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Presumably Blackburn would’ve had to pay for how many tickets they took and so just went for the smaller initial allocation

Several times

Warnock managing O’Dowda could be interesting

Back in the day you got the same ref for the replay that did the first game, is this still the case?

Maybe we should throw Kevin Friend into the mix as well. It’s well known he’s a city fan and just like his performance in that preseason game against Villa last season is maybe trying a little too hard to show that he’s impartial now he’s in charge of championship referees Seems more plausible than the anti Pearson WhatsApp group

And another meh draw should we win the reply Chesterfield or West Brom at home

That also highlights how ridiculous it is to have a competition with effectively different rules dependent on whose ground it is. VAR should be at all grounds or no grounds in this competition

I’m willing one kid to try and break that game and keep going lower

Have to agree regarding Gabby Logan, i didn’t watch the World Cup so don’t know whether she’s improved or not but when Alex Scott started on soccer am she was pretty wooden

Pretty sure the booing was directly related to him releasing Dziekanowski who if i remember correctly gave a farewell speech over the pa either before that game or at half time

We have to at least give him the transfer window as it’s about to open. Replace him now and we either bring nobody in or end up making panic buys/loans which set us back even further

Is my closest game of the season so will be there

Did play with 10 for an hour mind

It’s important to realise that change will take time. We had Mike Riley in charge for years who only seemed good at sending letters of apology whilst standards continued to fall So don’t be surprised if it takes another season or two before standards bottom out. As for VAR the concept is good but the application is terrible, I’d like to see a time limit put on reviews so if an offence is not found within 90 seconds for example then it’s not clear or obvious

Speaking of penalties, should we have had one? Only saw it live and looked a foul from where i was

Especially when every year at least two of them draw each other

Weird how many all prem ties and all championship ties there are yet again

It’s obvious they’ll raise their game against England, they always do

My memories of being a child of the 80’s is lots of tech that looked nice but didn’t really work and a string of disasters from the middle of the decade

Didn’t stop them poaching another teams manager though..

I did both last season. At Cardiff we got kettled after the game and at Swansea it was before and in the reverse fixture neither happened

Why is it when we go to Cardiff or Swansea we get kettled before and after the game but when they come here they’re given the freedom of the city and then allowed out immediately after the game?

It was policed by someone who’d only been in the job a month and who’d never policed a major football match before. So in a sense he was set up to fail but arrogance both on his part and SYP played a very big part in what transpired Having read the independent panels report the previous year was uncomfortable and some people got pulled up into the seats above but the major difference was police were organised the year before and operated a filter system outside the stadium meaning what occurred at the turnstiles before the game never happened I’d urge anyone who still blindly thinks that hillsborough was the fault of the fans to download the independent panels report some of it is very eye opening about how it could've been any teams supporters that day