The Premier League thread

Does seem a bit mad, but equally, it's probably exactly what's required to develop good faith relationships with the national federations.  Give them the clubs info and medical opinion then let them confirm it independently.  Also knowing Odegaard he'd have really wanted to play and we shouldn't piss him off.

A lot depends on how serious Rice and Saka's injuries are but for once it seems like this international break could work out quite well for us.  Handy for those three key players to get more rest & training.  White hasn't looked fully fit since his injuries and will get more time to do conditioning.  Partey has been playing three games a week and he hasn't been called up either.  Maybe we'll even have Tomi back in a couple of weeks.

Then we've got players like Merino and Zinchenko who need minutes and should get them.

Really the only one that bothers me this time around is Havertz who has looked increasingly knackered playing every minute for us.  Hopefully Germany are reasonable with him.

yeah, did use to be more like this - but that was a rights issue i think

Arsenal will probably need another midfielder in January, should have ditched years ago.

Are they still going on about that?!

Looking like a 7 game ban for Bentancur for the comments about Son.

I don't think long queues are an issue in the Championship.

Whereby “technology” = “people in India”

Ha, was going to say the same. Which is mental.

do we? I have never seen it in the east stand. Just queuing and paying contactless

Nice, hopefully they will roll it out to us plebs

Such a silly boy. Why , if it’s him, film all of this. Explains the dilated stare in the main video potentially.

Although…whilst it does look like his features I don’t think that’s a forensically damning video, showing only a fleeting glimpse of a portion of a face.

Maybe if we checked his Goodreads account to see if he likes Terry Hayes we could be sure.

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Fair enough, good VAR. Obviously I'm still kind of disappointed because we see remarkably similar incidents overlooked, but in isolation I have no complaints. They discuss the key points of the law and use the benefit video evidence to make a subjective call. Went against us on this occasion but this is what VAR is for. Presume it's Gillet on VAR due to the accent, but he's done a really good job.of communication there.

I just wish we'd always have VAR audio at the time as it's far more acceptable when you hear the rationale for overruling the onfield decision. This would also help to understand why the inconsistency exists. For example what was said on the superficially very similar incident at Liverpool where no red was given? Was the same methodical process followed or is it pretty ad-hoc which each VAR doing things differently? Can't really have full faith in the process until they stop cherry picking which reviews get shared.

Nah, we’ve got this all wrong. He’s just trying to repair his relationship with all scousers, by paying homage to Robbie Fowler