I was all geared for defending Sunderland for the reasons you say, but it's pretty clear this boardmember knew enough to drop him quicksticks. I'll give everyone else the benefit of the doubr, but she had to go.

You could argue that Bilic has been able to do that because Allardyce stabilised the club to the point that a riskier appointment could be made, though.

Hypothetically, yes. You see it regularly when they go a minute or two over and it’s not beneficial for the home team.... there’ll be so much shit from the crowd that the referee’s probably thinking about not wanting his windows to get smashed or his car keyed, so then he blows.

Exactly!

I think that Premier League referees are now professional, but they certainly weren’t in the 90s. At this level? I’m really not sure but I’d hazard a guess that they’re not pro.

That isn’t the rule though. If there are 3 minutes of injury time to be played, that’s the minimum amount, not the maximum. The referee may not have done anything wrong in terms of the rulebook, but his actions break convention and an attacking move is normally allowed to play out before the whistle is blown and…

The amount of injury time displayed on the board held by the 4th official is the minimum amount of time that the game should continue for. After that, it’s entirely at the discretion of the ref but full time should only be blown for when the ball’s still in play. Now, there are conventions that if a team is attacking…

Enrique is correct in saying that positioning and reading of the game is a skill, but it can also be chance. They were easy chances, so the only way of judging it is if he can replicate it consistently.

You can always count on an Arsenal choke!

I believe Liverpool are trying to sign the next Marcus Rashford!

Haven’t you seen MMA before?

Wow, nobody needs to go to medical school with insight like that! Who knew....

This really isn’t worth posting about, other than to show a clip of a KO. Yes, the guy was out but the ref was in there pretty quickly. This is not a bad or dangerous stoppage.

+1 Defence lawyer.

What’s the world coming to when you’ve got to check which food items, cars, clothes, films and fuck knows what the fuck else you’re about to discuss with reference to another party? Orange soda is racist? Jesus....

This explains a lot about Phil Jones’ face....

Deal.

That’s how i understood it too. I know it’s an eye-watering amount of money, but he says that he thinks he’s worth it and doesn’t blame Toronto if they don’t want to take it. He’s very magnanimous about the whole thing; acknowledges that they took a gamble and won and that he took a great deal that he in the end…

Fair points, though I think you’re giving van Gaal far too much credit. He’s shored up the defence but at the expense of any creativity; he’s actually broken attacking players, and that’s completely on him. I live in Greater Manchester and the calls for his head arose as early as last season, but I’d say United fans…

Mourinho going to this United would be like the moment in video games where you’ve just beaten the final boss and you're full of joy, but then it transforms into something even more hideous.