Is the situation truly that awful in Newcastle ? I didn’t realise that we sucker punched them quite that hard…
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After a weekend I’ve seen a bit what is the point in these announcements refs make regarding VAR and some sound utterly werid.
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It’s meant to improve communication to the matchday crowd, so they know what went on behind the scenes.
Seems fucking obvious to be honest, wasn’t the issue was they just had some stoppages and due to the lack of video communication no one knew in the early days. Now most grounds will have that come up on the screens, I think that’s part of the reason we changed our score board.
After all the issue was “why has the game stopped for 15 minutes” that wouldn’t be solved by the ref making an announcement at the end of the process, also if he doesn’t change his mind he doesn’t do like Baseball or Cricket and announce it stands he just waves his hands.
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Yeah there are cases where in the crowd you dont even know why the game has been stopped and so an explanation of what they were looking at once the review is done is helpful. Especially when it results in a red card, penalty, or goal being disallowed. 99% of the time the announcement will say nothing of value to tv viewers who already know what the review was about. But it has even less value when an out of shape guy is blowing into his microphone in a way that makes the audio choppy like last night.
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I always felt the issue was there was no comms, this was pre to the decisions appearing on the video screens. If they are going to do this do it for all video decisions not just half as it’s just going confuse more.
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3 teams with 6 points after 2 games. At least one of them will drop points at the weekend.
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Potter is inbig trouble WH lost to Wolves today.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1n0lu0q/opta_liverpool_have_scored_the_most_added_time/
Mentality Monsters.
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He made a massive mistake leaving Brighton for Chelsea.
Whilst still having issues at Brighton, they were also at a level the board knew they could overlook his faults as he was doing a better than expected job with them. Chelsea was a job with massive expectations and demands and a squad with big egos that he never stood a chance at and has put a spotlight on his faults which can’t be overlooked now.
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His accountant begs to differ.
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I think there is also the likelihood that Brighton is a well-run club with a harmonized approach to developing their side, which he benefited greatly from. Chelsea has repeatedly seen friction not just between their director of football and manager positions, but even with other factions in the football department that somehow have a channel to the owners. The open question is whether or not Potter suffers from the Brendan Rodgers ailment of attributing everything good happening around him to his own efforts.
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100%. I made the comparison the other day. Potter is not just an uninspiring guy. He is negatively inspiring with his faux insight and philosophizing. When you’re in a situation of needing to make hard decisions, having some friction to work through that shit grates. When things are positive you can overlook it, focus on how fun and good the training sessions are, and it all goes swimmingly.
It’s kind the managerial equivalent of Klopp’s train analogy. If you have a manager who just good at the football stuff you can get a lot of mileage out them if everything is already going ok. When there are other things at the club to work through then the football stuff is just a tiny part of what is needed to be successful.
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*Former Everton striker Dominic Calvert Lewin had a terrible debut for Leeds.
*After missing an open goal and a few other good chances he finally missed the last penalty in a shootout against Sheffield Wednesday last night in the league cup with many people blaming his choice of football boots.
Hard road ahead for DCL now.
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Over the weekend, I talked with my LFC-supporting friends and we couldn’t remember the last team Liverpool beat Arsenal in the league. Then I read this from Carra’s article above:
“He has not lost to Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, Manchester United or Tottenham Hotspur in the last 22 games.”
This could be worrying, though my guess is that majority of those results were actually draws.
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1.Shithouse a borderline illegal setpiece goal.
2. Park the bus with meaningless possession play with no end product
3. Keep looking like Stoke irrespective of the fact that he’s thrown billions at the players.
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Four draws and a loss for LFC in the last 5 league games.
Record against City over the last 5 W2, D2, L1, which actually surprised me because the two matches in 2024 were both gutless displays that ended up costing Arsenal greatly in the hunt for the league. In he one about a year ago in particular, City was there for the taking.
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I think out of those 4 draws , we should have been winning 2 of them were it not for fuck ups by the referee.
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Yeah odegaard played basketball in the penalty area, plus that game last year we had been on holiday the week before after winning it.
They don’t need a massive tactical shift because this is there set up now. In fact Gyokeres is pretty pointless to that, Chris Wood could do this job.
I would say they are favourites but they need to start beating those teams 6-14 in the league. They could have put massive pressure on Liverpool ahead of the City game last year and then they lost to West Ham and we beat City.
There title challenge wasn’t a challenge, it’s even questionable if this kind of football wins titles anymore or just achieves 60-70pts. We will see, they are favourites due to our influx situation.
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It’s really only a 2 season run. In 22-23, the first year they were seen as real contenders, they lost to Utd and had City do the double over them. They won 1 and drew 1 with us
The next 2 seasons, ignoring spurs because they are shit, they went 8 and 8 against us, Utd, City, and Chelsea
It is credit worthy but not something to be scared of
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