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Are any of those average players the ones that can't shoot that somehow scored at the weekend?

Jarred Gillet is without doubt the worst ref in the league. Against an even matched team he just ruins the game. Against one of the 'top 6' it's like playing against 12 men.

I can't remember the Anthony one very well, but I think it may be that the Liverpool defender went for the ball because Anthony was around (and offside when the ball was played) otherwise he would have let it bounce to the keeper if Anthony hadn't been around. Whereas Phillips was challenging...

Not even some of the 1.2 billion Africans?

Agree, it will also mean that the larger clubs will start getting talent at cut prices by offering way less on 29th June, knowing the selling club will need to sell or get a points deduction.

For Forest, how much time was there between the cutoff date and the sale of Johnson? If it's a short period, and this was us, I'm sure we'd all be saying how the timing of the rules is a bit stupid. However, as mentioned above, they all knew these rules before hand.

Wow, what a lot of double negatives in the French. I am a fluent French speaker and I read it as: "It's not without upsetting the player, who isn't closed\against a departure" Seems to contradict itself a little. Same phrasing in the article as well.

I thought the same. Because of that, every player in Maguire's (I think) position would say "Had it not changed direction I would have had a chance to block/tackle the ball". Even if he had no chance there's the not knowing for sure. For the record I believe it should have stood, but like a lot...

I was thinking the same during the game, but on reflection, I think I'm more annoyed at the players themselves. We all keep moaning about the standard of refereeing, VAR and the rest, but when the players play like that, it makes the ref's job so so difficult to work out what's a foul and what...

The Barry from Eastenders had me chuckling for a while!

Somewhere in South\Central America. I bet the Amazon has loads, gonna go for Peru, as that's where I visited the Amazon.

I find these kind of graphs interesting, and there's nearly always flaws in them. Seems quite a big flaw if you don't count draws somehow? Use a metric of something like if the teams xG is within 0.5 goals of each other it counts as a draw? I'm presuming if you had an xG of 0.1 and the...

Was thinking about the refereeing, I haven't found any issues with them in the past few games, once you look beyond your own Cherry bias. 20 minutes in, against one of the 'top teams' and suddenly it's clear as day the bias to the top teams.

If I have understood the situtation correctly, the VAR in offside has 2 options. 'Correct decision' or 'Incorrect decision'. As they thought the goal had been allowed they said 'Correct decision'. What is really dumb is when the VAR saw the free kick being taken and not a kick off and went 'Oh...

I just remember being away in one of the quietest parts of NZ, watching the game the next morning around Christmas time with a couple of Dutch friends visiting us. Think it was the same game they had a couple of red cards? This one...

Has that changed in recent years? Back in our first season in the Premier it was where the contact ends. There was a pen we had at West Brom, if memory serves me right, where this happened.

If it was the one I remember, was it where it could have been seen as him stopping to dribble the ball and not kicking the ball away? I thought it'd be a yellow, his body language seemed to want to kick it away and then pulled out of that and ran back. Maybe close enough to not be kicking it...

Anyone notice when Aarons took him out in the corner (not sure how it wasn't a yellow for Aarons?) and instead of showing the imaginary yellow card, he instead complains to the ref about the space he was going to run into. Seems to me that he was still basically asking for the yellow card, just...

Could be the medical he had here saves his career in the long term if it was an operation he wasn't going to have until it was picked up in this medical.

Had it done 7 or so years ago now. Probably the best thing I have ever spent money on.