Markthehorn

Another set of owners not fit and proper to take over a club but are allowed to..?

England Provisional ICC Men's T20 World Cup & Vitality IT20 Squad versus Pakistan Squad:

Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Captain

Moeen Ali (Warwickshire)

Jofra Archer (Sussex)

Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire)

Harry Brook (Yorkshire)

Sam Curran (Surrey)

Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)

Tom Hartley (Lancashire)

Will Jacks (Surrey)

Chris Jordan (Surrey)

Liam Livingstone (Lancashire)

Adil Rashid (Yorkshire)

Phil Salt (Lancashire)

Reece Topley (Surrey)

Mark Wood (Durham)

Hopefully we will put up a better defence of our title!

8 hours ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

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The tackle - be worth about 3 red cards.

But you'd also probably get a long VAR check too.

Be about 3 red cards for that now !

Mind you the VAR would probably take 5 minutes to check it .

Just now, Robbored said:

Yeah - it was stonewall pen with the ref literally 10 yards away looking right at it. Amazing that he didn’t give it immediately.

Yes not even sure he had to go to the screen really.

Arsenal just been clinical.

Spurs a bit unlucky with that offside goal and maybe one penalty shout but then if you cannot defend set plays there isn't much to complain.

27 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I miss the studio / studio guest bit of the C5 show.  I think they missed a big trick.  Especially when you can watch the 2 mins highlights on sky / YouTube without waiting to 9pm.  I liked the post-match punditry from people like Sam Parkin and Jobi McAnuff (now lost to sky), and also the NTT20 guys, George and Ali.  Wasn’t overload, had it just right imho.

Guess they did it to cut costs..

Two attacking sides at full pelt and no VAR to get in the way .

3 minutes ago, Lew-T said:

That Hutchinson looks a proper player though.

Think he is on loan from Chelsea ?

2 very open attacking teams .

2 hours ago, Lrrr said:

11:05pm ITV1? 

Is it on later so they can get decent coverage of the Ipswich match in?

Ipswich 5 points from promotion ?

Congratulations to Leicester .

And what a turnaround for QPR too.

I presume here the clubs would have to vote for it to be scrapped.

Could that happen?

Probably depend on if they have had decisions for or go against them in the last game or two!

5 hours ago, Dollymarie said:

Wow! 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cmm3v9ny78eo

All the teams will be scrambling around for his signature.

31 minutes ago, Super said:

Making easy work of Brighton. Only Spurs away will test them.

Brighton have had an on the beach feel to them for a while and obviously Man City have been ruthless.

Mind you Brighton could have had a consolation penalty.

They’d probably implement them here then forget about the new guidelines after a while as often seems to happen .

I noticed Klopp put all the bigger names back in yesterday after their good win at Fulham with a “fringe” team .

Maybe should have stuck with a winning confident team !?

6 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

Wolves never in it equalized  

Another VAR decision goes against Wolves .

Can see the steam from here coming out of Gary O’Neil’s ears !

La Liga  already play their super cup abroad do they?

2 hours ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

Frank Field, MP. Aged 81 (cancer).

Sounds like he was Labour but wasn’t afraid to speak out against them too 

26 minutes ago, transfer reader said:

 

 

Chelsea probably wish he had been sent off .

It would have given them some sort or excuse for this second half performance.

We’d put up more fight !

Think Wenger has suggested daylight offsides in the past but not sure what happened to that idea.

I think we just have to conclude the game isn’t any less controversial or confusing with VAR than without which I am sure wasn’t the intention.

Infact it’s probably worse for a number of reasons .

46 minutes ago, BrizzleRed said:

Couldn’t agree more Max.  

In theory, if VAR was employed properly, it could possibly be a valuable tool, just like goal-line technology undoubtedly is.  

Sadly, the combination of crap offside rules and the completely flawed employment of VAR above the match officials, has actually made it a blight on the game, rather than a benefit.

Higher end football needs to sort itself out, before it actually destroys itself.

Suppose offside could just mean offside and maybe the semi automated system will mean we won’t need to see silly human drawn lines which obviously cause confusion and controversy.

What would be the ideal handball rule too ?

We've seen all sorts given and not given.

How can we make it easier  to apply when most of the time it's subjective and a lottery.
 

All this really could have been sorted out by those in charge before VAR came in.

9 minutes ago, SecretSam said:

Works in other sports. It's got to be better than the referee effectively having every decision scrutinised by VAR, like some over-zealous teacher.

Yes true and it works well  but you know what clubs are like .

They will want more and get in a strop if an “obvious error” in their eyes is missed because they have no appeals left .

Could we use a “umpires call “ type system where his decision is final but the  team don’t lose a review for subjective decisions?

6 minutes ago, Roe said:

So for example in the Forest game, they appeal the first one and the VAR disagrees as happened. No penalty and no more appeals? Or is it a case of if you appeal, you'd almost be forcing the VAR to make a decision in your favour to avoid backlash?

I feel like that would just open it up to even more confusion personally.

Trouble is we all know there will be a massive outcry for more appeals if after a team uses one which isn’t “successful “ they have a much stronger case potentially for a decision but it cannot be looked at as the opportunity has been used up.

In cricket the teams accept the final decision as in rugby but obviously in football they don’t.

I agree the communication could be better and time taken out of the game .