Fair point that, they did sell but they also bought it, either way its played about 20 minutes less than Lavia. I watched a program on Chelsea last night on BT, about the Ken Bates era. They have always been a shambles, the mad bastard installed electric fences in 1985 and he wasn't allowed turn them on. The owners were fighting over seats like it was 2024 Penalty. That club looks in such a mess it could easily spiral down past Everton.
Glenn Hoddie is on the latest Quickly Kevin podcast this week. Was actually a great interview. Always thought he was one of the better pundits. He was talking about when he took over Chelsea and how he could not believe how bad the facilities were at the ground. At the training ground they had no baths and all the players crammed into a tiny steam room. Also had no gym equipment and food the players got was terrible. When they were trying to sign Ruud Guillt he came to London to meet Hoddle and he didn’t bring him to the stadium or training ground as he wouldn’t have signed. He told him there as major work going on at both. He took him to a few fancy spots in London and sealed the deal.
City win 4-0. Let's hope the cheaters romp home from here. Be sickened if we miss out to Arsenal. Let the cheaters cheat their way to another title.
Whats the point of Michael Oliver. He was standing 2 yards away from Rice booting Davies in the bollocks,and waved it away.
City ain’t going to drop any points unfortunately. If Spurs out of contention I can see them playing a second string to appeal to the fanbase in second last game
Joke of a pen in the city game, compare that to doku chest high with his studs on macca. No wonder klopp is jibbing it.
It’s a Farce really. when there was no VAR there was lack of consistent decisions however you could excuse it a bit as no second chance. These clowns look at it 50 times in slow mo and the inconsistency is actually worse than pre VAR. Arsenal has a hold of Bournmouth player and there Momentum actually moves Solanke who makes the slightest contact. It’s peno more than a free out. As for Havertz, it’s a peno by the rules but shouldn’t be.
Watched the Boston play off game earlier and the other team had a goal disallowed for offside, in real time he looked way off but seeing the replay it was very close and possibly onside but no drama, goal was disallowed and play went on. I'd honestly love it if they brought that back in to the PL.
There's an English lad works for ESPN and he's made a name for himself as the foremost authority on VAR in England,and to be fair to him,he knows his shit. The thing is,he's the PGMOL's go to guy, has the type of access most others don't get, so his main priority has become protecting that access. He doesn't just carry their water,he often drops the bucket into the well for them. Point being, between them they'll take a shit decision,and use their knowledge of VAR and the laws of the game,to reverse engineer justification for most decisions. What I've realised is,there's hardly any decision a ref can make,that they cant find something in the laws of the game to justify. Take the exact same incident,two opposite decisions,and they'll find so thing to say that both were correct. It's fucking ridiculous. Take that Antony Taylor fuck up last week. Everybody saw what happened. He dropped a bollock,panicked, and then tried to cover it up by getting the keeper to go down. Any other explanation just wouldn't be honest. But scour the laws of the game lime this lad did(after deleting his first attempt at explaining it away) and you find a law that says the ref can stop play to protect the spirit of the game. This lad was happy to explain that to anybody who asked, only it fell down when it was pointed out Taylor made a keeper who didn't want treatment,have treatment. If you're "protecting the spirit of the game", you just blow your whistle, drop the ball to the keeper, and get on with it. But no,when Taylor told the keeper to go down,it was obvious it was just a fuck up who was trying to cover for. And that's just one of thousands of examples going back through the years of the culture among officials. Covering their own and each others arse is ingrained, it was the reason I wanted VAR, but it's also the reason VAR can't work. It's worse than its ever been,and it's not surprising. What other way could it go when it's taken over by Howard Webb,a man who wasn't just a big part of the arse covering culture among officials, but spent decades in the number one profession for that culture, the police.