Recent content by rippleman

This is where, sooner or later, the game is going to come seriously unstuck. A clearly offside attacker breaks clear. The lino cba to stick his flag up. Keeper comes out and collides with the (offside) attacker. One or both suffer very serious injury. And all because the lino didn't flag...

Probably Emma Hayes. The fact that she has survived for 13 seasons at Chelsea without ever looking like getting sacked must surely speak volumes. She has won 6 league titles (and well odds-on to win a seventh tomorrow), 5 FA Cups, 2 League Cups and a Community Shield. (Klopp 1 league title, 1...

I'm glad we get the opportunity to discuss this subject, yet again! The bottom line is that when the AMEX was designed it appears that little or no thought or consideration was given to the accoustics. The sound does not travel from the NS to other areas of the ground. That's the way it is...

And lose all that luvvly jubbly cash from the away fans? Only in Barber's worst nightmare. :lolol: Yeah. In a decent world this would happen. But it would probably be against PL rules to ban away supporters from games. Then there would be retribution and our fans would be banned from...

The peanut fella. Always seemed like a decent chap as US Presidents go. A good knock as you say and the first person I can recall to get a "close to RIP" thread on here.

There are penalties for time-wasting. It is down to the referees to penalise players who are time-wasting if they have suffered a blue card. Does reinforce the problem of inconsistency if some referees are using the blue card and others are "refusing". In my reffing days you had to enforce...

You'd like to think. But I was told (or it was posted on here) that when the FAB tried to raise the plight of those issued with Barberbans on the say-so of Ajax stewards over the beer-spilling kerfuffle, they were told to sit down, shut up. I'm sure Barry will correct me if I'm wrong there.

My biggest Albion/Palace fear would be the money-grabbing, lying shiester buying out Mr Chairman. Lining his own pockets whilst letting the AMEX fall into total decay. Buying crap players on top dollar wages and getting himself bullied by the NSK. Taking us into Administration and seeing off...

Think it goes to "goals scored" before "head-to-head" ETA: What are the Premier League tiebreaker rules? How are things decided after goal difference? Each position in the Premier League is based on the following criteria and if teams finish on the same number of points the following...

EPL referees receive a salary of up to £147K per annum. I would say they are absolutely paid enough! On top of that they get top hotels booked for them and chauffeur driven transport to and from games. And the job security of knowing that no matter how poorly they perform they aren't going to...

Isn't this at the heart of the issue? I don't think there is anything wrong with VAR as a concept nor with the underlying technology. The problem lies with the officials using it. Look at the time it took to send calamity James off last night. Ridiculous. The VAR ref should just have said...

Unlikely these new provisions will ever be enforced, just like the illegality of riding on the pavement now is never enforced. If police issued the fixed fines for cycling on the pavement it would be a disincentive to do it and maybe this new law might not have been required. Can't see...

He uses the laughing emoji as a substitute for being unable to come up with any sensible, logical rebuttal of points and arguments made by others. It's the last resort of the ignorant and ill-informed. I'm looking forward to my laughing emoji. I hope I'm not disappointed.

This is good news. At last some grown-ups in the room. Absolute sense not to split the anti-Tory vote. I like the idea of voters "pairing" although I have my doubts how effective that is likely to be on a practical level. Worth a try though. Whatever needs to be done to consign these nasty...

It makes no sense at all to employ players long past their best, still living off their past glories, for wages which must be significant. It flies in the face of the ethos of the club which is to recruit young players with potential and develop them.