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  1. It is a good read and I think a lot of football fans seem to forget that refs are humans and also ignore that they get so many decisions right but might get one or two wrong and that is all that gets focused on. It also highlights what I think is the main issue with VAR, the technology is fine, the people running it are not and it's good to see they are looking at training specific VAR operators rather have existing refs doing it as it's basically a completely different job.
  2. Got to be something to do with defensive work rate/tracking/pressing I would reckon. Though considering Mo completely let his man go who then scored at the weekend I wonder if we will see a change. Orsic is a very odd one, something going on there, maybe something has happened to him mentally that the club obviously doesn't want to comment on. RS just seems to trust certain players to do certain jobs, whilst others don't seem to be trusted. Edozie was always one for the future IMO, probably has already got far more minutes than anyone expected this season. If we go down I think he could be a key player for us getting back up.
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    Ruben Selles

    Agree, think there has to be something else beyond just not good enough, he's hardly had a look in and he's clearly caused trouble to good teams in the past as shown by his European performances, plus the guy is a regular in one of the best international sides around. Got to be an injury or he's having a really tough time settling or something or he's had a falling out with someone.
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    Ruben Selles

    Yeh mainly Elyonoussi completely switching off, Perraud had gone round on the cover so don't think you can fault him. Porro then absolutely hammers it and from that close Bazanu has no chance, you either hope it hits you or the guy skies it. Honestly all 3 of their goals had a little bit luck in them, the way Porro hit it it could have gone anywhere not sure it was the most composed finish. Then the Kane header probably isn't a goal if we don't lose two centre-backs to injury and the other one it's the bounce that takes it over the keeper, he's not really hit that cleanly but the bounce takes it into the top corner. Not sure it can be claimed we are 'hopeless', not very good certainly but the team are working hard, they seem to be better organised and there is plenty of fight there, but overall just not enough quality to make the difference especially in the 'on paper' easier games against teams that defend deeper.
  5. This, Everton have been doing this every 2 years or so, spend shed loads, appoint manager with good style, goes tits up, appoint clogger, clogger saves them, next season clogger produces expected turd football and they go again. Dyche is not some sort of magic man, he's done no different to what Selles has done which is basically go back to basics and try to be as solid as possible. He's only got as many points as he's got because no one expected an old full back like Coleman to run into the channel and shoot from an absurd angle, which somehow fluked them 3 points in a game they were completely outplayed in. They have been turgid in pretty much every game since he took over.
  6. Said it before but I think seeing as we have gone back to pressing basics we are always likely to do better against teams that play more than defensive longer ball teams. IIRC Brentford are the most direct team in the league and we just don't seem to have the guille to break teams like that down, we are much better creating some chaos in the opposition or on the transition which showed against Spurs. And yeh its pretty bad luck to lose two centre-backs, I don't think Kane scores that against Bednerak or ABK, he's decent in the air but not amazing and doesn't have the leap or size of like Haaland who will trouble even the biggest centre-backs.
  7. Someone played the MOTD theme outside no.10 as the cabinet were leaving. 😆
  8. LOL no he didn't, which is why initially they did nothing to him at all. All they said is they would have a word with him. Multiple people literally working within news and politics have been allowed to tweet political views, Alan Sugar depicted Jeremy Corbyn as a Nazi, Andrew Neil ran BBC news politics but at the same time was the chairman of the very right wing magazine the Spectator and again tweeted political stuff all the time. There are countless other examples, Gary Lineker did nothing wrong, broken no guidelines and that is shown by the BBC's initial reaction. They then bowed to government pressure as every far right Tory idiot MP piled in to call for him to be sacked so they flip flopped their decision. They then u-turned it again when it became clear they were very much in the wrong, all their double standards got called out and all the Tory influence in senior positions was pointed out. The Guardian has been handed a load of whatsapp messages and e-mails that show the Tory government has been pressurising the BBC for the last two years, they asked the BBC not to call the lockdown, a lockdown, when pretty much every other media outlet did. They asked the BBC not to comment on the affair Johnson had when London mayor with the american woman who then got government contracts. They also asked the BBC to be more critical of Labour during covid when they were proposing different plans to the government, which the BBC dutifully did. Seems like ordinary people within the BBC are fighting back against the Tory rot that has infested it. Multiple ex-employees have talked about the Tory influence in the management and the fear they spread around employees if they didn't toe the line of not criticising the government. These would be people like Robbie Gibb who literally worked for the conservative government before joining the BBC, or Tim Davie who was a Tory council candidate, or the chair who is a Tory donor and helped arranged a loan for Boris Johnson. Oh and hilariously all of those Tory MPs who tried to get him sacked for speaking the truth, now are shouting the BBC should lose it licence fee, because they backed down. So they couldn't cancel Lineker for speaking the truth and they now want to cancel the whole BBC because of it, many of them currently have shows on GBeebies and talktv, literal rival media companies that would clearly benefit from the end of the BBC. These people have no shame.
  9. What's funny though is he has scored that amount of goals with Man City not particularly playing to his strengths. At least 3 of the goals last night I think were from set pieces where they actually put crosses into him and he was causing chaos, he's got a giant leap on him together with him being 6' 4".
  10. Just a thought but I wonder if part of the reason some of these players are not getting minutes is not down to them being bad or useless but more to Selles going back to basically Ralpha pressing triggers and the 'playbook' and these players just not up to speed with them yet. Also the guy has had a handful of minutes so far, so considering he has come into a new league, new country, I thought he has done ok. You don't score that weight of goals without having something about you so I think he'll come good, I don't think he is another Carillo. I am not saying he is suddenly going to score 20+ goals a season but I think he could easily be a 10-12 goals guy in the PL who also adds a few assists and just generally helps the play by being this big presence up front. Vitinha, who was basically are other main striker target, the one that went to Marseille is yet to score for them in 6 games.
  11. Premier League transfer fees are massively over inflated because of the money in the league. You only have to look at the fees for like Antony, Scammaca, Paqueta, Sancho, Nunez, Richarlison, Gordon etc. and see the returns/quality those clubs are getting to see that. I'm also not saying those players are flat out flops or bad players, just that when a PL club comes calling in Europe or to another PL club the fees are off the chart and not really reflective of how good they are. I feel like someone like Antony or Nunez moves to like a good Spanish or Italian club they aren't paying £70-80 million but probably more like £40-50 million. Also yes West Ham did well in Europe last year, but they were doing decently in the league as well at the time and the conference league is not very high quality. Again I'd point to Spurs still sitting 4th, fairly comfortably, despite on many occasions this year being pretty damn average, and a lot of discontent over how they playing with Conte rumoured to be sacked etc.
  12. As far as I can see anyone that basically isn't a Man Utd fan seems to have said the calls were pretty much spot on.
  13. As I said the other day the whole bottom of the league is just bad, there is not a huge amount of quality deciding games right now, or teams clearly dominating others, so whilst we are still bad and people criticise the lack of quality in our squad I think it is not that bad compared to a lot in the PL.
  14. What baffles me is Utd has multiple black and mixed raced players. I mean FFS was Rashford not racially abused after the pen miss in the Euros final? Are these 'fans' just waiting for one slip up by a Utd player to racially abuse them or does their racism get trumped by club loyalties, all very odd. Hating on someone because of their skin colour just baffles me full stop, I can get disliking someone because of their actions, I mean Fernandes must be one of the most hated footballers in the country right now, and a lot of that comes down to how he behaves on a pitch and presents himself, but going straight to the racism against a guy just because of one tackle, when your club has multiple black players in it just makes no sense. If the people doing it can be found and are from the Uk then hopefully they get banned from social media and all football grounds.
  15. But the over 200k from Ukraine, that's apparently not an 'invasion' ? 65% of the people crossing in boats in 2021 had their asylum applications approved, I don't know of any 'invasion' in history where the invaders, that are apparently 'hostile', were then welcomed to stay. Also as Badgers says what invasion landed less than a thousand people a week and also 'attacked' with women and children on rubber dinghies. D-Day involved nearly half a million combat service personnel, on around 7k ships, with hundreds of tanks and nearly 3k aircraft, all landing within about 48 hours. THAT is an invasion ffs. I also find it hilarious that grown men are shit scared of men, women and children from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan etc. arriving with nothing pretty much but their clothes on their backs on rubber dinghies.
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