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You realise women like and play football too right? Like you know thats a thing? Or do you just live in a prism of your own self importance and think the world revolves around you? Yeah so let them commentate on their own matches. I’ve noticed many token female pundits on various tv networks over the last year or so. Even the recent Rugby World Cup had at least one on every game. I didn’t find them insightful, all I see is tv networks trying to appear woke. It’s bullshit, if they could do the job as well as men, fair enough I have no problem with them. But that’s not the case, they’re taking the place of someone more qualified because of politics. It’s the whole equality of opportunity vs. Equality of outcome debate. what makes someone qualified? just having played the game at a high level doesn't make someone in the slightest bit qualified to actually analyse and give any kind of insight to a game eg micheal owen robbie savage and countless other former mens players. Whereas any time I've seen alex scott I've liked her as a pundit a lot more than most of the men.

is the correct answer

problem is he's got some injury thats kept him out since november so not sure why they're going for him in those circumstances

him put on a massive world stage in the prem so hopefully he can impress and flog him off for a lot more later. Also probably some dodgy agent deals involved

honestly as an appointment to keep them up its a perfectly sensible one, not the most ambitious maybe but west ham and "ambitious" moves in general seem to fail miserably

oh you know what he meant, the law was written to prevent teams just having a big lump hanging around the opposition goalkeeper all the time and was written with the intention of the offside being judged by human eyes not analysed frame by frame to see if someones toenail was offside

I find it hilarious seeing the likes of Lineker whinging about it. He says while working for BT Sport who have a referee in the studio every match micro analysing every decision, and MOTD with their super slo-motion replays from 80 different camera angles and lines with shaded areas showing the offside line proving a referee gets a call wrong. Maybe they could do away with this first. It’s part of the reason VAR came into the game in the first place. what brought it in was basically every manager everywhere using the refs as an excuse whenever results didn't go their way

an alternative to binning var since too many people in positions of power in football have too much invested in it to allow it to fail is a 30 second timer, if VAR can't make a decision on offsides inside 30 seconds tough shit on field decision stands

difference is without VAR is 9/10 times in really tight offside calls the attacker is given the benefit of the doubt and aren't flagged

he did a solid job there last time tbf and will probably keep them up which ultimately for all various club owners talk of "ambition" etc the only thing they ultimately care about is staying up and keeping the tv money flowing in

or instead of warping the rules of football to accommodate the farce that is VAR we keep the rules as they are and ban VAR instead

surprised red bull didn't just move him to leipzig

Drinking buddy of Mike Ashley, imagine that scene fun fact of the day, currently the fai are paying sports direct back 6m that came due the moment john delaney left

so over here it rather looks like the FAI could go out of business, they were onto our sports minister looking for an €18m bailout which could take down the league or ireland with it.

What a terrible appointment the absolute opposite of what Arsenal need in every sense. How can you say that? I agree with him I honestly think it objectively the wrong decision (for both arsenal and arteta) to make at this time considering the circumstances at arsenal atm. Hes a complete novice in management and arsenal are in a bad spot, if he was taking over in the summer with time to sort out the team and tactics and move on some of the useless players then sure worth a go but taking over mid-season when the arsenal crowd is as toxic as it is at the moment would be difficult for experienced managers let alone someone trying to learn on the job. As for arteta himself with the state arsenal are currently in I don't know why the hell he'd go near them, it could honestly end his managerial career before it starts

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/16/mesut-ozil-row-chinas-arsenal-fans-burn-shirts-in-anger-at-xinjiang-post fun times ahead for the arsenal pr department

he's said a few times he doesn't want it and he's not got the right experience for it

ancelotti seems ideal for what juve are looking for right now, improve the team to win the champions league now while they have the best chance to and ancelotti is one of the best at cup competitions

he's won everything everywhere he's gone because he's managed chelsea, real madrid, psg, bayern, ac milan when they were good, its a very different job trying to turn a mid-table (at best atm) side like everton or trying to turn around a declining club like arsenal than it is walking into one of the best teams in each country with everything already in place Doesn't mean he's not capable. Milan hadn't been doing well when he got there, took Reggiana up in his first season. and with the greatest of respect he took the milan job nearly 20 years ago its hard to consider that relevant to today. He may very well be capable of doing it but the evidence of the last 10 years only provides him going in and winning things with already good teams which he's obviously very good at

he's won everything everywhere he's gone because he's managed chelsea, real madrid, psg, bayern, ac milan when they were good, its a very different job trying to turn a mid-table (at best atm) side like everton or trying to turn around a declining club like arsenal than it is walking into one of the best teams in each country with everything already in place

agree with this his recent jobs especially have all been at or very near the top of their respective leagues mostly with already excellent players there and not had to build up a side, don't think he'd be a good fit for either arsenal or everton atm tbh not with what they have to do

I don't think anybody is elated by having Steve Bruce as manager - some are just not opposed to giving him credit when his team does a good job. Not sure why everything has to be at the extreme ends of the spectrum at all times. such is the world these days sadly

tbh whatever he says in public he's got to be raging at his defenders and goalkeeper in private since that was just incompetent

This is the big story. We are stacked there. its bloody weird after coming to terms years ago that no matter what the defence would be a disaster to see a really solid set of cbs even with half of them injured

really didn't expect that result, would be nice to have more of the ball and play a bit more football but play to your strengths I suppose and this defence is better than most in the league. If only we had a striker who could be semi-relied on to find the net