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He had all his mates at Spurs and I imagine Kane and Son are two of the best pros in the league. If they couldn’t inspire him to want to be the best he could be, he’s not going to find it again at Everton

A good system would be: 1) Ref makes wrong call 2) VAR Ref looks at video “Hello David, I’ve looked at this and there’s a clear shirt pull here with two attempts to pull him back and then he takes the man down, can you come look at the monitor, I’d call this a penalty 3) Ref says “ah ok, my view wasn’t great” 4) Ref looks at video in discussion with VAR ref, “what do you think?” Says VAR ref? “See what you mean, that’s a clear pen” 5)Ref gives pen If that’s mic’ed up then there’s transparency. If they did all this and made the wrong decision at least you know where they’re coming from

I vote for "Balls in your mouth - who's going down on you?"

This is the crux of it for me, why are we trying to make out that an incredibly subjective thing is infallible? Why are referees so precious that they can’t be told they’ve made a mistake? Would be far healthier if they just dropped this pretence, as a ref you should surely care most about making the right decisions, not about whether your pride is hurt by someone overruling you. Every week, it feels like the officials dig themselves a bigger and bigger hole. Why are they not being held to account more? VAR is clearly not going away, so if it’s here to stay they need to completely change how it works.

That’s probably up there in the top five worst decisions I’ve seen

Doesn’t sound like he believes the words coming out of his mouth

Absolutely nowt

There a way to track this at all? I guess he touted them on the street but if you have the seat details and put out a message on Twitter asking for whoever was in those seats, who they bought them off then you could potentially track the cunt down if they touted them online. I imagine it’s a long shot and more energy than you’d want to expend but I’d be absolutely livid in your shoes

Actually breathtaking how they brought in VAR to reduce controversy and try to make the game fairer and the way it’s implemented does the opposite. They need to start giving us the audio of the VAR discussion so that these people can be held accountable

3-1 to us, Tory Frank to sanction all his players after the match and freeze their wages

This Nick Candy that’s sniffing around their club sounds like an absolute desperate cunt. Hope they get him as he sounds as lightweight as it gets

Reading Grand Old Team is the only thing cheering me up right now

Tear them to shreds, their confidence must be rock bottom and they’ll be panicking about the drop

They really don’t help themselves. Make terrible decisions and then silence behind it when they’re every person watching knows they’re wrong. Embarrassing that this is what’s on offer with the amount of money in football

Burn, the colossus of Newcastle

John Terry sitting in Roman Abramovich’s box, hope he’s got his full kit on

Grim as fuck bringing a flag in

This isn’t just a question for you, but when was the last game he played well? And by well, I mean he was one of our standout players and genuinely influenced the game. Cannot remember myself

Hope this lad has a decent game today, whether he stays with us beyond this season or not, he’s a good lad

BDB is going to have to put in a huge performance today to keep them out

I’m expecting this match today to be a tough watch given the starting 11, but hopefully Bruno can put in a classy performance and that’ll be him starting from now on after that

Pardew was always going on about needing that little bit of magic, sounds like he’s got some crimes to answer for in KSA

No Joelinton or Shelvey is massive. I’m not a big Shelvey fan but we’re different all over the park and the biggest changes over the last two games are in midfield

Good

Precisely this, the stats mean nothing here. His reading of the play and where he needed to be was absurdly bad for a striker, he was saved by his ability to strike a ball unbelievably well instinctively