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I don't think anyone will be angry at the aim of improving the atmosphere and if this happens on Saturday with them moving to empty seats then great.

If this means that Saturday involves this group fighting with stewards and their own fans, then it makes that aim look like an excuse rather than a positive. 

Let's hope it's the former.

1 hour ago, 2015 said:

 He's a great presenter anyway regardless of his views, and has always been underrated.

Agreed.

7 hours ago, 2015 said:

James Richardson. Consistently the best Football presenter since the Football Italia days. Good for a one liner. BBC would never want him though, I won't explain the reasons why but it's obvious.

Would love this but don’t think the BBC would want to face the right wing howls for replacing Lineker with someone so strongly anti-Tory and anti-Brexit. 

47 minutes ago, Maltshoveller said:

Just hope it is not Lianne Sanderson 

She must be in with a chance of getting it

due to ticking all the boxes  

Jesus Christ. The ‘boxes’ seem to really upset some people.

19 hours ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Nothing worse than a berk shouting from the rooftops what other people should do 

Said with no irony 

Penning us in quite well here.

Need to get that Tannoy in the Dolman, bloody loud!

1 hour ago, redapple said:

Football is often like going to the pantomime in terms of crowd reaction.  Gosling did at the time seem to be over reacting as he’d gone down without a challenge. Those who’d bothered to attend the mid week games against Sheffield United and Coventry City would have seen the constant faked injuries by Gosling’s fellow professionals to waste time. So while not at all nice for Gosling the reaction was brought on by what City fans have had to endure from his colleagues in recent weeks. 

That makes sense for the initial reaction (esp. as City were attacking when he went down) but it continuing past it being clear the player was actually injured stops it making any sense as a decent justification.

6 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Tbf, the way he went down, from the SS looked rather comical. Maybe had his team not of been wasting time prior to that then he may have been taken more seriously. 

To boo to start with in that instance - fair enough. To continue to give him stick when he’s on a stretcher - pathetic. Regardless of whether the rest of the team had been timewasting.

VAR should be a good thing but the implementation is very messy. You can have a goal ruled out for a very minor offside or incident yet a goal scored directly from an incorrectly awarded corner (which we can all see is incorrect seconds after on a replay) is not looked at in anyway. That's before you get into the threshold piece. The main thing it needs is to be quicker, especially in play, so that the VAR official can quickly inform the ref if they've gotten something wrong and stop the huge delay after goals. I'm amazed this isn't already the case with the technology available. 

It has got some positives, it's improved decision making overall - which just shows given the anger over it how bad refereeing was pre-VAR. 

Brilliant game from him and Pring was immense.

No Weimann.

Disappointing performance in general but particularly the lack of response after we conceded the 2nd goal - not helped by our lack of shape/midfield. 

Sad news but the right decision by the looks of the advice. Big loss, was immense on his day.

I’m not saying anything, do not want to jinx it.

FFS

Just disappointing, moments of looking decent but shaky in defence and just not quite there when it counted.

Sad news. Thoughts go out to his family.

Madness, selling off one of your biggest income streams seems very very short term if that’s what they are planning. 

25 minutes ago, gl2 said:

Without reading through prev 15 pages, was the delayed start down to fake tickets as per uefa? seems one reason, judging from the pics of the amount of fans outside trying to get in I have seen on the beeb,.... fans running through gates and being chased.

Poorly organised or fake tickets, seems a bit of both to me.

I think it’s a combination as you say from what I’ve read. 
 

I’ve never understood this fan parks thing, why invite people to come to the city without tickets and if you do, you need to be able to deal with it. However I also think that any Liverpool fan trying to ‘sneak’ in or use a knowingly forged ticket are selfish idiots and need to take their share of the blame.

18 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

 

Stop voting for cuts.

Typo? 

What an idiot. Hopefully he gets jail time. If your first thought when your team wins is ‘let’s headbutt someone’ , you’re not safe to be on the streets.

Was class today and if this improvement continues he could be frightening.

57 minutes ago, Cardy said:

Utter shambles after the game today. It was almost as if they wanted the two sets of fans to meet face to face for a ruck. I have never seen anything like it. Whoever was leading that operation this afternoon is in the wrong job.

Why is it that they don’t just keep the Away fans in the ground for 15 mins at the end like they used to?? Not exactly rocket science is it - although a sensible decision like that probably means less overtime.

That would make sense. Didn’t get the plan at all today. Blocking off Ashton road seemed an odd move but assumed there was some logic in it but clearly it didn’t work. 

34 minutes ago, Harry said:

Have you ever walked across that park after a night game? It’s dark. The picture that shows the fans on the park, at night, you wouldn’t be able to see each other there. A 3pm kick off and it would’ve been dark after the game. The fact the old bill made this an early kick off has hilariously backfired on them

 

Yes but it tends to be fairly light in front bit for the reasons above and especially when there is something on at AG.

It hasn’t hilariously backfired, it’s just proven that idiots will always try and fight. The reasons for early kick offs are very obvious. Obviously you find it funny that we have to waste all of this police resource on stopping neanderthals trying to hit each other for supporting a different team to them?