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boltonbonce wrote:

Cajunboy wrote:Mourinho's antics will make the Premiership more interesting for the rest of us.  Just sit back and enjoy the fireworks.

He always starts out cool and happy, but slowly turns into the monster from the black lagoon.

He does get results though.

I agree. Should be fun.

In passing Cajun, is your avi painting a Norman Cornish? Always loved his stuff.

It is indeed.

Still trying.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50652905

boltonbonce wrote:Still trying.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50652905

Good god. They must really be desperate!

Unbelievable.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50814275

Seen that earlier, just shows they have no idea on how to tackle racism in Italy 

Anyone remember Neil Shipperley? 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50839639

My primary areas of interest in the Premier League this season are seeing Jack Grealish relegated and Jonny Evans lose a leg.

finlaymcdanger wrote:My primary areas of interest in the Premier League this season are seeing Jack Grealish relegated and Jonny Evans lose a leg.

I'd settle for Grealish pulling his socks up, and getting a decent haircut. Don't know what the fuss is when it comes to Grealish. Very average.

VAR getting slammed again this weekend -which is a total red herring.

What they should be talking about is how and when to use it, not whether or not it's a good thing to be able to see what actually happened better.

Ian Wright made a good point regarding how it's used for offside i.e. if total accuracy is required for where players are, the same should be applied to the actual point when the ball was passed as one affects the other.

Moreover, they need to think about the actual offside law and how it should be applied for the benefit of the game - they've done it before when they changed the offside rule to allow strikers to be "level" so there's no reason why they can't change it again to prevent stupid decisions.

The technology itself is fine although it can always be improved to measure relative positioning, but the way these narratives are going they could be shaping up to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Like banning cars because of bad drivers.

All we want is clarity, communication and fairness in the way that the technology is applied.

Having various parts of the body judged to be offside is ridiculous. The line should be drawn at the players feet. You shouldn't be offside because of an armpit.
Poor old Ian Rush would have ben permanently offside with that hooter.

boltonbonce wrote:Having various parts of the body judged to be offside is ridiculous. The line should be drawn at the players feet. You shouldn't be offside because of an armpit.
Poor old Ian Rush would have ben permanently offside with that hooter.

Spurs fans had a chant about Ozil's eyeballs being offside

boltonbonce wrote:Having various parts of the body judged to be offside is ridiculous. The line should be drawn at the players feet. You shouldn't be offside because of an armpit.
Poor old Ian Rush would have ben permanently offside with that hooter.

Correct....it should be were the feet are. That's the first change needed and see how that goes for a season. 
Also making an injured player walk off then come right back on is a load of bollocks too.

boltonbonce wrote:

finlaymcdanger wrote:My primary areas of interest in the Premier League this season are seeing Jack Grealish relegated and Jonny Evans lose a leg.

I'd settle for Grealish pulling his socks up, and getting a decent haircut. Don't know what the fuss is when it comes to Grealish. Very average.

Grealish is a decent player not great - so the move for Villa is to sell him to Manure for 80 million and turn around a buy 3 or 4 good players with that dosh.

terenceanne wrote:

boltonbonce wrote:Having various parts of the body judged to be offside is ridiculous. The line should be drawn at the players feet. You shouldn't be offside because of an armpit.
Poor old Ian Rush would have ben permanently offside with that hooter.

Correct....it should be were the feet are. That's the first change needed and see how that goes for a season. 
Also making an injured player walk off then come right back on is a load of bollocks too.

Apparently the football "law-makers" - whoever they actually are - have cottoned on to the problems to do with how VAR is used as being the issue as per this article
However I take issue with Mark Halsey's comments that the guidance can't be changed halfway through the season. Why on earth not? If something needs fixing then fix it now. If anything, the proposed guidance would have an immediate positive effect without changing anything that players do on the pitch - it would only change what the refs do.

A good point made was that if something needs reviewing several times from loads of angles then it's not "clear and obvious" anyway.

A year or so ago I mentioned my mate saying that Liverpool had a long term plan and that he'd heard from inside the club that Klopp had refused some obvious signings as he was intent on signing specific players and was prepared to wait for them to become available - e.g. Van Dyke. He'd done the same at Mainz who I follow as my German nephews support them - and got them promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time. At the time I thought it was a brave strategy as they were losing games and Klopp was under pressure to deliver, but it's now obvious that the whole club had bought into his plan.
Now they've gone an entire year without losing in the Prem.

And they're champions of the world.
I know Klopp's a great manager and Liverpool have a relatively huge budget, but this story emphasises what can happen when a manager's long term plan gets the backing of his club and they are prepared to give him the time to put it into action - a bit like Ferguson's appointment at Manure when they lost regularly at the start but stuck with him.
It's taken Klopp over 4 years to get to here but now he seems to have established Liverpool as top dogs again.
I'm kind of hoping that in some small way, Hill and Flitcroft - limited as they are - have a long term plan and that the fans and board give them time to rebuild some semblance of the BWFC we used to know, even if they have to go down to L2 and have no money. They showed some foresight in the transfer window and maybe, just maybe they can do the job if everyone is patient with them.

365 days since Your team lost a game. Just imagine that for a moment

finlaymcdanger wrote:365 days since Your team lost a game. Just imagine that for a moment

I'm really trying...but nah.

40 year old Aaron Wilbraham scores in the FA Cup
He has now scored in 4 decades.

Some disagree.

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1223380/labour-leadership-sir-keir-starmer-jeremy-corbyn

boltonbonce wrote:Some disagree.

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1223380/labour-leadership-sir-keir-starmer-jeremy-corbyn

Wilbraham definitely scored - as did all the actors on Richard Desmond's pornography channel.

And I'm not talking about his other publications like the Daily Star