The General Football Thread

Think yourself lucky...she made me watch Below Deck Mediterranean at 2-1.

 

Kosovo have scored more goals at at marys this season than Saints.

 

https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/...nd-vs-kosovo-southampton-fc-10-september-2019
Southgate praising Saints' hospitality...well, he'd hardly complain, would he?

On Sky this morning the atmosphere at St Marys was compared favourably with Wembley...crowd made more noise and could be heard reacting to the play because the crowd was closer to the game. So all Saints have to do to improve the atmosphere at SMS is to score 5 goals....easy-peasy.

 

Large number of Kosovo fans in the home end. And it was all absolutely fine. Just slightly surreal queueing to get into SMS with away fans in front and behind me in the queue.

Watching how quickly England pass the ball is something else compared to what we've had to sit through for the past three years there.

 

I was sat in the Northam right by the Kosovo fans and the atmosphere was superb. There were also a whole row of Kosovo fans right in front of me. Definitely chose the right end for entertainment!

 

We’re the bosses in our houses then!

 

I’m pretty sure we can muster the skill to concede three!

 

The Premier League have conducted a review into the use of VAR and have concluded that 4 decisions that should have been overturned weren't:

• The Man City penalty shout v Bournemouth
• The West Ham penalty shout v Norwich
• Tielemans should have been sent off v Bournemouth
• The missed handball for Newcastle's goal v Watford

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49683036

 

Hell of a confusing opening sentence Tom

 

VAR:
got 6 right, 4 wrong
so, complete waste of time then

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49683036

 

And Gracia lost his job.

 

It's been less than a month FFS!

 

Wonder if that means we'll see more overturned decisions now.

 

I think it's time you set that rabbit free!

 

How many matches until we see a big improvement in your eyes then, we've had over 50 so 100? 500? 1000?

 

I'm pleased they've been reviewing its use. Like I've said previously, referee's will have been told about this. It's a learning process.

 

Rather than blindly protect VAR, we should be asking questions like;
'How did they miss that?'
It needs to improve. 40% wrong is terrible.

 

Now it's been reviewed I expect to see an improvement straight away.

 

It works out at a howler a weekend which is no different than what we had.

 

That should be interesting.