Kid Icarus

He wants his head checked for brain worms if he goes there.

Potter would be out of his fucking mind to go somewhere with the short-term trigger happy set up that Chelsea has.

I think you kind of have to to an extent, he's performed well consistently enough for us to be able to say that he's definitely got something. Maybe other managers are like that too where they just need the right environment.

Moyes is very underrated like, presumably because his football's not pleasing on the eye. His achievements with Everton and West Ham are really impressive.

There's a lot of recency bias with Rodgers, but he's shown that he's a very good manager. This is just based on what they've done rather than potential. Potter and Howe could potentially be a lot higher, I just don't know yet. Klopp Guardiola Conte Tuchel Rodgers Moyes Arteta Potter Howe Frank Then managers that I don't feel like I've seen enough of to truly judge, like ETH, Vieira. Then: Silva Lage Gerrard Lampard Hassenhutl

Your point is still totally relevant though. It's rare that refs stick with their decision and it's likely to have played a part in the ref's decision considering his inexperience.

All of our songs have the complexity of a GCSE French oral exam, except it's in our first language. Any combination of: His name is... He's from... He cost... He scores goals... We like him...

Yeah, it sounds like an Armored Sceptic knock-off

Howard Webb doesn't really alleviate any concerns like. He's not known for having a Man United bias for nothing.

Christ man we're allowed to disagree with him?

Peter Defaulton He's shameless

That's an extremely trivial view to have on what karma is, like.

There's incompetence, but incompetence has a certain level of plausibility that people will accept. Once incompetence goes beyond that, I think it's perfectly understandable that people will look for an explanation beyond something that seems ridiculously unlikely - that 99.9999% of the people watching saw something, but that somehow two of the people making up the 0.00001% saw it differently, and those two people just so happen to be the authority on what happened. In those circumstances even tin foil hat conspiracy stuff seems more realistic than trained professionals being that impossibly bad at their jobs. When the official bodies then come and essentially try and gaslight everyone over what happened it just adds fuel to the fire.

Pope off to Real Madrid?

Another example is that in upcoming games Newcastle are probably now more likely to get an experienced ref and the shit decisions we've had against us will be in the back of the mind of any ref or VAR and potentially play a part in their decisions.

'Protect the brand' was just one example of how an instruction can be implied and result in bias, I wasn't suggesting that one example always applies.

A 'conspiracy' doesn't really need to be explicit, just subtly implied and picked up on subconsciously. As an example, if the Premier League tell referees to 'protect the brand' they're not explicitly saying to bias certain teams and players, but it doesn't take a tin foil hat to see how that makes it more likely to result in a ref not sending off Van Dijk when they should, or giving a yellow for a robust tackle on Harry Kane when they shouldn't. The same applies with the way a player's reputation will influence decisions. We're not blind, if Joey Barton and Harry Kane both make the same tackle, we know what's more and less likely to happen.

Yeah, let's hope that once he hits his 40s he'll have become so mature that he'll spam post on N-O about how much he doesn't like a 21 year old YouTuber and how he's a nonce and has a speech impediment all day every day.

Not sure if it's true, but isn't the line coming out of Leicester that they were fucked up by Covid more than anyone else?

Wins Goal of the Month and rightly so

Eh? Accepting the decisions were wrong is an admission. Either way it means nowt, us and West Ham aren't getting those points and I doubt anything will improve in the long term

Yes, some things are sacred, it's a hugely important part of why I support Newcastle. More and more of the things I hold dear are being taken away so I'm not moving an inch on things like that.

It's an odd situation though because Rodgers is obviously a good manager and has shown that at Leicester. Maybe it's a case of this being what happens when you don't freshen up the squad and the repercussions of that.

No Schar or Wilson in goal of the month. Trippier and ASM in.

Lush place for him to spend a year or so.