JetsetJimbo
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- Jun 13, 2011
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I hope that's true, but Barber's comment that we need to "move on" suggests otherwise to me. He wouldn't be saying that if he didn't consider the matter closed, surely.
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[Football] The Apology
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I hope that's true, but Barber's comment that we need to "move on" suggests otherwise to me. He wouldn't be saying that if he didn't consider the matter closed, surely.
Pondicherry
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As others have said, this is a miss step by Mr Barber. It's not a private matter and even if he thinks it is, it's between three parties, the club, the PGMOL and the fans (especially the ones who paid to go). And the most important of the three parties is the fans and not the club or the PGMOL. Lets hope the club/ Barber reads this and communicates properly on this.
He’s not going to say anything to inflame the situation further whatever the status
Icy Gull
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Putting Atwell on VAR next weekend is a middle finger from them?….yet
I fully expect the club to do everything in a considered and correct way though. Far too professional to react like me
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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I'm sure that he'll be over the moon to be away from training again.
David Squires on … Premier League in a loop as Lampard and Hodgson return
Our cartoonist on history repeating, James Corden’s advice and an unwelcome visitor for Roberto De Zerbi
www.theguardian.com
Maybe he‘ll be better at spotting things in slow motion
Icy Gull
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Me? I’d fully expect the sack for such incompetence
Like Lee Mason and one or 2 others have in the past ?
I get the point but standing down referees and them losing chunks of pay is fairly significant
JetsetJimbo
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If I screwed up at my job that badly even *once* - never mind 5+ times in 90 minutes - I'd not only get the sack, I'd probably never be able to work in my industry again.
Icy Gull
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Yep and like Masi in F1, that’s how it should be. When you are that high profile, MASSIVE cock ups deserve the sack imo.
What’s happened? One has been rewarded by a very high profile game in the Championship two days later and the other given a game on VAR a week later. It is a piss take
If I made 5 massive, avoidable errors in the space of two hours in a working day I'd expect some form of repercussion, yes.
Clive Walker
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Think hes at the open training session so is probably being hounded by kids (and Mrs Walker) for pics!Is De Zerbi refusing to be interviewed by Talksport? They keep hoping to go to him but he’s not there
Nobby Cybergoat
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Well yes, the message seems to be "suck it up". But it could be "suck it up for a few days or weeks, there's a another announcement coming". But I hold little hope.
The authorities know time is on their side. There will be more games, UCL will be on, other football discussions and the conversation will move on.
Football will successfully close ranks again.
Nobby Cybergoat
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RDZ can't really say much can he. He's walking the finest of disciplinary tightropes.Is De Zerbi refusing to be interviewed by Talksport? They keep hoping to go to him but he’s not there
It's the club who need to be coming out and giving voice to the opinion of the fans. I've just been speaking to a bloke in my office, normally as mild mannered as they come, never seen him so angry. I reckon that's pretty a representative response. I'd like the club to be voicing and representing these views
JetsetJimbo
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I'm not angry anymore - well, maybe a little bit, but I'm more despondent. What's the point in the sport if this is going to keep happening to us over and over and over again? The "it all evens out over a season" argument doesn't wash anymore, if it ever did - we'd have to win over half our remaining matches with the help of very obviously dodgy match-deciding decisions to "even out" the "errors" from Saturday, let alone the whole season.
I live in a country where I can see every single Premier League game via a subscription, so I'm subscribed. I usually watch *loads* of games just because I can, but I haven't been able to bring myself to watch any of it since the end of our game on Saturday. If my football mojo doesn't come back quick, I might as well cancel that subscription, as I can't see myself getting my money's worth out of it this season.
If I'm feeling this way, after a lifetime of following football, I certainly couldn't begrudge any of our newer overseas fans or younger home fans from giving up. I think back to a former boss's son who lost *all* interest in football after Lampard's wrongly disallowed goal against Germany in the World Cup, and wonder how many we and the Premier League in general lost on Saturday.
As an employee I think after two my professional pride would kick in and I'd stick to "monitoring emails" for the rest of the day or similar such low level activities!
SSN:
"Stuart Attwell will be the VAR for Wolves against Brentford despite his involvement in the controversial decision not to award Brighton a penalty when Mitoma was fouled"
It's such a joke that SSN are only capable of looking at the one incident that there's been an apology for, and not all of the other mistakes.
"Stuart Attwell will be the VAR for Wolves against Brentford despite his involvement in the controversial decision not to award Brighton a penalty when Mitoma was fouled"
It's such a joke that SSN are only capable of looking at the one incident that there's been an apology for, and not all of the other mistakes.