But if a player always goes bottom corner that's really predictable, and a keeper only has to pick a 50/50 chance which way to go and to hope that the taker isn't too close to inside the post. (And, of course, the closer to the post the taker's aim is, the greater the chance of them missing by going...

can I throw in another interesting law of the game that people often don't know? If a game goes to a penalty shoot out and one of the teams has had a red card during the match, the other team has to nominate a player that is excluded from the shoot out so that in case it goes way into sudden death ...

https://i.ibb.co/4PJy1Ck/GLNClv-WEAABWLC.jpg That's easily explainable, though. The Derby team knew they were shite so tended to park the bus and play for a draw, Two lines of defenders tended to keep shots down. Man Utd think they're good and so flood forward attacking other teams, leaving themsel...

So am I. There's constant fan pressure to spend more to compete and succeed regardless to cost or consequence. We all saw it under Madejski. Wheres the money gone? He has to invest to succeed. He doesn't wamt to go up because it costs too much. He's selling our best players so he doesn't go up. And...

So your view is that he's not biased, just completely incompetent Yep, and he's still one of the best in the country which is why he's a PL official. We've seen ourselves what they have in the Championship and L1. And when you see clubs facilitating abuse and conspiracies like Forest are, and setti...

WRTTOP, when a goalkeeper makes a routine catch and throws themselves down on the ground, ball in hand. It seems to be endemic now, and serves no purpose I can see other than to waste time.

Yeah that's outrageous. Hopefully a huge fine and their club account banned from social media posting. The PGMOL also have some questions to answer if they knowingly used a VAR who supported one of the teams that had an "interest" in the result. I think they should sue Forest for defamati...

Won't that just mean the higher-placed team sets up with a 10-0-0 formation and kills the game as a spectacle?

There's also a problem that the decision given affects the game from that point on, whereas with cricket the ball is dead and they can judge things at their leisure. If a linesman flags for offside the game stops, so if VAR proves that decision was wrong then how do you recover from stopping a promi...

How did we do it before these guys came on board. Never saw any problems or issues prior to getting these guys in. Very little has changed n the ticketing world other than adding tickets to respective phone wallets. Maybe the old system didnt work on a smartphone? If this company charges like £5k a...

As with most things in the world, it would be much easier if people were honest. The PL don't want their team to play less games, they just want them to play different "higher value" ones. As has been said, the FA and PL have just decided this is the way forward without obvious consultati...

NathStPaul Said it before and I'll say it again. Cole Palmer is very special.

Whilst Pickford is anything but special...

NathStPaul Said it before and I'll say it again. Cole Palmer is very special.

Very much so.

For further context, Everton's stadium is costing £500M - although I suspect it may have gone up a bit since then. So £3B is just a ridiculous estimate.

Given the last few years I'm not sure we should really be lolling at clubs with batshit mental owners seemingly intent on screwing the club into the ground. That said, £3 billion? Just how could a stadium cost that much unless you're using it for money laundering purposes? Tottenham's stadium cost ...

You don't pay agents just to buy players. You pay them to tout around players you want to get rid of. We've needed to get rid of a lot of players.

It’s got me thinking that transfers should be financed as … 1. All base fees paid up front with no stage payments 2. All add ons placed in escrow 3. All fees and taxes to be paid in full within 14 days, otherwise the registration is cancelled, meaning the buying club still has to pay the player, bu...

Leeds owe 180 million in unpaid transfer fees. :o You know the more I read about these clubs the more angry I get knowing that we have continually been kicked in the nuts. Yes we broke rules but the likes of Leicester, Leeds, West Brom all seem to go under the radar. I guarantee they will get a red...

Next season it should start from 138 and be updated weekly on how many more points we still need to finish top. Standards must be raised. The temptation to set it up as: Champions - 138 Promotion - 138 Play offs - 138 Survival - 138 And track all 4 is there. But keeping it up would be a mammoth bal...

Yep it's been coming for years but it's closer and closer now. Another of the aims of the big European clubs is to go global, so there'll be a local version of Barca, Juve, Liverpool and so on in every territory worldwide. The main clubs in Europe will use the South American, US, Middle East or Far-...