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Intent is not needed to punish dangerous tackles, but it is needed for violent conduct

Although as things stand 5th is the final European place which we are 2 points off. One of these years a team outside the top 8 is going to win one or both of the cups. Indeed in the league cup only 1 of the top 6 is still in it, Liverpool playing West Ham in the quarters, and the only other...

Dunk and Dahoud is two and that will do for now...

Definitely. 10 point deduction aside, Everton are above Chelsea in the table

Are we still doing this? Of course intent is relevant when it comes to throwing punches.

It would have been an indirect free kick, but that's better than a goal. It would have been an indirect free kick anyway if JWP had missed though, as the keeper handled a backpass. I reckon that was on the keepers mind though when he parried the ball, perhaps he thought he had to do that...

I can't help you on the latter as it was never going to work. I can't really help you in the former either, but it's frustrating because it should have been able to work. Of course the Tories are going way too far now trying to force it through by smashing international law, but the overall...

I watched it on Indonesian telly. But to be fair i expect most Indonesians up at 4 in the morning would have tuned into the Liverpool or United games :lolol: Incidentally the channel I subscribe to, vidio.com, with every premier league and european game shown live, and full match replays on...

I think a lot of their game-plan revolved around man-marking right across the pitch. That went out of the window very early with our two full-backs tucking inside the wingers and Baleba dropping into a sweeper role, almost impossible to man-mark when our positioning was so unorthodox and...

And got rid of their academy a few years ago. Ours has turned out to be useful this season.

Ah. I blame twitter then. :😜

Sixth. Fourth in the league. And home debut.

He was the best player on the pitch, but I agree that Jack was MotM. If you know what I mean :)

Mmmm, their goal came direct from a long ball from Steele that they picked up unchallenged and drove at us quickly straight through the middle. I suppose it was an RDZ tactic, although at the time I thought that if his shot-saving abilities wasn't getting him dropped, his aimless long balls might!

If we want VAR to only intervene when there is a clear and obvious mistake, then we're going to get inconsistency based on the refs decision on the day. If you want complete consistency then VAR has to continually intervene.

Plsyers grab for the ball all the time ìn every match when it's being kept from them, often when a throw in has been awarded. I don't really want to see a spate of reds for that :p Yes the ball is much lower down, but to be fair so is Billy's head :lolol: He's a very small man....

Cause its completely accidental and he's not even trying to be physical against Gilmour's body, like someone pushing a player in the chest, he's trying to grab the ball that Gilmour was keeping from him. That's why.

I saw it in beautiful technicolor from the other side of the world. What a leap!

Nobody thought the Paulinha one wasnt a red card. That was intent. This one wasn't intent, it shouldn't be a red.

People really think that was a punch? He's going for the ball and catches his face by accident. If that's a red card it's absolutely ridiculous.