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Like James Milner you mean.;)

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The FA will vote whether to ban players for diving after a game and are expected to go ahead with the plan.

The MLS have this system in place, it's about time we had it too.

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That will definitely get a thumbs up from me.:tu:

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Apparently been approved although Big Sam is not impressed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39962886

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As usual he opens his mouth before thinking.

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He does have a point though, we have all seen players booked incorrectly for diving. And what happen to the players club if he is found guilty of diving and the penalty he was awarded results in them winning the game. Do they get the points deducted?

Now that would really help to cut it out big time.

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They won't change the result of a game or get points deducted IMO Jim as its the player that will be penalised.

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Managers will sharp get sick of their players vanishing for important games because they flopped.

Leicester City were just destroyed at home. Harry Kane lighting it up for Spurs, but never for England of course.

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I'd like so see them get an automatic booking if they ask or mimic for another player to be booked. They wanted a booking , let them have it !

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For one Mr K l concur totally with your thoughts on this.:tu:

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39976788

Former Newcastle United coach is the first to be charged with sex offences in recent events.

Filthy sack of -

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Arsenal 1-0 up and down to ten men with most of the game still to play.

Liverpool 0-0 Boro. Liverpool are battering Boro though, it's a matter of time here. Liverpool are pushing so far up that the odd counter attack might come here.
- Arsenal go 2-0 up.
If Liverpool choke given the position Arsenal were in just a handful of games ago it'd be a miracle turnaround I think.

Done and dusted as Liverpool go 2-0 up. 3-0 Liverpool.

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Get in there Liverpool...:cleader::cleader::cleader:

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Kindergarten Kids at OT today, stunning debut goal from Harrop and they all played very well indeed. Palace did look as though they were 'on the beach' like a lot of sides today looking at the scores. ;)

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Sadly it seems to be the nature of things when some teams think the season ends several matches before the end of the season.:(

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Sod all this prima donna Premiership cobblers. It's all cosmetic fans, players, owners, players, TV companies. Back in the real game York City have won the FA Trophy ! (and been relegated, it's a funny old game that can sometimes leave you sick as a parrot....)

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Actually it was quite sad in a way to see Rooney making way for a 16 year old.:(

And who said our fans are not locals. :)

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Realistically, what odds Wenger staying at Arsenal after next Saturday? From what I've been reading in the press this last 48 hours the board are split down the middle as to whether Wenger should be given a new deal or not, with majority shareholder 'Silent' Stan Kroenke in favour of him staying. Apparently, Chips whatever his name is is ineffective in his role at the club, and Chief Exec Ivan Gazidis doesn't get on with Wenger at all.

Putting aside my feelings about Arsenal, personally if he HAS split the board like that, he has alienated a large section of the fan base and looks like some of the players have stopped playing for him; he needs to leave. He should have gone a few seasons ago, sticking to the maxim better to go out at the top. As far as I can see, him being given a 1 or 2 year contract will only appease fans if Arsenal deliver a league title. Without major investment in the playing squad, I cannot see that happening anytime soon.

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Has Rooney played his last game Jim for MU?.

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It sort of felt like that, time and tide and all that.

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Arsenal have something to cheer about though, they'll not be getting rolled over by Bayern in the knockout stages next year.

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Early morning sources suggest, Newcastle United are the first to activate the release clause of Leganes midfielder Gabriel Pires and further claim the deal is essentially done, would become the second signing in a week.

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:D:D

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Man Utd's famed old manager gets his P45.:D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40003697

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Surely you mean Everton's famed old manager, can't think of anything famed at United. :p:

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Well that is not what his old friends have said Jim.;)

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Has he got any friends? :rolleyes:

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Probably more then you realise.:)

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Big Sam quits Palace. :shocked:

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:angel:

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Well something must have been boiling away there Jim?.

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Talk of him quitting football altogether, .........unless the money's right of course.

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l remember Del boy Harry saying that.

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He'll make a decent living coaxing players to sign with his own agent.

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Get in there.:cleader:

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Sat back after the rather lucky deflection. Need to try and stay on the front foot.

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Mourinho is delivering the minimum demanded when he needed it most.

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A very good result, well deserved win, never gave them a smell TBH. Not pretty at times but a really professional performance. :cool:

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Another stroke of genius from Mourinho though, gambled the Europa League over United's tougher PL fixture list and only went and pulled it off. 5 English teams in the UCL next season.

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l am always pleased when our sides win in Europe.:tu:

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Just need to clear out a lot of dead wood and get one or two off their crutches.

A win is a win but it's now time to go on the front foot more and attack teams with pace like United teams of the past.

That said, if Juve play the same way and beat RM it will be lauded as a master class.:(

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Griezman to United to be the 'Pogba' Story of last year?

Said the other day that Newcastle had triggered the release clause of Gabriel Pires but Everton and West Ham are set to do the same over the next few days.

As for rumours, William Carvalho to Newcastle for £39 million. Couldnt see Benitez dropping that much for that position though.

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Chelsea are taking the day off, the luxury of winning the league but having a cup final soon after.

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Didn't Stop Celtic winning the treble today.

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Let's not go into the Scottish football debate :p:

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What debate? Celtic won the league last weekend and just won the cup today.

I want Chelsea to win though as I placed a few bets today.

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Might switch over and watch after the cricket has finished. :D

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That it's easier for a club like Celtic to pursue a treble when they're in a league setup that's far less competitive. It's not a dig at it, it's just the way it is, isn't enough money involved to push those behind Celtic up to that level to constantly compete. Naturally that only got worse with the demise of Rangers.

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Well 18 balls to go now and its anybody's game.

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It is competitive. The other teams do try, however the other teams just aren't as big or well funded. Also Brendan Rodgers was a great selection for Celtic Manager.

Great winning the treble on the 50th anniversary of the Lisbon Lions fantastic win in 67. The first UK and Scottish team to win the European Cup.

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Bloody brilliant finish, :cool:

Suppose I will have to watch the footie now.

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Well l am sure you can close your eyes and grit your teeth.:D

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Great advert for the new diving rules. Cracking job there Moses :D

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Well if I was pushed I would prefer the Gooners to win. :)

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It might keep the prof in a job..

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The trouble is referees don't act on it consistently.

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Typical controversial game then, Moses is an idiot but that decision for the first goal is horrific. It's correctly called only to be overturned into a goal :confused:

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Yes! Yes! Yes!

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'Referee had a great game'. He gave a team a free goal.

Either the BBC are hell bent on protecting referee's or just haven't got the balls to call out an awful decision. He sent Moses off and apparently that made up for the monumental cock up of awarding a team a goal that was a) Offside and b) delivered via a handball. :erm:

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congratulations Arsenal fully deserved win

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It wasn't offside, he got that decision right.

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Ramsey very clearly interferes with the play, in fact he takes nearly 4 strides and goes to Volley the ball before stopping, baring in mind he's barely 8 yards from the net against a keeper that has then set himself for the Volley.

By FIFA's own laws, Ramsey was

There's literally no argument. If Ramsey is heading off on his bike then it's fair game, he's not though, he's playing the ball. It's not even a hard decision to call, the linesman got it right instantly.

I don't begrudge the Arsenal win, Chelsea were pants before and after that decision. I'm just absolutely oblivious to what the referee has used to justify overturning a pretty simple decision.

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Meh. I think it wasn't a goal because of the handball but we've won the FA Cup so I don't care that much :D

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There's confusion because of tabloid FIFA rules brought up:

They're omitting the team-mate part for whatever reason, just the usual cack though like the Mirror etc.

There's two separate reasons but I'm not begrudging them the win, it happens. It's more annoyance at the BBC saying the blokes had a cracking game. Then Ref's doing their utmost to protect it. Naturally there's been incidents in the past and we're supposedly ridding ourselves of criticism towards refereeing but if it isn't called out when it's wrong, how do you learn for the future.

In their opinion he's had a cracking game because he's sent Moses off for diving. Which in turn was indeed hilarious but two big decisions with a 50% ratio for the ref. As for the Handball, I think it is but I wouldn't be dead set on it either, it's an unnatural position but it happens rather quickly.

The biggest question of the day is really whether this is the end for Wenger or what?

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It always make me laugh when people sing and dance about Celtic winning the treble.

Celtic do NOT have any strong competition in Scotland. If you took Celtic and Rangers out of Scottish football. It would collapse.

I said on this forum about 18 months ago, that when the season starts - give them TWO titles. One for the league and one for the Scottish Cup. And them challenge all the others in Scottish football to take it off them - there wouldn't be anyone, except Rangers, and at the moment they are playing rubbish.

This is why Tv companies wont invest a lot of money in Scottish football.

I used to watch a few games in Scottish Football, and it looked as though the ground was half empty.

Brendan Rodgers certainly took on a good job of winning titles, he will win them every year with Celtic.

Every season all the chairman of EPL clubs get together, the discussion comes up about Celtic and Rangers joining - not the rest of Scottish Football - just Celtic and Rangers join us in England. And it gets turned down.

This is not a dig at Scottish Football, its the truth. Money speaks, and sadly, money wont het invested

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That should keep some of the vocal fair-weather Arsenal supporters quiet for a while.:)

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In all honesty I would struggle to put out 11 players from everyone that was on show at Wembley today that would stay up.

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Indeed but the Huddersfield supporters ain't going to be worrying about that Jim.

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Well done Huddersfield ensures God's own county is represented in the Premiership :). (sorry Den that's me happy again ;) )

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Good grief l think l need to sit down as Mr K being happy twice in a day is as rare as trying to find the extinct dodo.;)

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Arsene Wenger stays on at Arsenal...

https://www.theguardian.com/football...-board-meeting

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He is taken more abuse than I think is deserved. This is probably our worst season and we've finished 5th with an FA Cup.

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That's how Liverpool became the team they are now :D

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Now now that is uncalled for.:D

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Fickle Fair-weather supporters sadly.

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This might please you Dave.

https://www.oddschecker.com/insight/...job?dcmp=fbk93

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doesn't matter who gets SAFC job we in big brown stuff massive debt no money another relegation battle coming up

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Apparently man utd have turned down a 60 million offer for de gea

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...Premier-League

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l still expect him to leave sooner rather then later.

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Quite relaxed about that TBH. If they get that sort of money for him 12 months after almost accepting about half that then it is a good deal for me.

He is a fantastic keeper, the Spanish numero uno, but we also have the Argentinian number 1 and the soon to be Portuguese number 1 at the club.

Would still prefer him to stay but I would be more concerned if Herrara went to Barca.

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Tammy Abraham agrees Newcastle move. Decent move that, would've expected to be pipped to it by someone else. Defender from Lisbon is in the works too.

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What a finish, Mario Mandzukic.

Dybala is getting on my... As are a few of Juventus' players, keep an eye on him, the commentators are calling the foul right but ignoring the way he's deliberately running through the line of sight and launching himself at players for the foul, it shouldn't be any different than diving really... Juventus' are dying to get a Madrid player sent off here, whilst themselves lunging into challenges.

Actually finding it hard to remain neutral here.

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The old lady for me.:cleader::cleader:

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The Ronaldo show. Juventus have been shocking so far in the second half. Wouldn't think they were in the final.

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Disappointing as l wanted someone other then the usual 2 to win it.

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what a team Real Madrid are just pity about the cheat Ramos

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Hate Madrid, not worthy champions of Europe or Spain at all.

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I remember in 2012 when Chelsea's performance was labeled embarrassing. That second half Juventus performance was up there. Literally sat back waiting for it.

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Buy every top player in the world like Barcelona as well and numero uno.

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Bar a handful of players. Barcelona are the leading club for home grown talent. The key midfield that was rampant in Europe of Messi, Xavi and Iniesta were produced by themselves.

Sergio Busquets
Pedro Rodriguez
Cesc Fabregas
Victor Valdes
Carlos Puyol
Gerard Pique

They literally set the standard in Europe for home grown talent and are the elite producers having won numerous European and domestic trophies with more home grown players than any other team in Europe. Manchester United coming second.

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Just heard the sad news about Tiote. :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40163322

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Same. It's one of these rare times I've literally seen this lad throughout his Newcastle career. Compared to Michael Essein at one point and having rejected bids of upwards £20million. Absolutely gutted. That goal against Arsenal, I have a few shirts with his name still gracing the back. At one point he really was the up and comer defensive midfielder of the league before it fizzled out, largely down to his surrounding players at the club.

Again I'm genuinely gutted. 30 years old. An absolutely outstanding Newcastle player during the majority of his time here and worshipped by fans alike. He's another that ended up getting Jonas'd really (See Jonas Gutierrez incident)

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Incredibly sad as this has happened several times these past few years sadly.:(

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Such a dire half I've resorted to watching Indiana Jones on One HD.

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New manager same old England....:(:td:

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Its fine. We got the embarrassing performance to go with the embarrassing managerial appointment.

Gareth Southgate as England manager has really shown the actual interest in the job now. Next in line, Joe Kinnear or better yet David Moyes.

Also note quite a few of Scotland's first team starters were actually out... Just to add to that embarrassment.

From losing to Iceland to scraping a point from Scotland. The mighty England team of Shoulda woulda coulda's

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See that's the thing mate, England aren't mighty or indeed humble.

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Pathetic more like with overpaid over-rated prima donnas.:td:

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As a team they're overrated, as individuals they're good players. It's England's inability to actually play as a team that's ruined them. Not a single player is on the same page as the next. Teams like Spain, Brazil, Germany, France etc all have far superior team cohesion than England do.

If you stuck all 11 England players in the same Premier League squad for a season, they'd perform far better in international football the season after. Obviously that's never happening so onwards to the World cup of racism in which we can be overran by Algeria and Gareth Southgate resigns and we appoint someone that's barely even mediocre.. because any of that is unfamiliar :rolleyes:

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You can watch an England football team play in a World Cup final right now, game is on BBC2. ;)

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And England are the new World Champions, the keeper even saved a pen. :)

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A very good sporting weekend would you say Jim.:)