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Still think Hazard's maybe the best shout - years and years of being class and fit, massive transfer and wage and then it all almost immediately went to shit. Was thinking Sancho as well, but he wasn't really as established in the very toughest leagues before the transfer.

IMO absolutely no more illogical than saying the attacker is allowed to have basically their whole body closer to the goal than the defender and that's fine. You could set the offside line anywhere: If any part of the attacker is level with a defender itis offside. Like it was before the 90s. If any part of the attacker is beyond the defender itis offside. As it is now. If any part of the attacker is level with the defender it's onside. As is proposed. None of these is inherently illogical. And I don't mind them trialing it and if there's more goals I'm sure they'll go for it because more goals = better seemingly. That's ultimately what this is all about. But again, making football higher scoring makes it more predictable and favours the stronger teams, which given the already vast financial advantage stronger teams have, particularly since the globalisation of the game, I don't see as a good thing. It makes no sense to me to say either that this will make offside decisions clearer or more obvious: It's an infintesimally small border that's judged by an offical at the exact moment a ball is kicked somewhere else. They need to be looking at both places at the same time (which is usually impossible) & be able to judge the tiniest overlaps between 2 moving objects from up to 60 yards away. It's literally impossible for humans to reliably get these very tight calls correct because of that. This doesn't change that, just where that border is. More than anything, this would allow attackers to just stand behind defenders & tap a toe back at the right time to be onside, while defenders have to be looking at what's happening ahead, beside and behind. That's not what I want to see I want a proper balance between attack and defence. Anyway, instincitvely I don't think football needs more goals or predicability. It became the world's most popular game as a low scoring sport, perhaps because it's a low scoring sport. I don't think this will do anything to make offsides clearer (I don't think it will make them less clear either) and I don't like how I could see it impacting play. But anyway, that's all based on my preferences, if you want to see more goals then that's your preference for the game and I can see why you'd want it.

One of the reason's football's one of the hardest sports for bookies to predict is because it's low scoring. The more you favour the attacking side and increase goals the more predictable it becomes as the stronger sides will be attacking more so in general will get more advantage. Allowing attackers to just stand behind a defender in their blind spot and just wave a foot back at the right moment seems dumb to me. How can you expect defenders to watch the play ahead, the offside line beside and an attacker behind all at the same time? I think the balance is absolutely fine now personally.

Can I still call him Big Willie or will I be sued for perpetuating stereotypes?

Yeah the Thiaw one was where one of their midfielders ran through from deep and I think Miley should have gone with the runner but didn't pick him up and Botman had to come across to cover and then the cross went through his legs and Burn just got back to throw himself in front of the forward Botman had to leave and delay him and it was all chaos. 2.32 on extended highlights

£50 and I'll tippex 'Adidas' on them

https://www.adidas.co.uk/spzl Appears so. And Celtic, Villa and NUFC all sold out. Gonna start putting NUFC badges on my dogs' poo bags. Sure I could shift them to some numpty for £50.

Well seems he was at Sheffield Utd until 2023 so maybe an opportunity to unleash Agent Osula again.

Haaland

Yeah was actually a worldie of a save that will probably never be mentioned.

There was a moment where either Barnes or Gordon was screaming for a cross field ball on the left and a couple of people just ignored it, or didn't notice. The ball then got played back to Fabi and of course you knew he wasn't going to fuck around & he immediately pinged an inch perfect 60 yard crossfield ball over the fullback. I'd love it if Thiaw could get that from Schar's game, it's a such a weapon that pass.

I love all the celebrations he does, though I do feel a little cheated when he doesn't fuck up his knee slide.

That is a step quicker tbf! Seriously though, what a player.

Vital win to keep pace with sunderland.

Really? That's pretty outrageous. You wouldn't catch Respect FC doing that to teams.

Aren't Konate and Van Dijk both 6'4"/6'5" and very good in the air anyway?

Gonna be like a new signing when he's back from injury.

Ross, if you're reading this....

Homophobe.

ikr

Love how Dan Burn misjudging a high ball, falling on his arse and gifting them their best chance of the game has been edited out of history by the club in both match cam and highlights.

Matchcam bitches!

2 million I thought

Bruce was always going to get sacked with the new owners, so even if he might have said that he was the negative and needed to go, he did it knowing full well that it was happeneing anyway & the only reason to say it was to make himself look noble and good, or to end his misery and get his payoff ASAP. Or he's just lying about saying it to try and make himself look good. Either way, if he did recognise he was a negative, resigning rather than getting a payoff for it would have been the decent thing - not that I blame him tbh, he had a contract, but if he's going to stake a claim to great nobility... The Eddie Howe recommendation is obviously bullshit. Going from calling him the fella who got Bournemouth relegated to recommending him for the job, even though Howe had been out of management ever since, seems completely made up, unless he thought Howe would do a bad job and make him look better perhaps.

Suppose Burn is taller so you get more for your money.