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Anything in excess of 130 mil and hopefully Tomas Lemar is part of the plan.

Blame the Saints for holding us to ransom on Van Dijk!

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Let’s put it this way, Pep’s no angel and I can’t for the life of me figure out why some people laud him the way they do. Some of his interviews on the mic last season were bad. As he’s got it good this year, he’s chilled out, typical, but then, that’s like many these days in the modern game.

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On Radio commentary Gents. I honestly don’t think Moyes is that type of Manager like a Pulis who could deliberately try to frustrate a team and bore some of us for the entire 90 mins.

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🙂 He isn’t parking the bus 🙂

Like one or two out there! Hahaha 😀

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I just think in Jose’s case these days, management simply brings the worst out of him.

I haven’t seen him smile for a long time.

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Wow!!!

Chucky! 😀

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Refs make the call though.

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Every reason to be irate.

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VAR is essentially a Video Assistant Referee who in theory would be to assist the Head Ref on Goals Penalties and Red Cards.

This so far being in circulation essentials is on trial and not formally approved as something in place for the future. I would like to add Off-sides and Simulation to the above key components listed.

It might essentially be CCTV, but it’s not there to cause a constant disruption, but there in place to assist the Referee.

You can still be entertained with enthralling matches, but meaning a more fair game and cleaning up on any wrongdoing caused by individuals that is impacting the course of the game and results.

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Nine agree with you there re the Media outlets and delivering excessive coverage. There’s a mixture of them doing this for their own agenda naturally to attract the tweets, viewers etc and to try and project a message for officials out there in the game to take notice.

Whatever’s been going on for the last 100 years, the standard of Refereeing of late is critical than ever and a lot of that is down to the integrity of some footballers out there who are trying to cheat the rules.

One thing more than ever that irks me is the studio pundits having the brass neck to criticize the officials and in the same breath are championing ‘diving as part of the game’.

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The problem is that of late, there has truthfully been wrong decisions made. This affects the supporters faith and confidence in Referees and whether a fair game can be delivered.

Not easy at the moment to take at face-value.

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As a million times in multiplication of bias as this will sound, I take Jurgen Klopp as an exception. Wenger I actually hold respect for even though he can annoy me at times. I’m liking David Wagner guy with a decent heart in the right place. And Conte on the whole is Gentleman with decorum as with Pochetino.

However, the rest I find unlikeable for them either being monosyllabic, pre-empted, or just defensive and sarcastic.

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A common pattern on Arsenal-Leicester, Arsenal-Liverpool and Arsenal-Chelsea: all ended in a draw and the away team at one point were in a winning position. It may bring excitement, but that would annoy me if I was an Arsenal supporter.

And from an away team point of view, that would feel like 2 points dropped.

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Found a replay here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UvL_r2VRmo

From own experience of playing and watching this, it seems Bellerin’s kicked at Hazard’s instep and side of toe which is vulnerable – think to when you walk into a bit of furniture bare-foot.

I’m not going to read into too much as I’ve not watched the game tonight. That’s my interpretation of it.

As for Refs, and trying to put their Refereeing to rights, I don’t have the personal strength at the moment. Let it be and do whatever you want.

I just hope we get through our cup game on Friday.

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PPT, from listening to Hughes’ post match interview on the back of today’s defeat, he seemed quite upbeat and self-assured. Maybe he has genuine faith in his owners, but time will tell as to what happens.

Rafa sets his teams up the way he has done because Ashley won’t give him the funds. Bus Parker is a bit of a nick name and I don’t particularly like Newcastle in the Prem these days because of the way they play or are forced to play from circumstances but you might argue it is what it is, but on the evidence of what I saw from Palace yesterday, maybe one doesn’t have to park the bus for the whole of 90 minutes to gain a positive result.

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Come on Everton – not too bad so far – can’t see United winning this, but could be proved wrong.

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When I’ve watched games on BT Sport for example, they have Howard Webb in the studio and he goes out of his way to explain rationally without any bias.

That’s what I would like to see more, in our game. Managers I’m sure get fed up of chewing the ears of the officials and landing themselves some kind of a sanction.

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Pagan, that first line is spot on and I’m in full agreement of that. That’s the sensible and appropriate way of going about this.

It’s unlikely to be a constant stop-start and interjections, but this ultimately should only be on key decisions.

I don’t think on percentages we’re seeing Referees making half-a-dozen bad calls. Largely those contested are marginal and part and parcel of what makes our game great to watch.

Wouldn’t want the affair as you quite rightly point out robotic.

Cheers

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I thought Klopp got it 90% right this afternoon with his rotation. I felt based on the selection of the 11, Lallana for example had more involvement which really pleased me and notably his work rate and support to protect the defensive was hugely impressive.

Solanke is given more game time too, however, just felt maybe we’re a Salah type of player short just to provide us the cutting edge and be clinical.

Kudos though to Emre Can with his levels of fitness working tirelessly like Lallana. Still one or two Cobwebs surrounding our defence, but felt we gave a much more of a better account of ourselves than the team fielded August 2016.

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The flip side and the potential adverse effects we could or already are facing is those genuinely fouled in the box won’t be awarded a Penalty.

This just seems to me to be an unresolved loop.

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