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What's wrong with you people?

Ponsaelius already said everything but I just don’t see cricket as a global sport like football and basketball are.

Of course but your post read to me like basketball is only played in USA and few Eastern European countries. USA is always the favourite and could send 30 good teams but it's played everywhere and the best players in the world are not only Americans (Antetokounmpo, Jokic and Doncic right now probably in the top 5). There is a basketball WC and it's big in every other country even if USA don't always send the best team. Think you are disrespecting the European club teams a bit too, NBA teams have 52 wins and 13 losses against European teams in the past two decades but are only 16-9 in Europe even if they are glorified pre-season games. American football is it's own thing but I don't think you can compare basketball even to sports like rugby, cricket and baseball which are legit sports in only a handful countries.

It's big pretty much everywhere, only behind football iirc.

Had never heard of Marcus Edwards but he looked really good last week based on highlights.

West Ham played on Thursday and have been struggling, this would have been the perfect time to play them, with or without ASM and Bruno.

Mad that he's still only 31.

Obviously she was an important person but you mourned yesterday and have all day to mourn today. Next week is all about mourning too waiting for the funeral, does football really have to be called off? And absolutely no thought given to people and businesses who lose money due to this.

Absurd decision, 96-year old lady sleeps away naturally and this is the reaction?

Gomez thinks he’s way better than he really is, was similar against us but got away with it narrowly.

VvD gesturing that Osimhen dived when he stepped on his foot and clipped the same leg even with his other foot. Regressing badly and I like it a lot.

Apparently but was never even as realistic as Isak. Napoli paid ~70m for him.

Think Zidane is waiting for the France job.

PSG look scary.

That wasn't directed at you? The justification is that officiating had been terrible and something had to be done. I'm not even blaming linesmen, it's an impossible job for human eyes. Is the unfair advantage on any rule book? You are either onside or offside, I have no idea how anyone would know how to decide whether an attacker gets a fair or an unfair advantage.

This is exactly how it should be IMO, it would be a quicker process too.

The improvements on expected goals, shots, touches in opp box, passes into opp box and possession are staggering considering the injuries and the fact that we've already played against Man City and Liverpool. All those stats yet we are still looking rock solid defensively, Howe is doing an amazing job.

Personally I would draw the lines from the feet as I’m sceptical you can draw accurate and consistent lines from shoulders but it is what it is.

If an attacker gets 10cm leeway but is ahead by 11cm the crying would be just the same. You have to draw the line somewhere.

I’m sure he can help with the systematic problems in the usage of VAR in England with his experience with MLS. I still don’t understand who let Riley to come up with his system. VAR should be able to tell the referee that you might want to take another look on something and let the referee make the decision. Not this current system where VAR makes the decision and the on field ref makes the symbolic jog to the screen to approve. I haven’t seen the Oliver accident last weekend but fair play to him, I’m sure he’s frustrated with the current system too. I also don’t understand why the ref can’t raise his hand himself and say he needs another look. VAR has no idea if the ref on the pitch missed something, why can’t the main ref make the call on what he missed? Once again I believe it will get better but something has to be done with the people who are watching the screens. Every sport has been able to make it work so there’s no reason why it wouldn’t work on football. I often read that football is a free flowing game but it’s just as much stop-start as any other sport, clock just keeps rolling. I think the crying about offsides is largely irrelevant and naive. @Yorkie wants to draw the line (pun not intended) on attacker getting unfair advantage but where do you draw the line there? It would only become way more messy than it is right now and the arguments would move on to subjective matters which VAR already struggles mightily with. It’s irritating to be in offside by a toenail but human eye can’t make the calls in real time and I don’t see any other option. I really hope the new technology works as it should as on paper it sounds really good.

This is just way too simplistic and results-oriented view to have. We've played five games and Brighton was the only poor performance. Failing to get a result against Crystal Palace doesn't change anything especially with all the injuries we are dealing with. We are clearly improving but have a thin squad.

This is exactly how I see it. IMO we don't have the squad right now to have either Wilson or Isak on the bench and it's probably Isak who has to make the sacrifice on the position he plays for now. Wouldn't expect us to have this problem next season and both will be then only used in their natural position with Isak as the clear first choice.

Exactly what things would you be questioning?

8.5/10 seems fair. 8 seems too harsh after the Isak signing, 9 feels too generous after only signing one attacking player. We would be fine if Wilson and ASM stay fit but that’s not very likely and we are still seeing Wood and especially Murphy being the first options from the bench.

Once again, there’s no clear and obvious in offsides. Also linesman’s opinion doesn’t mean shit when they start to draw the lines.