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  • Something to do, innit.

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  • Not really but everything else in the world is worse.

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    I have no idea who this Burnley defender Jimmy Dunne is but can confirm that is the correct name for a centre-half.

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    He’s one of our lot.

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    Glad that Havertz handball didn't chalk off the equaliser as that was a terrible rule, but it's just another can of worms. Define 'immediacy'.

    The penalties that have been getting given as well undo any of the good that removing the above said rule has done.

    Is there anyway to put VAR back in its box? Like all sports, football doesn't stand up to forensic scrutiny, and the false belief that there can always be a right decision just leads to far greater iniquity and a sense of injustice when shit still goes against you even though it isn't supposed to be able to. And even if it doesn't, it still ruins the spectacle, which is sort of paramount in sport.

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    Missed the game in its entirety earlier so went to check the score just now.

    Just another quiet night in at the library... NOT!

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    Big fan of Allan tucking in his shirt.

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    Should always look respectable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Big fan of Allan tucking in his shirt.
    It usually looks awful but it just suits him. Some plur.

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    VAR is the worst. Not helped by the eerie relative silence with the lack of crowd, but everytime a goal goes in I just have no emotion beyond “is that gonna be disallowed?” I’ve felt it since it was first introduced but honestly expected it to be much better by now but it’s just getting more and more frequent, taking longer, and now has the added caveat of awarding incorrect decisions, because there’s no way some of the recent handball decisions have been either consistent or logical.

    Considering how excellently goal line technology was introduced, I can’t believe how bad VAR is in comparison.
    I'm a twit

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    It's what the fans wanted though! Football is so much better now.

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    If the last 30 years of life have taught us anything, it's that invariably people don't really know what they want, and more often than not the thing they think they want is actually diametrically opposed to their best interests/what they really want.

    Decisions are 86% better though!

    Jimmy would trace it back to Blair, focus groups and the Ladbrooke Grove rail disaster, but it predates those.
    Last edited by niko_cee; 27-09-2020 at 08:17 AM.

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    Football is just another platform for small men to scream into the night sky. VAR, lack of VAR, the media's agenda against [my team], the manager's got to go: all are little more than outlets for the pent-up seething rage of emasculated post-industrial Britain.

    If you watch games back from the 80s and earlier, the stakes always seem far less.

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    In the 80's the fans were literally fighting amongst themselves.

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    Sheffield United XI: Ramsdale, Basham, Robinson, Ampadu, Baldock, Lundstram, Berge, Osborn, Stevens, Burke, McGoldrick

    Leeds XI: Meslier, Ayling, Koch, Cooper, Dallas, Phillips, Helder Costa, Roberts, Klich, Harrison, Bamford

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    That save from the Leeds keeper was actually fucking brilliant. Lundstram hit it quite well, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Well then he wants leaving out, and if they do want to bring him back everyone needs to stop being a racist and realise he's a number ten.
    Pogba's best position is on the left of a midfield 3. What we should be playing is Matic as an out and out holding midfielder and Pogba and Fernandes in front as 8s, Pogba on the left and Fernandes on the right. It puts them all in their best positions and Van Der Beek is ready made to slot in for either Pogba or Fernandes.

    Pogba shouldn't be starting at the moment though I agree; I'm about his biggest fangirl but he was AWFUL yesterday. He should have a few games coming on as a sub whilst he recovers and regains match fitness.

    I like Ole but I think come the end of this season he may have served his purpose and a better tactical manager should come in to take what is a very talented team forwards.
    Last edited by randomlegend; 27-09-2020 at 11:49 AM.

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    Burke/McGoldrick must have to be up there for one of the worst strike pairings in PL history

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    I put a fiver on the draw and the loss when chelsea brought it back to 3-1, i have been a wba fan too long.

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    Hopeful of staying up or anticipating the inevitable?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Burke/McGoldrick must have to be up there for one of the worst strike pairings in PL history
    Burke fits the Sheffield United system pretty well, I think he's looked good for them so far. You lot think every Scottish player in the prem is rubbish because everyone looks fucking wank playing for Scotland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Burke/McGoldrick must have to be up there for one of the worst strike pairings in PL history
    Yeah we need a fucking striker. Sharp and McBurnie on now, which doesn't inspire any more confidence.

    Very little service in fairness

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    This has been a good watch. Spurs - Newcastle on next is likely to be the worst ever.

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    We'll get destroyed.

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    This has been a cracking 0-0.

    Will be gutted when Billy Sharp inevitably scores

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smjffy View Post
    Hopeful of staying up or anticipating the inevitable?
    Latter. Our squad is just too shit. Player for player we're arguably worse than when we failed to get promoted in 18/19.

    I'm so unbelievably detached from it all, though it's probably a good thing. 10 years ago, I'd have been miserable all week if we drew 3-3 after being 3-0 up at half time.

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    ACTUALLY, shit, just remembered. That pretty much DID happen ten years ago.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/9391009.stm

    When the 3rd goal went in I angrily punched my bedroom wall, and my Polish housemate posted "hey u ok in there??" on my facebook wall.

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    Lord Bamford

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    Bamford doesn't sound like a footballer.

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    Relegation dogfight nailed on for THE MIGHTY BLADES

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    Burke fits the Sheffield United system pretty well, I think he's looked good for them so far. You lot think every Scottish player in the prem is rubbish because everyone looks fucking wank playing for Scotland.
    Mate, he’s been awful ever since Leipzig. He couldn’t hack it for Celtic in a farmers league. Pipe down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    Pogba's best position is on the left of a midfield 3. What we should be playing is Matic as an out and out holding midfielder and Pogba and Fernandes in front as 8s, Pogba on the left and Fernandes on the right. It puts them all in their best positions and Van Der Beek is ready made to slot in for either Pogba or Fernandes.

    Pogba shouldn't be starting at the moment though I agree; I'm about his biggest fangirl but he was AWFUL yesterday. He should have a few games coming on as a sub whilst he recovers and regains match fitness.

    I like Ole but I think come the end of this season he may have served his purpose and a better tactical manager should come in to take what is a very talented team forwards.
    You'll realise one day that he's one of the shittest "good" players ever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    Latter. Our squad is just too shit. Player for player we're arguably worse than when we failed to get promoted in 18/19.

    I'm so unbelievably detached from it all, though it's probably a good thing. 10 years ago, I'd have been miserable all week if we drew 3-3 after being 3-0 up at half time.
    Winston Reid was all that stuck out. He never went anywhere.

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    Alisson and Thiago doubtful for the Arsenal game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    Pogba's best position is on the left of a midfield 3. What we should be playing is Matic as an out and out holding midfielder and Pogba and Fernandes in front as 8s, Pogba on the left and Fernandes on the right. It puts them all in their best positions and Van Der Beek is ready made to slot in for either Pogba or Fernandes.

    Pogba shouldn't be starting at the moment though I agree; I'm about his biggest fangirl but he was AWFUL yesterday. He should have a few games coming on as a sub whilst he recovers and regains match fitness.

    I like Ole but I think come the end of this season he may have served his purpose and a better tactical manager should come in to take what is a very talented team forwards.
    That might be his best position in a dominant side and/or in a nonce league, but the evidence here is that he just gets runover without the ball, and that the other 'eight' is going to spend half of his time covering in defence. With that in mind, he might as well start there.

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    Yeah, Pogba clearly needs to be the most advanced of a midfield 3 in this division. Genuinely, the one exception would be if Utd signed Kante to partner him further back.

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    Unless Ole fancies sticking him on the wing like Rafa did to Gerrard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smjffy View Post
    Winston Reid was all that stuck out. He never went anywhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    Unless Ole fancies sticking him on the wing like Rafa did to Gerrard.
    He's the obvious comparison, and it took ten years for somebody to just shove him behind the striker and say do what you want because Proper Football Culture thought he was Bryan Robson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    He's the obvious comparison, and it took ten years for somebody to just shove him behind the striker and say do what you want because Proper Football Culture thought he was Bryan Robson.
    Yeah I was gonna say something along those lines - they're actually quite similar players. You can fool yourself into thinking they SHOULD be quite balanced, box-to-box dominating CMs, but really they offer fuck all defensively, and should be given a free role to walk around pinging 30 yarders and hollywood diagonals. The one thing stopping people just accepting they're number 10s is that they're actually quite big.

    What does Pogba's physique actually offer to his game?

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    Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Garcia, Ake, Mendy, Rodrigo, Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Mahrez, Sterling, Foden

    Leicester XI: Schmeichel, Castagne, Amartey, Soyuncu, Evans, Justin, Mendy, Tielemans, Praet, Barnes, Vardy

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    He is seriously quick when he gets going, which would be quite useful in a counter-attacking side if he wasn't lolloping about in his own half.

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    Mourinho

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    That’s three penalties in a week for some wanker handball rule lmao

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    Yeah, that's the worst of the lot. What the fuck are they playing at?

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    Fucking sneaked that.

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    I really don't get this new handball rule. Everyone hated the strict liability interpretation being used for disallowing goals last season, so they did away with it, only to replace it with a very similar, albeit slight nuanced version, for penalties. Mad.

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    So if I get it right... If the ball now hits an arm, below the sleeve line, whilst the arm isn't in the 'natural silhouette' it's an automatic penalty? Regardless of circumstance?

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    Football is dead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Fox View Post
    So if I get it right... If the ball now hits an arm, below the sleeve line, whilst the arm isn't in the 'natural silhouette' it's an automatic penalty? Regardless of circumstance?
    That seems to be the idea, although I'm not sure if the elbow is the cut off or the upper arm can also do you.

    BBC reporting Kane sent off at the end although I don't think he was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    That’s three penalties in a week for some wanker handball rule lmao
    Such a bullshit rule too. VAR is shit.

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    Mahrez couldn't hit that any sweeter

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