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He’s not someone I’m massively excited about, seems to be a little bit of a journeyman. He’s very much a ‘trust the process’ appointment. I wouldn’t lose any sleep on Forest keeping him and us having to look elsewhere, like towards Brentford’s DOF who is a Newcastle fan.

Why? Brentford falling apart if good for us. We need less teams waiting for us to slip up.

Congratulations to Brentford who will achieve at least a draw against Man Utd next week.

5 seconds added on.

If we are able to get our money back on him or make a profit and get someone younger, I think we might do that. Wissa has never been someone who I think has been a long term solution for the club.

Yeah, just gloss over how I said over the next 50 years or so the weather is going to get more extreme because of climate change.

This is one of the reasons why I want a roof on our new stadium, even if it’s retractable. In the next 50 years the weather is going to fucking brutal, from rain, snow, to extreme heats. Fuck it, put a roof over, some aircon, and we are good to go.

It’s not getting called off. The ball is moving along nicely, there are no puddles on the pitch, the pitch itself is holding up well, and players don’t seem to be in any sort of danger.

Hauled off Sesko’d.

If Chelsea do manage to get something out of this, then that will be it for Amorim.

It is massively automated though. It is the same technology that is used in the Champions League and it has came up with decisions made faster than referee’s have raised flags. VAR is only there for officials to double check it as a fallback.

That’s the argument. The Premier League uses Puma so can’t use the Adidas technology which has been successful in other leagues and in major international tournaments and doesn’t need VAR to intervene. Because the Premier League went with Puma from this season, it means we have to use an inferior technology that is not tested on the world stage and still requires VAR to draw lines.

They do, but it also measures where and when contact with a ball was made which helps pinpoint automated frames for the cameras to look at and pinpoint exactly when the ball was played.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67630722

It works alongside cameras and GPS devices players wear.

100 iPhones (have you seen them at games at you have attended or seen on TV?) that somehow are never aligned with the goal line.

A casual reminder that the Premier League lost the ball sponsorship of Nike which enabled them to partner up with Adidas who have automated offside thanks to a chip in the ball that can show a conclusive decision faster than a linesman can put his flag up and has been used in the World Cup, Euro’s, and La Liga successfully. The Premier League opted for a deal with Puma who have no real history of making footballs for elite leagues, which resulted in them having to use a rather untested method for semi-automated offside which includes 100 iPhones positioned at different locations, which never ever seems to be exactly on the goal line, and needs VAR to verify it.

What happened to the sleeve rule? He was offside according to that.

No reason to write them off, plenty of teams have had porter status longer into the season and still ended up with respectable league finishes thanks to a manager change.

Imagine he took up SBR’s offer to come here and takeover him after 2 years?

There is. The release clause is above what we bid for him, with some suggesting it’s £75m. I’d imagine the relegation release clause would be much less and much less though. He’ll be gone at the end of the season, due to either release clause. I doubt he’ll be coming here though, unless we mange to cash in on Osula and/or Wissa.

It’s not corruption though, because Everton were time wasting despite chasing a goal and getting a yellow card for trying to take a quick freekick.

That Norwich game. In the 92nd minute we were 11 points behind them, come the 95th minute we were 5 points behind them, and within 2 weeks we were well clear of them.

The referee let them be overly physical to break the game up before we got to the final 3rd, and they got away with a blatant red card.

Wolves haven’t been that bad to be fair. They have been the better team in the 2nd half. Darlow has made a couple of good saves.