Live Match Discussion 2025/26

[lemonjelly]

The more I think about it, the more I think a "five replays" threshold is the way to go. That way you get rid of the stupid Abraham goal Villa got in the non-VAR FA Cup tie (one replay needed there) but you should keep delays down to a minute or two at best. And if you can't tell after that many then you're never going to tell.

Special rule if it's Ashley Barnes, use any technology necessary to deny that wanker anything nice.

Very much this.
Such a glaring contradiction that IFAB are looking to amend the rules for time wasting, so players are required to leave the pitch within 10 seconds for a substitution, yet they spent almost 9 minutes on 2 var checks.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Very much this.
Such a glaring contradiction that IFAB are looking to amend the rules for time wasting, so players are required to leave the pitch within 10 seconds for a substitution, yet they spent almost 9 minutes on 2 var checks.

And the length of time for throw ins...which is fine.

 

[lemonjelly]

And the length of time for throw ins...which is fine.

That's also something IFAB we're voting to limit.

 

[jd1981]

Desperately want Forest down, unlikeable players and owner. VP also takes a portion of the responsibility for allowing the signings that came here in the summer.
On another point Spurs look dreadful.

 

[Tony Towner]

Desperately want Forest down, unlikeable players and owner. VP also takes a portion of the responsibility for allowing the signings that came here in the summer.
On another point Spurs look dreadful.

If it's a portion then it's the same size Big John has down at his local Chinese.

 

[jd1981]

If it's a portion then it's the same size Big John has down at his local Chinese.

Had to go on YouTube to know what you were on about

 

[jd1981]

Go home spurs and come back when you’ve sobered up

 

[YoungWolf]

Spurs going down would be fucking hilarious.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Spurs going down would be fucking hilarious.

It would but as Tony said yesterday, they'd blitz the Championship and that's no good for us.

Forest or West Ham wouldn't.

 

[jd1981]

Spurs going down would be fucking hilarious.

Would be until next season starts and the league would just be the Tottenham Hotspur Championship.
It would be similar to us dropping to league one though. We sorted our act out very quickly and walked the league.

 

[Tony Towner]

Spurs going down would be fucking hilarious.

When I was a kid there was the Big 5. 2 Liverpool, 2 North London and Man U. The last one to go down was also Spurs in 1977.

 

[YoungWolf]

It would but as Tony said yesterday, they'd blitz the Championship and that's no good for us.

Forest or West Ham wouldn't.

Spurs getting 100 points has no bearing on us finishing 13th tbh

 

[jd1981]

Spurs getting 100 points has no bearing on us finishing 13th tbh

We’d still do the double on them and see it as enough to give RE the 27/28 season.

 

[jd1981]

When I was a kid there was the Big 5. 2 Liverpool, 2 North London and Man U. The last one to go down was also Spurs in 1977.

Watching the big match revisited from the 80’s didn’t realise how much time Chelsea spent as a second tier club in that era.

 

[Alan]

Spurs going down would be fucking hilarious.

I feel I deserve some karmic blame here for declaring Spurs + Frank legitimate title contenders and staking my life on Brentford being 20th by a distance without Frank.

If someone makes me a “TWF Village Idiot” shirt (with our crest wearing a dunce cap), I’ll wear the shit out of it. Seems fair.

 

[Tony Towner]

Watching the big match revisited from the 80’s didn’t realise how much time Chelsea spent as a second tier club in that era.

They weren't seen as any bigger than us then. If anything we were seen as a larger club, certainly before the triple relegation. They were better known for their hooligans than their football team. Stamford Bridge was also a shithole.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They weren't seen as any bigger than us then. If anything we were seen as a larger club, certainly before the triple relegation. They were better known for their hooligans than their football team. Stamford Bridge was also a shithole.

Yeah, it was mid 90s when they went up a level. Hoddle didn't really do much as a manager for them (bar one cup final, where they got horsed) but he raised the profile and Bates started spending (well, he started spending Matthew Harding's money and then various banks' money). Bringing in Gullit, Di Matteo, Vialli and Zola was massive then.

 

[Lupo]

They weren't seen as any bigger than us then. If anything we were seen as a larger club, certainly before the triple relegation. They were better known for their hooligans than their football team. Stamford Bridge was also a shithole.

And a used car lot behind the corner flag

 

[Sniffer]

Not a penalty for me Clive.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Funny how Man Utd got the benefit of double jeopardy but we didn't. Strange that.