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We're definitely better when we play teams that aren't as good as us.

Think it is a pen, no need for his arm to be up there

Dan Burn is terrifying at LB

The rule is this: "HANDLING THE BALL For the purposes of determining handball offences, the upper boundary of the arm is in line with the bottom of the armpit. Not every touch of a player’s hand/arm with the ball is an offence. It is an offence if a player: deliberately touches the ball with their hand/arm, for example moving the hand/arm towards the ball touches the ball with their hand/arm when it has made their body unnaturally bigger. A player is considered to have made their body unnaturally bigger when the position of their hand/arm is not a consequence of, or justifiable by, the player’s body movement for that specific situation. By having their hand/arm in such a position, the player takes a risk of their hand/arm being hit by the ball and being penalised scores in the opponents' goal: directly from their hand/arm, even if accidental, including by the goalkeeper immediately after the ball has touched their hand/arm, even if accidental" - https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-12---fouls-and-misconduct In most cases deliberate handball is fairly obvious. As is scoring immediately after handling the ball or off their arm. The real judgement part is whether someone's arm has made their body unaturally bigger. That's usually the dispute, whether: "the position of their hand/arm is not a consequence of, or justifiable by, the player’s body movement for that specific situation."

I'm going to think of him as an IX. Still a 9, but a lot of 10 in there.

Miley is a quality young player. Anyone who uses twitter is an idiot.

Who has schar head injury on their bingo cards?

Always wonder why teams don't punt to the corner more rugby style. It's hard to actually get out with any control from a deep throw in.

We arguably had the best chances but they were definitely getting on top from about 30 mins on. Be interesting to see if we bring the BFG on cause their defence is very good at playing the CF offside, it's the runners from deep that are springing it so he might be suited to allowing us to release elanga et al.

I'm too disgusted to even read the article.

They better not do a Spurs and hire someone unflashy but competent.

Still not sure how he got so much power on the header when he was jumping backwards to meet it.

Glasner plays 3 at the back, right? Would be interesting if he took over whether he would get i tto work for them. Still think they'll pick up mind. They're had a very tough start but I like the attacking players they've brought in and you just need three good games in a row for the mood around a club to completely change.

Still get a bit of a 'pinch me' feeling reading the thread title. September already! Where the fuck's the year gone?

I'd go with that: with the length of socks and shorts now might as well wear hose. I'm sure keepers wear some kind of nad protection so might as well make it ornate. And pointy shoes are hardly going to matter with Pope's kicking. Might as well do it in style.

Wish Adidas would be a bit more imaginative and give us a goalkeeping doublet.

I can see Bick Nick dropping deep and linking with Cunha and Mbeumo as a very tasty front three.

Yeah she's been banging the Tonali drum for quite a while tbf. Wish she'd shut up about it so others don't catch on!

From what I can see on FB ref he's taken 9 penalty kicks in his career for club and country (not including shootouts) and scored them all. I think people are reading a bit much into the whole 'didn't want to take a penalty' thing.

Only if your fajitas are very out of date.

Just found out El Paso is in Texas. Think you might have some knock-off fajitas if they claim they're from Mexico.

Personally I'd already written him off when he failed to score against Israel or Greece in the summer.

If that's the case how about we boom different? Boom! Shake, shake, shake the Toon. Boom! Shake, shake, shake the Toon. Boom! Shake, shake, shake the Toon. Big Nick shoots and BOOM!

Reckon we want Tino vs Yamal this week and after that Hall will start getting his place back.

Wol-te-made Wol-te-made Wol-te-made Wol-te-made Wol-te-made Wir pass'n, pass'n, pass'n an die Woltemade Wir pass'n, pass'n, pass'n an die Woltemade Wir pass'n, pass'n, pass'n an die Woltemade Wir pass'n, pass'n, pass'n an die Woltemade To the tune of Autobahn by Kraftwerk. Just do that for 22 minutes basically.