English football 2021-22

[Durhamfootman]

Newcastle concede another late equaliser

they continue to draw their way to the foot of the table

[mikesiva]

League Cup final will be Liverpool vs Chelsea.

[Durhamfootman]

Terrible getting old.... I keep nodding off

today I found out that Newcastle won a f ing game of football, which is clearly just a dream, so I think I must have dropped off again

[Durhamfootman]

Middlesbrough march on in the FA cup with a hand ball and 8 well taken penalties.

VAR confuses me more every time I see it used

[Gingerfinch]

Middlesbrough march on in the FA cup with a hand ball and 8 well taken penalties.

VAR confuses me more every time I see it used

Get rid!

[Durhamfootman]

or make the process better. There seems to be an incomprehensible decision every week. They really don't help themselves

[mikesiva]

Nottingham Forest beat holders Leicester 4-1!

[sussexpob]

or make the process better. There seems to be an incomprehensible decision every week. They really don't help themselves

The referees and FA just close ranks, and the press is just full of 75 year old refs telling us why the decision was right.

Apparently in this case it was accidental, so the rules say its ok. They do indeed say that, but they also say that if a player is in an unnatural position or if he moves his hand towards the ball, its a foul. Do you need your arms out like Jesus on a cross to control the ball? And even if he did, his arm moves down towards it.

So regardless of what Mark Clatternburg tells me about the rule, its a handball... according to the rules.

And thats before we get to why some absolute moron decided to change the rules to allow accidental handballs in the first place. What next? Fouls will be allowed if you dont mean them? Offsides allowed if not deliberate?

Nonsense. Whoever dreamt up that turd of a rule needs put up against a wall and shooting.

[sussexpob]

Get rid!

In all sports. Used to think technology would improve the feeling of getting cheated, but its worst... much worse. Time to go.

Does anyone want it in anymore?

[Durhamfootman]

Get rid!

In all sports. Used to think technology would improve the feeling of getting cheated, but its worst... much worse. Time to go.

Does anyone want it in anymore?

TV broadcasters

[Durhamfootman]

A comprehensive scoreline for Yuppie's boys

Forest march on.

[mikesiva]

Bournemouth next. Not a great draw but a day out at the seaside!

Borehamwood win 1-0!

[yuppie]

A comprehensive scoreline for Yuppie's boys

Forest march on.

There is something big brewing at the City ground. But if they don't go up then it will be a different tema next year. If only Houghton was not in charge for the start of the season.

Garner, Johnson, Worrel, Spence all look like they have big futures ahead of them.

Its a joy to watch Forest again and it reminds me of Paul Harts years in charge. But as i say, if they cant get up this year, it will be a totally different team next year. Got to wonder how good Middlesbrough right backs are if Spence could not get a game

[Gingerfinch]

Bournemouth next. Not a great draw but a day out at the seaside!

Borehamwood win 1-0!

Brilliant stuff! A big pay day next at the very least!

[sussexpob]

On a more sour note, the amount of fan incidents in UK football at the moment is very, very worrying. In recent weeks we had incidents at Wycombe (player being abused with chants about him being a paedo all through the game, without grounds), Everton (Villa players being pelted with missiles), Southampton (three fans fighting with stewards and setting off fire works), Spurs (Chelsea player hit with a bottle), West Ham (a fan was arrested for assaulting an attending paramedic), Forest (pitch invasion and a fire work set off in the Derby v ..er Derby)....

This weekend it took a darker turn, with some idiot fan running on attempting to hit (the Fleetwood manager says he did hit him, but the fan doesnt get much contact on him judging on the video) a Fleetwood player as he was attemping to take a penalty and score a late equalizer in a game at Rotherham. He had booted the ball from the penalty spot before that..... after a melee lasting a few minutes, Fleetwood then missed the penalty. And then at the City Ground a Leicester fan ran onto the pitch yesterday at the Forest players and landed a few punches as they celebrated a goal. To top off a shameful weekend, Oldham fans invaded the pitch and set off fireworks after scoring a late winner in Scunthorpe.

To put it simply, if I am manager of any of these teams I take my side off the pitch and we get the bus home. I would not watch my players get assaulted and continue to have them out on the field unprotected. Disgraceful behaviour, and it real feels its heading back towards the hooligan behaviour of the 1980s.

Fleetwood should be awarded the win v Rotherham. The FA need to start dishing out some massive fines.