DaveT

Shows how stupid they are. He didn’t see the handball, useless cunt that he is, it was VAR that drew his attention to it, and having seen it on the screen he had no option but to send him off.

Rome '77 for me. Dined out on so many stories from that week (left Lime St at about 6pm Mondy night, got back very late Friday night). Sometime during a booze-fuelled afternoon, Pete announces he's lost his leather jacket, presumably in one of the bars we'd been in. 'Don't worry', says one of the other lads, 'it was a shit jacket anyway'. 'Maybe so', says Pete, 'but it's got me passport in it'. Long story, short, he somehow managed to get some kind of temporary pass from the consulate to get him home again. I think they were desperate to see the back of us all.

I was at Uni in Brum at the time, so it was only up the road to get to. Only just got in, mind, sooooo many Scousers there that night.

Watch any two PL games, observe the situations which result in yellow cards and try to deduce what the rules say governing such situations. You'll disappear up your own backside. Then go and read those rules, and you'll find they're, inevitably, highly subjective. So, as it's always been, the issuing of yellow cards is random, subjective and erratic. How many times have you heard a comentator say?'That's an automatic yellow card', only for none to be shown? Watch ANY game from the peak-Fernandinho era and try to figure out why he didn't get a 2nd yellow card, despite clearly deserving one.I don't remember anyone getting their knickers in a twist the way that whiny hypocritical baldy cunt did at the weekend. And don't get me started on THAT Kompany challenge at the Eitihad when our 2-1 loss was the difference between the two teams that season.

Best refereeing performance in….. forever. Knew exactly what was going on, what those cheating fuckers were up to and read the game in a way the chumps in the PL could only dream of.

FA have charged these fuckers now , quite rightly. Fat chance of a points deduction though. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/chelsea-charged-fa-liverpool-breaking-21456045 The media and pundits collectively didn’t seem to have much of a problem with this appalling behaviour which speaks volumes about the state of the game.

This. Every time I see one of these games, it's a mis-match in terms of physicality and nous. Doesn't help that most of our better players are on loan or away on international duty. Our kids might learn a lot, but as a competition it's flawed.

Whilst adding probably close to £1m a week to the wage bill with Sancho, Varane and Ronaldo

I agree re the style of play question. My guess is that he's been bought with the CL in mind, where he has a ridiculous scoring record, and he'd be used sparingly in the league. And, of course, it's the big one that still eludes P£p the Ch£que at City, which must be driving him insane (if he isn't there already).

Fully agree with this. Perez was pissed off because he thought he'd been fouled first and took it out on Fornals. It fucked up the whole 'lighter touch' narrative as Oliver played on, even though it was abundantly clear immediately that Fornals was in some distress. The flaw in the 'lighter touch' approach is that our referees are so fucking clueless that they're unable to tell the difference between a Bruno Fernandes going down under minimal/no contact (which we all want to see ignored) and a nasty foul like at West Ham, or the casual thuggery of Burnley. The fact that it was Oliver that made this mistake is concerning as he's the best of a bad bunch. Meanwhile...cracking round up as ever (saves me bothering to watch my recording of MotD)

Just tried to access My Account in order to transfer my ticket for next Saturday - it automatically sticks me into the queue for the General Sale for aforementioned match! What bunch of idiots does the club use to run this side of things?!

Dwight Downing, brilliant. Burnley = 2nd ball football. Burnley earned more than twice as much as Villarreal in tv revenues in 2019/20. Yet Villarreal still manage to do ok(!) without resorting to glorified Sunday league football. They’re entitled to play the way they want, but it’s bullshit to suggest it’s down purely to resources.

Spot on. There were actually FOUR Burnley frocks, all yards offside.

40 yard pass from centre half straight into Lukaku’s feet.

This could get embarrassing for the Arse