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Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
OTF replied to Sonatine's topic in Newcastle Forum
Unsure if I am being insulted here. -
Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
OTF replied to Sonatine's topic in Newcastle Forum
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Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
OTF replied to Sonatine's topic in Newcastle Forum
Vieira will be pleased it wasn't him. -
Who's better than the rest?
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What does Australia have to do with it?
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Meanwhile Miggy came on over the weekend, scored a belter of a goal and set up what should have been a beauty as well. And also Matt Ritchie came on - I take your point.
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FIFA have had to diversify their money making now that it's not as easy to accept envelopes under the table to host the tournament in illogical and undeserved locations. More games, more money, simple.
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If we had've lost or even drawn this game it would have been against the overall balance of play. They scored off a terrible defensive error and their next best chance was another poor defensive error, both of our goals were from quality play and we should have had a brilliant third had Botman not bottled the finish. The only important thing here was winning (and no injuries). We're back into the winning mentality and all that we should remember from this game is two fantastic goals and three points to leapfrog Liverpool. You're right that we now need to build on this with three points away to Forest, not an easy ask but we have to really fancy ourselves there.
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He would never had gotten a 4 match ban as that would only apply for a secondary red that was awarded for violent conduct (such as that committed by Casemiro). If the ref gave Pope a red here I think it's still just a one match suspension even though it would be his second of the season, but I'd say the FA would have full discretion to increase the suspension just like they can for violent conduct. If the ref gave a penalty for that there's no way it would have been a red card as well. Upon rewatching it I do think it could easily have been given as a penalty and we'd have no defense as Pope moved into the path of their player deliberately rather that moving towards the ball. We got lucky because Raul made a bit of a meal of it and isn't a poster boy.