What are you talking about?

Firstly I never said anti football is anything new.

Secondly this isn’t the press just selling stories, they are reporting on something that has actually happened, or are you going to claim the IFAB did not just hold their ABM in London 27/11/203, or maybe you are trying to claim that IFAB did not agree that sin bins should be trialled at higher levels in that ABM?

Or maybe you have issues with journalists/pundits speculating on recent events, which is like their job?

What stories are you on about?

What a silly take you have.

It’s also how we got to 22 players, 2 managers plus > 40K fans standing around for 5 minutes waiting to decide if they can celebrate a goal or not.

However you cannot legislate against anti-football. Those tactics are employed to negate the better team and are completely within the rules if done properly, we see it all the time if/when a team goes down to 10 men, and sin bins could in theory temporarily see a team go down to 9 men on a weekly basis depending on how touchy the officials feel.

I’m all for showing respect to the ref, they are people after all, but sin bins are not the way to go imho

Exactly and from what I saw in that source, IFAB are considering them for showing disrespect to the officials and the rules lol

It will be a nightmare.

I love football, especially watching Arsenal, but I can see a time on the horizon where that starts to wain as the enjoyment is sucked out of the game.

We already have teams playing anti football to buy time, and disrupt the opposition’s rhythm, plus VAR on top of that killing the game.

Now I just watched a report on the recent IFAb meeting where they are discussing ramping up the testing of Sin Bins, with one journalist suggesting they could be introduced into the higher levels of football by as early as one year maybe two.

And Merson’s obvious conclusion is that it will increase the amount of teams parking the bus, and playing anti football to stop play, for the 10 minutes they are down to ten men.

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Ironically IFAb were also discussing ways to increase the amount of time the ball is in play and encouraging continuous flowing football, while also expanding VAR to FKs, corners and 2nd YCs lol

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With all that I could see myself reading a good book or watching a movie while watching a game, looking up only when the ref blows the whistle to resume play after yet another lengthy intervention or players are released from the sin bin.

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Fuck 21st century football.

WTF where’s Havertz for MOTM option?

literally the best player in the world at the time (or there abouts) for a few years with us

FTFY

No, I am not biased.

yawn

Imagine needing to play arguably the best striker in the world to score again MK Dons.

• France 14 minnows 0
• Minnows 1 England 0

Fucking embarrassing

Wastecoat needs to go for us to have any chance next summer and beyond.

This after Wastecoat tried to scare parliament with VAR boogeyman saying an independent regulator may confuse game government like VAR lol

Guess it’s okay to malign VAR if you’re the old boy’s club’s mouthpiece.

City? nah, but take a closer look, the move wasn’t really designed to punish them, Sheffield and Luton are above them, and they are within 2 points of Luton, so they won’t go down and City won’t be spanked hard enough to finish outside T2 if they are spanked at all.

So PGMOL are asking if de Zerbi should be found in breach of the Participant Behaviour Charter because he said he doesn’t like 80% of referees in England lol

Firstly the PBC looks like it was written on the back of a beer mat by a couple of drunks, this is the PBC in it’s entirety from the PL news page

Firstly de Zerbi was quite constrained, he didn’t reveal his true feelings that are shared by 100% off the football world that aren’t officials, which is ofc that match officials are incompetent corrupt cunts.

Secondly, there’s no subjective clauses in the PBC, no possibilities open to interpretation, no ambiguity, it’s plainly clear there isn’t a single part of it that de Zerbi breached by saying he doesn’t like them.

Perhaps it’s the lack of interpretive ambiguity that confuses the cunts.

PGMOL are like fucking dictators, nobody is allowed to say anything other than how fucking great they are.

5.5 is the average of that scale, so it really depends on whether you round down or up, and personally I round down, so to me the average is 5

On any other day I’d give Zinchenko MOTM, but Trossard was just brilliant, we are the only team in history to rob Brighton in transfer negotiations.

Not really, there is an agenda against Raya fr but apart from the one shot they had near the end he didn’t really have to do anything, so 6.67 seems fair. If he had to make a couple of saves and played out under direct close pressure multiple times then he’d be racking up the points sans the agenda.

From an entertainment POV, probably yes.

From a results POV, not really, we are 2nd, and doing well in the CL while still in the ELC which is a surprise.

This is a question that should probably be asked around xmas.

In the last 7 months Brentford have more wins at the Bridge than Chelsea lol

And it’s magnified if that favourite player also happens to be a HE graduate.

Yep, it’s looked certain for a while now that Raya is to Ramsdale what Ramsdale was to Leno, a drop in replacement.

I guess we’re gonna do this for most of the season.

And ofc next season when Ramsdale is playing for someone else, it is the r/Gunners way, tune in for the next instalment of Balogun scores again ;)