Smiley Culture

I think you’re doing Kane a disservice by saying “we’ll be ok”. We’d not be the same side without Kane, we’d be without the 2018 World Cup Golden Ball winner, multiple Premier League Top Scorer and one of the best strikers on the planet.

You’d hope so. However, any delay to his recovery will then likely have a knock-on effect on his comeback and readiness to play for England.

Terrible news for Spurs and potentially for England, too.

Standard behaviour on the continent from Ultra groups.

Talk of a “daylight rule” being brought in. That’s complete bollocks, if it happens. If you’re offside, you’re offside, much like if the ball is 1mm over the line, it’s a goal.

The building of any ground, especially those in London where land and space is at a premium, is highly impressive.

It’s all a bit shit, this Football stuff, isn’t it? Not Football itself, because Football is brilliant and there’s not a lot better out of there than watching twenty-two lads kick a ball around, but all the bullshit that goes with it. I feel like I drive to work on a Monday and the talking points aren’t stuff like bottom of the league Watford beating Manchester United or City beating Leicester but it seems like it’s either talk about VAR or, more recently, racism and it’s just demoralising. Most people hate it but VAR is here to stay. Granted, there will probably be changes to how it’s policed and who’s in charge of it but it’s not going anywhere. I’m not sure why people still talk about it as if it’s some super computer on a rampage against humans like some sort of terrible 80’s Sci-Fi film either. It’s also 2019, nearly 2020, and we have people abusing people based upon the colour of their skin and the fact that they happen to have the propensity to play Football for a different team than the one they support, whilst lauding heroes past and present that have different skin tones and nationalities that have played for the club they support. Maybe it’s the fact I’m an adult and there’s other stuff in life but Football has certainly lost some of its sparkle and romance. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike football and I’m not going to stop watching it on TV or live but it just feels a bit shit lately.

The tabloids will be overjoyed at this. They’ve waited on Sterling slipping up for a while. Sad that we’re losing our best player but if there has been an issue, I’m glad it’s been stamped on immediately and punishment handed out.

Don’t you have embarrassing “I can’t be racist, I eat curry” or “I can’t be homophobic, I’ve watched Brokeback Mountain” type posts to make when people point out your racist and homophobic posts? Not upset at all but just don’t really like bigotry.

Not bothered in the slightest by politics and what goes on with these corrupt MP’s across the country but that “Workington Man” stuff has really got my back up. Tired stereotypes from privately schooled, silver spoon fed, Rugby Union playing posh country boys is despicable. It’s bordering on xenophobia, really. They wouldn’t say they needed to attract Asian corner shop, for example. Guy Fawkes was actually a visionary in hindsight.

He hasn’t actually apologised and too right, he shouldn’t. As I said at the time, don’t blame him at all for reacting. Fans shouldn’t think it’s only a one way thing, this abuse, and if players react, not to get on a high horse.

Watched Game Changers on Netflix. Definitely food for though there.

A bit more digging and he’s actually reffed at A-League level in Australia, but the fella’s name is Jarred Gillett, whose only reffed 9 professional games here. Scott Ledger, the VAR official for Watford v Bournemouth appears to have never actually refereed a game and has only ever been a linesman, from what I can see on the Internet.

Read that one VAR official this weekend was a bloke that’s never reffed a Premier League game but has only refereed NINE Football League games ever. That’s farcical.

Research is all well and good but until it’s actually live, you can’t really judge something. Were things this bad before? Yeah, but people just lost it that referee’s missed incidents, now they get to lose it that a faceless bloke in a portacabin somewhere has or hasn’t given a penalty.

This. The humans behind it are the problem, the technology isn’t a problem. Even down to the “no goal” thing at Spurs the other week, it just reeks of people who are struggling massively with the technology.

There’s literally nothing in my post that’s incorrect. It’s been in place and live three months in the Premier League and nowhere did I suggest they made things up as recently as three months ago.

The way people talk up VAR as if it’s some computer programme rather than it being operated by a human being is comical. “VAR is a joke” and hilarious shouts like that make my weekend. If the officials running VAR for a particular game are underperforming, much like a referee, drop them but educate them while they’re absent from officiating a game via VAR, this is a new tool that’s been in place less than three months.

What do you get for the privilege of buying a membership for a club?

Unfortunately it’s only the ArsenalFanTV’s and Goldbridge’s that get highlighted. I’m sure there’s some out there that are actually alright but the last thing I want to be doing at the football post match is stood outside a ground surrounded by teenagers losing it because a footballer didn’t kick the ball in the goal.

Blogs aren’t bad, IMO. I enjoy blogs, for the differing writing styles you get and they’re in some cases more informative and interesting than standard journalism. I can’t stand endless tabloid rubbish on offer as “expert opinion from pundits”.

Football Vloggers, especially ArsenalFanTV.

I thought it was strange initially that the driver was named and his picture shown but I’ve since learnt the container was registered in Romania/Bulgaria and was registered to a woman with an Irish address. That’s very fishy. I get why he’s stopped. It’s 1.30am and he’d have to stick to his tacograph but why would you open the carriage?

People who play out their lives and arguments on social media. It makes me cringe but at the same time, I can’t take my eyes away from “swer down on ma babys lifes I will fuk up ne1 hoo gos nr mi lil babii budweiser at his skl” type posts.

Anyone used Twickets?