i will absolutely die on the hill arguing that if youre getting the **** kicked out of you with no calls that you should intentionally injure the other teams best player violently.

maybe when you're like 16, but when you're like 32 and everyone has to work the next morning it's sad and pathetic. Now, if they're doing **** that could hurt people and you do a similar level fine, but if you're trying to break the leg of a guy who tomorrow has to go climb a roof for a living, that's shitty.

it's on the ref though

i hadnt considered pub league type stuff, more so speaking at the professional / competitive level.

Yeah I skimmed over the HS part in your post. My HS team was stacked, was coming off tearing my hamstring so I wasn't 100% but we finished the year 43 GF, 1 GA.

Spoken like a true Matt Cooke fan DS

And that Captain's name was Roy Keane

Why is it stupid?
Liverpool and Man City have to do Saturday, Tuesday - a shorter break

Well Monday and Friday aren’t exactly traditional days for football are they? Could have easily just done Saturday and Saturday.

Anything to back up that race post or?

If that's Harry Kane getting the **** kicked out of him like that every pundit and news outlet would be up in arms.

Also see the treatment of one sterling, Raheem by the media.

Yeh not good enough evidence to be claiming referees are racist.

The most likely scenario is a bunch of guys who constantly make mistakes every week has made a mistake again and now you're being an idiot pushing the race narrative.

It's a weird look to have posted more vehemently against stuff being racist than getting mad at the thousands of instances of racism imo.

what on earth are you on about again?

im against claiming people are racist because you dont like the decision they made when race played 0 part. Referees are incompetent, not racist.
I must have missed the part where ducksauce talked about the thousands instances of racism. Oh wait he never, so i address the topic he was talking about, referee missing a red card and the black player doesnt get protection from referees because hes black.

you really are something special frantic. please dont tell me you think mike dean and VAR staff are racist because they missed a red card on a black player? jfc. im as left wingy social justice as u can get and this is utter nonsense trying to shoehorn race into referee incompetence

sorry for your draw.

Indeed, "high end yellow" is going straight into commonly-used thread terminology. This is the evolution of language that fanny was talking about. Probably.

Orange, almost!

Most freekicks awarded
1. Zaha
2. Sarr
3. Toney
4. Kucka
5. Townsend
6. Ayew
7. Grealish
8. Moura
9. Aarons
10. Tielemans

Seems like a decent mix of player types and races.

Are people really, seriously, doing the "refs are racist" routine? I assumed it was a joke when it was mentioned last night.

I mean, refs are middle aged white men, so of course they're gonna have a bunch of racist prejudices in them. How that translates to their decisions is anyone's guess, though I'll assume it's not as straight forward as them declaring open season on black players to be assaulted

TV companies want "big" teams on those new slots particularly when European teams can't play in them, so it makes sense that the Arsenal/Tottenham/United that year they missed Europe would find themselves in those slots if Chelsea/City/Liverpool are always on UCL duty.

Maybe they should start the both knee initiative so we really end racism once and for all.

Everything is racist nowadays. And I assume you are white so you have no say in the matter - according to Twitter which I do not have as I'm too privileged as is

Yeah, but there's a world of difference between:

a) Everyone has racial biases

and

b) Because of eyeballing some football matches, I'm going to argue that refs are systemically racist against black players because they allow them to be fouled more without correct punishment.

Not mention the lack of consistency with said 'correct decisions'.

No red yesterday is indicative of lack of competence in the refereeing area and trying to make it a racial issue is so current United States.

It's a weird look for you guys to have posted more vehemently against stuff being racist than getting mad at the 0 instances of referee racism imo.