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He’s proving as obstinate as Martinez, we could lose ten aways on the bounce but he’ll carry on setting up to stifle the opposition(regardless if we are facing top or bottom) and we’ll continue to create nothing, score nothing (let’s ignore the literal gift O.G.tonight) and we always concede.
Whatever he thinks the away form shows we can’t execute his negative plans, we may as well go down in a blaze of glory (like at Villa) as suffer this turgid dross.A crying shame that we serve up that crap after such a fine display last Saturday……
I really need to calm down after yesterday’s result before I can resume my ‘calm voice of reason methodology’
Like Arnie ….. I’ll be back
Very sad, been looking at this thread for a week or so, I have to say the name didn’t register with me but the photo(kindly posted by Sammy) did… A Springfield Park and West Stand ‘regular face’
As always it’s the faces you recognise, walking round town and there are frequent brief nods to folk, the wife says “who is that” …” no idea of his name, but he’s been going to Latics for donkeys years”
Another one has left us a little too soon it appears …
My own view is that it is a bad thing, as the idea that it will ensure 100% correct decisions is ridiculous. You may get MORE correct decisions than is currently the case but at the cost of stopping football being what it is, with unnatural interruptions to play, the ritual undermining of referees (as it has done with cricket umpires) and the lack of spontaneous joy at a “goal” ….hang on maybe it is, maybe it isn’t
I accept that it isn’t exactly black and white in terms of a choice and I concede that it is coming in regardless now.
However what I can never accept is the principle of, if a team is on Sky more (see Rugby League here) you get the “benefit” of VAR/video ref (if you believe it’s a benefit) but the smaller clubs don’t …..or not nearly as often. If we must have it then it must be applied to EVERY game being played in that competition, so if it’s in the Premier league it has to be at Cardiff v Burnley on a Tues night not just at City, Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea etc etc. on a Sat/Sun …..in the way that goal line technology is.
In the FA Cup that arguably could be modified to say that it has to be applied equally from a specified point, the 3rd round or QF etc. You can’t then have one team going through because they had a VAR decision go their way while another team at the same stage gets knocked out because their game wasn’t covered.
So no thanks from me but if I can’t stop it then at least ensure every game in the same Comp is played under the same conditions…..if that’s impractical/unaffordable then bin it !
Maybe, but not altogether sure he’d fancy it ?
Prem teams in trouble often go for known Prem ‘rescue specialists’ , as good as he is he can’t yet point to that level of experience
Those of us older in the tooth have ‘black and white’ memories of Man Utd’s Inter continental two leg game against Argentina’s Estudiantes, in 1968.
Now they were a revolting shower of bar stewards