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  2. All Matches Postponed Until At Least 12/9/22

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    27 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

    I think this weekend will be off, but midweek and next weekend should be okay (if the funeral is next Saturday, games shifted to Sunday).

    I read that the funeral is 10 or 12 days from the day after the death.

    If that’s correct the funeral will either been on the Sunday or Tuesday, I can’t imagine it will be the Sunday. So potentially Monday the 19th or Tuesday 20th.

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  4. Thomas Tuchel

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    I’ve no interest in the money league so never look at the table. Just had a look though, and expected to see Chelsea in the bottom 3. 
    No, they are 6th after 6 games and sack their manager.

    What a joke of a club in a joke of a league. There is just no reality anymore in that League, it’s simply farcical.

  6. Conway

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    On 21/08/2022 at 18:24, westred1 said:

    Really like him.

    He’s so busy!! Chased everything, ran himself into the ground. Great finisher. Loves the club.

    Tommy’s gonna get ya!

    Supports Arsenal!!

    Its just a job!.

  7. Man Utd v Liverpool - protest

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    31 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

    So they walked to the game... where they probably all used the club bars and catering and put even more money in the owners pockets.

     

    They aren’t concerned about the owners really, it’s just that they aren’t winning trophies. That’s the only reason most follow them.
    They wouldn’t even be protesting tonight if they had won their first two games.

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  12. Charged By The FA

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    18 hours ago, chinapig said:

    A friend of mine is a non-league referee and had an assessment done by Kevin Friend (and passed with flying colours). It was 33 pages long!

    So given the extent of the assessments we have to ask why the general standard in the EFL is falling. It's not enough to assess you then have to address poor performance and improve it. Doesn't seem to be happening, as Keith Hackett said.

    I don’t see any standards falling, what I see is fan entitlement in the case of wanting every decision going their teams way, it’s 2022 and that seems to be the trend in general life nowadays.

    Unfortunately the officials can’t please everyone. They never have, and never will. 
     

  13. Charged By The FA

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    On 19/08/2022 at 10:44, downendcity said:

    The one thing that playing the game gives you is an understanding of how players think and behave, particularly when it comes to simulation and conning referees.

    I only played to county league level, but even I can see players' cheating, even though I have no refereeing experience or qualification and my playing days were a long time ago and when play acting/simulation/cheating was nothing like it is these days. I've long felt that referees are , in general, too naive in this respect and wonder whether how many of them played to any level in senior football, so as to understand the game from a players perspective.

     

    They don’t necessarily need to understand the game from a players perspective, but the vast majority will do, and will have also played the game. Perhaps players and fans should understand the game from a referees perspective?. 
    Because it’s a completely different job than playing football. Players cheat and try and con officials, the official gets one view, and one look at an incident, they have to make their decision on what they see from the angle they see it. 
    But, the main job of an official is to adhere to the laws of the game, that is their job, no if’s or buts, no grey areas, it’s either a foul or not a foul according to the laws of the game, and that is all they have to go by.
    Accessors will judge how well they have done, not the crowd, not the players, and not a manager. 
     

    Officials get 100% scrutinised by accessors in every game, you just can’t imagine how deep the accessors will go, it’s a minute by minute account of the game, fans would be amazed how thoroughly the officials are scrutinised. 

  14. Charged By The FA

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    12 hours ago, Taz said:

    Unfortunately I think that VAR happening at this level is only a matter of time, and the FA/EFL are just waiting for the right time to insist on it.

    Unfortunately for them, VAR in the Premiership is still far from perfect.

    A better solution, is that the referees at all levels are trained to the same standard, and have to have some sort of consistency, because what Ref A sees as a red card, Ref B sees as a yellow, whilst Ref C isn't bothered and tells the player to get up.

    Pierluigi Collina. There was a Ref that was fair, competent, and very rarely made the wrong call. He also looked like someone that could handle themselves, unlike some of the wet farts that do the job over here.

    I'd personally like to see some ex pros take up the job once they retire. You're not going to argue with the ref if it's Roy Keane running around with a whistle, as he's quite likely to turn around and headbutt you!!!

    Why is there not a league ranking for referees? Make the mistake, lose points, get relegated to a lower level. Promotion and relegation just like the clubs. 

    Yes they'll all at some point make mistakes, they're human. Make them accountable though. The standard of refereeing in this country is awful.

    There is a league ranking for referees in every league. But it’s for the officials to see themselves. 
    Ex players being referees!!, didn’t we have one last season, and he was roundly slagged off on here by the usual sorts. Ex pros don’t want to referee, mainly because they are rich, and know the kind of shite they constantly would get just for making honest decisions.

    The game is faster, stronger, more cheating, diving etc in this country than it ever has been, but constantly people on here just want to attack the officials. 

    Referees at the top level will have been doing it for 20-30 years, you may not be aware, but they will have come up through from the very bottom of the pyramid, they know the laws, they adhere to the laws, and are good at what they do, even under very difficult circumstances.

    The majority of football fans don’t even know all the laws!. 


    Playing the game is a million miles away from refereeing a game, it’s 100% different. If you don’t realise this, then go and take the course, and go and referee a game!. 

  15. Nige on SSN

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    18 hours ago, 2015 said:

    If you ever watch European football you realise how BAD our officials are from the top to bottom. Most of them just don't even understand the game

    They do understand the game, I can guarantee you that. They know a damn sight more about the game than the people who watch the game from the stands.

    Its fine for everyone to slag of referees, but anyone can take a referees course and show us all how easy it is, perhaps we have a few on this thread who would like to show us!.

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  21. Fences back

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    1 hour ago, REDOXO said:

    I agree that pitch invasions are not a new phenomena. However for many years they have become a lot less prevalent, but this season/recently have become much more prevalent. There are even threads on here about pitch incursion at AG. I’m not sure what happened at PV last night, however what happened at Nottingham has resulted in a severe prison sentence and pictures of what appears to be a player kicking out at a pitch invader. This is serious stuff! 
     

    Without going on about the Gas toooo much, the invasion there was before the match ended, a throw back to the 70s where supporters would try to get games stopped. Bizarrely Nottingham Forest I remember we’re on the receiving end in a game v Newcastle.
     

    As we both remember. The fencing was taken down around grounds years ago as this behavior was deemed no longer an issue. The EFL, THE FA, police and government need to curtail this BEFORE we are all penned in again and we all remember what that lead to!  

    Re the City Gas pitch invasions ( yes two), one was when they equalised and both sets of fans came on the pitch. The second was when City fans chased their players off the pitch!. 
     

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  22. Fences back

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    Pitch invasions have been going on for over 50 years, lots of incidents have happened in that time ( City Rovers 96 anyone!). The big difference nowadays is that every game has tv cameras picking up every little incident.
     

    These assaults have always gone on, we ourselves have done it in the past ( during our pitch invasions), and opposition players have got punched. 
     

    There are always a few idiots who do stupid things, and that will never change. But extreme ideas like going back to fences are way over the top.

    Going to football nowadays is like going to a crèche  compared to the 70’s and 80’s, where you literally took your life in your hands going to some places. Violence was an every Saturday occurrence back then.

     

     

     

     

  23. who do you want to win Wycombe or Sunderland

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    On 13/05/2022 at 07:03, Sir Geoff said:

    Wycombe. Nice easy to get to away game. Sky peed me off the another night by constantly referring to Sunderland as a 'Giant' club. Would be too much of a love in next season....oh and it's so funny seeing a 'larger' entitled club flounder in the league. Plus the Roverz are apparently their favourite team in Bristol so it will be nice for them to re visit the Memorial vegetable patch.

    They are a “giant” club though!

    So are Sheffield Wednesday.

    These two clubs are bigger than ( in my opinion) 8-9 current money league clubs. But we’re playing in a league one play off game, just goes to show how they have both been miss-managed.

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