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Today's Football 2016 / 2017 Season

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Alanbileysfeathercut said:
Deli Ali dive shocker
But Swansea relegation fodder surely
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this is where football sucks. ok, let's look past the fact they won't budge on video help. Why not retrospectively ban players for diving? Dives like that will have won the game, but if the player gets banned for 5 games retrospectively (start off hard because that's the only way you'll limit it) they'l think twice. What's dele alli risking exactly by diving? a possible yellow card, refs seem to have given up with booking diving most of the time anyway.

Looks bad for swansea, but bradley had a terrible fixture list to start so it was never going to be a quick fix under him but it's looking pretty ominous.
 

toffeejack said:
this is where football sucks. ok, let's look past the fact they won't budge on video help. Why not retrospectively ban players for diving? Dives like that will have won the game, but if the player gets banned for 5 games retrospectively (start off hard because that's the only way you'll limit it) they'l think twice. What's dele alli risking exactly by diving? a possible yellow card, refs seem to have given up with booking diving most of the time anyway.

Looks bad for swansea, but bradley had a terrible fixture list to start so it was never going to be a quick fix under him but it's looking pretty ominous.
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That was one of the worst dives I've ever seen. He should surely get a ban for that
 
strummer said:
That was one of the worst dives I've ever seen. He should surely get a ban for that
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and yet there's no law in place to say he could even receive a ban. This is why people are falling out of love with football and stadiums are being filled with tourists with camera phones. The bad thing about it though is all the swansea players are mouthing off at the ref, they should all be running up to alli and kicking lumps out of him (in a perfect world). When you see it at real time from the angle of the ref (who i think also consulted with the linesman who was miles away), it does look like a foul. The players should be baring the brunt of the majority of stick, not the officials.
 
WycombeToffee said:
To beat the RS of course! I definitely don't want Wycombe v Everton. That would be a huge conflict of interest for me. I lose either way.
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when i used to watch swansea in the 4th division, on the odd occasion they ventured to the 3rd round i always dreamed they would draw everton. I always thought it would be a bit of a once in a lifetime moment ha. Since they've been in the prem i think we've drawn them in the fa cup and the league cup ffs
 
Seems Man City must have been watching the old RS vids. Aguero with the Dirk Kuyt tackle, KDB with the Ronnie miss.. and then getting done by Chelsea on their own patch.
 

jal123 said:
Should be a lesson to our fans who think a 60,000 seater on the docks is the future. Their season tickets were cheap as chips and they've succeeded in getting people in who want an event or entertaining not to follow the football club.

48-50,000 max with potential for expansion.
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I'd go 25,000, and we ban all wools and out of towners
 
toffeejack said:
this is where football sucks. ok, let's look past the fact they won't budge on video help. Why not retrospectively ban players for diving? Dives like that will have won the game, but if the player gets banned for 5 games retrospectively (start off hard because that's the only way you'll limit it) they'l think twice. What's dele alli risking exactly by diving? a possible yellow card, refs seem to have given up with booking diving most of the time anyway.

Looks bad for swansea, but bradley had a terrible fixture list to start so it was never going to be a quick fix under him but it's looking pretty ominous.
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The MLS bans players for dives. But what do we know.
 

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