And that, right there, sums up everything that is wrong with football nowadays. It's become a sport of Tom Daleys.
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And that, right there, sums up everything that is wrong with football nowadays. It's become a sport of Tom Daleys.
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Due to a bunch of teams having the wrong manager, wrong players, bad buys, bad sales or bad injuries this is a once in a decade type situation where Arsenal's top four rivals all suck. This is as such our best chance of winning the league in over a decade and maybe for a long time after with new managers at almost all the major rivals....... Coquelin by far was the biggest idiot. There isn't even a competition.
Utd win this or lose it.. honestly who cares, they are just waiting for next season some more buys, some injuries to be done and dusted with and a new manager. CL or no CL, they won't win it next year and the money while nice isn't make or break for them in the slightest.
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I care:¥
could make a huge difference to top four bid to start with
for his "seniority" within the squad, experience etc etc and the time it happened in the match (and the time between the two yellows) Mata is by far more stupid than Coq
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This argument does my head in. Does this mean you can punch a player if they don't have possession of the ball? And why do refs give fouls when a player is blocked off/pulled back off the ball?
What Benteke does after the challenge, whether he carries on his run, whether he does a triple summersault or drops down dead, and whether he's in possession of the ball or not makes no difference. The only decision the ref has to make is whether Delaney tripped him or not and he did.
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please baggies capitalize
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Pardew's interview... he's furious 
Pardew's interview... he's furious
Fantastic. I wish the interviewer pushed him harder - he might have headbutted him
This argument does my head in. Does this mean you can punch a player if they don't have possession of the ball? And why do refs give fouls when a player is blocked off/pulled back off the ball?
This argument does my head in, punching someone in the head is a criminal offence with or without the ball
This argument does my head in, punching someone in the head is a criminal offence with or without the ball
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What difference does top four actually make to Utd....... none at all.
Utd have the financial power and potential beyond all but basically 3 other clubs. No manager nor player would turn them down because they missed out on CL for another year. Financially 40mil could mean a huge difference to clubs below Utd, but not so much to them. You're talking about them making less profit for a year rather than realistically spending loads more. They have the finances and size to borrow 40mil if there is someone they really want to buy.
top 4 for a single season makes incredibly little real world difference to Utd, not least because unless they change 70% of the squad in one transfer window they have no chance of winning it next year.
true - excluding the two yellows (which were correct), ref seem to want to allow West Brom to get away with murder while whistling against Utd for the smallest things
(ie if West Brom want to "waste" their free kick by taking it quickly and it doesn't come off, it should be up to them. Shouldn't have a 2nd chance to take it - several other instances also)
Strangely it's not dealt as a criminal matter on the football field. It's a foul. Just like tripping somebody when they don't have the ball
I thought it was a harsh penalty, football is a contact sport, there has to be an element of honesty from players for the game. 1 - 1 would have been a fair result and put it this way, had that been benteke in his own box defending, he wouldnt of gone down. He would have stayed on his feet and cleared the ball or whatever. He wouldnt have risked going to ground. Harsh for palace, deserved something from that game.
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Head touching, aka headbutting, in football is usually just a red at worst. Only the nutters who properly headbutt people get properly dealt with.
Not playing in the CL next season makes no difference?
I cant believe you have even asked that
1) Attracting the best players is MUCH easier when the team is in CL (maybe Utd wont sign any anyway, but its still easier if you are due to play CL)
2) Potential for sponsors to reduce payments if Utd frequently miss CL seasons - and therefore potentially paying off the debt is harder)
3) With any squad, its better for the future of the club all the players get more meetings vs Barca / RM / Bayern etc etc rather than the 2nd rung in europe
With such relatively short careers of course footballers are going to chose CL teams above all else - and beyond that as has been seen this year the buying power of the PL as a whole has increased, so MUCH less difference between Liverpool / Stoke or who ever else affording someone and Utd - and that's only going to be closer /more non-existant in the near future
I imagine it only applies to pro football but isn't there some kind of unwritten rule that unless it's an extreme case then the police don't get involved in what happens on the pitch?
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Pretty much Martial Vs West Brom at the moment. Rashford and Lingard have been pretty invisible.