Why the fuck are you lumping Newcastle in with this? Absolute zero evidence or even suggestion that they’ve broken any rules
Why the fuck are you lumping Newcastle in with this? Absolute zero evidence or even suggestion that they’ve broken any rules
Yup seems obvious to me but I’m sitting here on like -100 for giving my opinion and reasoning, pretty funny
Half the biggest clubs in Europe were founded by posh English lads abroad who wanted a kickabout when cricket season was over
Atletico started as a branch of Athletic (English name) Bilbao which was founded by British workers and Basque students studying in England
Football’s kind of our thing so it’s a bit of a cheek to complain we’re doing it better than everyone else, consider it a gift and be grateful!
Everyone does that at West Ham as the tickets are so easy to get
I still think the primary intent of these fuel states when they buy clubs is actually to just make money and diversify their assets a bit, the sportswashing thing is really overblown in my opinion.
If cleaning their image was all they cared about they’d be buying the biggest clubs in the world and not buying ‘cheap’ clubs like Man City and Newcastle and turning them into profitable machines (too early to say with Newcastle but that’s the route they’re heading at the moment)
That’s 2 keepers, both Arsenal have since deemed not good enough and 3 players who I’ve seen far more criticisms than praise in their last seasons from Arsenal fans
Hands up if you had Villa finishing in the CL at the start of the season? Just me?
Thanks for the answer. Just to show how hard it is to make laws non-subjective I will bold the subjective/grey areas and put in italics the instances that could lead to unjust decisions in your suggestions
Diving - ref doesn’t award dives unless its clear. Every single foul awarded in the game gets checked after the game by an independent panel and if no contact is made the player gets a 1 match ban. Watch how quickly people stop doing it.
Tactical fouls - the rodri special when an opposition player is through clear in transition and gets pulled down, red card. That is the number one best chance to score in football and 90% of them get stopped because players know they only get booked.
Handballs in penalty area - none of this natural position bollocks, if the player makes a clear attempt to move their hand toward a ball to block it, penalty. If not, no penalty. Fouls are awarded for cheating not because a shot going 80mph glanced your finger when your hands are by your side.
Fouls in penalty area - if there is contact with the ball before the player, no penalty. Objective. Does the ball move before the player makes contact with the player? No penalty.
Offside - daylight between players is offside, everything else isn’t. None of this subjective rubbish selecting which part of the body the line is used with.
On diving - not every time someone goes down with no contact is necessarily a dive and not every dive has no contact.
Tactical fouls - think you’d have to be a bit more specific about what constitutes ‘through clear’ but I agree with the sentiment
Handballs - the use of ‘clear’ leaves it almost as open to interpretation as it is now
Fouls - football is a contact sport, you should be able to shield or go shoulder to shoulder without giving a penalty away
Offside - don’t mind this but at the end of the day I think it’s the tech that needs to improve rather than the laws
Strange to say that with so much confidence, if Gordon had taken like 5 penalties too I feel like it wouldn’t even be a discussion
If he took penalties like Palmer did he could be on 8 or 9 goals
He’s already improved massively since he joined Newcastle though, I’m not seeing anything to say he won’t continue to improve he’s still very young
I had you down to finish 8th at the start of the season, so far you (and Wolves who I said would do gown) are the only 2 teams who I’ve already accepted I was clearly wrong about
I like laughing at Man U as much as the next man but come on mate comments like this are just so shite
The PL officiating panel were unanimous in saying Havertz should have been sent off
He did make contact, with both his leading leg and then his trailing knee
You say that but those same rules led to two blatant reds not being given in the same game
Arsenal fans, would you trade the community shield for a guaranteed victory next time you play City in the league?
Big Sam being done dirty by News of the World
Still a crooked cunt though but would have been better than what we had
I think it’s only ever remotely interesting if it’s actually winner of the cup vs winner of the league
When a team can win that without winning a proper trophy, then yeah it’s tinpot. If the same team wins both then they should have last year’s winner or something
Any one off game can’t really be anything more than a glorified exhibition in my eyes, when the pool of potential winners is 2 sometimes 1 then yeah bit pointless.
Ramsdale apparently was just 6 months ago haha
I’d take any replies from Arsenal fans with a pinch of salt