Cf

Almost falling asleep here. Both teams just passing the ball between themselves and not doing anything.

They think the value of him as a future asset outweighs the risk of reputational damage. That's why he's still there. Doubt there's anymore to it than that.

Are CL fixtures usually symmetrical like this? Noticed the other groups are too.

Surely there'll be something about being the club into disrepute or damaging their image or something in the contract?

Wtf are VAR doing? Complete stone wall penalty. How is it not being given not a clear and obvious error? And how is the referee not giving it? He's looking straight at it. Such a mess. It's beyond embarrassing now.

Does the window slam shut today?

Well we had a good run. Nice while it lasted.

Fucking Liverpool.

Been watching this game and could swear it's 1-0 to us.

Just tried the pause and resume trick to make the recap button go away. I now have no score or timer on my screen.

Only 7 seconds into this game?

The thing with that red card is whilst it's questionable whether he was the last man or not he just pulled him down as he was through on goal. And I can't help but think a red in that situation is fine. Wouldn't mind "tactical fouls" being taken out of the game. The penalty on the other hand was bullshit. Defender is pulling out of it and Rashford makes sure that there is contact. If there's any doubt of "he played for that" they shouldn't be given.

They could have tried defending like. Just stood there and let him cross the ball.

That's a class goal from West ham.

Glad we got this over the line. I was done with the club if it wasn't announced today.

Yeah and the annoying way it darkens the screen. Why would I want to be watching a recap over the lice action FFS?

In this instance where it wasn't even a foul I agree.

That's such a shit way to get sent off

It's one of those that's hard to argue against really as the keeper is late but the striker has played for that. He's just sprinted in to prod the ball away and then intentionally made sure the keeper catches him.

Citizen's of the UK don't get to choose whether to "press charges" or not. If the police suspect a crime has been committed they will investigate. If the CPS having seen the results of this investigation wish to prosecute they will do so. There's a certain overlap in a sense in that in this case she has said she won't be a witness for the prosecution. But this isn't the same thing as her not wanting to press charges anymore. Had the prosecution had sufficient evidence without her they would have done so.

Because there are scenarios where you can explain away the pictures and audio. Any half decent defence lawyer would do so. The jury would have to find him guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. Without a witness to the events that's just not happening.

I'm quietly confident. Hardest game on the calendar and I don't think we could have chose a better time for it.

Reported.

The CPS can't force people to testify. If their case relies on her testimony and cooperation and they don't have it then they won't prosecute. Cases only go to trial when the prosecution think there's a realistic chance of conviction. If they did prosecute in these circumstances he'd likely be found innocent. In some ways it's worse for him this way around. He can't claim he was found innocent, just that he wasn't charged, but we've all heard the tape. Everyone "knows he's guilty" and he doesn't really have a counter to that.