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Today’s Football 2020/21 Season

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Its the offside rule its absolute tosh.

If they amend that rule then it becomes much more enjoyable. You shouldn't be penalised for any part of the body you can not legally score a goal with.

Agreed. The biggest issue with VAR is that it's highlighted that football is based on an often vague set of laws which are open to a wide range of variations. For many years English sides had to adapt their game in European competition as it was commonly accepted that refs from other countries would see the game differently - not incorrectly - just different footballing cultures.

The homogenisation of football and every aspect of every match being scrupulously examined seems to have led to a narrative that VAR in and of itself is at fault or that refs are worse than ever. I'm not sure that's the case - it's a natural result of trying to force binary rights and wrongs on what has always previously been vague interpretation and not subjected to the same degree of examination and coverage.

Mix it in with bias from fans - RS fans will be suddenly aware of the exact rule, Chelsea fans will suddenly be bemoaning the nitpicking technicalities of it all, and a media desperate for relentless content and it blows up into something much bigger.

A minor point I'd disagree on though @ForeverBlue92 is that I think you can now score with the very upper part of the arm/shoulder where the line was drawn. I think handball is classed as lower down the arm, something to do with the (short) sleeve, it's a weird one - largely due to the need to nitpick because of the need for a black and white law after previous furore over whether the ball has legally come off a shoulder or arm.

TL/DR - The biggest issue with football is that people can't accept win some/ lose some when decisions don't go the way they want.
 
7th may not even be enough for Europa Conference as that place goes to League Cup winner now, so if Spurs win that and don’t finish in European place in the league then they’ll take it

Said for a while I can certainly see one if Spurs or Arsenal winning something this season and taking europe when they completely do not deserve it.
 
Liverpool 0 Chelsea 1 (so far)
Liverpool 0 Everton 2
Liverpool 1 Man City 4
Liverpool 0 Brighton 1
Liverpool 0 Burnley 1
Liverpool 0 Man Utd 0
Liverpool 1 West Brom 1

last home win 16th December 2020

no win in 7 games at home

if they lose today it will be 5 home games lost in a row

apparently the first time ever in their history!
 

We'll certainly set up a lot different against Chelsea and won't be playing this ridiculous high line that's getting had off time and time again

Just hope the injuries are back and the lads are fit. Feels like one of those games thats come too fast particularly if Davies is out as its risky playing Allan again imo.
 

Just hope the injuries are back and the lads are fit. Feels like one of those games thats come too fast particularly if Davies is out as its risky playing Allan again imo.

Could be mate but in theory it's a free hit as we've won the games we needed to this time ( Southampton and West Brom ).

Hopefully Coleman, Davies and Rodriguez back to freshen things up, maybe King gets a game so there's 4 changes already.
 

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