Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER

[ewerk 30610]

2 hours ago, Holden McGroin said:

The Fa have announced no replays in the FA Cup next season.

 

Terrible news for the lower leagues.

 

And television fans. So we're only allowed to see a goal once now?

[Dazzler 9749]

Just now, ewerk said:

 

And television fans. So we're only allowed to see a goal once now?

Aye, now we have to buy mini-fridges for the living room because god forbid we go to the kitchen for a fresh can. That extra £100m better be coming back to us armchair fans to invest in the proper kit.

[RobElliott 1493]

How the feck are the forums going to work for us dyslexics if there are no more replys?

[Holden McGroin 6583]

[The Fish 10857]

Why not just say no replays after the third round?

[Gemmill 44872]

 

Fair play. 

[Howmanheyman 33196]

13 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

Fair play. 

 

I can't bear listening to him and his co-commentators on TNT but he's to be applauded for that little speech. 

[Gemmill 44872]

1 minute ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

I can't bear listening to him and his co-commentators on TNT but he's to be applauded for that little speech. 

 

Aye, particularly seeing as he largely makes his living commentating on the competition that he's strongly criticising. 

[thebrokendoll 9209]

2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

Aye, particularly seeing as he largely makes his living commentating on the competition that he's strongly criticising. 

 

bit bemused by the one bit where he was on about var.... was he suggesting it was being applied better in CL than the PL?

wasn't our experience in paris sadly.

[Gemmill 44872]

Aye I do wonder whether he's not just basing that on the far fewer games there are in the CL too. But VAR is definitely not "a thing" every week in the CL like it is in the PL. It's on average two game changing stinkers a week in the PL these days. 

[Ayatollah Hermione 13866]

Seems like the games where VAR is active, it’s really fucking active. Look at that Man United/Bournemouth game. It’s not just one contentious decision, it’s one on top of another until it’s a lasagne of dogshit

[MrBass 2651]

19 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

bit bemused by the one bit where he was on about var.... was he suggesting it was being applied better in CL than the PL?

wasn't our experience in paris sadly.

 

Perhaps he's specifically referring to the improved offside mechanism in the CL as opposed to the car crash "let me try and draw some straight lines and figure this out" bullshit in the PL.

[wykikitoon 20139]

20 hours ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

Seems like the games where VAR is active, it’s really fucking active. Look at that Man United/Bournemouth game. It’s not just one contentious decision, it’s one on top of another until it’s a lasagne of dogshit

 

 

😂😂😂😂

[wykikitoon 20139]

[The Fish 10857]

21 hours ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

bit bemused by the one bit where he was on about var.... was he suggesting it was being applied better in CL than the PL?

wasn't our experience in paris sadly.

Was it really VAR where the problem lay? I thought we were fucked by a different interpretation of the handball law?

[thebrokendoll 9209]

39 minutes ago, The Fish said:

Was it really VAR where the problem lay? I thought we were fucked by a different interpretation of the handball law?

 

I'd put it down to var, a penalty wouldn't have been awarded without it...

 

The VAR who awarded Paris Saint-Germain's controversial added-time penalty against Newcastle United in the Champions League has been removed from duty by UEFA on a game on Wednesday night.

Polish VAR Tomasz Kwiatkowski sent referee Szymon Marciniak to the pitchside monitor in the 96th minute of Tuesday's match after the ball struck the arm of Tino Livramento, which was judged to be making his body bigger and creating a barrier

[Ayatollah Hermione 13866]

I think the PSG one rankles so much because they let an identical incident go without punishment 20 minutes earlier 

[Gemmill 44872]

https://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/national-league-statement-gateshead-football-club-81474

[ewerk 30610]

What’s the craic then with the council not guaranteeing them 10 years?

[Gemmill 44872]

Dunno, they don't seem to have explained their reasoning. Gateshead have put this out in response. 

 

 

[LondonBlue 773]

 

for all those wondering who's behind the owner investment malarkey, not the headed paper on this letter to the FA

 

[Toonpack 9403]

3 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

 

for all those wondering who's behind the owner investment malarkey, not the headed paper on this letter to the FA

 

It’s fake

[LondonBlue 773]

Just now, Toonpack said:

It’s fake

i expect it is but how do you know?

[Toonpack 9403]

1 hour ago, LondonBlue said:

i expect it is but how do you know?

Saw both pages ages ago, second page and how it was closed off was patently not written by someone who knows how to write a business letter. I would guess high up football execs do know how to write letters.

[LondonBlue 773]

4 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

Saw both pages ages ago, second page and how it was closed off was patently not written by someone who knows how to write a business letter. I would guess high up football execs do know how to write letters.

you'd hope so. you'd also hope that a letter of this magnitude would be more than 2 pages.