Gameweek 31

the1andonly3003

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Wolves were stolen a goal

Also, waiting to see NFL allow paper notes in lieu of hand signals in the same fashion Scott Parker sent a paper note in his 70th min sub
 

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Traore absolute dagger in the heart of Fulham in 92nd minute of 0-0 game.
 

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Lashed it into the upper 90 from a very tough angle at full sprint at the edge of the box. Impossible shot and devastating under the circumstances. Fulham player in tears. They’ve been very good for a stretch but that’s going to kill their hopes of staying up.
 

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City are rotation-rific vs Leeds, including some guys I have never heard of, much to the despair of FPL managers everywhere
 

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Stones must feel he’s back at Everton playing with such a changed side. It’s been an awful match for City but he’s playing as a Cm at this point and just owning the midfield
 
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Liverpool starting so brightly today. I just don’t get this team. How could they not bring this level of energy and pressing against frickin’ Madrid in the UCL quarter-fucking-finals?
 

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Yeow. Phillips leaves Alison on the spot with Watkins closing hard and Alison just skips by like he’s Maradonna. Ok the broadcast, all Andy could do was exhale in relief.
 

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Liverpool starting so brightly today. I just don’t get this team. How could they not bring this level of energy and pressing against frickin’ Madrid in the UCL quarter-fucking-finals?
It’s a weird season and Liverpool have had to use their deep bench so much. Much like City today, those 2nd stringers are talented but they can’t always be at that level or they’d be starters. Add in all the midweeks and I think it’s impossible to know how ready for any match any team is.
We tend to see crazy results during the Xmas period in PL. they’re playing a full season of the Xmas period. It’s nuts
 

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What was the deal with the AV player calling on the med team. They don't administer any aide, they just talk. A sub prepares to come on. Then, after 5 minutes, he walks off then rejoins play.

Players can just take 5 minute breaks?
 

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That makes me want to take the rest of the season off. VAR has been used as the referees as a protest, not as an assist.
 

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I find I can't celebrate goals anymore. I expect a VAR review to distort what actually happened on the field, via parallax and ultra-sloe-motion, and someone in booth picks and chooses what part of the anatomy is used to justify the call this week.
 

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What makes it even more infuriating is that if he scored with the area used to judge him off, VAR would disallow the goal.
 

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From the VAR tracking on ESPN as of today ( not counting this game) 102 overturns.

Is it realistic that the officials have gotten it wrong that often?

102 wrong in the roughly 600 games played so far. They are saying every six games the referee and the 2 linesmen fail to call correctly a red card or goal scoring situation.

Also for every call overturned there are around what?(guessing) 4-5 that are confirmed using VAR? That adds up to 400 - 500 delays or full stoppage of play. That is not how you play the beautiful game.

I'm sorry I am harping on this but it is really turning me off.
 

the1andonly3003

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anyone think Liam McHugh and Rebecca Lowe are getting a bit too excited with their Wrestlemania live reads? McHugh even declared he wanted to jump off the top rope yesterday
 

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Trent!!!!!

But Martinez with a helluva save just before. Amazing.
 

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Can’t we solve the whole VAR thing by using a line drawn with the left marker tip versus the right marker tip. If the two thick lines touch, the play is onside. How hard is this anyway?

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Burnley vs Newcastle featured another VAR abomination where Burnley’s Tarkowski should have been sent off for a red card for dangerous play , not to mention a PEN in the Burnley box. If anything qualified as a Clear and Obvious Error this would be exhibit #1

But nooooooo .. VAR ruled Tarkowski had touched the ball (before kicking the Newcastle player in the head) .. in complete contradiction to the Cooper sending off in the Leeds / City game.

What the fuck is the point of this soul sucking , emotion destroying abomination if it can’t even get Job #1 right.
 

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Big Big Big win for Newcastle. Very bad news for Fulham .. and maybe even Burnley
The specter of possibly losing a league match to a promoted Sunderland next year and then seeing the match turned into 2 hours of Netflix content no longer looms quite as conceringly.
 

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Shout out to David Moyes, whose career was left for dead. How many of us snickered when his name was floated for the USMNT job? Since then, he gone absolutely Lazarus.
 

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Shout out to David Moyes, whose career was left for dead. How many of us snickered when his name was floated for the USMNT job? Since then, he gone absolutely Lazarus.
Speaking of back from the dead, Jesse Lingard had devolved into a meme until he went on loan to West Ham and is now the best player in the EPL.
 

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Speaking of back from the dead, Jesse Lingard had devolved into a meme until he went on loan to West Ham and is now the best player in the EPL.
Lingard has become the poster child for some kind of salary cap to stop the mega-clubs from stockpiling excellent players who never see the pitch.
 

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Yep - Newcastle and WH deserve all the big ups.

That Traore stoppage-time goal was just fucking brutal to Fulham. They've been a really tough out for a big stretch of the season. But it looks like they're dead.
 

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except for City, the contending clubs all have a tendency to drop a steaming turd once in awhile

real-time edit: but Inheacho makes it 3-2 with 6' of stoppage time left, WH have dropped some points this year
 

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Lingard has become the poster child for some kind of salary cap to stop the mega-clubs from stockpiling excellent players who never see the pitch.
setting aside classifying Lingard as excellent, if the NBA has taught us anything, it’s that salary caps create strange incentives for players which results in things like winning, location, and marketing opportunities leading to the creation of super teams. The NFL has largely avoided this with their larger rosters and the NBA has the extremely perverse max contract but I don’t think the football world would get what it wants with salary caps.

In reality I think luxury taxes have proven most effective. FFP has been a disaster at what it was supposedly trying to accomplishand in the end it’s just discouraging spending but the spending is inevitable. Probably the best that can be done is to force big spending teams to pay a surcharge and distribute that money to lower leagues.
But it probably never should happen in football. This is partially why the big teams keep trying to form their own league. Owners like Henry of course want to close the shop because it’s the only way they can enforce rules like this. If they tried doing it in England they’d just ignore it in Spain and Spanish teams would continue to inflate the market while complaining everyone else is doing it and we’d go back to the days of wondering which Spanish giant will win everything