bobbydazzla

Mr Shearer to you, peasant.

Can I have a virtual Rod hug too please ? I’m hoping our spat last night was just a lovers tiff and not the end of our bromance. Not sure I can face being dumped on Valentines.

I would like the officials to do their job properly. It is not too much to ask, is it. If you ever needed any evidence of the damage that VAR has done to referees, I think today is a great example of that. These guys look petrified to make a decision today because they didn't have a comfort blanket.

Yeah but Eddie only signs PL dross.

Eddie’s never won a game without Bruno playing and in Azerbaijan on a weeknight. Just saying.

Him and Eddie having a little chinwag like comrades in the trenches when applauding our lot at the end of the game and then Trips giving Eddie big love in the post match presser. “I’ve known him more than half my life” or summat similar to that, not gonna lie it moved me. Arguably one of our most important signings of all time. I’d be buzzing if he went on to play a valuable role at the club when his playing career is over.

It suggests that Coote is the norm, not the outlier.

Well aye, that’s pretty much the same as what I was saying. The officials were given the opportunity to show they’re up to the job without VAR and then they absolutely fucked it up beyond all recognition. Like I’ve said a few times, it’s like my lass letting me choose what time I come home from a couple of pints with my pals and then I get back home 3 days later full of cowies and bugle and a dose of an STD so I’m never, ever being trusted ever again.

Doesn’t matter what team you support or whether you like VAR or hate VAR, what the officials served up on that pitch tonight was a fucking disgrace.

Not trying to sell this to you, because you don’t seem the type to change your ways and I respect that. But I’ve tried both and I can say for definite that E’s are better than red wine.

Anyone under the age of 60 has probably done coke and e’s or knows someone who’s done coke and e’s. And hookers have been around since the dinosaurs I’m not trying to come across as cool and down with the kids, I am cool and down with the kids. I think maybe you haven’t realised the sort of things I get up to when I’m not posting nonsense in here. It’s bad boy shit.

We’ll just have to agree to disagree. I hate it and think it’s completely ruined the game. I’d rather be able to celebrate goals in real time than have every decision be reviewed in minutiae on a screen. It’s just unfortunate that tonight has been absolutely tragic. Like I said in another thread, it’s like the officials have been given some freedom to manage their own behaviour by their lasses and then they’ve decided to go out for 3 days on a coke and e’s and hookers bender.

Take the players off. Like they did in the AFCON final This is a fucking travesty

Because it removes the ability to live in the moment and it’s turned the game into a stop-start farce where decisions are made on multi-replays of minutiae. Football is sport, not science. As much as it’s a kick in the nuts that Villa scored a snide goal, as soon as it went in we know that it’s a goal. It’s annoying as fuck, but many of the VAR decisions given against us have also been annoying as fuck.

Emery walking back to the dugout there like he’s just done a line of gak in the bogs at the night time doo of a work conference.

No. I still hate VAR. I’ll accept that I’ve lost the battle but the war isn’t over yet.

I spent ages the other day constructing watertight anti-VAR arguments that were so fucking powerful and persuasive that every single QC at the Old Bailey would have had to admit that they stood no chance of overcoming my outstanding prosecution skills. Then 2 Lino’s and a Ref turn up tonight and make me look like a right cunt. Am gonna sue PGMOL.

That’s up there with the worst officiating I’ve ever seen.

We’re not gonna be in the next rounds cos of no VAR

When a Lino makes a mistake that bad they should just give us a free goal to even things out

Can I just shock you, I like VAR.