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The amount of made up stuff when talking about the rules of football is very worrying like I do the same obvs, but it's a very strange situation where everyone involved doesn't know what the actual rules of the sport are - probably including the players and managers.

They talked about the momentum rule on MOTD I think, but I don't know if that really was a factor. Like if a collision was the inevitable consequences of momentum, they might have thought that Schar was just blocking the shot and/or Foden's action of shooting led them to collide. Who knows. I do think pens for missed attempts to block shots is a bit shit.

Where can you in the PL at his age and start regularly though? Probably a promoted club at best, and even they probably value experience and grit more than ability.

The second chance with his feet was harder than it looked, he had to shoot to his left because there were like 3 defenders blocking the other side of the goal. Shame but not a bad miss.

Yeah. But same as the criticism Botman has had recently, defenders look worse when exposed and good players are attacking them. I just wouldn’t say yesterday is a clear case of Schar now has the shirt over Botman.

Tripped and fell over for the cross that led to Foden’s miss as well. I love Fab but I think Botman would be my clear preference now for most games.

Quite clearly the best defence in most of our lifetimes I would say

Nah he hasn’t.

He’s getting nearly 300k a week in Saudi. Although I guess he would understand he’s not getting that anywhere else.

If only we could predict when people will hurt their knees.

That seems insanely big

Hardly worth enjoying anything after 40

Would’ve taken him from Wolves but no idea at all now.

What bollocks.

I don’t get it but I sometimes don’t understand cynicism as much as I could.

I mean, I won't be gutted if we fail to win it but I'd rather we did

This money just goes to the football websites though, mostly out of the country I would think. Not to clubs or anything, does it?

Why would football tickets be different?

We could win it, obviously we probably won't but any team probably won't.

Sounds like Longstaff.

True but your confidence will be judged differently depending on who you are.

Can’t say if it applies to everyone who criticises Bellingham but I definitely agree that the theme Wright identifies there probably exists. Back when I was growing up it was more a thing to just say black players were athletic or didn’t have a good footballing brain.

You could be right. I'm just reluctant to draw any conclusions yet when he's clearly not in good form. It could be he's just struggling with the move or the pressure, or something else. If he's playing well and we decide he doesn't fit, fair enough. But I wouldn't say we're near that yet.

Can't see a formation change with Burn being out, unless we try to pack the midfield.

Fuck me, that was actually real