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  1. Often find Klopp annoying in his interviews these days but fair play for calling out that Mike Dean and all the other ex-referees who get asked will make up an excuse or new unwritten rule for why the VAR decision not to award the penalty was actually correct.
  2. They probably give that as a penalty normally but there's subconscious bias against giving it when the team has already had one in the game and when it's likely to decide such a big game. Liverpool should have had a hatful in that second half. City really didn't seem at it.
  3. Bearman, a really good solid debut race, fair play. Nothing of much interest otherwise. The only other thing that's commentworthy to me is that Red Bull are taking the piss if they think either Ricciardo or Tsunoda will offer anything more than Perez in that second seat. All three of them are absolute bang average.
  4. Do we not have a thread for Saudi? says it all. I would call out Stroll for being an absolute waste of a seat again but to be honest bringing out the safety car is a reasonable contribution to what was already looking like another procession.
  5. Worst of both worlds for me. Palace Luton match is one goal short for my bet but Palace don't even hold on to the 1-0 to help Everton.
  6. Predictable garbage. Both teams just spent the second half going through the motions because they knew as well as we did that match was over the second Tarkowski lost his mind and kicked Garnacho over. Three weeks without Everton. Get in. Dyche has that time now to reset the team and come back and get enough points not to have us in trouble in the last few weeks. We have the fixtures and this is a good time for a break. I just about trust that he'll deliver but he's winless in 11 and the patience is always less when your matches are shite to watch as well.
  7. This team is torture to watch. Last weekend everyone was crying about how our attacking players need to step up because they're letting our very good defensive players down. This weekend our defenders have responded by leaving all of their brain cells at home. Man Utd hand out points like sweets nowadays and I've just heard in commentary we've not beaten them in 11 years. That's embarrassing. We reserve all of our worst performances for them. They don't even play well against us, we just find ways to gift them goals and wins. Godfrey was initially doing a decent job at right back but I don't get Dyche's vendetta against Patterson. Young and Godfrey have made just as many howlers when they've been given games at right back and keep their place but as soon as Patterson has a wobbly performance he isn't trusted for 3 months. It's more about the fact that he actually runs past the halfway line and it gives the manager a nosebleed. Losing my patience with Harrison as well. Our team is a horrendous place for any attacking player to showcase any quality but you still get SOME opportunities and I can't remember the last time he did anything useful in the final third.
  8. United are absolutely shite and they're not up for it here yet we've gifted them a lead to hold on to and we're more likely to lose 3-0 from counter attacks than we are to equalise.
  9. Obviously a stonewall penalty by today's standards and it's idiotic from Tarkowski but if football was anything resembling a genuine 'sport' anymore it would be Garnacho getting booked there for throwing himself down when he could quite easily have stayed on his feet and continued the attack. Don't know why I watch this shite anymore to he honest.
  10. Gagging for Adrian Newey to leave that team.
  11. Yeah my betting is based on the Asian handicap line and Asian goal line in the first instance and that's where the bulk of my money goes. Although I'm starting to see some serious success on Asian Corners (both totals and handicaps) after tweaking my calculations again. I'm also doing nicely on match shots and shots on target and team shots and shots on target. The Asian lines odds are usually better although there are exceptions. I often find the draw no bet market can be better value than the 0.0 handicap one. Also you get the early payout safety net on bet365 by taking a straight win over a -0.5 as well so there's pros and cons. Nice 6-2 win for Gala tonight to get me started anyway.
  12. My offering for this weekend: Galatasaray host Caykur Rizespor this evening. Rizespor aren't the worst team in the league, in fact they're in the top half. Their away form is terrible though with 3 draws and 7 defeats in their last 10. Travelling to Galatasaray who have a 100% home record this season doesn't look likely to change that. 1.66 should be decent odds for Galatasaray to win by a couple. I got on Over 2.5 for Palace and Luton when it opened at 2.025. I think these odds are really generous even now at 1.75. Luton games tend to be goal heavy with an average of 3.5 match goals for the season and 8 of their last 9 league matches clearing this line. I won't pretend to be an expert on Glasner but you wouldn't say his appointment is likely to see a reduction in the goals they'll see when compared to Roy Hodgson. Statistically speaking, the last time a Palace match didn't have at least 2 goals was back in October when they drew 0-0 with Forest. 14 of their 19 games since then have seen 3 or more goals. Luton generally manage to score in games but their defence is awful and I'd back Palace to score at least a couple. £10 returns £30.10 Edit: changed my pick to the Asian version of the same bet which slightly increases the odds. Leaving my original betslip below because I think it's useful if you didn't already know to see the difference in price for the exact same bet.
  13. @OrangeKhrush @MUFC and @DeadLinesman left.
  14. No, the whole establishment (PL, Sky, etc.) didn't like Leicester's title win at all and from what I understand that isn't a secret amongst footballing circles either.
  15. This is exactly what I've been saying all season. Everton have spent 4 months not knowing how many points we actually had because basically everyone in the world knew that the 10 points couldn't be allowed to stand. Now we have closure to some extent but you can't deny the 4 point difference that was incorrectly allowed to stand has impacted on the integrity of the competition this season. You could argue any number of things about Luton getting a huge boost from our penalty, the 10 point weight on the players impacting our form over the past few months, the impact on Luton, Brentford and Forest now that the league table has been rewritten in our favour. The most scandalous thing of all is that if Everton and/or Forest decide to appeal the upcoming judgements on this season's breaches then the appeals won't be heard until after the final weekend of the season, so Luton could finish 17th, 1 point ahead of Nottingham Forest, and then an appeals panel is going to decide whether or not they've actually stayed up. It's an absolute disgrace yet nobody in the media is even giving lip service to it. Who cares about the sporting integrity of the bottom half of the Premiership or the rest of the English football pyramid when we can spend an hour of Sky Sports News analysing how much Phil Foden's xGA has increased over the last 12 monhts, the average age of Liverpool's bench, what Jim Ratcliffe's investment means for the Old Trafford roof and how many records Arsenal have broken this month by beating most of the bottom half of the league 5 or 6 nil each who aren't allowed to spend money on improving themselves? The PSR breaches have dominated our season. You're absolutely correct. Supporting Everton this season has been taking a short course in football finances to try and understand how many points we might get back, waiting around while the Premier League piss around for 5 months over whether or not the shambolic cowboys that are 777 will be allowed to buy the football club off the Iranian lunatic who has already absolutely ruined it, with the potential threat of administration looming if they don't allow it, and watching our shoestring squad try to overcome their glaring limitations by anti-footballing and set piece-ing their way to the 40 point mark, all for the privilege of starting the whole thing again in August. Football is absolutely on its arse.
  16. This is exactly how I felt several months ago when people were sneering at us for calling the Premier League corrupt and asking why we don't blame the club and ownership. These rules were either brought in to stop the likes of Newcastle "doing a Man City", or to stop rogue owners from mismanaging their clubs to the point of "doing a Leeds", depending on the agenda of the person trying to explain and defend them. All they're doing is turning that mid-lower tier of the Premier League into a circus and it won't get as much attention, but the Reading situation is scandalous as well. Constantly getting hit with points penalties because their owner is fucking mental. Hitting them with more and more points penalties when the guy who owns them clearly doesn't give a fuck is just driving them further into the ground. Worst of both worlds is exactly right. Clubs having to make competitive sacrifices to offset the poor spending of an incompetent owner and then getting a competitive penalty to hold them account for the actions of an owner that have already harmed the club.
  17. This is the thing. Poor ownership is almost incidental now. Leicester used to be held up as the "Brighton" of the league not more than 5 years ago. Look at their scouting, look at how they've challenged the status quo, etc. A few poor transfer windows and bad decisions and you can find yourself relegated and irrelevant. It was Southampton before Leicester and the cycle will come for Brighton as well. Leicester have made plenty of mistakes over the past 3 years or so but compare that to how Chelsea or Man Utd have been run and your club looks like a model of sustainability. A handful of clubs are competing in a sport where they can afford to make mistakes and take risks. The rest of the pyramid is in constant damage limitation mode, trying to tread water to keep above the relegation line and below the PSR loss limit line.
  18. FFP genuinely needs to be scrapped. Clubs genuinely guilty of financial doping don't fall foul of it and it hasn't prevented owners like the bloke at Reading from running clubs into the ground. All it's achieving right now is locking in advantages for clubs based on their long-term revenue and causing league tables to be rewritten multiple times a season, affecting the sporting integrity of relegation fights and promotion battles up and down the football league. Then because of the grey areas in the rules, the different mitigations, obfuscation and creative accounting put forward by football clubs, competitive results are being thrashed out in court rooms by lawyers and accountants. Nobody liked it when Chelsea and City bought their place at the top table but at least you knew the league table was actually the league table. They need to rip up the current rules and implement some sort of live accounting so that clubs know what they can and can't afford to do and any breaches can be as close to black and white as possible. The current system is being shown up as an absolute shitshow.
  19. It'll be based off the championship standings. If Magnussen and Sargeant score 0 points all season then they'll get sorted in the F1 championship by their best race finish. If Magnussen has a pair of 12th places as his best result and Sargeant only has one then Magnussen will finish higher in the Drivers' standings so he will win the match-up.
  20. Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? Max Verstappen Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS? 1. Sergio Perez 2. Charles Leclerc 3. Lando Norris Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Charles Leclerc. 3rd Bonus Question - Which team will have the highest finishing position out of Williams, VCARB, Haas, Sauber and Alpine? VCARB Extra Season Prediction - A more interesting set of match-up predictions to replace the team-mate battles where so many people have predicted almost the same combination. This is a question of who will finish higher in the Championship and not linked to the Saudi race specifically! Which driver will finish higher in the Drivers' standings of each of these combinations? Verstappen vs Perez Hamilton vs Leclerc Norris vs Alonso Sainz vs Russell Piastri vs Stroll Gasly vs Ocon Albon vs Tsunoda Bottas vs Hulkenberg Ricciardo vs Zhou Magnussen vs Sargeant
  21. Predictions - Saudi Arabia Grand Prix Should have got this done earlier in the week. Qualifying on Friday and race on Saturday again this weekend! Please note the changes to the Podium predictions (top three without Verstappen) and fill in the new match-ups which will replace the largely predictable team-mate match-ups in our season predictions! All other predictions remain as they were. @RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @The Palace Fan @Coma @DeadLinesman @OrangeKhrush Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? [INSERT DRIVER] Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS? 1. [INSERT DRIVER] 2. [INSERT DRIVER] 3. [INSERT DRIVER] Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Charles Leclerc. [INSERT POSITION] Bonus Question - Which team will have the highest finishing position out of Williams, VCARB, Haas, Sauber and Alpine? [INSERT DRIVER] Extra Season Prediction - A more interesting set of match-up predictions to replace the team-mate battles where so many people have predicted almost the same combination. This is a question of who will finish higher in the Championship and not linked to the Saudi race specifically! Which driver will finish higher in the Drivers' standings of each of these combinations? Verstappen vs Perez Hamilton vs Leclerc Norris vs Alonso Sainz vs Russell Piastri vs Stroll Gasly vs Ocon Albon vs Tsunoda Bottas vs Hulkenberg Ricciardo vs Zhou Magnussen vs Sargeant
  22. They're changing the limit to almost double from this summer I believe.
  23. Now Verstappen Sr and Marko making noises about Max going to Mercedes, presumably to put pressure on the powers that be to get rid of Horner. He's never been likeable and I wouldn't miss him but to be honest my only interest in this is a Red Bull team meltdown that would make the sport interesting again because it's the only way any other teams are getting near them before at least 2026.
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