Alex

Francis Lee

When you consider the resources I don’t know why they didn’t leave things as they were for this season and get an amazing website sorted for next year

It’s fucking sick and he’s a cunt but I know what you mean. This sort of thing often leads to an online campaign where people seem hell bent on destroying the individual’s life. Losing their job etc. It does seem a bit disproportionate. They really have brought it on themselves however

Is there a precedent for a modern, peacetime government overseeing a decline in life expectancy? That feels like it should be a bigger story than it is.

You missed out the minute’s silence option

Aye, what an absolute non-story the UAE thing is.

Tbf it’s probably easy to imagine fucking off a club they only support in the first place because of its success

On the plus side, our getting right under their skin is nice.

Aye. She’s a fucking appalling excuse for a journalist. It would be bad enough anyway but continuing to enable these fucking cunts? I genuinely despise her

Never in doubt 👀

I knew it would be in Yorkshire as soon as he said what they offered by way of recompense

I just hope they can end the war on unicorns too

Yeah. Agree with that too so it’s not perfect. But whatever the law is using AI (with human observation as a backup) seems like the only decent option. Wyki (I think) mentioned the lack of transparency too. When you look at sports like cricket and rugby and how the process of the video referees isn’t hidden it makes you wonder what they’re hiding. Not going down the conspiracy route, I suspect it’s chaotic incompetence

Managed about two minutes of his nauseating bollocks

5Live is fucking shit, mate. As is almost anything else in the media in terms of debating this sort of thing. I want evidence based research informing these decisions. Not sone thick as fuck bint or whoever spouting irrelevant shite. Even by listening and getting annoyed I feel like I’m facilitating the race to the bottom (in an intellectual sense)

Yeah, I get all that and I don’t disagree. I mentioned about why athletes dip because I don’t think Isak gains an unfair advantage in this instance. I know that’s not relevant to the law as it stands. But the feet position would perhaps be better. Like if a defender is caught on his heels and the attacker has some of his body ahead of the defender. This is likely because the attacker’s momentum means that would be his natural body position. In an instance like that it seems to favour a defender who has switched off. For decades now the law has been about giving the attacker the benefit of the doubt and it now runs counter to that imo. Like I said though the main problem is obvious human error coming into an area (VAR) that was meant to remove that. Rather than the law itself.

Absolutely. I’ve said before the VAR officials should own / make those decisions. Not have the ridiculous spectacle of a ref looking at a monitor, under immense pressure, in front of a baying crowd without even the full picture of how the events unfolded.

That’s a fair point too, because the issue of someone deciding where to put the lines based on their interpretation of exactly when the ball was played is too subjective. Iirc though ‘clear and obvious error’ is not applicable for offsides as they’re either onside or off. Although that goes back to the potential for human error with the placement of the lines

Because your torso crossing the line determines that you’ve finished the race. Not really relevant in this sense as this type of offside is essentially the start of a foot race as opposed to the end. However I can see the logic of the law. Because if it was a ball crossed into the box and the defender and attacker weren’t running then you could theoretically gain an ‘unfair’ advantage by having a part of your body in front of the defender when the ball was played. Even if the attacker’s feet weren’t ahead of the defender’s. I think the main point with the Isak one though is that it was offside and, within the current rules, that decision was right. The problem isn’t so much the law, it’s the (in)consistent application of it. As PL mentions, there’s technology available that would appear to remove the potential for human error. If that’s the case then why isn’t it being used? Because offside (similar to whether or not the ball has crossed the line) is not something that shouldn’t be open to interpretation. The worrying thing is VAR is no longer new, yet the issues around it seem no closer to being resolved. That was a fucking incredibly bad decision yesterday, for example. Hilarious too of course

He did. He didn’t intend to but that’s irrelevant as he took out a player he was never going to be able to win the ball fairly against. Similar to the straight red. Jones was unlucky in the sense he.was going for the ball. But the intent doesn’t matter there. It’s a very dangerous challenge the Spurs player kind of realises at the last minute and manages to somehow prevent his foot from being planted in the turf. Otherwise it could’ve been much worse. They’re the exact kind of challenges for which players should get sent off.

Motd will be worth it for Klopp’s post-match interview alone. Not a fan of Spurs and it’s a side we need to finish above to get CL football again you’d think. But that was fucking hilarious. The helium addicts will be going mental

#Imagine

It’s not the fault of the players or the managers. It’s the off the field stuff that’s causing it 👍🏻

The standard of his performances are inversely proportional to LTA’s posts 👍🏻

Aye. It’s fucking abysmal, isn’t it?