Recent content by Alan

My pedantry answers to no man 😎

Currently an active shooter in the neighborhood/borough just next to my own. "Multiple" police wounded by gunfire. Knew something had to be going on; about an hour ago the sirens started and they still haven't stopped. Haven't been able to hear the shots, thank goodness. This country...

Damn you and your photographic memory!

Yannick Sagbo as a #10! A season that made me wonder if the real KJ was on an island with Tupac and 80's Michael Jackson.

Exactly my point.

Isn't it? Seems to me the scrutiny has never been higher, at least not in the last ~15 years.

This definitely won't happen often whilst "clear and obvious" is in place. Circling back to Tony's point about psychology, with VAR structured as it is now, sending the ref to the monitor is already saying "you've probably got this wrong".

The binding vote won't even be until June, that's plenty of time for it to fall apart.

See how you get here but it's a very difficult thing to narrow down to just the presence of VAR.

This is it. VAR hasn't made the refs worse, it's just put the spotlight (a minutes-long, game-freezing spotlight) on just how bad they actually are at this.

I kind of want Burnley to fluke it. I can appreciate that they haven't immediately blown up Kompany's project, such as it is. Although tbf if I had my druthers, Luton and Burnley would both pull it out somehow.

*Gvardiol *Haaland 🤓

Can’t imagine that even those fans would have much patience for him, especially Bragans (whatever they call themselves).

Played left (and sometimes center) CB in a 3 for FCC so seems he can play just about anywhere.

I think Bournemouth could well overtake Chelsea and the Fighting George Michaels. I like Iraola and though they don’t look convincing all the time, he seems to have hit on an effective formula there.