Another odd fact about the way football is developing.
Reckless studs up challenge, where your foot leaves the ground, and studs go into someone's leg? Intention irrelevant, if sufficiently dangerous-red card.
Yet if you replace "leg" with "face", intention is supposedly the key indicator, not the danger?
Before anyone thinks I'm wearing "Spursy spectacles" the tackle by Skipp was halfway between a yellow and a red. Touched the ball first, then contact with player's ankle. As opposed to 5 feet off the ground, and nearly having someone's eye out.
Madness.
As always it's the inconsistency in these situations that riles me, Player A does that Skipp challenge and he's off but Player B get's the benefit of doubt, same as the high foot challenge.
Agreed. If a Romero or a Xhaka does that self-same tackle (or the Jota one) they are off. Whereas a Skipp or an Odegaard is not. And don't even start me on "forward's challenge"
They used to say that about Rooney and if you take that out of his game you change the player, why should some players benefit while others get punished, a foul is a foul is a foul no matter who you are.
On which note, why do goalkeeper's get so much protection from the referees?
Leeds nearly went down last season. 17th. Goal difference -37-18 worse than relegated Burnley.
That they did not was largely down to their 2 standout players-Phillips and Raphinha. Who they promptly sold. Add to that, players like Llorente, James and Gelhardt loaned out. Manager who looks like he has no ideas left.
Signed a bunch of players for threepence, many of which aren't household names in their own household.
4 games left-Man City away, West Ham away, Newcastle and Spurs at home.
Fair play to Big Sam-he's not afraid of a challenge....
Leeds nearly went down last season. 17th. Goal difference -37-18 worse than relegated Burnley.
That they did not was largely down to their 2 standout players-Phillips and Raphinha. Who they promptly sold. Add to that, players like Llorente, James and Gelhardt loaned out. Manager who looks like he has no ideas left.
Signed a bunch of players for threepence, many of which aren't household names in their own household.
4 games left-Man City away, West Ham away, Newcastle and Spurs at home.
Fair play to Big Sam-he's not afraid of a challenge....
Liverpool football supporters have drowned out God Save the King on the day of the Coronation with a huge chorus of boos.
The national anthem was played ahead of the Premier League fixture between Liverpool and Brentford at Anfield on Saturday afternoon to mark the crowning of King Charles III and the Queen Consort.
But supporters inside the stadium did not respect the anthem as the two teams lined up around the centre circle.
The jeering started immediately after the PA announcer confirmed that the national anthem would be played.
As the players uncomfortably moved toward the centre-circle shoulder to shoulder, huge chants of 'Liverpool, Liverpool' took over from the boos.
Boos were then heard almost entirely around the ground, with the anthem only faintly heard, as Reds skipper Jordan Henderson appeared to sing along with the anthem from the touchline as a substitute.
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On which note, why do goalkeeper's get so much protection from the referees?
Ha, incredible.
That they did not was largely down to their 2 standout players-Phillips and Raphinha. Who they promptly sold. Add to that, players like Llorente, James and Gelhardt loaned out. Manager who looks like he has no ideas left.
Signed a bunch of players for threepence, many of which aren't household names in their own household.
4 games left-Man City away, West Ham away, Newcastle and Spurs at home.
Fair play to Big Sam-he's not afraid of a challenge....
Come On The Leeds...
The national anthem was played ahead of the Premier League fixture between Liverpool and Brentford at Anfield on Saturday afternoon to mark the crowning of King Charles III and the Queen Consort.
But supporters inside the stadium did not respect the anthem as the two teams lined up around the centre circle.
The jeering started immediately after the PA announcer confirmed that the national anthem would be played.
As the players uncomfortably moved toward the centre-circle shoulder to shoulder, huge chants of 'Liverpool, Liverpool' took over from the boos.
Boos were then heard almost entirely around the ground, with the anthem only faintly heard, as Reds skipper Jordan Henderson appeared to sing along with the anthem from the touchline as a substitute.
@lucy4
How could we forget?