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Rondon onside, Perez “not active” then was onside when he got the ball back. We don’t make these shite rules, they’re happy to trot them out when it’s one of the top 6. We were also absolutely fucked over so even if it had been offside it was evening out.

What a performance. Shows great spirit and confidence to come back from a half where the ref fucked us right over and we went 2 down.

Five minutes of injury time apparently

Shelvey has been class since coming on and then needlessly abuses the ref and picks up a yellow. If he could mature he’d be some player.

Cheers for all the time wasting this half as well Everton.

Get the fuck in!!!! Pickford is beyond dodgy

That’s twice they’ve been climbing all over Rondon what game is Mason watching

Dummett as oblivious to the positioning of the team as Taylor was to the atmosphere in THAT Cardiff game. Good tackle by the lad there though.

Get the fuck in

Aye, guarantee he’d say Zouma was in coverage, there was no chance at all of that in reality as Rondon would have burst the net.

Agreed, I mean imo this is a big issue in football in general. I understand the ref has to be respected but they make horrific decisions like this which have massive impacts yet if Rafa says he was wrong he will get a fine, meanwhile Mason will continue reffing Pl games.

I think that’s the only weak bit of VAR, that decision wouldn’t have changed imo. The commentator said it was a yellow not a red, the referee saw the incident so iirc all VAR would do is say he should take another look IF the VAR ref thought it was a red, but I think it’s likely he’d go along with the ref as we will see when the ex-ref now pundit crew come out with their bullshit.

I loved Schar doing that btw, made Digne look pathetic. This Everton side are so poor btw, outside the top 6 the league is pretty weak, this side have spent a fortune and they’re crap.

Yellow for Lascelles. Absurd decision, Pickford didn’t get a booking for what could be any one of denying a clear goal scoring opportunity, professional foul, and likely a few others so how could Lascelles get booked?

Disgraceful refereeing. Everton literally got an advantage from their foul, as Rondon definitely would have scored so Pickford just rugby tackles him having no intention of going for the ball and then gets a chance to save it. Absolutely farcical.

While I’m obviously happy Chelsea’s ban didn’t get pushed back due to appeal, it’s just another instance of FIFA looking incompetent and arguably biased. All three Spanish sides in similar situations had their bans pushed back, three of the players Barca signed in that window still play every week for them. I know the argument is that because the Spanish sides made a farce of the ban the rule had to change, but why didn’t it change after the Barca one? In any case I’m not arsed because Chelsea are a rotten club, just any excuse to have a dig at FIFA. I think if Man City get a similar ban Pep will go, especially if he wins everything this season. While I feel like going to Juve would present absolutely no challenge whatsoever for him (CL ambition aside obviously but that applies anywhere he went) I think he’d like to say he’d won the title in the big four leagues.

Honestly man, that’s an absolute disgrace. Disgusting behavior, also a nice dollop of victim blaming there. I’m sure the people making those comments have a full picture of what happened and the impacts on the adolescent girl and her family.

Plenty of time to cook the Mrs loads of poachies, along with time to spare for a good old stare. The comment after ewerk’s post btw

That Pompey game under Allardyce

Agree with what others are saying. I think he is enjoying being at NUFC and would love to stay but I just feel his patience will run out with Ashley. It’s really ridiculous that an owner will with hold funds from a manager until they sign a new contract, and Rafa basically had to play this game of chicken right down to deadline day before Ashley caved. Maybe Rafa will move past that sort of game but I’m not convinced.

Canny interview with Gutierrez: https://www.planetfootball.com/in-depth/jonas-gutierrez-joining-newcastle-was-the-best-decision-of-my-life/

If they do win it I fully expect a bunch of “this mag where I work is really jealous, they’ve not won anything since 1969 he says and now the lads have won a trophy. Better than being in the prem this” type threads on RTG. If that counts our 2 Championship titles count

I don’t know how anyone could watch that documentary and think highly of that fan base. They came across very badly imo, which is very telling of what they’re really like considering it was made by a bunch of mackems who iirc in another doc they made had the subtitles or voice over say Maradona wanted to play for Sunderland when he really said Sheffield United. As a football club they’ve played something like 2 games in Europe in history, this is why they’re champing at the bit to always create these intangible properties to their crappy club. It was classy until the club wide backing of a sexual predator, recently it’s been this ‘special club’ nonsense despite being at best a run of the mill fan base support wise (their ticket sales are shite, even needing to give free tickets away during their PL stints). They just need to wake up and realize they’re shite, they’re owned by blokes that have a lower net worth than many PL footballers, they’ve weirdly become even more arrogant as their club nose dives even further down. Shitty wretched little club with a shite fan base, I honestly don’t know how they can think themselves as some great support group when among other things in recent years they have; gave vocal support to a pervert, harrassed both of their best PL era managers (Reid and Bruce) throwing bananas and abuse at one and never accepting the other in anyway and ignoring his achievements at their club as he was born in Newcastle, and racially abused the mother of one of their best players in the PL era. All you have to do is watch when either Grabban or Bent score against them in that documentary, those are not the reactions you’d expect from former players of a club with a really special support.