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Anyone think Shearer and co will have a dig at England's Danny Welbeck later for his theatrics after the tackle for the pen like they were at Mo a few weeks ago? Nah me neither.

In simple terms Football, is not as enjoyable to watch since var came in. The main enjoyment in football is watching goals, but since this stupid fucking thing has come out, you now can't celebrate. You actually can't celebrate the goals, if you can't do that, then what's the fucking point of it

The fact an opposition player comes on the TV and admits “it’s a soft penalty but I’d try it on as I may get it given due to VAR” tells you all you need to know

With Diego Maradona passing away this week I rewatched that movie about his career. There where scenes from certain games like the obvious goal of the century against England in front of 100 thousand people. You can see the absolute raw emotion and passion on those moments. There's not a single watcher of football nowadays that can honestly say you could have those with var now. You simply couldn't. It's a killjoy, and nothing else. I hate it, and quite frankly, find football less of an escape since it came in. I work hard through the week, have two young kids, and forgive me for wanting to enjoy goals being scored and to celebrate them. You literally can't do that anymore,

Is a disgusting alcoholic drink driving Tory wife beater. Shit goalkeeper, even worse person. Fucking shithouse.

It was always going to be this way though, it was always going to ruin goal celebrations, ruin the moment. VAR was a bad idea which is being implemented incompetently. It is killing the game & it needs to be scrapped.

It would be an absolutely staggering achievement to win the title with our injury problems/the schedule. The team we put out today in the cold light of day is nowhere near a title winning one....you wouldn't fancy it to finish top 6 if it was our team every week. Now of course it won't look like that every week. Trent, Thiago, Henderson for starters will all come back into the starting line up. But the centre half situation is really troubling - two have your two first choice centre halves both out for the season is shockingly bad luck and i just can't see how any team could cope and win a title with it....especially given all they have left is a very unreliable centre half fitness wise, a converted midfielder and kids. It has to hurt us and it will. Phillips, Rhys Williams and Neco Williams shouldn't be anywhere near our starting line up - that isn't a knock on them, they may develop and become good players, but they are in because we have an injury crisis and they are not at the level of playing for a title challenging side. 11th different pairing today at centre half....that is insane...may be a record. We've also lost the scoring of about 5 goals off corners over season from big Virgil being out. The midfield that started today was desperate....Thiago injured, Hendo only on bench, Fabinho having to play at centre half - leaving us having to play a 34 year old Milner for 3rd time in a week including one of those games playing bombing up and down at RB, and look how his afternoon ended....Wijnaldum playing about his 20th game in last month and looking like it, and a toss up between Minamino and Jones - neither of who would be anywhere near our midfield in our best XI. As a result we failed to win enough ball in 1st half, failed to retain it and link play enough when did have it and failed to put enough pressure on ball to stop balls over top that they kept playing in behind us. It improved when Hendo came on of course...which is whole point! With Trent out we lose all our attaking width down one side and as seen in midweek we lose it down both sides when both out. Now of course we won't have all these players injured all season but list seems to be getting longer each week and we are walking a tightrope - can we hang in until it improves and can we add in Jan are the big questions for me. We do know we have a great spirit and mentallity and winners in team and a winner in charge of us - but with the way the cards have fallen for us it is going to take a super human effort to retain this title. Can we do it? Yeah...Will we? - i wouldn't bet on it personally, it just feels like the injuries and the schedule will continue to fuck us... Of course it is still early in season and loads of footy to be played and other teams surely will suffer too and we are at worst what 2 pts off top by end of this weekend...which is fuck all - it is not as if we are floundering in mid table....but i just find it hard to believe that our centre half and midfield situation isn't gonna undo us in the end. Oh and VAR can go and fuck itself.

For all the demonising of Starmer, it's important to remember that Corbyn kicked this whole thing off with his statement, which he released despite having had a conversation with his duly elected party leader the night before. Much in the same style of "I'm not deleting my tweet" RLB, it's been nothing but a series of "fuck yous", as one would expect from someone who's broken the whip more than a poundshop Indiana Jones, and his chosen successor. But when their bluff has been called the indignation and outrage has flown thick and fast. It's just protest politics and he doesn't care who he's protesting against. He probably views the Labour party, save for a handful of close friends, as being no different from the rest of the people and organisations he's railed against in his career. But if you showed Corbyn a crystal ball and he could see he'd never have been in number 10 for the next 20 years, but he could have had plenty of chances to profess his outrage at various establishment injustices, he'd have taken that IMO, and that makes him a bad party leader and someone who clearly doesn't care as much as he says he does. It's no good for the many millions doomed to perpetual Tory rule though, and that's why I don't swallow the bollocks about what a lovely man he is. Personally I don't want hugs or solidarity, I want a functioning government that doesn't take back handers and is content to see my kids starve.

Nobody will convince me that they know the precise moment the ball leaves the boot. As such, they can't then base an entire decision on such a flimsy piece of evidence. It is by far and away the worst element of VAR in its current diabolical form.

We won that game, just like we won at Everton. We have basically had 4 points taken off us and we’re still top of the league. No fit players now ffs.

As someone who doesn't mind Force Awakens and Last Jedi, it does make me quite annoyed that they exist now we're seeing the Mandalorian explore a post-Empire world. Because we know this world has to lead to the awful First Order and the waste of Luke Skywalker. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, though I'm sure many would've argued the case before 2015, but Filoni with a more neutral guiding hand would've been the best option for looking after the franchise. This world being explored post-Jedi is an interesting, fractured place compared to the re-run that Force Awakens did. So yeah, Mandalorian is great but it's a shame the sequel trilogy exists because they did not jive with Mando's universe at all.

Love Ahsoka Tano. She is one of my favourite characters in the Star Wars universe. Was very sceptical about wether they could bring her to life. Can’t argue with anything about Dawson’s performance as her. Even the holding of the lightsabers was bang on. And as Jules pointed out about that name shout, it certainly made me sit up and take notice. That would be an amazing appearance if it happens.

Well that's him gone then.

I've just seen a millionth repeat of the handball goal and frankly Shilton would do well to shut up and hope nobody mentions it. He is absolutely shit. He's fast asleep while there's a ball looping into a dangerous area of his penalty box. It's his fuck up and he's spent 34 years blaming others. Truly, Jordan Pickford is Shilton's heir.

I don't rightly remember tbh whether I've already posted in the thread to thank everybody for all your heartfelt condolences and outpourings of support, so let me do so now. This place, The Mighty GF, has been like a second home to me for over a decade, the place is packed full of wonderful caring decent thoughtful people. On behalf of me and my little family I thank you all. Words cannot adequately express my feelings of gratitude at this incredibly hard time.

Maradona’s every touch in the 1986 World Cup. It’s remarkable stuff.

http://crackstreams.com/boxing-streams/watch-espn-dubois-vs-joyce/

I can't get how people still think this. Any ref that has access to super slow motion in 4k will find Salah 2mm offside and will identify Robertson big toe nail crazing Welbeck's foot. VAR is the problem because once the technology spots them you have to give them. With the exception of the David Coote all the decisions have been unavoidable. I have trying to think about how many terrible decisions went for or against us in the last 5 years excluding the VAR years. We have literally swapped 4 or 5 shockers a season for 2 every week and in return we get to sit on our couch motionless and wait for BT or Sky to tell us its OK.

VAR is not the problem, incompetent officials are.

I'm still on the side of 'VAR can be useful, but for its implementation by a bunch of useless twats'. Besides, if we got rid of it, the useless twats will still be there. They are by far the biggest problem.

Just roll our sleeves up and crack on lads.

Amazing, isnt it? Of all the PL teams to play in Europe this week, all but 2 play tomorrow. Of the two who played today, one plays at home and with a 3pm kick off. The other plays away with a 12.30pm kick off. All I want is a level playing field.

It could/should be a good thing - overturning 'shockers', etc However, when you're drawing lines for mm offside decisions, then the system is wrong. Other sports implement their systems well, and are transparent. No reason football can't do the same; and it seems to be better in other countries. We have a problem in this country, it's called Mike Riley.......

Sunday paper bingo tomorrow. Obese gammon Arms folded in byline picture Headline: Why Shilts was RIGHT on cheat Maradona and why whining Klopp is WRONG on fixtures

What a snivelling little cunt Des Kelly is.

Having Phillips, Rhys Williams with Matip and Fabinho playing CB isnt going to stop us retaining the title. We could have had Virgil and Joe out today and possibly the whole game against everton and it wouldnt have changed the shit decisions we've had from VAR. We've had 4 points taken off us for frankly diabolical decisions. Ive no problem with the pen Neco gave away, that's clear and obvious. Until I see it again, Im of the opinion Mo was onside for his. Sadio's I didnt see the replay but by all accounts that was clear. But fuck me, giving a pen for that where two players boot's make contact with each other? Fuc-k-ing joke and I look forward to us being awarded a shitful of pens for the rest of the season for similar challenges on our players. Makes that challenge on Naby against Leicester 2 seasons ago even more laughable for not being given when you see that absolute shitfest today.

I don’t eat lot of chocolate nowadays, but dread to think how much I’ve put away over the years. I’m very partial to After Eights, though. They have to be refrigerated, and I cut each one in half. A couple Christmases ago, I ate a 650g tub of Quality Steet, saving the strawberry creams for my wife, I’m nothing if not generous, a three pack of M&S Walnut Whips and a white Twix Xtra before dinner. I saved the box of Elizabeth Shaw Mint Crisps for immediately after dessert, as I’m not an animal. One of my fondest Christmas memories is Christmas Eve 1985. Watching the Snowman, whilst drinking Coca-Cola from glass bottles and eating mint Matchmakers, liberated from the warehouse my dad’s mate worked in.

It’s ruined the game. I don’t even get that much joy out of rivals losing out over it at this stage.

If you asked for VAR you're a cunt, you're part of this shit show ruining the game and you can go fuck yourself.

You know what I'm not even arsed anymore. The excitement of the game is gone and its properly turned me off. Even winnibg the league last season didn't feel as boss as it should have. There's just no point celebrating anything in a game and its killed football.

Lallana man of the match. Takes their danger man off and then fucks off without touching the ball.

Salah needs to fuck off with this shit. You just missed a game and left the team short because you broke the travelling protocalls

VAR is a decent system, it’s the interpretation that’s giving it a bad name. The interpretation has been so bad, in both actual incident and spirit of the game, that we all would likely have been better off without it. Having an idiot looking it at numerous times and slowed down in Stockley Park as opposed to an idiot on the pitch making the decisions in real time is still having an idiot making the decision. The money would have been better spent getting in officials from Europe who are better at the job, or finding officials in this country who are.

Point is that you could stop the video and/or draw those lines differently and show that Salah goal onside. It’s just an utter waste of time. If it’s that tight what is the fucking point?

He’s blocked me after I called him a fascist Tory cunt. People are so touchy nowadays.

Is that the one where the boy goes on about custard creams & He Man all day before lashing a Russian robot's head into a crowd? There is a sequel where he eats toast with a knife & fork.

She's starting to give Rita Ora a run for her money. But hasn't quite caught her yet. Rita pulls ahead on the vibe she gives out that screams "even if I ate dick burgers for breakfast lunch and dinner, it wouldn't be close to enough dick to get me through a slow dick day".

Yep. It’s brilliant. It shows you what could’ve been done with the films. Still, at least they’re getting the Star Wars universe into gear at last. And I fucking love Michael Biehn, too. Wish he was in far more stuff like this.

The name drop towards the end was sensational. It's a great show.

Arguably, these two are possibly larger than Minamino.

What are you swearing at me for you dick head? It was incredibly harsh.

Is that a free kick anywhere else on the pitch? I don't think so. Players didn't even appeal.

Phillips might not go on to be first choice or even a permanent squad centre back for us but I think he’s proving himself to be a premier league level player.