Billy Talbot

I want their titles stripped, a points deduction that guarantees relegation and them being barred from promotion until their owners sell up.

TBF they've not won at Anfield for over 50 years, so yeah, he's right to be disappointed to do so and nothing wrong or disrespectful saying he is.

Yeah I don't like it either.

Was always close enough to clatter him and take a yellow.

Well yeah, he makes a piss poor attempt to show him outside and given that he must know that Hudson Odoi is desperate to come inside it's a really bad bit of defending. Either show him outside or flatten him. Don't try to stand him up, he'll just cut inside. That's not hindsight either, that should have been their specific instruction for that situation.

What annoyed me specifically about the goal is that is what Hudson-Odoi does. Does no-one watch football? Why is Bradley showing him inside and why isn't Ali expecting him to curl it into the far corner?

Ah fair enough. As part of the bass players union I always paid more attention to Powers. I don't know any of them or looked too deeply into it. John (Jon?) Powers always came across as red though.

"I see many colours but the only one that's coming through is red" is a bit bold for an Evertonian. They'd have him drowned or hung or locked up in that little prison for that by now.

Just imagine. Him or Chiesa.

After offering £15m last winter.

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He can't tackle and he knows it. He disappears once he's been booked.

I think they need to be put in the championship and barred from promotion for multiple seasons. I don't think relegating further than that is fair on the clubs and towns that will have to put up with their ****head fans coming and filling their grounds and "doing the poznan" which is exactly what I see happening.

Yeah, I'm starting to think this way. Either Darwin gets with the program soon or I think we'll have to find someone else.

I seem to remember the consensus was he's a bit too short and too slow to make up for it. He'll have to be a hell of a player to get away with both of those as a defensive midfielder in the PL. Whenever I watched him he got booked for things that looked like they were rooted in either of those things and I didn't watch that much of him and that was in the Confeds Cup. And he's a nark. Nothing wrong with that but from what I've seen he's not for us right now.

Yeah clearly. Although days missed are heading in the right direction.

The U21s are playing Crewe away tonight in the EFL Cup. That might be worth a watch for some potential incomings to the first team squad. It's live on Sky Sports+

The U21s are playing Crewe away tonight in the EFL Cup. It's live on Sky Sports+

I sort of get the Chiesa thing. He wouldn't come expecting to be picked every week. He'd offer some cover for Salah and would be able (if fit) to play in the early rounds of the cups. He'd also cover for 10, so would allow at a push for Dom to play 6, same as Elliot does. So it does, in a roundabout way add another body to midfield. Essentially replacing Clark but with more versatility. Still doesn't mean we shouldn't be signing a 6 though.

I'm sorry sir, we've just run out of Zubimendi. Would you like some more time to decide?

Conventionally, you buy players before you sell the ones that you replace, otherwise selling clubs have you over a barrel. I suppose things are changing a bit with PSR and players wages becoming a bigger proportion of the overall transfer costs. But even so, if we're well below PSR thresholds (which we very much are aren't we?) then surely the value is in buying before we sell, rather than everyone knowing we have a great big pot of cash and are in need of bodies.

Yeah, it's flawed, but it's respected because it's derived from a logical process and the umpires have got better at calling the right decisions ie, the close ones that aren't umpires call are more often than not confirmation that the umpire was correct rather than overturning them. This is just an excuse to cover up ineptitude. VAR will never properly accepted until it's primary objective, as with the use of tech in other sports, is to at least attempt to and give the best chance to arrive at the correct decision. Football refs seem to be convinced that a poor decision made in good faith is somehow sacrosanct and they can't get their heads around that complaint that VAR introduces double-jeopardy into that accusation.

They've just stolen the "ref's call" thing from cricket. Of course the thing is about "umpire's call" is that it brings a layer of subjectivity to highly analytical and logical process that sometimes does end in a "that's too close to call" result from the technology that does benefit from the umpire's initial instinct. And cricket umpires are really good at calling LBWs and have got better and better at them as they've worked with the technology to improve their judgement process. In that context "umpire's call" actually has some validity and credibility and that's what they're trying to steal. In reality "ref's call" will just be "ah "**** it", let it go, which is the exact opposite of what umpire's call stands for in cricket.

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