Superior Acuña

By far the worst thing about the game for me is VAR, I would completely scrap it and encourage a view that the referee and their mistakes are part of the game. I would consider implementing automated offside calls if they're truly instantaneous. I would have another crack at the handball rule. Penalties only for truly deliberate handballs, fuck all that 'unnatural stuff'. What is deliberate is at the referee's discretion, but it truly means deliberate. Consider in-direct free kicks for non-deliberate ones. Re-assert that for a pen to be given contact is not enough, the contact has to have caused them to fall. Contact then dive is not a pen. Referee's call. There'll be mistakes, I don't mind, prefer that. Perhaps most radical thing I'd consider is awarding a pen for denying a goalscoring opportunity regardless of whether it took place in the box. E.g. think of when Wilson got taken out by the keeper at Brighton a couple of seasons ago. (He got sent off but there were a few mins left so it was totally worth it).

Aye link https://service.nufc.co.uk/i/-LMMK6FNW3yqpbehpQqWzXroFTWJ86XhchUfOMqaD8Y

Bless us looking dead happy that we made it 3-1

Btw you've got your Fairs Cup years ordered a different way around to all the other ones (i.e. in that case you have 1970 above 1969)

Character-building day for sure... Fuckin miserable. What the fuck's going on with Ronaldo being so free for the 4th

I don't really understand how ticket sharing is taking off when the club have followed through on their threats. Is there a trick people are using to get away with it?

Soz to keep this too off topic but Speed's fitness record was also quite remarkable. I mean we sold him just before his 35th birthday and he went onto play 120 PL games for Bolton. He scored 8 league goals in 06/07, most of which he was 37 for. He missed 5 league games in his three first full seasons for us.

Genuinely thought you were inviting us randos to a match on a stag do at first.

I'm so glad we stick our away fans up a height. I'd absolutely hate seeing away teams celebrating with their fans like that

Just noticed only 2 teams have scored more than us (Liverpool and Man City), and one the same (Spurs). We've scored TWENTY more than ManU! (but worst defence in top 8. Brighton conceded one more in ninth)

Obviously we just want to finish as high as possible, but I think 6th/7th are the realistic targets now. We're in a good position for 7th, we should be looking to finish above West Ham and keep Brighton/Chelsea behind. ManU are unpredictable, great if we could pip them to 6th.

Pundits (including Given) saying Forest should’ve had a pen. Not for me .

Raging about that jammy second equalizer and it's timing

Burn can't, that's the manager.

Aye I can’t be annoyed at Burn for being slow, there’s not much anyone can do about that

What a goal man

Reckon we did Stick, Rush or Any Man Save a lot. We did Fog Man Back occasionally but preferred Any Man Save since it's just simpler than determining who is furthest back in a crowded box - no VAR lines necessary. Nee blasties could either be because the ball would go far away, but also cos it was a reluctant keeper.

Rush and fog man were not the same, not for us anyway. As others said Rush is an assigned keeper that can come out. Yes, that's what any keeper can do in pros - but 'rush' was significant because as a kid you could also have 'stick' keepers, where the keeper was not allowed to come out. E.g. against a group of older lads that dominate the game you might want them to have stick, because a rush keeper would help dominate their attack.

'Any man save' for us. (vs stick, rush, or fog man back)

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Yep

Vancouver Whitecaps’ stadium was booked for the BC Home and Garden Show so they played their CONCACAF Champions League match v Tigres (Mexico) here in Victoria instead. I went, 1-1 with a late Tigres equaliser free kick by former France international Gignac. Sell out at 5700ish. Majority there were Mexicans I’d guess. I’ve now been to champions leagues in Europe, Asia and North America. Need to do the Libertadores next.

Bradford too, drifting into early 00s. I also remember Coventry - that memory for me would've been 1999/00. Tbh the main Mido chant I remember hearing when I was at the match was 'Mido is a paedo'.

Was the main part of our songbook most the times I've been there.

I believe so.