The Footie Thread

[Billysboots]

Southgate to be knighted

I’m surprised and not surprised in equal measure.

Surprised because I remain firmly of the view that England should have won major tournaments under Southgate and they failed to do so because of his conservatism.

And yet the honour is predictable because there are so many who will regard England’s repeated appearances in finals and semifinals as success. Whilst I agree to an extent, that success is overshadowed by the failure to take the step up and actually win something.

 

[nickjdavis]

Yes should be measured on their feet imo.

It would make it so much easier....no messing about drawing vertical lines to figure out the point on the ground where someones armpit might be in relation to someone elses knee. Give VAR no more than 20 seconds to review an incident and then another 10 seconds to push a button saying goal/no-goal. If they dont push the button in 10 seconds then the on-field decision stands. If they cant do alll of this in a total of 30 seconds then it is not clear and obvious whether the onfield ref has made a mistake.

 

[Aztecs27]

It would make it so much easier....no messing about drawing vertical lines to figure out the point on the ground where someones armpit might be in relation to someone elses knee. Give VAR no more than 20 seconds to review an incident and then another 10 seconds to push a button saying goal/no-goal. If they dont push the button in 10 seconds then the on-field decision stands. If they cant do alll of this in a total of 30 seconds then it is not clear and obvious whether the onfield ref has made a mistake.

It really is that easy.

 

[Don Barzini]

It would make it so much easier....no messing about drawing vertical lines to figure out the point on the ground where someones armpit might be in relation to someone elses knee. Give VAR no more than 20 seconds to review an incident and then another 10 seconds to push a button saying goal/no-goal. If they dont push the button in 10 seconds then the on-field decision stands. If they cant do alll of this in a total of 30 seconds then it is not clear and obvious whether the onfield ref has made a mistake.

I agree with Nick.

 

[PJ87]

It would make it so much easier....no messing about drawing vertical lines to figure out the point on the ground where someones armpit might be in relation to someone elses knee. Give VAR no more than 20 seconds to review an incident and then another 10 seconds to push a button saying goal/no-goal. If they dont push the button in 10 seconds then the on-field decision stands. If they cant do alll of this in a total of 30 seconds then it is not clear and obvious whether the onfield ref has made a mistake.

Yes. 100%

Against wolves kudus scored 2 offside goals. The first as soon as the reply went you could see clearly it was offside. Not even close

They took like 2 mins to sort

 

[3offTheTee]

Do not know whether it has already been commented on and if so apologies.

Wolves player Cunha 'removing glasses' of Ipswich Official at the end of the game yesterday

Appalled. Surely a ban.

 

[PaulMdj]

Yes should be measured on their feet imo.

Surely it should be against any part of the body that you can use to score a goal from?

 

[Red devil]

(Assuming you mean “Spurs could do worse” rather than “no worse”)…..


Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Thank you SO MUCH for the laugh mate!

My point was a dig at Spurs. It didn't come across well.

 

[Midnight]

So watched MOTD this morning

Fulham game was certainly exciting and great to see Jota back

But the ref

The tackle on Robbo by Diop - late and studs on the knee - how isn’t that a red

Then the studs on the back on Gravs Achilles - again a red

Robbo sending off - when I saw all the clips it looked cut and dry a red

But I thought the rule was “Denying a clear goal scoring opportunity” - Wilson wasn’t getting to the ball , Jiminez was and he had a shot - so they had a clear goal scoring opportunity - so why a red but can see why the ref gave it

Overall with 10 men it was a great game and good point

Rather annoying that the guy who scored the first prob should have been off

Robbo clearly not great after the tackle and prob should have been subbed before

I'm looking forward to ref watch in regards to the above. It will be interesting to hear it talked through .
One of the issues is , was advantage played or not ? I didn't see the ref signal advantage but there did seem to be a long time to see what the outcome was . If the Fulham player had scored . Then we probably wouldn't be having this conversation.

 

[Bazz]

Finally sacked O'Neil, just hope it's not too late.

 

[Midnight]

Finally sacked O'Neil, just hope it's not too late.

Who do you think would want the job ? Or who would you like to get that is available?

 

[Bazz]

Who do you think would want the job ? Or who would you like to get that is available?

Plenty available that would sort us out, Moyes, Potter, Conceicao.

Unfortunately, I think they've sounded most of those out and they won't work with our structure, no spending etc.

So we'll end up with another O'Neil.

Hopefully I'm wrong.

 

[PJ87]

Plenty available that would sort us out, Moyes, Potter, Conceicao.

Unfortunately, I think they've sounded most of those out and they won't work with our structure, no spending etc.

So we'll end up with another O'Neil.

Hopefully I'm wrong

Take j-lo if you fancy?

 

[Arthur Wedge]

I'm looking forward to ref watch in regards to the above. It will be interesting to hear it talked through .
One of the issues is , was advantage played or not ? I didn't see the ref signal advantage but there did seem to be a long time to see what the outcome was . If the Fulham player had scored . Then we probably wouldn't be having this conversation.

He didn’t blow his whistle until VVD cleared the ball and he was watching the play develop

 

[Bazz]

Take j-lo if you fancy?

He was 100% right about our owners when he left.

 

[Aztecs27]

Finally sacked O'Neil, just hope it's not too late.

Think he knew his time was up given his post match interview.

 

[Bazz]

Think he knew his time was up given his post match interview.

He's been like that in the last few now, like a dog waiting to be put out of his misery.

 

[clubchamp98]

Surely it should be against any part of the body that you can use to score a goal from?

It’s called Football!

Standardise it so the striker can have a peek around the defender without his shirt sleeve being offside.
If it’s taken from players feet then I think it would stop a lot of good goals being chalked off.

Just my opinion.

 

[Don Barzini]

Who do you think would want the job ? Or who would you like to get that is available?

Apparently Ole Gunnar Solksjaer was at Molineux yesterday. Make of that what you will.

 

[clubchamp98]

I'm looking forward to ref watch in regards to the above. It will be interesting to hear it talked through .
One of the issues is , was advantage played or not ? I didn't see the ref signal advantage but there did seem to be a long time to see what the outcome was . If the Fulham player had scored . Then we probably wouldn't be having this conversation.

Yes there was no way Wilson was getting the ball. It’s a grey area.

Just to say ,watched the game this morning and have to comment on how good Fulham were.
They got their tactics spot on .
Liverpool were stretched down the right and sone awful defending from TAA and Quansha .
They need to do more to stop them crosses.

Jota showing Nunez how to finish as well don’t just slash it at the keeper.