Alex

Exactly who I was thinking of when reading HMHM’s post

I think we are probably much better at it / much more scientific than previously tbh. You can’t completely negate the risk. The lack of cover means taking a calculated risk / reward gamble too with CL football being at stake.

You maybe could do something but the only outcome of any note would be a (probably lengthy) custodial sentence. Because the social media, peaceful protest route and so on is just screaming into the void. I’m completely checking out for the most part. It doesn’t make be feel particularly proud of myself but what are you going to do? And by that I mean subjecting yourself to the (frankly horrific) reality is just bad for you. The holier than thou social commentators constantly banging on about are basically just making a living off it too. What actual fucking good do they do for anyone except themselves?

If PSG were going to give us megabucks for Botman I’d probably go for that. I think he’s class but he’s been injured a fair bit. I realise we’d then really need to be looking at bringing in two CBs this summer if that happened. I also realise it’s probably bollocks

Heaton Stan v Morpeth Town in the Northumberland FA Senior Cup final tonight at SJP if anyone’s doing nowt. Cash only turnstiles in the east stand

It’s transfer speculation. People literally just make stuff up for engagement

Point is, giving the obvious decision here would have prevented this. Ordinary open play when no offence has been committed is different because the officials should not be intervening then. It’s somewhat similar to someone being called a ‘good ref’ because letting niggling fouls go is ‘letting the game flow’ when it is in fact likely to just wind players up and cause a bad tackle or reaction. I suppose it come down to opinions though and I can see the argument for this with offsides. The latter example I gave annoys me a lot more

Makes you think

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

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.

He doesn’t get it because he never had to trudge through the 80s it would be a bit of a shock if they beat Sheffield Utd. But it’s better for Sunderland to play them in a one off cup final type of match than over two legs so they’ve got a decent chance imo. You’d think they’d really struggle to be remotely competitive with the way things are now if they came up though. It’s got to the point where it’s unusual if one of the promoted 3 stays up and you’d think they’d be the least well equipped.

It’s not the lino’s fault because it’s the rules that play should be allowed to continue but it’s fucking ridiculous when someone is so clearly offside in the build up. You felt it was only a matter of time before a player got a serious injury in a situation like that