I never said that. I just think they are far from what we need now. obviously better than the current bunch. but not what we need. That’s my opinion, but i’m not going to argue with you about it because that’s not what this thread is discussing
it’s often said that countries get the government they deserve, but i do wonder how, at the time when we have most needed competence and transformative change, arguably more than ever before since the 40’s, we’ve ended up with this current bunch of shysters, both in government and opposition
everything about today is screaming ‘bad defeat’. they’re in great form, we’re not, they play exactly the kind of football we struggle to deal with and have exactly the kind of players (doucoure, dcl, tarkowski) we struggle to defend against.
at the same time, surely this awful run we’re on has...
would be nice. however we saw with connolly how a bucketload of goals at youth level doesn’t necessarily translate to goals at first team level, although there were obviously other issues ongoing there
well i think in practice they actually just don’t know what they’re doing. but you see them use the weight of the on field decision all the time when talking about the VARs ability to overturn. so in reality i think it’s a reason they can use after the fact to justify whatever nonsense decision...
if anything, isn’t it the opposite? if the referee has seen it and said ‘yep, i’ve seen that and that’s a foul/yellow’ then the onus is on VAR to say ‘that’s a clear and obvious error, should’ve been a red’. if a yellow is given the the bar for an overturn goes higher, shirley?
if the referee...
they never will, but sincerely hope the club requests that salisbury be kept as far away as possible from all our future games. abysmal referee, no idea how he’s managed to con his way into the premier league