bluemoon32
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Here's hopingOne more defeat and KDB and Jezza get a much-needed break
Here's hopingOne more defeat and KDB and Jezza get a much-needed break
And when the Yanks get to host their PL games, they'll be kicking off at 8pm local time so televised about 1am over here (assuming it's on the East Coast).More yank $$$ coming over as well
People laugh but it’s coming……And when the Yanks get to host their PL games, they'll be kicking off at 8pm local time so televised about 1am over here (assuming it's on the East Coast).
Who was on the VAR panel ? Mr Spock, Raymond Baxter and Captain Tim Peake ?But it was such a clear and obvious mistake that it took the Hubble Space Telescope to fkn see it
Completely agree. Absolutely ridiculousNot arsed if was Belgium or the Belgian Congo that was playing. Two players running at speed and an apparent goal gets chalked off because some twat with a microscope sees it brushed the attacker's fingernail.
Bring our boys homeOne more defeat and KDB and Jezza get a much-needed break
Won't be laughing when season ticket holders start losing their games and instead have to start setting their alarms to get up in the middle of the night to watch their team play Stateside on demand.People laugh but it’s coming……
My watching experience can quickly go from frustration to blind fury when the so-called catch-everybody handball law that disallows a goal isn't applied in every instance. I was beside myself yesterday in a game where the ref is booking folk for shirt pulling and not booking someone else for shirt pulling. Is there a sliding scale applied to shirt pulling? We'd have had two or three dozen more pens last season had the defenders handing on to Haaland's shirt been penalised.Well put. My frustration with the handball rule is that they have always had it in the laws of the game that the spirit is it needs to be “deliberate”.
Let’s be honest how often do you see an actual deliberate handball? Basically never with a few notable exceptions (e.g. Suarez).
Yes, you see some players extend their bodies to make themselves bigger and block the ball and that’s a grey area when the clear intention is to block a shot unfairly.
But the standard for me is way way way too low. It never used to be that way. I said a few weeks ago if you go and watch the Gillingham 99 highlights, in the first minute of the game the Gills defender handballs it and nobody even appeals… but today that would be given 100% of the time.
If it were up to me I’d probably blow for a handball about once every 50 games or something because the incidence of actual deliberate actions is incredibly low. It ruins the game because the penalty is often massively disproportionate to the offence.