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2 hours ago, The Prophet said:

 

Shock ?

They never say what his injuries are - always seem to happen in training as well

1 hour ago, TaylorJ_01 said:

He's like a champion Padel player, probably in decent shape!

Who knew 

https://padel-magazine.co.uk/hatem-ben-arfa-participated-in-70-tournaments-padel-This-year/

..imagine him being coached by Eddie 

6 minutes ago, GideonShandy said:

Didn't expect him to save the penalty, tbh.

Wasn't the best pen tbf

Saunders just constantly changed the subject - fair play to Jeff.  He knows.

2 hours ago, TRon said:

I'll be disappointed if we don't get 7th at the very least, not going to lie.

I think 7th is a realistic target.

We defo need to make more use of PIF owning the Saudi League to offload more players.  

We should rename the thread to Corrupt Officiating - there is no other explanation. 

Good saves or poor finishing - discuss

Just now, Alberto2005 said:

Knew exactly what was going to happen as he burst into the box, not a hope he'd use his right foot.

He didn't need it - just had to look up

41 minutes ago, Joey47 said:

 

He just hasn't got his head up - crazy the number of options he had. 

Simon Jordan seems to talk more sense these days about Newcastle - only Journo who has publicly said it wasn't a pen.

36 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

ESPN's weekly VAR review leads with the Jota decision: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39204359/the-var-review-jota-penalty-overturned

 

Basically argues both sides and then uses it to discuss the current state of VAR, which is fair enough IMO. I wasn't really mad at the referees yesterday - it's the fact that I don't really know what is and isn't a penalty anymore, I don't understand when VAR intervenes and when it doesn't, and as a spectator you don't get anything approaching an explanation of why something was upheld or overturned. How anyone in charge thinks the current implementation of video review is the right way to go about it is beyond me.

What rubbish - it's never a pen in a million years.

12 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

I'm still baffled why he didn't just roll it into the empty net.

Cause he took a bad touch - ball rolls away from him after he got past Dubs.  So he cheated. 

He isn't a 6 - we need one so he can do more impact further up the pitch

He needs help

47 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

 

We have had injuries for months so you can't exactly call it 'reactive'.  I would hope Dan has targets lined up based on varying circumstances so there really is no excuse to not move quickly in the transfer market.

2 minutes ago, Newcastle Fan said:

Putting him against Salah was a crime by Howe.

Who else he got?

He is getting forward too often and it's meant he's getting caught out of position as he's not the pace to get back.  Did it again today for their 1st goal.

Just now, Cronky said:

Not much to complain about. They simply had better players, all over the pitch. 

..and the ref in the pocket

Of course sky gloss over the shocking decision

Big window this - we need to strengthen

Just now, Jordan said:

That was horrendous tonight. What is the point of having VAR? 

to fix matches