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Having that mid winter break is all well and good, as long as the 'big' teams don't use it as an excuse to go swanning off to warmer climes and play in some cleverly arranged money grabbing 'winter' cup competition.
I think we all know which clubs would participate if given half a chance.
Having that mid winter break is all well and good, as long as the 'big' teams don't use it as an excuse to go swanning off to warmer climes and play in some cleverly arranged money grabbing 'winter' cup competition.
I think we all know which clubs would participate if given half a chance.
l give you three guesses Sir.
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It was a very nice day last year when Julians team and mine battled it out at Wembley.
Yes it was a long time at the bar without a drink Jim.
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Well at a guess every single team in the league.
With yours at the top of it...
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Yes it was a long time at the bar without a drink Jim.
Twas my third visit to Wembley in 12 months.
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Reading some interesting information about Old Trafford just now this little gem caught my eye.
In the space of a year, the stadium set two attendance records – 70,504 was the largest pre-war crowd at Old Trafford for a United league match (Aston Villa on 27 December 1920) while the lowest attendance of 13 saw Stockport County play Leicester City in 1921, in a game moved from Edgeley Park which was closed due to crowd trouble.
Seems like unruly crowds are not a recent phenomenon after all.
First half penalty is a pretty easy one too looking back at it. It's an easy foul anyway, the penalty although is a penalty I'm not sure about, we've seen them given as free kicks outside the box. You assume Smalling gets a yellow and naturally he picks up a second one for diving later in the match. Doesn't work out like that though so there's no real argument there. Justice is that Smalling dives, gets booked and Newcastle score from the resulting free-kick.
Valencia pulls off the extreme fortune of not walking down the tunnel early. Newcastle fans aren't going to be too annoyed now, but I can imagine a few teams are miffed they've seen their own players serving bans for exactly this.
Two big decisions, both completely wrong.
Firmino doesn't get a penalty? But hold up, we were literally punished against Palace because Clark put his arms around the forward in the box from a corner, which is it please, it can't be a foul and not a foul. So Palace get one, it's a foul, Lamela for Spurs, foul and lastly Firmino, no foul, majority of other games over the week, no foul. I mean what? What are the purpose of rules if we're just going to skate either side of the rule rather than straight down the middle.
It's not about Newcastle, Man United or Liverpool here, it's once again about the shocking amount of decisions that are wrong each weekend now. How far backwards have we actually gone. I can't recall another season where this was a weekly problem now. I remember it being once a month or so. We're not talking about daft free kicks here either that they get wrong every game, we're talking about game changing decisions.
At least we're training refs right at the lower levels.
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No better in La Liga, watching Valencia v Levante. Levante have just had a perfectly good goal, scored from a corner disallowed because a Valencia defender was pushed to the ground. Only problem with that, it was a Valencia team mate who quite clearly pushed him over.
To compound the felony Valencia go straight up the other end and score.
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And to make things even worse an appalling penalty decision against Levante, unbelievable that he has given that.
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although you better wrap up warm as it can be very very cold at Wembley in late February.
Twas my third visit to Wembley in 12 months. 
