I specifically remember Neville looking like he was about to pass out from nerves during his first couple of appearences on Sky.
I specifically remember Neville looking like he was about to pass out from nerves during his first couple of appearences on Sky.
I don't swing that way, but I don't imagine Dom Szoboszlai wants for much in this life.
Yeah, one quickly forgets. I remember going through old VHS' when DVD's came along and found a random recording of Lineker presenting something in his very early days and he was truly dreadful. No confidence at all and it really surprised me.Originally Posted by SvN
The way he's rocking from side to sideRoberto. Gary Neville. I never th- I bet I never thought you'd be interviewed by me. *desperate laugh*
Fucking hell that relief laugh when Mancini finally responds. Christ even I felt that.
I think it's Jude Bellingham. Man looks great in a tank top. Szoboszlai would be the other that comes to mind. I also dated a Liverpool fan for a few months who was really into Trent.
I had no positive thoughts on Cole Palmer but him asking for a jam sandwich as part of his perfect meal deal was endearing in the same way a ‘special’ child is.
When I was watching the Celtic game the other week, the women agreed that it was Adam Idah. It's odd up here.
Villez Villez Villez
Felipe, once of Atletico Madrid, was a very sexy footballer. Not many people call pull off the man-bun look and shorter haircut, and still look handsome and hard.
Also gets bonus points for grabbing Bruno Fernandes by the throat.
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Just a foul given by Michael Oliver.
Steve Parrish is fuming. He wants criminal charges.
Did he even give the foul?
Harald Schumacher watching in delight knowing that the young generation may just have what it takes.
Millwall fans were chanting "Let him die" as Mateta was stretchered off the pitch, having been motionless for over 10 minutes.
Don't stop being classy, Millwall.
I was against Lampard when he was favourite for the job, if he's now got us in fifth just to spite me I'm all for it.
Semi auto offsides will remove long delays save in exceptional circumstances. First day of use, 8 minute line drawing exercise.
Cunha is an absolute madman.
Maybe he and Kerkez can be team mates next season.
Cunha didn't knock someone's glasses off this time, so that's a significant improvement in his looniness.
Not that I have any premeditated bias but I think needing VAR for that goalkeeper karate kicking Mateta in the head 10 yards outside the box might be grounds for sacking Michael Oliver. Absolute abdication of duty of safety.
I think they when think it's a truly dreadful tackle they get the decision wrong on purpose so VAR has to look at it and decide for them.
Which is stupid but I think it's what they do.
Valliant effort, Plymouth.
Yellow Card.
I thought he was sent off.
Not by the bloke standing 5 yards away.
Unavoidable coming together, or whatever it is when they try to justify some insanely bad decision.
"It's too early for a sending off." <earpiece goes off> "Fine, I'll check the monitor."
They don't make decisions anymore then they fall back on 'It will be checked' then unless it is literally as bad as that today they very rarely overturn what was originally given. The standard of refereeing has gotten much worse since VAR came in. Because they don't have the balls to make a decision because the thought seems to be that if it is that bad it will get overturned by VAR.
Two absolute stone-wall reds not given in the Norwich-Blackburn game today as well so it's not just in the PL.
Found myself watching BBC Grandstand from the 1992 FA Cup Final. The build-up's been condensed a bit but you still get the round-by-round recaps, interviews on the team buses and Des Lynam confidently remembering player names.
EDIT: Big Ron Atkinson is singing now. What a time to be alive.
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Every week we're pretty much talking about a terrible Michael Oliver decision. He's not good enough.
Things like that Millwall keeper one are a common referee error, same reason the Harald Schumacher one went unpunished in 1982 - football's a game of repetitive automatic processes, referees like players are plugged into those and it blows their minds when something that outside the ordinary happens in short order.
Always thought it's been one of the big weaknesses of refs as a species, they can't seem to adjust quickly enough to unusual turns of events or believe that they've happened.
Peter Bankes (Wanks) is another one. I honestly don't know how some of these people make it through the process.
Bankes was making terrible decisions at Championship level but somehow got to be a Premier League official. Apparently a fan of Liverpool.
Stuart Attwell a Luton fan.
It's time to bring in foreign officials who have no bias. Send this lot overseas.
Last edited by AJ23; 02-03-2025 at 07:33 AM.
I see two plausible explanations for the quality of refereeing decisions being perpetually shit. Either all referees are inept morons from the bottom of the gene pool, or refereeing a football match is difficult. Even if it is the former, what are you going to do about it?
I'm not sure constantly changing the rules to make it a more and more complex non-contact sport is helping referees either. Lots of things that are scrutinised now would have been waved off in Paul Durkin's day.
I've said this many times, but fans don't actually want referees to be good. They want them to be bad because their social role is as one of the only times a working class person is allowed to scream blue murder at an authority figure with no consequences. It's also why referees in other, more middle class sports don't face the same bile. All these 'respect' campaigns are made by fools who don't understand this.
There was no golden age of referees being respected, back in my dad's watching days they sang quaint-sounding chants like 'Who's the bastard in the black' and 'Who's your father, referee?' rather than making up conspiracy theories or whatever, but it's the same phenomenon.
They're almost like pantomine villains for a traditional working class audience. As the audience shifts away from being traditional working class and starts being one made up of capitalist consumers, the nature of the bile changes from questioning their parenthood to questioning whether they are involved in some conspiratorial plots to screw over your favourite team. All of it is complete balls.
This is it. I barely understand the rules any more and I used to play competitively at youth level. In the space of 15 years we have what feels like a very different sport.
The mateta one is a very extreme example of a follow through. Those sorts of collisions are always possible in football and football got into a crazy place a few years ago where we saw a red almost every week for a follow through. Nani got sent off for something similar, so did Mane from memory. Mateta has got a whack but the ref was looking right at it and saw the keeper clear the ball.
I’m not sure what the keeper should do there? Head it? Not come out? Once he’s made the decision to come and the ball is that high it’s a dangerous situation for a collision. Sad the keeper will get suspended for a game or two and the tie was killed for something that wasn’t a malicious conduct, it was a keeper clearing his lines. Much the same as a keeper coming out to punch the ball clear, quite often whacks a striker and we are now seeing those as pens but rarely reds.
Outcome driven red, which makes a referees job incredibly difficult live.
Are you mental? The thing the keeper does is not kick the player in the head.
Lifting your leg too high in the vicinity of an opposing player has always been illegal, hasn't it? Or am I forgetting a time when head-high flying kicks were allowed?
Yeah, that's always been dangerous play.
It's dangerous play but the amount of pearl clutching and calling for jail sentences has been a bit much.
Good going you scouse cunt.What a stupid thing to do.
Out of the cup final.
Three match ban for that. Mental.
Nice piece of karma for Gordon who’s a cheating bastard himself.
I love Danny Welbeck.
Brighton name on trophy I think. See if Gordon Smith can meff it up this time.
Solly March a likely must score fail candidate.
Home draw please
Solly March will have his own thread shortly, I've been very lax due to illness.
So should Iwobi be off for that high foot?
Dangerous play?
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