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  1. World cup Var

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    Just now, Rocking Red Cyril said:

    Argentina and Italy are the worst exponents of cheating on the field by far . End of story . But Var is now being sent to be just as bad 

    Except that was a clear penalty for holding... 

  2. World cup Var

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    4 minutes ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

    *******. Cheats

    How can Argentina have a penalty there if Macquire one is not. I mean why not give the world cup to Argentina now . Total bias . The worst bunch of cheating football players ever are Argentina,( closely followed by Italy)

    Sorry I forgotten the politics here for the football and it's ******* corrupt too.

    Weird take - nothing to do with Argentina... the refs have been told to take a zero tolerance approach to holding and shirt pulling in the box. Just need consistency after the Maguire hold which was much worse than this one which was given. 

  13. Here he is. The Messiah is to blame

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    1 minute ago, BigAl&Toby said:

    Imagine this.

    Last or “lastish” game of the season.

    We’re away to Crewe. One of only a few teams that have an X in their name.

    It’s a sunny, balmy night. We need to win. We have a big forward up front - let’s say it’s Antoine - it wasn’t then…..

    Where would Steve be? In the away end with the faithful?

    Would he ****. He’d be in his tax haven. Thinking his next step. Mrs L might even be “licking his wounds”…

    In the name of his love child - Little Lee - we’ll come again…

    Lundy Island? Love Island? Denny ******* island…..

    Getting a bit weird now...

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  14. Watford fans

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    This lot are utter sh!te. Should be a comfortable win but we'll end up scraping it 2-1.

    They have obviously been watching us...

    On paper we should get battered, but as we all know football is played on grass not paper so therefore we definitely will get battered. 

  17. England World Cup squad announcement

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    1 minute ago, Swede said:

    With the current form of England with that bottler still in charge who is still picking "names" instead of who is in form and deserving of a place I can't see England getting out of the group.

    Because of the extreme heat, current loss of form and the general apathy towards the event being held in the footballing hotbed that is Qatar I can see a loss to Iran and a draw with Wales & USA.

    Every day there is some form of bad press about bribery or human rights and now the FIFA president at that time, Blatter has now come out and said it shouldn't have been awarded to Qatar.

    All very distasteful.

    Before I get shot down at not being patriotic we play a high intensity pressing game. We will not be able to sustain that in those searing temperatures whereas countries such as Iran may well be more suited to that type of extreme weather.

    What English players are in such good form at the moment and deserving of a place? He has brought in Maddison, Wilson, Ben White who are all in good form, we don't have the strength in depth to replace other players and as much as swapping Maguire for a Webster/Ben Mee is isn't likely to happen. 

  25. Richard Gould

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    2 minutes ago, Harry said:

    Any chance of copy pasting this for those of us who don’t subscribe to the paper please 

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    The England and Wales Cricket Board are set to announce Richard Gould, an outspoken critic of the Hundred, as their new chief executive.

    Gould, who is currently CEO at Championship football club Bristol City, has beaten Tim Bostock, the boss at Durham, to the job after a final round of interviews on Wednesday.

    The ECB Board are understood to have met on Friday and Gould’s appointment will be confirmed in the coming days.

    The appointment of Gould, a traditionalist who has spoken publicly against the Hundred, will please county fans, but there will be some ECB employees who greet it with trepidation at a time of great flux in the game both domestically and globally.

    While Gould, 52, currently works in football, he has spent much of his working life in county cricket. The former tank commander was chief executive at Somerset between 2005 and 2011, then Surrey from 2011 and 2021. He left Surrey to return to Bristol City, where he had a long history; his father Bobby played for the club, and he worked there as a younger man.

    Gould narrowly missed out to Tom Harrison when the ECB was last searching for a CEO in 2014.

    At Surrey, he worked closely with chairman Richard Thompson, who has since become chair of the ECB, and led the search for a new CEO. The pair, but especially Gould, were staunch critics of the ECB and its new competition the Hundred during their time at Surrey. Fans of county cricket will welcome their reunion, but there will be some ECB employees who greet it with trepidation at a time of great flux in the game both domestically and globally.

    Bostock, 60, was a strong candidate for the job. He is popular within the game, and has done a strong job in a difficult period at Durham. Bostock played minor counties cricket for Cheshire, and returned to the game to lead Durham after a long career in business, both in the UK and Australia.

     

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