That's irrelevant..... We are there BECAUSE we deserve to be.
Literal > sentimental/emotive.........
By your reckoning 20 or more teams don't 'belong' this year either (including none of our group!)......
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That's irrelevant..... We are there BECAUSE we deserve to be.
Literal > sentimental/emotive.........
By your reckoning 20 or more teams don't 'belong' this year either (including none of our group!)......
No business at all. We've got a Europa League level group & it's going down to the last game where we're away at a cauldron of a stadium.
Zero point in all the drama of qualifying if we fuck this. Not like we signed dazzling players who would only have joined for CL football anyway...
Yeah, defender's there to play/blocky the ball. Strange call.
Conspiracy??
Fuck off you numpty!!
We were shit. We've been shit for the last few games. There is NO conspiracy!
"Semi-automated"..... An absolutely bullshit notion.
It's just wanky double-talk.
Either a human has influence or they don't.
You're still just talking sentiment/emotion > the literal rules of the game.
"Once again".....? What happened last week has ZERO to do with the officiating within the confines of that game.
He's deliberately stood there......
If what you're saying is the rule; then the rule is a fucking ass.
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I should add, maybe not strange call, but a rule that needs looking at.
Might as well just delete the match thread then apart from one comment with the line ups and then one 2 hours later staying that a game of football happened and the score was 1-1...
Of course there's fucking sentiment and emotion involved!
I wouldn't waste so much fucking time watching these cunts and discussing the finer details of their respective abilities on the Internet if there wasn't!
I'm annoyed at the first half, it was really bad. Marcus Edwards scored a great goal, could only really happen to us. We just played with no intensity which was very frustrating.
Second half we were much better and deserved to win... just. It certainly wasn't perfect as Sporting had a couple of chances. Great cameo from Bryan Gill when he came on, can he do it regularly? Thought Bentancur was again one of our better players and Romero too who looked liked he really wanted to liven the game and atmosphere.
The thoughts on the VAR decision is just great frustration and annoyance. It's a shit system that really shouldn't be taking 4mins to come to a decision. No one really fucking knows if that was onside or offside yet the genuine feeling I have from those clowns in UEFA or that stupid ref box somewhere in Lala land is them going "this is the only competitive group left in our stale comp now, lets rule this goal out and make it exciting on the last matchday". I'm probs way off the mark but honestly if they ever wanted to make a game/comp corrupt and add entertainment value then VAR is the perfect tool. I completely agree with Conte, you would never see that decision ruled out at Anfield.
I really am hating modern day football currently, I hate how fans just love slagging off the manager and players, I hate how some fans boo at half time rather than trying to get behind the team, I hate how Paul Coyte has to cheerlead to get fans behind the team. Just be positive ffs, we're all there to support the team!!
And most of all I hate fucking VAR!!!!
Second half we were much better and deserved to win... just. It certainly wasn't perfect as Sporting had a couple of chances. Great cameo from Bryan Gill when he came on, can he do it regularly? Thought Bentancur was again one of our better players and Romero too who looked liked he really wanted to liven the game and atmosphere.
The thoughts on the VAR decision is just great frustration and annoyance. It's a shit system that really shouldn't be taking 4mins to come to a decision. No one really fucking knows if that was onside or offside yet the genuine feeling I have from those clowns in UEFA or that stupid ref box somewhere in Lala land is them going "this is the only competitive group left in our stale comp now, lets rule this goal out and make it exciting on the last matchday". I'm probs way off the mark but honestly if they ever wanted to make a game/comp corrupt and add entertainment value then VAR is the perfect tool. I completely agree with Conte, you would never see that decision ruled out at Anfield.
I really am hating modern day football currently, I hate how fans just love slagging off the manager and players, I hate how some fans boo at half time rather than trying to get behind the team, I hate how Paul Coyte has to cheerlead to get fans behind the team. Just be positive ffs, we're all there to support the team!!
And most of all I hate fucking VAR!!!!
That would require him (eg Kane) to have moved backwards, no?
In which case, if he moves backwards enough to pull back onside again before playing the ball and hasn't previously interfered with play, then the attacker's position has been re-set and is to be considered on-side once more if he then goes on to play the ball.....
As far as I can fathom........
It's gobbledegook
Everything is a conspiracy against us
It why his hats are lined with tinfoil
I've lost track of what the fucking point is here, I'm more annoyed at the performance of our players over 90 minutes than the bad call from the officials at the death.
I'm baffled that so many are totally overlooking that and simply crying fix.
Why don’t you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
The rule book and officiating doesn't (or at least shouldn't!) operate according to emotion/sentiment......
(Of course the game is emotional for a fan, but that's not at all what's being put to you though...... )
That was the most clear example of daylight robbery by VAR I've ever seen.
It is simply bullshit and clear evidence of corruption. Or, and this is not impossible, the ref is a complete fucking imbecile.
It is simply bullshit and clear evidence of corruption. Or, and this is not impossible, the ref is a complete fucking imbecile.
Look at it this way...... Piss on the performance all you like; you may be justified in doing so....
That doesn't mean the officiating shouldn't get key decisions right and that we shouldn't be sat on 3 points after tonight's game; regardless of if we stunk the place out or not.
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Yep. We played football for maybe 20 minutes and scored twice.
Was it a dodgy decision? Yeah, but it happens. Had we decided to turn up for the previous 70 it's a game we win comfortably. Instead we wasted a whole half not even pressing, and then a good chunk of the second working out it's probably time to start trying.
This team baffles me. When it turns it on we can legitimately look good but it's always in incredibly frustrating short bursts. The amount of times we straight up do not turn up for a first half is so unbelievably unacceptable it goes beyond frustrating. Conte should be screaming at this lot before the game starts.
Look, I don't get it!
(I know this from my school days!)
How am I supposed to get along with xHamster if I'm too stupid to recognize what is a joke and what is truth!
(Lots of desperate people pave my way)
Have a good night and best regards
frankfurter