Are you saying that if someone is standing where you want to be you can run at then as long as you don't lead with an extremity?
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Great game. Zirksee should have shot at the end and Tricky is wrong. Nunez was going for the man. Red for me. Lucky to be a yellow.
Pity Jota, Salah and Gakpo didn’t get reds also as we now have to play them. Oh well we will only get legitimacy if we beat a full strength Scouse side anyway.
Let’s hope we are ready for tomorrow so we can make the Scouse cnuts nervous.
Chicago: Entertained.
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Nunez absolutely has the right to challenge for a ball in the air, just because the opposing player got to that position first doesn't give him an inalienable right to first dibs on the ball. In particular with this one the defender was standing in the wrong place and Nunez did the right thing to take position between player and ball - he didn't throw his arms up, he led with his shoulder into where the defender should have also been with his shoulder. Poor play by the defender, I don't mind the free kick but it definitely doesn't require a card of any kind.
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Absolutely, and 100 years of football history agrees with me. It's a contact sport and there are many circumstances where one player tries to use their physicality to occupy the position currently taken up by another player. It is one of the foundational blocks on which the game is based.
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Can I just say it’s stupid that bookings in games 1, 5, 10, 15 and 19 is a one match ban, while bookings in games 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 has no punishment? It should obviously be a suspension for five bookings in any 19 game stretch, with the count reset after you reach 5.
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You what? I'm totally confused about how this is even a thing. I didn't know. That's ridiculous.
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I think you're just reading it wrong.
Simon is just saying getting 5 bookings in the first 19 games gets a ban, getting 4 bookings in the first 19 then a fifth in game 20, no ban.
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Not sure how that’s different from what I said, but yes, that’s what I meant.
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First time I read what you put as getting a ban if you were booked in any one of the games you listed eg booked in game 1, get a ban.
Wondered if Jim read it the same.
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I did.
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That's pretty fucking damning for a player. You're a forward for potentially the worst ever premier league team who can't score goals, and they want to get rid of you?
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When the alternative is Cameron "2 goals in 19" Archer.
