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  1. Very, very rare in your long lifetime that they've been as shit as this (and injury ravaged too) though. We have to do more than turn up to win, but not too much more.We'd have to be pretty shit to not win this. Which is possible of course, I just think it's unlikely.
  2. Him sayING Slobozlai all the time is incredibly irritatING.
  3. Yeah nothing's been said about Scanlon and until a week or two ago he was in all the training videos, but on the Inside Anfield from the City game I saw him on crutches at the end of the game.
  4. JB handled that like a pro. I thought I might break him with "Ben Doak" but he soldiered on. He even powered through when I brought Callum Scanlon into it. Fair play.
  5. All good mate, like I say I only saw the snippet of Walker talking about the ref so that's why I felt a lot differently about it than you did, as you had the context of his Academy stuff and the reason he was doing the interview in the first place, so it will have felt different to you watching the whole thing. I have more of a problem with SSN asking the question than him answering it (and then putting it out as a snippet to generate engagement, which it did, massively!). Walker defo knows what he's doing but it's just smart from him really and he's gained further favour with his boy "Mike" no doubt. I agree with you about the picking our battles with refs and I've said repeatedly on the pod and in the match reports that it's really hard for refs on the pitch. It's rare I go off on one about the on pitch ref (I've even defended Tierney at times!) and I give them a lot of leeway in general as they only get one look at an incident and it's really difficult. My problem is mostly when VAR is getting things wrong as they have every advantage available to them and there's no excuse. The ones taking money from UAE is a whole different story though and it needs highlighting as much as possible. Not that a few dickheads on a pod are going to make a difference like, it has to be done on a national level.
  6. My issue isn't about refs being "useless twats" and it's not my job to be "productive in regards to how the process of refereeing/operating VAR can be improved" (even though we have offered plenty of thoughts on that throughout the season on the pod). If you want know how I think it can be improved though, well between us we've covered that on the pod before but from my own point of view I'd say sack Howard Webb and then ban refs from taking side gigs where they are being paid by the chairman of clubs who they are then officiating. That would be a good start. It's not just Keys saying that about Oliver either, it's been doing the rounds for a while, Keys is just the most high profile 'voice' to state it. Just because the source is an absolute cunt doesn't mean it can't be true and he and Gray will definitely have contacts either in or connected to PGMOL. It's not that big a leap to think that might be true, especially as is nothing to contradict it. No-one has sent Oliver to the screen since he stuck with his on field decision early LAST season (18 months ago). In light of what happened on Sunday I thought it was worth mentioning. Why would I possibly give Michael Oliver any benefit of the doubt after he took Al Mubarek's money and within a couple of weeks of it we had the Kovacic debacle and him plucking a penalty out of thin air for City when he was VAR in the manc derby? The Kyle Walker thing, fair enough he's doing the interview to promote something. I didn't know that but it would only change what I said about it slightly. Conducting an interview with him is obviously not unprofessional, but airing all that stuff about "Mike" absolutely was. It's unethical from sky to have him defend a referee who has been giving them beneficial decisions in big games. So yeah, I think that is unprofessional, lowest common denominator clickbait from SSN. Bigging up a ref on national TV can be seen to be trying to influence him. How do you think Oliver felt when he saw that? And do you think it could potentially impact on a future decision he makes when Walker is involved? Not that he needs much influencing. If you don't want to hear "conspiracy theories" about Oliver then the national media is your best bet because for some reason there's no mention of his little jollies to U.A.E. anywhere. It's almost like it never happened. Personally I think everyone should be yelling that from the rooftops until a stop is put to it. Presumably you don't see anything wrong with it though as you seem to have more of an issue with me mentioning it than Oliver doing it!
  7. It's the biggest no brainer of all time. Ticks every single box. Has a team punching well above its weight because of his coaching excellence, didn't need to spend money to achieve it and his team has the same never give up mentality that ours has. The fact he played for us is just an added bonus but even if he hadn't he'd still be the most obvious choice by a mile.
  8. Looks like the ball hits his hand as well. Which would be in an unnatural position if he wasn't executing a Karate Kid 'Crane Kick'.
  9. We could get that in one game if we put our minds to it. With Salah back up there with Darwin, and Diaz running right into form, we could absolutely demolish someone.
  10. The 442 video explained this in detail and showed how our tactical change early in the first half helped Endo and swung the game in our favour. basically said in the beginning he had no chance as he was having to cover De Bruyne and Bernardo, but then we cut off the supply to them (by pushing two players up onto Rodri and Stones) and he was then able to do his thing and dominate the midfield.
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