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  1. They said beforehand that there'd be none of the usual media stuff this time around. Idea being to focus on the fundamentals.
  2. Can see this one defining Howe's future. We need to not look listless and disorderly. Hope we take them apart.
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    Papiss Cissé

    Don't remember it, but this is ringing bells for the mental comment...
  4. I'd happily have it become an iconic number for us. Save and use it for our best CM talents. Maybe Miley one day.
  5. Was waiting for him to start talking about race. Looks like he's played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.
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    Anthony Gordon

    Could almost do with a tincy piece of it back
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    Plane spotting

    Think it was said this was one going to be kept ultra private and focused.
  8. It's a pity that I'm only shrugging at this news. Hope he's doing alright in himself.
  9. I don't especially disagree. With the point your opponents are making about teams moving to lower defensive lines, I think a counter point is that it'll potentially create more space in midfield for the kind of players we've traditionally loved to watch. Rather than the condensed, sterile, ultra disciplined, pass you to death Man City style being all conquering, we might see more room for mercurial inspiration in the game. Going back to offside though, the issue is football, like much of life itself, was never designed to be litigated with millimeter precision. When we start trying to isolate and quantify every element, and pin every action down with legal tightness, we kill the thing we love. Neither interpretation of the law is really wrong, what's wrong is the fixation on the exact moment something is or isn't off. We need to learn to tolerate some uncertainty and inexactness in a world in which technology allows us to retrospectively give ourselves the illusion of certainty and accuracy. Will daylight let us more easily spot if someone is offside? Yes I think so. Will it be farcical if someone's trailing toe being in line with a defender's leading toenail means the action is onside? Also yes. Most of us know what feels right in the game and feels right for the game, we're just struggling to translate it into legal language and technological certainty because the game was never meant to seriously interact with either of those things.
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    Anthony Gordon

    That EE logo is vile. Someone photoshop it out of existence.
  11. Of course, the real fix is just to get rid of VAR. Then either rule works reasonably well and makes for an enjoyable game.
  12. What sensors are in the ball that judge whether it's crossed the line for a goal? Get a load of those and stick one under each player's ballsack. Make them judge positioning relative to eachother. That's the fix.
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    Eddie Howe

    Haven't seen the press conference, but that's embarrassing if that got brought up.
  14. England doing a Princess Catherine welfare check on Hall.
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    Anthony Gordon

    Well done lad Hope he doesn't go too berserk trying to impress them. But acclimatising to the squad and whole call up thing will be great for him. And us too - proves it can be done.
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