Not sure why injuries are being lumped in with Covid as a reason to cancel games. Nobody gave a flying fuck stick when we had no defence last season with youth team players making up the numbers.
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I was at a Palace game a few years back and it took stewards about 40 minutes to approach a woman filming an game on her iPad.
God knows why as it was bloody awful
Saints vs Newcastle on Sunday also off.
I think that’s already the 20th game that had been postponed in the league.
Good luck trying to reschedule them all.
I don’t recall ever seeing a table where there was a four game difference in games played between some teams.
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Not in a top flight.
In league 1 or 2 you can get that when games get postponed if snow, or pitches get waterlogged.
Good so many clubs played on…
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Exactly what I was thinking, it looks like a lower tier table.
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There is some suggestion it is over concerns about maintaining the quality of product, in that no one should have to pay 80 quid to go watch a side that would be weak even for a league cup game. Yet the complaints by the managers every year about the schedule through late Dec into Jan fucking the players and producing poor quality games is ignored.
The whole thing is just a complete mess. And the elephant in the room with regards to finding time to reschedule these games is the adjustment to this season and next season already baked in to accommodate the world cup this time next year. As I mentioned the other day, it has surprised me to find out that unvaccinated players have more strict isolation requirements, yet no consideration is given for the effect of this on being able to fulfil a fixture. I think the league have fucked themselves over this and over combining covid absences with bog standard non-covid reasons for players not being available.
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@Zoran is there a January Transfer Thread?
Could be just my perception but there hasn’t been much buzz or chatter for this window, in all of world football. For any club. Of course the January window isn’t as big but there is usually much more rumors and innuendo and such leading up.
Again, could just be my own perception.
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Thanks @redfanman. Crazy I completely missed all that Raphina news. What an odd signing for Bayern.
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Have to agree here.
20 games already postponed.
Think the PL can be lucky that there is no tournament in the summer.
And yet they are fine with teams killing 30mins of time a game.
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Extremely simple solution which I have been advocating for many years. Like Rugby, Hockey and every other field sport, stop the clock for injuries and substitutions. Make the time keeping transparent…I really can’t understand why it is being resisted. I am convinced that one day it will happen. It will kill all the shenanigans stone dead.
It drives me crazy when they make a substitution with 30 seconds of added time left.
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The two goalkeepers with the most clean sheets against each other at the Emirates.
Penalty not given by Var for the arse.
Definitely gets the ball first. Lucky though
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Mad, dangerous goalkeeping. Very Ederson.
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Predictably. The brown envelopes must have increased in size this year. He clearly took the foot of the player to get to the ball. He’s a fucking lucky cunt, Ederson. Fuck knows how he gets away with his assaults on players and clear pens.
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City look very flat again today.
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