Week 10 - Infects With Zaha

SocrManiac

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Luiz is off at halftime. I can’t help but think someone screwed up letting him continue in the first place. I’m not a doctor and I’m not there, but c’mon.
Five subs notwithstanding, there needs to be a concussion sub. With all the evidence in front of us it’s insane we’re still talking about this.
 

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Arsenal have been terrible. It's all a bit toothless. Arteta has some job on his hands.

The update on Jimenez was that he was conscious and responding to treatment.
 

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Fulham are two up at Leicester and playing some decent stuff.

Scott Parker graces the touchline. The hair is immaculate. He looks like he'd fit into any family photo from 1920 to 2020.

Leicester have pulled a goal back. I hope Fulham hang on.
 

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West Ham score inside 2 minutes on some awful corner defending by Villa.

One of these sides will likely end the day in the top 8.
 

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Odd sequence. Trezuguet goes down in the box, looked like a straight up dive/flop. Pen is called. Oddly, he comes up bloody (I think from a late stud) and VAR doesn't overrule. Pen is missed of the bar.
 

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An outright dive in the box gets Villa a penalty.... which they miss.

This ref has been the worst I have ever seen, he has been fooled by multiple VIlla dives including an amazingly soft penalty and then didn't call an obvious foul in the box on the other end
 

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Another absolutely moronic VAR check to see if Watkins' arm was offside - and it was.

West Ham retain their lead
 

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And goodness prevails, Villa are punished for their diving ways
Villa to 10th,

West Ham in 5th.
 

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I genuinely don’t believe the refereeing standard was this poor before VAR. I feel like they’re second guessing obvious shit with the security blanket that a camera is watching, but the guy in the booth is constantly blind drunk and his ex-wife is banging the on-field ref.
 

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Odd sequence. Trezuguet goes down in the box, looked like a straight up dive/flop. Pen is called. Oddly, he comes up bloody (I think from a late stud) and VAR doesn't overrule. Pen is missed of the bar.
There was also a possible handball that helped Villa maintain possession which led to the buildup for the goal. I thought VAR would call that and cancel out the penalty call.

Either way, the system is a mess. Goal line technology is great. If everything else was that quick and reliable then replay would be useful instead of the mess it is.
 

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God, that overturn makes my blood boil. He’s fucking wrestling with Ogbonna and has his arm out for balance.

Complete and utter horseshit.
 

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League is nuts this year. Other than Sheffield Utd (and wtf happened to them)? anyone really can beat anyone.

That's down to Covid, and the rash of injuries, and the shitty officiating too, I think.
 

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Cavani to be investigated by the FA for using the word "negrito" on an Instagram post

So I made a joke earlier in the thread but it appears there is actually a few opinion pieces out that are saying Cavani should be suspended.

To be clear, it was on his Instagram post to a friend of his. He surely was using it as an endearing term.

Henry Winter has an article out saying he should be suspended to set an example. What about setting an example that the English culture isn't the only one out there?
 

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He is voluntarily working and living in their culture.

Correct, and if he said it in an interview in England, or called a player on another team “negrito” to wind them up, you’d have a point. But responding to a friend with a term of endearment does not warrant a story, nevermind a 3 game ban.
 

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Correct, and if he said it in an interview in England, or called a player on another team “negrito” to wind them up, you’d have a point. But responding to a friend with a term of endearment does not warrant a story, nevermind a 3 game ban.
No, my point stands. He did it in public and it's established as taboo in the UK. He can play in South America if he wants to send endearing notes to his buddies on IG. While he's in the UK, and playing for ManU, he doesn't get to claim ignorance for something that is pretty well established now. It's not about the intent. The EPL isn't interested in accepting it as OK.
 

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Correct, and if he said it in an interview in England, or called a player on another team “negrito” to wind them up, you’d have a point. But responding to a friend with a term of endearment does not warrant a story, nevermind a 3 game ban.
The FA has rules about social media posts, which this pretty clearly violates. now they may decide to let it slide, but the players all know about the social media rules and other players have been punished in the past for things like this (see Silva getting a ban for a joke he made to his teammate Mendy last year on twitter). So in your example... it's very similar in the FA's eyes to an interview in England.