In the brilliance of its glow, a flame so bright surrenders to the night, knowing its time is oh so fleeting.
In the brilliance of its glow, a flame so bright surrenders to the night, knowing its time is oh so fleeting.
Can't even last 5 minutes
You can get creams for that.
Honestly thought this was a troll account.
In contrast to my usual 'heads have gone' stances on everything, I'm all for this. Any extra deterrent to cynical fouls is a good thing for the sport. Attackers have no recourse to violence to get what they want, defenders shouldn't have it either.
They'll only fuck it up and make more controversy for themselves
In principle a decent idea. It will be implemented horribly.
I can't wait for a player from 'insert favourite team' to get a blue card for protesting a VAR penalty decision which is later proved (s)he was right. Now a goal down and down a player for 10 minutes.
Referee’s already interpret cyclical fouls differently to each other. It’s just another mess to add to it all.
Also, why is it a blue card? I'm no Picasso, but if we're having a halfway house between a yellow and a red card, it's an Orange card, surely?
Three minutes VAR delays to determine if a blue card is necessary.
Why blue tho
What would you prefer? Rainbow? Pink? Purple?
I'd be in favour of a rainbow card just to see the likes of Joey Barton lose their minds over some colours.
This explains Klopp's resignation.
We have it in amateur football and I'm pretty sure I'm the only player to ever get sin binned for not backing off on a free kick.
Probably thought the rules don't apply to Lords.
Was ist ein Lord
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Whilst I sympathise with the idea I'm not sure I like the idea of introducing something new that will be fucked up. Just make those offences red cards [with VAR review then available].
My bingo card didn't have this on it.
For fuck sake, I'd a bad enough day without coming home to the news that you lot get to hockey the fuck out of us twice.
I too give us a puncher's chance of once again lifting the Andy Townsend Trophy.
The blue card sounds shit. Why do people keep feeling the need to fiddle around with the most popular sport in the world?
This is because refs don't hand out enough yellow cards for cynical fouls, time wasting, bad language and general fuckery. Just start giving yellow cards properly and you don't need a blue card.
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Probably the most popular because it's been constantly evolving and improving. Crossbar, penalty box, yellow and red cards, backpass, liberalisation of offside, there are probably loads more.
It's popularity has peaked since the 90's and there have been zero improvements since then. Just irritating changes that nobody wants.
Its popularity hasn't peaked, it's still growing rapidly every year. It's a global cultural juggernaut destroying everything in its path. Your signal for when its popularity peaks will be when all the American owners sell up.
Thiago could be done for the season by the sounds of it. A fitting end to his Liverpool career if ever there was one him and Naby can definitely be chalked up as could have been decent players if they could of ever stayed fit.
No amount of inhalers will ever fix them.
Feels like he was a bit of a Robben. Should have stuck to Germany
A great shock.
The Rice Bowl.
We should never have picked him for that. Or maybe capped him once in a qualifier and then dropped him.
I genuinely do feel that the whole sport is in the process of eating itself from the inside at the moment with all the chicanery around nation states, hedge funds and multi-club ownership. City's achievements over the past ten years are massively impressive two trebles of sorts and numerous league titles as well but everything they have done comes with a massive Asterix next to it based on the fact that everyone thinks they are breaking the rules.
I will always say how they supposedly have higher commercial revenue than Manchester United despite seemingly not having enough paying fans to fill their own stadium. Imagine if United, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern were taken over by one of these entities they would be unstoppable they already generate enough to be competitive but if they then had 'Tinpot Airways' banging another £200 million in each year as a 'going rate' sponsorship they'd be ridiculous.
I wonder how football will view City if the charges stick. To this day I don't think Italians take Juventus seriously post Calciopoli.
It is a real precipice moment for football. If the charges don't stick it will be a free-for-all for the state-owned clubs as it will be clear the rules don't apply to them.
I suspect the government will prevent anything significant from happening to City due to not wanting to damage their relationship with Qatar, as I understand they already did with the Saudis by pushing the League to accept their takeover of Newcastle.
Your standard points deduction wont cut it really. It's been talked about endlessly but Evertons indiscretion was much less than that of City and they're being pumped for 10+. But what would be enough? To be dramatic lets say they do get docked 40/50 points for a season. Is that enough? It'd likely see them struggle to stay up
A fine of any kind is very dangerous to get into. You then bring in the scenario of someone lawbreaking away to get titles now, then selling the club off and it'll be the new owners that suffer.
Removal of them from the league entirely would be some marker to lay down. No chance City wont tie that up in the courts as long as they can, but it should stand. Could maybe see a (The)Rangers style situation.
Then you bring into question the ill-gotten gains. They likely keep their titles, but we have seen other leagues strip clubs of them before. It's a very tricky spot for the sport to be in. As RL says, if the punishment is very weak, then the sport will indeed get so much worse. You also really don't want the league to hand out a punishment, only for City to fight it and win. Or even worse, have a Ferrari F1 style issue where they both come to an "agreement" and everything is henceforth dropped, but nobody knows what was greed.
Revoke any titles they won during the transgressions, give them a points deficit and a heavy fine. Maybe even a transfer fine.
I think it'll either be incredibly weak or incredibly strong, like, relegating them to the Unibond type strong. The former would keep Abu Dhabi onside and will probably be desperately lobbied for by a UK government of any colour, but would also fatally undermine the PL as an institution and probably lead to a super league very rapidly. The latter would protect the PL as an entity against future incursions from oil states, something they should probably be thinking about, but it might also risk a UK government bringing in punitive regulation in football after they haven't played ball with our dick-sucking foreign policy.
They'll be acquitted on all charges, but it will also forever taint their period of dominance, which will end whenever Guardiola fucks off.
My sources say the death penalty, for financial irregularities, being considered for Kevin De Bruyne. I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this.
Some of these aren't really comedy misses but there are some classics in here.
I would dock them say the ten points Everton got, but ten points every season for however many years the charges go back for. So if they’ve breached FFP or whatever over the last five seasons, I’d give them a ten point deduction for the next five seasons.
I’ve triple captained Darwin Nunez in fantasy football, so I can be extra-letdown by him when I see him in the flesh this afternoon.
I'm a twit
Do you get points for hitting the woodwork?
Ooft, that's a sitter.
I'm not doing fantasy football this year, but don't Liverpool have a double gameweek next week with the Luton game being moved?I’ve triple captained Darwin Nunez in fantasy football, so I can be extra-letdown by him when I see him in the flesh this afternoon.
I won’t be there for them though.
I'm a twit
Sounds like the flu has run through the squad. Word is no Alisson(sorry Baz) and Jomez today because of it.
Not exactly been a classic in the first half. Seems like they just kinda turned up and expected to win.
Brighton with a bit of madness you'd expect of Angeball at the end there.
Good to see Nunez bag one for Baz in the stands today too.
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