The Live Match Discussion Thread: 2019/2020

[Kenny]

It's down to the ref's discretion to make them do it if he feels it necessary. It's not a hard rule.

Seen players booked by refs in European Leagues when they take the usual path off the pitch. I think our refs are just glad to have a break in the game as players stroll off

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Good Ebening and goodnight for Unai Emery surely

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Marco Silva must be toast as well.

 

[Jack Regan]

Chelsea winning at City, better side too so far.

 

[Carrotdude]

Chelsea look great, they have no fear of city and it’s paying dividends. City aren’t right at all.

 

[Jack Regan]

One each, massive deflection ties it up.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Very harsh on Chelsea who've been much the better team.

 

[Jack Regan]

Bloody hell the old Riyad Mahrez has just turned up.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Class by Mahrez (would possibly slightly question Emerson, but it's easier said than done to stop him even if you know what he's going to do)

 

[Jack Regan]

Sterling has about as much luck with VAR as we usually do.

 

[arklowolf]

Sterling has about as much luck with VAR as we usually do.

Ridiculous decision. Thankfully didn't affect the result anyway.

 

[The Bear]

Decisions that are that marginal are still bollocks.

You can't tell me that there is zero margin for error in a system like that.

 

[Carrotdude]

There’s no way that should be called offside.

 

[AndyWolves]

Defenders arse is playing him on

 

[Tony Towner]

He probably is off, his shoulder is further forward than Zouma's arse. Not what VAR should be used for though

 

[Parkins left foot]

There’s no way that should be called offside.

That's not what I thought VAR was for - not an obvious & clear error & no way that could be called offside in real time.

Using slomo & artificially drawn lines to show a couple of centimetres off is not a reasonable outcome.

 

[Kenny]

Football fans are ace. Boro fans giving a Hull player all manner of abuse. His crime? Getting the full force of a challenge in his knee and the Boro player, rightly, getting a red for it

 

[Tredman]

Football fans are ace. Boro fans giving a Hull player all manner of abuse. His crime? Getting the full force of a challenge in his knee and the Boro player, rightly, getting a red for it

I have Stoke friends who still hate Ramsey because he had the temerity to smash his leg up after a Pulis-style challenge.

 

[Kenny]

I have Stoke friends who still hate Ramsey because he had the temerity to smash his leg up after a Pulis-style challenge.

he should have run that one off tbh.

I understand if they hated Arsene who went all in on the thugs after the game but Ramsey is an odd one

 

[Tredman]

Just switched on the last 10 or 15 mins of this - I’d genuinely forgotten how shit championship football can be, it’s just dreadful.