FA Cup 2024

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Time to start this I guess.

Spuds v Burnley on currently.

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Fulham 1-0 Rotherham, Cordova-Reid and Brentford 1-0 Wolves, Maupay. Gomes was sent off for Wolves earlier.

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Spuds 0-0 Burnley, HT.

Utter shite.

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Brentford 1-1 Wolves, Doyle.

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1-0 Porro

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Sunderland: Patterson, Hume, O'Nien, Ballard, Alese, Ekwah, Neil, Pritchard, Bellingham, Clarke, Rusyn.
Subs: Bishop, Pembele, Hemir, Burstow, Ba, Aouchiche, Seelt, Triantis, Rigg.

Newcastle: Dubravka, Trippier, Schar, Botman, Burn, Joelinton, Guimaraes, Longstaff, Almiron, Isak, Gordon.
Subs: Karius, Lascelles, Dummett, Ritchie, Krafth, Hall, Livramento, Parkinson, Miley.

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Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle, Ballard OG>

Smashed it in.

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0-2 now, Isak.

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0-3 Isak pelanty. Silly foul from Ballard.

[Letters]

Ah bother. I’d forgotten about this.
One of the mums at the boy’s school hails from Sunderland and was talking to me about this tie.
I thought they might have a chance but…obviously not :lol:

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Fourth Round Draw:

Sheffield United vs Brighton
Fulham vs Newcastle
Leeds United vs Plymouth Argyle
Crystal Palace/Everton vs Luton/Bolton
Newport County/Eastleigh vs Wigan/Manchester United
Leeds United vs Plymouth Argyle
Crystal Palace/Everton vs Luton/Bolton
Liverpool vs Norwich City/Bristol Rovers
Tottenham vs Manchester City
Ipswich Town vs Maidstone United
Leicester vs Hull City/Birmingham City
Sheffield Wednesday vs Coventry City
Chelsea vs Aston Villa
West Ham/Bristol City vs Nottingham Forest/Blackpool
Blackburn vs Wrexham
Bournemouth vs Swansea City
West Brom vs Brentford/Wolves

[Letters]

Spurs :lol:

Although they do have a good record against City, so… :unsure:

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Spuds 0-0 Citeh still.

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Doku and De Bruyne coming on.

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0-1 Ake. :lol:

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Spuds 0-1 Citeh, FT!

[Letters]

Spurs :pal:

Gazza :pal:

Chaz :rose:

Dave :pal:

[Letters]

Maidstone dump out Ipswich

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/68041424


That’ll learn them for 1978 :sulk:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Maidstone dump out Ipswich

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/68041424


That’ll learn them for 1978 :sulk:


Gavin Hoyte (the brother of Justin) who broke into the first team for one league game and played a few league cup games for us about fifteen years ago was the captain of the Maidstone team

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Villa 0-3 Chelsea. :blink:

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Villa 0-3 Chelsea. :blink:

Villa are a bit all over the place at the moment, able to pummel teams like Sheffield United. But absolute cack when it comes to dealing with teams in and around them but stunningly low on confidence (United, Newcastle and now Chelsea)

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1-3 Diaby.

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Coventry in front at Wolves….that stays the same and we will still be playing them weekend of April 20th


Oh hold up, VAR check….


Took almost five minutes but goal given

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Wolves turn it around through Alt-Nouri and Bueno

Another fixture to be re-scheduled

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Coventry equalise :lol:


What happens now? Pels?

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No 3-2 Coventry. Jesus fucking Christ :haha:

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3-2 to the Sky Blues FT. What drama

They were leading till the 83rd minute, behind by the 88th minute. And scored again in the 97th and 100th minute

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WTF Wolves. :haha:

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Man City: Ortega, Walker, Dias, Akanji, Gvardiol, Rodri, Kovacic, Foden, Bernardo, Haaland, Doku
Subs: Carson, Stones, Alvarez, Grealish, Ake, Gomez, Nunes, Bobb, Lewis.

Newcastle United: Dubravka, Schar, Murphy, Burn, Lascelles, Botman, Guimaraes, Longstaff, Willock, Gordon, Isak
Subs: Karius, Dummett, Ritchie, Targett, Krafth, Hall, Almiron, Anderson, Miley

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Forgot to say anything about this one. :lol:

Man City won 2-0, Bernardo Silva with both.

They were both deflected though and as they keep saying about Martinelli's goal against them, we know they don't count then.

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Chelsea v Leicester City, 12:45 BBC One
Manchester United v Liverpool, 15:30 ITV1

[Mac76]

Obvs would love to see Leicester win that first one, after that hopefully Liverpool win to kwep their fixture list as busy as possible, plus funny to see Man Ure lose ofc

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Chelsea 1-0 Leicester, Cucarella.

[Marc Overmars]

Another cup with City or Liverpool’s name on it. :yawn:

[Letters]

Another cup with City or Liverpool’s name on it. :yawn:

Probably. It’s so grimly inevitable.
I turned on the City game yesterday, it was early 2nd half and already 2-0.
It’s all so boringly predictable

[Letters]

Chelsea 1-0 Leicester, Cucarella.

Maybe it’s just my TV but the two kits don’t look that different to me :unsure:

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Sterling. :haha:

[Letters]

How did he miss that?! :lol:
Chelsea should be 2-0 up

[Letters]

Oh, and now they are 2-0 up.

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2-0 Palmer.

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I do actually think Man Utd will beat Liverpool today but lose to them at Old Trafford in the league.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I do actually think Man Utd will beat Liverpool today but lose to them at Old Trafford in the league.

This is what happened three years ago if I recall correctly

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Disasi. :haha:

2-1.

[Mac76]

Maybe it’s just my TV but the two kits don’t look that different to me :unsure:

Yeah watching on a black-and-white set can have that effect :lol:

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2-2. :haha:

[Letters]

What a Disasi-ster

https://twitter.com/TheFergusonWay/status/1769362876828127518

[HCZ_Reborn]

What a Disasi-ster

https://twitter.com/TheFergusonWay/status/1769362876828127518

Worthy of Frank Sinclair


https://youtu.be/p-Lkwq2ISxw?si=9jHJY-b9gwItJDNl

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Pelanty for Chelsea.

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That's outside the box.

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Ah well, we still had our fun

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No penalty, but Doyle upgraded to red

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Good news for Leicester, it's a freekick, bad news it's now a red.

[Letters]

Right decision. VAR :bow:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Good news for Leicester, it's a freekick, bad news it's now a red.

So basically if it’s a pel and you’ve tried to get the ball it’s only yellow despite being last man

But if it’s not a pel it’s red?

Do I have this right?


What clown writes these rules

[Letters]

Sterling :haha:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

:haha:

Bet he scores the winner though.

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So basically if it’s a pel and you’ve tried to get the ball it’s only yellow despite being last man

But if it’s not a pel it’s red?

Do I have this right?


What clown writes these rules

It must be because getting a freekick denies a clear goalscoring opportunity but giving the pelanty does not.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Poch getting “you don’t know what you’re doing” from the crowd

Whilst I have no sympathy for him or anyone who of their own free will goes to that pestilential club

I think fans seem to be under the illusion that their club isn’t completely screwed anyway

[Letters]

It must be because getting a freekick denies a clear goalscoring opportunity but giving the pelanty does not.

Which I think makes sense. You chop someone in the box then you haven’t denied a clear goal scoring opportunity because they have a penalty which is one. Outside the box and you obviously have stopped the opportunity

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

:haha:

Bet he scores the winner though.

That's why I don't bet.

[Letters]

That's why I don't bet.

:lol:

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Action Jackson. :haha:

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3-2 Chumbwumba or someone.

[Letters]

3-2 Chelsea. Knickers.
It’s been coming

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4-2 Madueke, good goal.

[Letters]

4-2. Holy shit, what a goal

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Man Utd: Onana, Wan-Bissaka, Dalot, Varane, Lindelof, Mainoo, McTominay, Garnacho, Fernandes, Rashford, Hojlund.
Subs: Heaton, Kambwala, Maguire, Amad, Amrabat, Eriksen, Forson, Mount, Antony.

Liverpool: Kelleher, Gomez, Quansah, Van Dijk, Robertson, Endo, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah, Diaz, Nunez.
Subs: Adrian, Gakpo, Elliott, Tsimikas, Clark, McConnell, Gravenberch, Danns, Bradley.

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Man Utd: Onana, Wan-Bissaka, Dalot, Varane, Lindelof, Mainoo, McTominay, Garnacho, Fernandes, Rashford, Hojlund.
Subs: Heaton, Kambwala, Maguire, Amad, Amrabat, Eriksen, Forson, Mount, Antony.

Liverpool: Kelleher, Gomez, Quansah, Van Dijk, Robertson, Endo, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah, Diaz, Nunez.
Subs: Adrian, Gakpo, Elliott, Tsimikas, Clark, McConnell, Gravenberch, Danns, Bradley.

I know they’ve had a lot of injuries but seriously how have Liverpool been competing on four fronts with that midfield


They are going to miss Klopp when he goes

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Really good from Mainoo.

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Kelleher saves from Rashford!

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Man Utd 1-0 Liverpool, McTominay!

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Robertson, poor effort.

[HCZ_Reborn]

United clearly the team that most wants this.

Joe Gomez blazes over now

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Kelleher saves from McTominay

Onana saves from Diaz!

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Disallowed goal for Endo!

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

RAMSEY!

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Man Utd 1-1 Liverpool, Mac Allister! That's a great goal.

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1-2 Salah!

[HCZ_Reborn]

1-2 Salah!

Ha ha, I switch off because I’m working OT this afternoon to catch up and this happens

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Fernandes puts it across goal.

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Nunez. :lol:

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Gomez booked.

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Onana saves from Nunez!

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Man Utd 2-2 Liverpool, Antony!

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Elliott hits the post!

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Rashford. :haha:

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Extra time.

[Mac76]

Extra time.

perfect, all helps to tire out Liverpool

[HCZ_Reborn]

All United at the moment

I want Pels

Love me a good shootout when England and Arsenal not involved

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Rashford misses another one but offside this time.

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2-3 Elliott!

[HCZ_Reborn]

2-3 Elliott!

:lol: At United

But still I want my Pels.

[Mac76]

Mount on - forgot he even existed

[Mac76]

Antony at LB :lol: he was literally their best attacking player

[HCZ_Reborn]

Antony at LB :lol: he was literally their best attacking player

As bad as that was it?

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Man Utd 3-3 Liverpool, Rashford!

[Mac76]

Rashford 3-3 clumsy from Nunez, gave the ball away

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Miss from McTominay!

[Mac76]

When you look at who's left on the pitch, if it goes to pels i think Utd will win it

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Man Utd 4-3 Liverpool, Diallo!!!

[Mac76]

4-3 Utd!

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Aaand he's sent off. :lol:

[Mac76]

Aaand he's sent off. :lol:

:haha:

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Man Utd 4-3 Liverpool, FT!

No Quadruple.

[Letters]

Aaand he's sent off. :lol:

I guess for celebrating?
Utter bullshit.
Just add the time on.
They’re constantly trying to kill passion.

[Mac76]

I guess for celebrating?
Utter bullshit.
Just add the time on.
They’re constantly trying to kill passion.

he took his shirt off, it's an automatic yellow - very very dumb

[Mac76]

tbf I only watched the ET but that's the best i've seen Utd play in a long time - even Antony looked good

[HCZ_Reborn]

I’m glad he got sent off

I wanted pelanty shootout, that selfish shit

:sulk:

[Marc Overmars]

Please do that again in the league.

[Mac76]

I’m glad he got sent off

I wanted pelanty shootout, that selfish shit

:sulk:

yeah i was looking forward to that too, also wanted Liverpool to go through to further congest their season, but heyho

[HCZ_Reborn]

tbf I only watched the ET but that's the best i've seen Utd play in a long time - even Antony looked good

Yep United were the better side from the moment they equalised in normal time

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Semi-final draw on in a few minutes.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I remember Diallo now, kid they bought from Atalanta.

I was straining with that….thinking where did he come from

[HCZ_Reborn]

https://x.com/carra23/status/1769426991705391595?s=46&t=n1tnxEg6k_DvSqUkaQFrjw

Carragher on a heavy dose of Copium

Let’s hope he doesn’t deal with things by spitting at a child

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Coventry City v Manchester United
Manchester City v Chelsea

[Marc Overmars]

Ten Hag saving himself once again with another final appearance.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Coventry City v Manchester United
Manchester City v Chelsea

Have we had the same teams play in a final in consecutive years?

And the answer is yes


The 1884 final and the 1885 final were between Blackburn Rovers and Queens Park (when Scottish teams played in the English FA cup)

[Letters]

Chelsea vs City 0-0 at HT.
Good game. Chelsea containing City well, they’ve had a few chances to catch City on the break.
Ref letting the game flow.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jackson. :haha:

[Mac76]

Half decent pel shout there for Grealish handball, bet that's given if it's against us

Should've been a corner though

[Mac76]

Mudryk and Disaster on for Chelsea

[Letters]

Can’t help feel Chelsea will rue these missed opportunities

[Mac76]

Alvarez :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 B. Silva.

Chelsea. :lol:

[Letters]

Can’t help feel Chelsea will rue these missed opportunities

:gp:

[Mac76]

:gp:

:lol:


Cucurella was awful there, just ran away from Silva and gave him all the space he needed

[Mac76]

8 mins ET :popcorn:

[Letters]

Mudryk :haha:

[Mac76]

Mudryk :haha:

[Letters]

Jinx! Seriously. How can professional footballers be so bloody awful at delivering a ball? :lol:

1-0 to City FT

[Marc Overmars]

Hopefully I’m wrong but I actually think United could beat them in the final.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Not if they allow 20+ shots on their goal like normal.

Coventry are more likely to beat them than Guardiola losing a final.

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Coventry 0-1 Man Utd, McTominay in the other FA Cup semi-final.

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Coventry 0-2 Man Utd, Maguire.

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Coventry 0-3 Man Utd, Fernandes.

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2-3 now. :blink:

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Pelanty to Coventry!!

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Coventry 3-3 Man Utd, Wright!!

Holy shit. :haha:

[Letters]

Coventry 3-3 Man Utd, Wright!!

Holy shit. :haha:

What the utter fuck?

[Letters]

I stopped watching at HT.

Me :pal:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coventry 3-3 Man Utd, FT. :haha:

ET it is.

[Mac76]

Unbelievable, win or lose that's surely it for Ten Hag, you can't let a 3-0 lead slip against a Championship side

Come on Coventry :)

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Fernandes hits the bar.

[Letters]

Fernandes hits the bar.

Absolutely thumped it :lol:
They got away with that.

[Letters]

I think a Coventry player just got one in the balls :d

[Letters]

Ah man. Coventry should have scored

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wright just dropped the Ashes!

[Letters]

OMFG! Now Coventry thump the bar!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Simms hit the bar!

[Letters]

Either a late winner or pels now

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Either a late winner or pels now

Cheers Geoff.

[Marc Overmars]

Ten Hag is rubbish. Bet they fluke their way through on penalties.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Oh my fucking god.

[Letters]

4-3 Coventry!!!

[Letters]

Cheers Geoff.

:haha:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Ooo is that off?

[Marc Overmars]

Oh my fucking god!

Finished club. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-3 TOPP!!!!!! OMG!!!!

[Marc Overmars]

VAR?

[Letters]

Oh fuck off, VAR

[Letters]

Oh this is bullshit

[Letters]

Pels

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed boooo

[dazthegooner]

See Fergie still pulling strings.

[Mac76]

I guess it was just about off but still a real fun-killer

Still, pels to come - c'mon Coventry

[Marc Overmars]

Never knew getting to an FA Cup final could be so embarrassing.

[Letters]

First Utd pel saved!

[Letters]

1-0 Coventry!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

:lol:

[Letters]

1-1. Come on, Coventry!

[Letters]

2-1 Coventry. What a penalty that was!

[Letters]

2-2 :(

[Letters]

Piss. Obama saves.

[Letters]

3-2 Utd :sick:

[Letters]

Coventry player channels his inner Chris Waddle. Utd pel to win it

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh Coventry.

[Letters]

:ilt:

Utd in the final

[Marc Overmars]

Hopefully City destroy them.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man Utd through somehow. :lol:

[Letters]

Fuck VAR.
Seriously. Fuck it.
Ok, maybe it was technically a fraction off but it robs those Coventry fans of that moment.
Another part of dismantling the game.

[Mac76]

A real pity although Citeh would have trashed them in the final

Totally embarrassing from Man Ure

[HCZ_Reborn]

Fuck VAR.
Seriously. Fuck it.
Ok, maybe it was technically a fraction off but it robs those Coventry fans of that moment.
Another part of dismantling the game.

Dunno offside is offside

Never would have heard the end of it if that had been given

Coventry can be rightly proud of themselves, United can rightly be embarrassed

[Letters]

Dunno offside is offside

Never would have heard the end of it if that had been given
If there wasn’t endless scrutiny, replays from a load of different angles and lines drawn then you wouldn’t have heard a thing. Did you think it was offside in real time? Did anyone?
If it’s blatant then ok, I do think those errors should be corrected. But if you’re having to draw lines and look for a pixel here and there then holy shit just let it go.
It’s getting so you can hardly celebrate goals now, the spectre of VAR hangs over too many of them.


Coventry can be rightly proud of themselves, United can rightly be embarrassed
No argument there.

[HCZ_Reborn]

If there wasn’t endless scrutiny, replays from a load of different angles and lines drawn then you wouldn’t have heard a thing. Did you think it was offside in real time? Did anyone?
If it’s blatant then ok, I do think those errors should be corrected. But if you’re having to draw lines and look for a pixel here and there then holy shit just let it go.
It’s getting so you can hardly celebrate goals now, the spectre of VAR hangs over too many of them.


No argument there.

Did I think Haji Wright was offside, not at first, but one of the officials was flagging and then from a different angle he did look offside yes and that was before the commentary team confirmed they were going to VAR.

You can argue that the offside rule has to be changed, I think Wenger has suggested such a rule and it’s seriously being considered. But at the moment even a gnats cock offside is offside.

Wright didn’t need to be offside either

[Letters]

Did I think Haji Wright was offside, not at first, but one of the officials was flagging and then from a different angle he did look offside yes and that was before the commentary team confirmed they were going to VAR.

You can argue that the offside rule has to be changed, I think Wenger has suggested such a rule and it’s seriously being considered. But at the moment even a gnats cock offside is offside.

Wright didn’t need to be offside either

I must admit I used to argue that given offside is a fairly clear definition then a player either is or isn't. If VAR can get that right then why shouldn't it?
And I think the answer to that is it's ruining some of the spontaneity in the game, it's ruining these "moments".
The spectre of VAR hangs over too many goals. Obviously blatant mistakes should be dealt with - some years ago we scored a goal vs Chelsea away when RvP was a mile offside. Obviously I chuckled but if VAR had been around that goal would have been chalked off and I probably wouldn't have felt too hard done by. But when it's fractions...just let it go, I reckon. The advantage of "getting things right" is being outweighed by the disadvantage of robbing the fans of these moments too often.

Agreed he didn't need to be offside, but I guess that's part of the point, the goal would have been scored had he been a few inches further back, no real advantage was gained. Obviously I'm feeling a bit salty because it favoured ManYoo, but having long argued for VAR I'm now finding it hard to defend.

[Ollie the Optimist]

I must admit I used to argue that given offside is a fairly clear definition then a player either is or isn't. If VAR can get that right then why shouldn't it?
And I think the answer to that is it's ruining some of the spontaneity in the game, it's ruining these "moments".
The spectre of VAR hangs over too many goals. Obviously blatant mistakes should be dealt with - some years ago we scored a goal vs Chelsea away when RvP was a mile offside. Obviously I chuckled but if VAR had been around that goal would have been chalked off and I probably wouldn't have felt too hard done by. But when it's fractions...just let it go, I reckon. The advantage of "getting things right" is being outweighed by the disadvantage of robbing the fans of these moments too often.

Agreed he didn't need to be offside, but I guess that's part of the point, the goal would have been scored had he been a few inches further back, no real advantage was gained. Obviously I'm feeling a bit salty because it favoured ManYoo, but having long argued for VAR I'm now finding it hard to defend.

I think there should be a new feature on offsides “linesman’s call” similar to cricket with umpires call. For those that are not clear & obvious errors, I.e the ones that as soon as you see the first replay you know if they are on or off, so if its not clear & obvious you stick with the on field decision which on this occasion would have meant the goal standing I think.

VAR would then overturn the real howlers and then when the situation means they are zooming in to how much of a big toe is offside, speed up because they just stick with on field decision

[Letters]

That sounds sensible. Deal with the glaring errors, let the marginal stuff go.

[The Wengerbabies]

That sounds sensible. Deal with the glaring errors, let the marginal stuff go.


I've long said VAR checks should be limited to 10 seconds, if you can't see the error in 10 seconds it's not clear and obvious.

[Ollie the Optimist]

That sounds sensible. Deal with the glaring errors, let the marginal stuff go.

I don’t think you’ve ever said that before when I’ve suggested something :lol: