benjii

The Maidstone Massive is expanding its territory.

Hot balls.

He looks like Craig David.

Blooming buckle draggers.

So has everyone seen the City incident? I find that one completely flabbergasting. It’s an atrocious decision where the ref has gone out of his way to help them. We had a goal ruled out earlier in the season because a shot passed by Yoshida, even though he wasn’t blocking the keeper’s view or trying to play the ball. Yesterday, Sterling was trying to get onto a pass and kicked it into the net yet was apparently not interfering until the defender, stretching for the ball precisely because Sterling was next to him, got a toe to it. You’re telling me if the away team scored in those circumstances the ref would tried so hard to overrule the linesman? Most weekends now it seems that most games have major wrong decisions (clear goals, penalties, red cards). It’s fine to make mistakes and offsides are impossible to get right every time but some of the inconsistency and bias is inexcusable.

Yeah, fair enough!. You get the gist though!

Yet today, Sterling wasn't interfering, even though: a) the defender was stretching to stop him getting the ball; and b) he kicked it into the goal.

Aguero knocked it on to Sterling and it ended up in the net. Linesman flagged because Sterling was clearly offside. Ref went over and talked to linesman then gave the goal. The goal was given because a defender got a toe on the ball before Sterling scored. He was at full stretch, trying to stop the ball getting to Sterling, who was half a yard away. To say he played Sterling onside is ridiculous and, frankly, suspicious.

Stuart Atwell, after his performance for Man U last week, has just given one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen in City’s favour. ”Kevin was superb” was his usual useless self today. Mason is a skate ****. Moss is a mentalist. We need VAR but let’s not let these useless ****s adjudicate on it. 5th official, away from the pitch, should decide - not these clueless fools.

Absolutely disgusting decision at Man City now. Officials are a joke.

Shame the officials didn’t do their jobs properly last weekend as that would have been three wins in a row!

Stupid of Redmond not to go down. Friend would have had little choice.

Did really well today. Movement off the ball was excellent.

Haha, good luck!

There’s never been any credible link between Ratcliffe and Saints. It was simple geographical proximity.

If the match was in York, say, the Skates would definitely take more tickets than Sooonderland.

Yeah, they’re dead keen to tap into the straight-to-consumer petro-chemicals market.

Yeah, that’ll do for me too.

Indeed. And worrying that the MDs strategy is to try to just map the wage bill to the league position, rather than improve the league position.

I read an interesting article the other day that said that even if the commons approves the withdrawal agreement, primary legislation (ie an Act of Parliament) would need to be passed in order for it to be validly entered into. This is is largely due to section 31(5) of the Taxation (Cross Border Trade) Act 2018. This act specifically provides that a customs union with the EU can’t be entered into without primary legislation (whereas other customs unions can be entered into by an Order in Council). This was an amendment made to pacify the ERG last year. There are other pro-hard Brexit amendments scattered around various acts. In other words, if May leaves it too late in presenting Parliament with a take it or leave it choice then even if they “take it”, there’s a risk that a hard Brexit would technically happen by accident. Which would obviously lead to all sorts of potential fun and games.

That’s probably Les’ salary? He was a director for that period? You’d expect Les to be on something like that, wouldn’t you? i haven’t opened the link yet, just going on what I’ve read above.

They wahhhnnaaa maaayyyymk aaaarrrrr barnaaaarrrrnaaas straight.

Another high-profile male suicide. I was a teenager from the mid 90s so was a bit young to see the messier side of rave culture when The Prodigy were making a name for themselves to begin with, but I was well into my music and Jilted Generation and Fat of the Land were massive albums for me. As I got a bit older, I observed that you could play a Prodigy track at just about any club night - dance, metal, alternative - and you'd get a full dance floor. Great live band with some genuinely iconic tracks. Those two classic albums still sound fresh and much more interesting than most music since.

You are just wrong, Nelson. Great man, great dog.

A shirt pull from behind is not a genuine attempt at a tackle so it should have been a red.