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obelisk

obelisk

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Wolves don't seem to be aware that modern "proper" hipster football requires them to get to the halfway line, stop and pass back in order to retain possession rather than to break quickly, fire in a quick cross and plonk the ball in the opponent's net.

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Pamplemousse

Pamplemousse

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1 hour ago, obelisk said:

Wolves don't seem to be aware that modern "proper" hipster football requires them to get to the halfway line, stop and pass back in order to retain possession rather than to break quickly, fire in a quick cross and plonk the ball in the opponent's net.

Like we did against Arsenal you mean?

Turkish

Turkish

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4th minute of injury time winner for City, pitch side review upheld the original decision, dont remember seeing that before. Wolves defended very well and will feel unlucky to lose this.

Sarnia Cherie

Sarnia Cherie

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2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

4th minute of injury time winner for City, pitch side review upheld the original decision, dont remember seeing that before. Wolves defended very well and will feel unlucky to lose this.

You get zero luck when you are a team like Wolves as we know only too well. We should have had a penalty and a red card shown to Ayew yesterday for pulling Tall Paul's shirt for that length of time, but nothing. The ref couldn't get his red card out fast enough for Fraser doing the same thing but for a shorter time. As if that wasn't bad enough, bloody Ayew, who should have gone off, scores the winner.

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Midfield_General

Midfield_General

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Re Wolves - linesman gave it offside too even before the VAR told the ref to look at it. Ref overruled both to give it but even though he went to the screen he gave it so quickly I’m not even sure they showed him the bit beforehand where Silva backed into the keeper. 

I thought Wolves looked like they should have had a direct free kick on the edge of City’s box before City went up the other end to win the corners that led to the goal too. 

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The Kraken

The Kraken

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19 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Is barging the keeper not considered interfering with play now? 

Contact with the keeper happened before the header.

Bit of a grey area this one. I can see why it was given, I can also see why it could have been reversed.

Midfield_General

Midfield_General

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Just now, The Kraken said:

Contact with the keeper happened before the header.

Bit of a grey area this one. I can see why it was given, I can also see why it could have been reversed.

Yeah, only a second or two beforehand though, and by backing in and making him shove him off him he was giving the keeper something other to deal with rather than just focusing on the cross that was about to come in. Not clear cut by any means, but you have to wonder whether that would have stood if it was the other way around with a Wolves player backing into Ederson then ducking out of the way. 

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stknowle

stknowle

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15 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

Contact with the keeper happened before the header.

Bit of a grey area this one. I can see why it was given, I can also see why it could have been reversed.

He was offside and backed into the keeper. He was out the way by the time the header came in but he has to be interfering with play and was offside when he did it. If he hadn’t touched the keeper I would agree with letting it go. Prepared to bet a LOT of money that if the roles were reversed that goal would’ve been chalked off. 

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The Kraken

The Kraken

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2 minutes ago, stknowle said:

He was offside and backed into the keeper. He was out the way by the time the header came in but he has to be interfering with play and was offside when he did it. If he hadn’t touched the keeper I would agree with letting it go. Prepared to bet a LOT of money that if the roles were reversed that goal would’ve been chalked off. 

He wasn’t offside when he backed in. You can’t be offside from a corner.

He was in an offside position when the header was made, but the backing in had been done by then.

My instinct would be to disallow it, but as I said earlier, I can see both sides of it.

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coalman

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Good to see Lavia starting for Chelsea today. He still has an unreal ability to play on the half turn.

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stknowle

stknowle

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8 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

He wasn’t offside when he backed in. You can’t be offside from a corner.

He was in an offside position when the header was made, but the backing in had been done by then.

My instinct would be to disallow it, but as I said earlier, I can see both sides of it.

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Mixedkebab

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I cannot stand to hear the gutless weasel Mike Dean and his viewpoints on the commentary.

The worst of the big club bias refs whose arsehole went whenever he was out on the spot at Man U and Liverpool, now offering mealy mouthed piss poor opinions invariably agreeing with all the ref and VAR decisions. 
 

To quote the Arctic Monkeys, what a scummy man 

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stknowle

stknowle

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VAR in good effect there. Looked all ends up a pen from the ref’s angle but replays clearly showed he got the ball first so rightly overturned.

Turkish

Turkish

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VAR is really brilliant isn't it. The tension it's added to the Liverpool v Chelsea game is wonderful. Also the celebration when the goal was awarded at Molyneux was incredible. Anyone who doesn't like VAR isn't a true TV subscription paying soccerball fan.

Whitey Grandad

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1 hour ago, The Kraken said:

Contact with the keeper happened before the header.

Bit of a grey area this one. I can see why it was given, I can also see why it could have been reversed.

The backing in was deliberate and with no intention of playing the ball and in my view should have been punished by a free kick to Wolves.

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SaintsBarry74

SaintsBarry74

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1 hour ago, Mixedkebab said:

I cannot stand to hear the gutless weasel Mike Dean and his viewpoints on the commentary.

The worst of the big club bias refs whose arsehole went whenever he was out on the spot at Man U and Liverpool, now offering mealy mouthed piss poor opinions invariably agreeing with all the ref and VAR decisions. 
 

To quote the Arctic Monkeys, what a scummy man 

I hate him with a passion. That 0-9 annihilation against Man Utd was the most shocking example of refereeing I've ever witnessed

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The Kraken

The Kraken

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4 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

The backing in was deliberate and with no intention of playing the ball and in my view should have been punished by a free kick to Wolves.

Which is a different issue to him interfering with play while at in an offside position.

Sunglasses Ron

Sunglasses Ron

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1 hour ago, SW5 SAINT said:

Anyway, we’re off the bottom…..!

I see a lot of people suggesting that we might "beat" Derby's record low points tally of 11.

I wonder what the chances are of us doing it, but Wolves doing even worse?

I guess it will ultimately come down to the head-to-heads though, if either do the double then the other could be in major trouble!

 

 

Sunglasses Ron

Sunglasses Ron

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7 minutes ago, SaintsBarry74 said:

I hate him with a passion. That 0-9 annihilation against Man Utd was the most shocking example of refereeing I've ever witnessed

Agreed, I still get angry every time I think about that game.

Yesterday, and the shocking decision against us for the non-penalty, triggered those memories. 

vectraman

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9 minutes ago, Sunglasses Ron said:

I see a lot of people suggesting that we might "beat" Derby's record low points tally of 11.

I wonder what the chances are of us doing it, but Wolves doing even worse?

I guess it will ultimately come down to the head-to-heads though, if either do the double then the other could be in major trouble!

 

 

Nah Wolves will blow their chances by doing the double over us. They have had a pretty tricky (compared to us) set of opening fixtures, and I genuinely believe they will get themselves out of the bottom three before too long - playing us will help in that respect! In no way are they as bad as we are.

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stknowle

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23 minutes ago, Sunglasses Ron said:

I see a lot of people suggesting that we might "beat" Derby's record low points tally of 11.

I wonder what the chances are of us doing it, but Wolves doing even worse?

 

 

 

I’d go with zero chance that they will do worse than us personally.. 

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Badger

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Wolves will also have the good sense to change manager rather than stand by an underperforming one. 
 

As will Palace. And probably Leicester. 

Sarnia Cherie

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12 hours ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

So early in the season and already looking like three from the current four bottom will go down. Wolves are also scoring goals which is a concern

They have had some tough away games. The hardest start in Wolves history according to Gary O'Neil. He said they will keep on playing like they are as he feels it will all come good. I reckon Saturday 9th November may be the date he is looking for, 

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OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint

OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint

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5 hours ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

They have had some tough away games. The hardest start in Wolves history according to Gary O'Neil. He said they will keep on playing like they are as he feels it will all come good. I reckon Saturday 9th November may be the date he is looking for, 

They have had a tough start and one of my work colleagues who played for their academy when younger and follows them says they're playing OK and scoring goals so he's not concerned yet. But we'll have TP and Archer starting and will give them a shock on 9th November. Last time I was there the only shock we got was Che missing from one foot!

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Dark Munster

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5 hours ago, John Boy Saint said:

No score yet - but Villa in the Champions League are once again very easy on the eye.

They won 2-0 and are top of their CL group. Emery is a superb manager. When we and Villa were struggling near the bottom a couple of years ago they hired him, and Rasmus the self-professed genius hired Mad Nate. I'm not saying we would've been able to attract Emery, but what a contrast in the way both clubs have been run since then. 🙁

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Tommy Mulgrew

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Just like us, England women shoehorn their Captain,Williamson, into the no6 shirt, and with much the same result as with us, in the first half v. Germany.  But, look who Germany have at no6!  (Sorry, I had to laugh.) 😀

Zorba

Zorba

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7 minutes ago, rallyboy said:

Why did Leicester rest Anthony Taylor tonight?

 

Because he’s playing for Liverpool on Sunday!

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saintant

saintant

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9 hours ago, rallyboy said:

Why did Leicester rest Anthony Taylor tonight?

 

Two Leicester players gave away free kicks and were booked for shirt tugs far less obvious than the one on Tall Paul - I guess their shirt tugs had consequences even though they were both outside the penalty area. Taylor needs investigating.

Harry_SFC

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Just watched the Everton game. Got the big men upfront in the last 5 minutes and whipped cross after cross into the box and they scored right at the death. Whilst we bring on Onuachu and continue to pass the ball sideways and backwards in our own half. 

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Sheaf Saint

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3 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Just watched the Everton game. Got the big men upfront in the last 5 minutes and whipped cross after cross into the box and they scored right at the death. Whilst we bring on Onuachu and continue to pass the ball sideways and backwards in our own half. 

Only that's completely untrue. We actually did put a few crosses in to him and he even got his head on one or two of them.

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