Rival watch

Which begs the question what happens if somebody taking a penalty walks up to the keeper and pimp slaps them

I mean if you can't send the keeper off...

 

If they allow gamesmanship, it will happen.
They should change the rule. Penalties are still part of the game.

 

They've made a rod for their own back now.
All keepers will act like that ex-Arsenal pillock in shoot-outs until they fix it.

A straight red would still count, you'd have thought.
Kicking an opponent in the face is a yellow though, so that should be fine.

 

Barnsley have sacked their manager with one game to go, despite being in 5th:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cp9gkg71gwyo

They've been in the top six since the start of October.

 

Barca's opener is what the rhetoric around Vicario makes it sound like we've been conceding.
Cubarsi pressures Lunin a little, it goes straight over the keeper and he leaves an open goal.

I don't think that you can give the goalline decision that Barca have been moaning about.
It's ridiculous that they don't have the technology, but it's not clear from the footage.

 

They lost the play-off final v Sheff Wed last season. He inherited that team.
Their form has been patchy recently and if results go against them this weekend, they could finish outside the play-offs (unlikely). But unless there is something going on behind the scenes which makes his position untenable, it makes no sense to bring in a new manager with a maximum of 4 games to play. Surely, it’s better the devil you know. They have been among the best teams, although not at level of Portsmouth, Derby and Bolton - so he must have been doing something right.

 

Chelsea's supporters have been racially abusing one of their own players, again:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c97zqzzyx9do

Social media is pretty vile as a baseline.
Racism's just running wild now, though.

 

Middlesbrough v Leeds in front of a crowd of over 29,000.

 

Presumably Martinez is banned from the next game for 2 yellows though, or is a yellow during penalties utterly meaningless?

 

Gary O’Neil linked with the Liverpool job.

Very surprising and probably rubbish but he’s impressed me this season and tactically outdone Ange twice.

 

Not sure you need to be Pep to outdo Ange's tactics tbh

We have one way of playing and that results in the same downfalls every time

I reckon I could manage a team to beat an Ange team over 90minutes

 

Martinez is banned, but it's because he picked up 3 yellows across the 2 legs.
Onana isn't banned, as far as I know.

 

Chelsea without Palmer

 

Madueke fanboys where you at?

Another game where he’s done absolutely nothing

 

Because the other ten players are doing wonderfully...

 

Vermin FC are :

1. Ensuring if Citeh or the Poool are champions,
they will do so on pts and not GD

2. saving themselves for their new "cup final" in May
(expect a similar result as tonight against Villa)

 

Agent Poch has apparently forgotten the assignment

 

I never said they did. But what did the amazing madueke do?

Some people on here (yes you) made out the club made a massive error when he left Spurs.

 

He’s just forgotten..

 

Cole Palmer team.