Plus they hadn’t really won, they were just in the lead when it was abandoned. I’m guessing if they had been losing when their fans caused the match to be abandoned the loss would stand, but obviously it’s not fair to give them a victory under these circumstances.

Clearly the answer isn’t fewer fans, it’s more fans! The only way to stop a false fan operation is to have a counter false fan operation of your own. The only way you can guarantee your opponent doesn’t have fans pretending to be your fans is to have your fans pretend to be their fans.

Rodri is simply not as good as Fernandinho (yet). There’s no question they’ve missed Fernandinho in the midfield, even if he’s fairly done well as a defender.

Completely agree on your points about Fernandinho. He’s a serviceable CB, but City need a serviceable CB and a world class DM. Rodri has been good enough in some of their matches but has been pretty poor in others (Norwich comes to mind).

I don’t agree that Liverpool’s results have been lucky or unsustainable.

The only thing grosser than this video was Tess and Booger’s extended (and I mean very extended) defense of Gregg Williams.

He’s mobile in the pocket but not a runner, has a big arm for being so short, and is reckless with the ball. It’s actually a pretty good comparison , and I think he made it borderline by accident.

My point is that the word “guaranteed” has limits.

It’s a two way street. Guaranteed money is guaranteed to the extent that you don’t try to fight the GM in front of your teammates and actually show up to work. If you fail to uphold those hilariously low standards then there are clauses in your contract that allow the team to not uphold their end.

I’m extremely confused by all of this. He tried to fight his boss and has on multiple occasions refused to show up to work, and Deadspin’s biggest bone of contention seems to be that the Raiders are being unfair by not guaranteeing his salary.

Gruden is kinda weird and their GM used to be on the TV so let’s pretend they’re all equally responsible for Brown’s actions, woohoo!!!

Counterpoint- he’s fine but has some flaws and is a long way off the elite class of defenders you seem to believe he’s already in.

They’ve been paying him handsomely and reportedly gave him a large signing bonus since there wasn’t a transfer fee involved. I get that a transfer fee of even $1 is technically a transfer profit but that doesn’t make it good business. Whatever they sell him for in the future is almost certainly going to be less than…

Oh I completely agree, I think it was all very odd for the exact reasons you outlined. I just wanted to clarify the situation, because writing that Rashford was “removed” from penalties makes it sound like OGS decided he wasn’t good enough and wanted someone else to take them. What OGS actually did is arguably worse!

I’m a Liverpool fan so it pains me to compliment a former Everton/current City player, but I think you’re underrating Stones. I’d put him on the same level as Maguire, and he’s arguably better than Maguire because he’s much quicker and better on the ball.

Marcus Rashford, who was controversially removed from penalty duty in favor of Paul Pogba on Monday against Wolves

Counter-counterpoint: he’s pretty mediocre, and you only think he’s good because United’s alternatives are Phil Jones and Chris Smalling.

I mean that’s all well and good but you can’t deny that he needlessly lost the ball and is partially responsible for Palace’s winner.