Yep, if you're trying to play out from the back, and we're trying to stop you by pressing, that's the game. Get on with it.
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It seems fairly ubiquitous around the world - the joys of social media and the internet - utterly despicable and not sure what the answer is
People are emboldened by the anonymity of sitting behind a keyboard..... Furthermore by seeing like minds, like minded platforms and accounts........
"We are the real victims of oppression; but if you feel this way, stand together... You are not alone" is the mantra from all these hard-right shitbags....... YT and the way YT comments get hijacked is extremely revealing............ Even the YT algo is inadvertently enabling it all......... All social comment seems to get lumped in together and I now commonly get bombarded with nasty racist shit and red-pill cunts in my sidebar and recommended 'shorts'.
People like PMorgan, KHopkins and FARAGE (!) are now being adopted by kool aid drinking America as "refreshing", "honest" and "truthful" figures for good.
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Not new timewasting rules you plum (him not you)This comes from a manager who's lucky his team didn't get 3 penalties against them and were time-wasting from the very beginning of the game...
Sheffield United's Paul Heckingbottom blasts Premier League referees
MATT BARLOW AT THE TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM: Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom launched a furious tirade at Premier League referees, claiming the officials told him to 'play long'.www.dailymail.co.uk
Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom blasts Premier League referees for 'RUINING' the game by dictating how teams play under new time-wasting rules
By MATT BARLOW FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
- Paul Heckingbottom has blasted Premier League referees after their late defeat
- Two stoppage time goals earned Tottenham a 2-1 win over Sheffield United
- Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport's podcast 'It's All Kicking Off'
PUBLISHED: 19:30 BST, 16 September 2023 |
Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom launched a furious tirade at Premier League referees, claiming the officials told him to 'play long' rather than let goalkeeper Wes Foderingham take his time to pass out from the back.
Referee Peter Bankes flourished 13 yellow cards as the Blades lost late at Tottenham, seven for Heckingbottom's team including two for Ollie McBurnie, who was dismissed in the 14th minute of added time and will be banned for the next game, against Newcastle.
'Something needs to be done now,' fumed Heckingbottom. 'The referees are killing the game, absolutely ruining it. This is not me moaning about the result. I said it at half-time and when we were 1-0 up as well.
The Son one was wrong and has been shown to be many times since, complete bullshit. Problem is it happened and we have it as a reference point
Ironically, that yellow for hand-ball gave their keeper a free pass for the rest of the game. The majority of the time a GK will be given a time-wasting yellow in a scenario where they're not already on a card and it serves as a 'don't do it again' warning for that offense (and it in turn works). Very few refs will have the balls to send a GK off with a 2nd yellow for time-wasting if it's their first for that particular offense......
GK called the ref's bluff and got away with murder.
......Nearly.
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He's the guy who was sent off, his first yellow for a needless foul on solomon
Mate most of those comments come from a bored kid in Saudi Arabia (As was the case with Saka) or from Bots created by similar bored teenagers.
They do it because they'll get a reaction from you and other knicker twisters.
This is what we get from refs not actually enacting the rules of the game........ When they finally are people act fucking aggrieved and moan about the game being killed...
Timewasting - GKs, throw ins etc.
Preventing FKs being taken.
Holding on corners.
Professional/repeat/team fouling.
etc.
Stamp the lot of it out as per what the rulebook already dictates....... Not some 2 or 3 week clamp-down before reverting to norm like we always see with these issues.
Players will learn eventually and THEN we can all move on and have a better game to watch.
Adding time alone won't solve all this as the breaking up of the game still plays into the hands of these teams and is a major factor in the tactic.
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Hang on, shouldn't HE have been there....?
Unless....?
UNLESS????
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It wasn't only one person, not saying these are uk based but could easily be
Bulk of racist abuse after Euro soccer final sent from U.K. accounts, Twitter says
His words echoed findings released in March by the Premier League, which has monitored online attacks on players, staff members and officials since 2019, showing that 70 percent of the abuse typically came from outside the U.K.
Tom Davies- Everton reject? Scissor tackle from behind on Porro iirc?
I also thought he was sailing very close to the wind with that one and a lot of refs would have straight red carded for it.
Not what I'm refering to; they aren't.... I'm talking about ill-informed pseudo-annecdotal shit from the towns, cities in question....... But then again; you probably quietly sit back and nod in approval either way.
It's also not helped by the lack of strong leadership across all levels of society in the western world.
That's a vacuum that is going to end up being filled by this type of content as people perceive it to be the answer. People think it speaks to them and is a solution because it is absent from other sources.
It was pure anger/frustration/cynicism... Should have been a red no doubt.
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Yeah finishing 8th instead of 6th or 7th should be a big help this year. Just focus on every league match & our squad depth in weak positions might not get exposed. We will only play around 40-45 matches this season. We are used to playing a lot more. I think city & Woolwich top 2, Liverpool 3rd. Then 2 places left for us & probably united, Newcastle & Brighton.
The real hard bit will be then turning from the odd CL qualifiers to actually winning stuff.
Brighton are crazy. 5 changes including main striker rested & they go to united & win 3-1 but could have been 5. But it will be hard for them to keep this up & they will lose the manager & not do as well on recruitment. But to do what they have done so far as a small club is amazing.
Never got to see replays of the penalty decisions as MOTD didn't think it was important enough. I can't even find extended highlights. Are there any videos of these about?