Sheep keeper doesn't seem to have a clue where his goal is.
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The bottom 3 teams in the championship are so equally crap the league has had to use the long forgotten metric of pit productivity to decide the placing.
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I miss Donny.
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Didn’t know much about the reinjders fellow but fuck me he’s good. Looks like they (Citeh) have replaced Kevin De Ginger easily enough. Cunts.
Wolves looks a bit rubbish which is nice.
Didn’t manage to catch the ‘Ammers getting Hammered as work unfortunately got in the way
Hopefully can look half decent tomorrow.
Chicago: Impossibly optimistic.
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Palace goal disallowed because one of their players was too close to the wall. A rule introduced about 5 years ago that I'd never noticed.
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He does a classic Steve Hodge and shoves the wall to the side as well to create a gap for the shot
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I don't see why that should be a rule, and why players can't jostle to make space in a wall.
If they foul someone in the process, that should be all the sanctioning power the ref needs.
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I see manure ended the game pumping it up to the big man (maguire) again, in losing to the arse.
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That would be my thinking too. They could have disallowed the goal today for that reason if they'd really wanted to, but hey it's Chelsea. Protected by Byzantine interpretations. Are they Freemasons or something?
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It's a new one on me and I'm baffled at it.
You're telling me if after a free kick is given, a player on the attacking team goes and stands ten metres in front of the ball, he now has to move so that the defending team can form a wall? What the fuck?
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If it's a rule, its a rule, but any rule that dictates where players can or can't compete is anti-football.
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They mostly huffed and puffed, but Arsenal had all the class and were largely untroubled. United don't look (on that evidence) massively improved on last season - be astonished if they're troubling the top five or six despite all the money they've spent.
Mbeumo was busy and a handful, and Cunha grew into the game. He is incredibly talented but prone to head-loss - one point in the second half he took exception to Ben White receiving treatment and was pushing and shoving half the Arsenal team. He has the potential to be proper box office, though.
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Top 10 is a more reasonable estimate, I would think, which is still a massive improvement, almost on a part with ours last year.
If the promoted teams had been anything other than rubbish they they'd have been in a relegation battle. Improving their attack is not some magic bullet for the failings elsewhere in the team and squad. -
Not convinced. If they (and Spurs) hadn’t been 100% safe going into the last few weeks, they wouldn’t have prioritised the Europa league so much. Both had far too much to get relegated in any year.
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I agree. This wasn't jostling, it was a full shove off the ball and I agree with ruling the goal out, but the rule they used to do it was stupid. You're absolutely correct that it's an unnecessary rule.
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Yes this.
I just don't get it. I don't understand how it's implemented in practice.
For example if the defenders try to make a wall 11 metres away from the ball rather than 10 metres, does that mean an attacker cannot stand in front of them as he's within 1 metres of the wall?
What if it's an indirect free kick in the area, and the defenders make a line on the goal line, where are the attackers meant to stand?
Can you form two walls, and players can't be within a metre of either?
(This may well be covered in the rules but I can't be arsed looking it up properly, it's a stupid rule)
