Fixed
He tried to punch that the same why Apollo tries to catch a ball thrown to him (it hits him in the face, every time)
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Ederson punches that away.
Ricochets off his knee you blind cunts, are City players just going to keep getting away with surrounding the ref? Have some balls Anthony.
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That clearance was quality 
Onside? Getting a bit fucking sick of this.
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Defending like us
Ooffff, more school boy defending on that one. That LB owes everyone a huge apology
Yeah, Iraola can keep his job.
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Does my fucking head in.
Thought I was watching a replay
What are you fucking doing Diakite.
This is like watching Moreno Lovren and Kolo all over again.
Lol, Jimenez decided to get on the act now tooā¦disgraceful.
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Iāve been taking a bit of a break from the Premier League, as coaching my team has been taking up my mental space and Iāve just not had the emotional energy for Liverpool (its my second season as Head Coach and after going winless my first year we made the playoffs this season for the first time in 13 years so itās been quite a fun ride). Iāve seen some bits and pieces of the Premier League but not been arsed to watch a game really.
Anyway, just got back into it this weekend and watching this Man City game is annoying me. Brainless defending from Bournemouth, constant surrounding the referee by Man City, and the fucking rolling around and screaming from tackles that clearly did not hurt is just very shit to watch. I think watching grassroots only for the last couple of months is really highlighting to me how much playacting is in the top level of the game. Itās close to unwatchable honestly.
If I was in charge Iād send all the referees back to grassroots, let them see some real tackles and then come back to PL and give them an instruction to immediately red card everyone who is diving or faking. Itād ruin the sport for a week and then it would be gone, for a while at least.
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Yeah, Iām not a fan of Newcastle but I wanted the ref to keep adding a minute on for WHU time wasting. As a goalie Iāve never got cramp and Iāve done far more than he has in a 10 minute spell.
This is actually the first PL matches Iāve watched for ages because havenāt felt it with the way Liverpool games have been ending.
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At the start of the second, the most likely result feels like a 3-1 with Cyborg getting his hat-trick. But Bournemouth/Semenyo look semi-dangerous and could get another goal.
Exactly the same. 
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One of the sequences from yesterday the official Palace Media team chose to highlight was one of Mateta coming back to the ball but finding himself with no outlet. While protecting the ball he kept dropping deeper and deeper into his own half, with increasingly fewer good options, and the penalty for losing the ball increasing. Eventual he reached the edge of his own box and just threw himself on the floor to be rewarded by the ref with a free kick.
Itās incredibly cynical football made viable only by reliably awful refereeing that rewards all the wrong things
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Thankfully there has been a fair bit of other sports and Iāve found solace in some of the fringe leagues. Championship and lower mainly.
Anyhow donāt want to labour a point here but Man City have had about a spell of 20 minutes of football where theyāve been good and yet will end up winning this.
Edit: Anyhow Gainsborough V Accrington now
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Theyāll be found out next Sunday afternoon 
It is exacerbated by fans wanting every physical challenge to be blown as a foul, as long as it is against their player. If the foul is given against your side it is a diveā¦or he got the ball.
Our in match threads are a prime example.
The modern day fan seems to want a sanitised version of the sport that permits no tackling and so it puts extra pressure on refs to blow. Every physical challenge brings howls of indignation from the fans and if you get a referee that allows physicality then the moaning startsā¦
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Semenyo really is a cracking player isnāt he?
Reckon thereās space for a winger hereā¦
