Wullie

Indeed. I've always said this, football isn't like tennis or cricket where every point or every delivery is independent of each other. Giving a throw-in the wrong way affects every other thing that happens on the field from that point onwards.

This has always seemed to me such a wildly obvious and easy fix to the problem, rather than going too far the other way and doing the thing Wenger has suggested which would change the game too much and quickly be exposed as equally ridiculous. Bring back the concept which existed in football for over 100 years of "level". Offside was always meant to be something that could be seen with the naked eye by a linesman - if it's not, it's not offside! If you're going to use the technology therefore, change the rules to give a buffer of an inch or two so that only obvious offsides are called.

I saw the clip again of Gordon's goal against Arsenal yesterday and the first thing the referee says to VAR is that the "ask on the pitch" is for a check whether the ball was out of play or not. Gordon said last night he was telling his team mates that it was a penalty and not to worry because the VAR would give it. I think that was quite naive. If the players know exactly what the foul is, it should be drummed into them to tell the referee what they need to look for to make sure it doesn't get missed.

I mainly play the Bet365 version, I'm hanging on in the top 1k which is £100 prize (it's £175 from 500 up then goes up and up, top prize is £50k), my wife and I have different teams but we're only a couple of points apart. I've never been so annoyed about anything for ages as my decision to bench Havertz yesterday in favour of Mateta, what the fuck was I thinking? The extra 10 points was worth about 100 places.

God I'm seething after that. The game is won, just don't do anything absolutely fucking brainless for five minutes and he can't even manage that.

Creased at the idea of a fucking quiz

I watch pretty much all of the play offs and most of them are... quite dull? Like the vast majority are instantly forgettable. And I'm probably misremembering all these classic LC semi finals but it's not something I particularly look forward to. We had this same conversation 2 years ago anyway. The proof of the pudding is here and the competition hasn't been this dull for a very long time.

Scrapping away goals shows how little those who are in charge of the game understand it. Unbelievably stupid thing to do.

Was planning to roll this week, now I'm on at least a -4 Own all of TAA, Carlos and Porro FFS. Also got Kabore in defence who is just as useless.

This strikes me as a particularly stupid decision from the FA.

Funny how some players, rather than having a particular weakness in a knee or whatever, will just pick up injuries absolutely everywhere. Kieron Dyer probably the most obvious example, Woodgate as well. Wilson definitely in that bracket.

Think he should be alright, they create an enormous amount of chances and just miss them all.

Aye that rings a bell

I'd completely forgotten Cabaye playing for Palace. Edit: wow he played more games for them than us