GWT: EPL - Matchweek 32
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Blender
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Wee Baby Seamus
Yo, Goober, where's the meat?
Glad I went to the Brooklyn Museum at the 30 minute mark. Vacation quality takes priority over football.
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Yes, and it was an awful, awful call. Caicedo is literally lying on the group. The attacker didn't go in with any pace on his foot and didn't raise his foot more than a few inches off the ground.
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hatterson
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He didn't kick him in the head. He gently reached his foot out to cushion the ball coming down and Caicedo headed his foot.
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His foot was over Caicedo's body as the ball was coming down on top of him. That's fine as a call, though the yellow was harsh.
hatterson
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Unless the attacker is being reckless with his pace or force, it's absolutely not a foul to try to poke the ball away from a player who is choosing to lay flat on his back on the pitch.
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Went for a walk only to come back to Liverpool fans going from "woe is me, we've certainly lost the title again" to "yeah, Darwin Nunez can't finish, but he's a big reason we're in this title race."
Good lord.
Good lord.
Has anyone on Liverpool even thought about getting Darwin Nunez a sports psychologist? Or at least an English teacher?
Also love the jealousy of rival fans over Maddison.
Also love the jealousy of rival fans over Maddison.
hatterson
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I can fully recognize he's an excellent player and brings a lot to the pitch. But he's also insanely easy to hate.
Kinda like Bruno.
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I decided to look up some of the reactions here from this summer when he was signed. Some hilarious takes there.
Nah he's nothing like Bruno
I told you guys he was gonna be class
He was good at Leicester but you never what will happen when a guy moves to a bigger club. Maddison has been better than expected. Spurs haven’t really had that kind of creativity in the midfield since Eriksen.
Also, I didn't not know Sturridge has so much personality. Him being on EPL fest showed me he needs to be on the telly.
Going back to the Chelsea/Man United, the penalties have been so pathetic. How Palmer got two is nonsense and the others are equally bad. When has this sport turned so soft? Gordon is the worst offender though, he constantly throws himself into goalkeepers and defenders. It's so bad that refs bite on these plays.
Going back to the Chelsea/Man United, the penalties have been so pathetic. How Palmer got two is nonsense and the others are equally bad. When has this sport turned so soft? Gordon is the worst offender though, he constantly throws himself into goalkeepers and defenders. It's so bad that refs bite on these plays.
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I think part of it is that referees are being more liberal with their penalty calls under the idea that “VAR will check if I made a mistake” but then VAR is basically looking for any possible justification for the referees decision instead of actually acting like a check on him.
It felt that in the past referees acted more like they had to be sure to call pens. They didn’t want to give a pen if they didn’t feel confident it was a foul whereas now there’s a ton of “yea that looked close, I’ll call it live and let VAR sort it out”
100%. They (VAR) want to trust the refs and that's such a flawed perspective because how many VAR pens have we seen actually be overturned this season? Gotta be super low and how VAR allowed that second one on United is main problem we have now. The bloke touches Madueke's thigh and because he touched him, all Noni is going to do, is go down. I don't blame him at all going down on that play, because he got the ref to bite. It's in a really bad spot currently.
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Spurs good to start, dodgy after the Wood goal but the changes at halftime changed the game. PEH and Rodrigo controlled the game with some class finishes. Micky with an absolute rocket - he's got world class potential.
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'F*****g joke' - Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer blast 'embarrassing' Arsenal star
'Embarrassing, very embarrassing.'
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The 26-year-old barged into Estupinan and when the Brighton star responded with a slight nudge, White fell to the ground clutching his throat.
‘Should we mention the Ben White incident?’ Match of the Day host Lineker asked on The Rest is Football podcast.
Ex-England striker and Premier League legend Shearer responded: ‘Yes we should! What a f*****g joke.’
Lineker continued: ‘What I don’t understand, I don’t like and never have liked play-acting. I don’t get it or understand why players do it, but especially now when you’ve got so many cameras at the ground and you’ve got VAR anyway that will look back at incidents.
‘Do you not think to yourself, that’s a bit embarrassing doing that? And Ben White is not the only one by the way, lots of players do it, but I just don’t know why you’d bring that on yourself. You just look at prat.’
Shearer added: ‘Absolutely, it was embarrassing, very embarrassing.’
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Yesterday's game was the 26th CB pairing that started for United in 31 games. 31 different backlines in 43 games this season in all competitions.
And one poster at RedCafe put it:
And one poster at RedCafe put it:
