Victorian market". Sounds great to have more competitive teams. But that's not how it plays out in practice. Melbourne Storm is strong because a big problem for them has been removed, i.e., market share relative to the other teams and pathways for local talent to come into the team. A salary cap allows them to sidestep these issues. But the benefits they enjoy are not diminished, i.e., support from the game's administrators, a nice place to live for prospective players, an experienced coach for whom players want to play, a recent history of success that draws players there on the chance of winning silverware, etc., the list goes on. And you might say that some (or even all) of these benefits are earned. But so is a revenue advantage in the broader sense of club history and development (at least in the vast majority of cases). So why is one type of advantage deemed unfair and others are allowed to remain? It's obviously because a "salary cap" system is really just a marketing gimmick to promote a "competitive" competition. But I would argue that it isn't any more competitive than other sports. The same teams come to dominate for years or even decades because of factors that are not dependent on a salary cap. A salary cap system, for me, produces an artificial and largely illusionary equality because, although money is a massive factor, it is not the only factor. And if you equalise the salary spend, then those other factors will simply become the new reason for an uneven competition. And many of these factors simply can't be controlled. Then other measures come into play. For example, if your team is in an undesirable location -- simply move the team to a better location. And, thus, the franchise system of the American sporting leagues, which has also happened in Australia with teams with rich traditions being upended and moved thousands of kilometres away. At the end of the day, you can't control everything but it seems like more and more that it is the perceived remit of the game's administrators to act like they can do so. It's pure arrogance built on the back of corporate greed and the opportunistic pursuit of a quick buck. I would prefer an officiating body that does less and professes to know as little as possible because this sort of shit is short-sighted nonsense initiated by self-congratulatory blowhards who have been in the game for ten minutes and act like they fuckin' know everything. Football was fine for the few hundred years it existed without any of this crap. Not to be the old man in the room complaining about the good ol' days and whatever but it really boils my piss that the mega-rich have to come in and spoil everything with their "campaigns" and marketing spin crap. Does absolutely everything that belongs to the people have to be taken away in the interest of the almighty dollar?

They deserved to win but I felt we were denied a penalty- dunno how it looked on the replay but in real time I was sure VAR would overturn it

We played like absolute shit and deserved to lose. That said. That is the new worst decision by VAR this week (because it's like this every week for at least one team in the PL). This week it was our turn to be royally fucked over by the tinpot officiating in this league. How the ref doesn't give it on the field is beyond me. It's a blatant pull back, penalty, and possibly a red card for a denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity. He has a clear view of it. The commentators (despite their clear Palace bias) actually seemed confused that he hadn't given it. Then, the fact that VAR don't overturn it is just insane. I actually burst out laughing when it wasn't overturned. It is comical at this point. VAR is just a game of Russian roulette. You just hope the bullet isn't in the chamber for your team each week. How can they be without bias in making the decision when the ref books Longstaff during the check? It's pretty clear that he's done that to make a point about the decision. You know then that immediately he's set his stall out and the VAR idiots in the booth have to decide either to make their mate look like an idiot by making the correct decision or close shop and protect their little weak-willed buddy on the pitch. And obviously we get the latter because these little dweebs stick together like the most pathetic gang you can possibly imagine. VAR is a charade. In an industry with so much money at stake it's mental that this is the standard of officiating that passes for acceptable. Anyway, fair result. One of our worst performances of the season. That said, Palace were pretty shit too, despite all the possession and chances they had.

Orbital was the wise choice.

On my way back from the match. Had a good view of the penalty incident, looked like a clear pen. Crystal Palace were the better team but they can fuck off with their Vengaboys shite when they score.

Chuffed as nuts. Didn’t apply for a ticket. Then fancied going after the spurs match so put the feelers out and got lucky. Then Monday I got a text reminding me that it’s Orbital in Southampton tomorrow night and not being in the first flush of youth as they say I flogged the ticket on and so I won’t be getting in at stupid o’clock tomorrow morning after paying to watch that parcel of fucking shit 😀 Thoughts and prayers with agent @Dr Gloom though 🙏🏻😔 hope he’s not regretting his life choices tonight

If we can bang another 8 past Sheffield Utd on Sat that we put their GA up to a nice even 100 Edit: we also relegate them, but that's happening anyway regardless.

Disappointing performance, gutted.