TheBrownBottle

They did - they thought Wissa was in an offside position, which no-one with even a vague understanding of the offside law would think it was. It’s scary that it’s a qualified referee making that VAR call

They don’t need to call the ref to the monitor after every goal

It’s not hard to imagine Masters threatening to skull-fuck JR for using the word ‘strap’

Good stuff referee. Who in the goon in the box who thought that needed watching?

Oh FFS

Get in

I’m sure they won’t bite IW. Though there is still no cure for rabies, so probably not worth the risk in case they do.

I’m definitely now inspired to pay it a visit on my next trip home - I sometimes used to go to the George in old eldon square despite the fact it was shit. Old Eldon Square would be a great spot for a couple of decent pubs.

Not sure why, but somehow that pleases me. But by ‘worse’ I’m hoping it’s about it being more ‘spit and sawdust’, and less about being worse in terms of other things …

List of things to mention: Bobby Robson Wijnaldum That Irish pub in Eindhoven that we took over in 97/98 (I doubt it’s still there!) List of things not to mention: The De Jongs Clogs How both Amsterdam and Rotterdam have been better away trips …

I agree 100%, the old ‘percentage’ ball - that sometime there’ll be ‘someone on the end of it’. But we see it every match multiple times - it’s one of those ones where the coaching staff don’t cover themselves with glory either way: either they’re instructing it (and it isn’t coming off); or they think it’s a waste of time (and the players aren’t listening)

We can get a decent sense of it if they keep doing it, and never stop or get subbed regularly. It is an instruction.

As an ex-Garter post-match regular, I approve this message. I just hope it’s still as rough as a badger’s arse

It would’ve been good to play more than one team in eight that we haven’t before in recent memory, but that isn’t the same as not ‘being up for it’. We don’t play PSV every week, and they’re a big European club - anyone who doesn’t find European football exciting is a head-scratcher for me. Half the point of finishing high up the top flight table is this as a reward.

I don’t even remember a pub called the wobbly duck!

Genuinely hadn’t seen that! Me and Eddie man, great minds 😁

I’d contend that Joelinton - Tonali - Bruno has never worked well on a consistent basis, irrespective of who is up front. Joelinton has never been a particularly good midfielder - he operates much more effectively further forward.

John Hall is the type of cunt who’d happily make ‘I’m proud to be white’ statements, tell ‘jokes’ about things which are black which you can’t see black peole when they’re in proximity to them, and then look offended when someone suggests that they’re a racist. A bit like a sizeable chunk of Britain, tbh.

Modern football hacks really do just shite our fanzine-level shite

We need to do more for him, and he needs to start showing more, too. It’s not all one thing and not another.

I’m not advocating selling him, but if we did my suggestion would be we buy someone else. I’m old-fashioned that way.

The outcome is the same either way - and we don’t have enough information to determine which

It may well bollocks-up the domestic season, but at least the tournament has been a ringing endorsement of all that is good about African and international football, both of which have no doubt had their reputations boosted after that.

Last summer’s window was clearly on Howe, as should be the credit for the successes before it. Howe’s record in the transfer market was an almost 100% hit rate prior to the summer, so it means his overall record takes a knock.

If they weren’t his signings, whose signings were they? If this coming summer’s business works out perfectly, please make sure you give Howe no credit for it, given he takes no responsibility for transfer failures