Today's Football - 2023/2024 Season

[longers]

These commentators, the fawning is ridiculous.

 

[blueconverse]

City players jogging back. Ran their plums over at goodison other week. Gang of quilts

 

[PhilM]

Both goals keeper was way off his line!

I was thinking similar: his angles didn't look great. Would Ederson have saved them? I don't know.

 

[irishblue11]

Ortega is poor goalie

 

[TheBigIguana]

Kevin De Bruyne is still coming on guys don’t lose your heads over the RS yet

 

[adi dassler]

City too open defensively this season. The murderers will walk the title

 

[longers]

You'd think no match had ever had a 2-1 scoreline in the first half listening to these melts

 

[PhilM]

City's defence look like they've been thrown together for a Sunday league game after a night on the ale.

 

[RomanReigns]

Bad week for Walker

Divorced his wife
Injured his keeper
Defended badly for Newcastle’s two goals

 

[Huyton Layne]

Jeremy Doodoo

 

[Goat]

Kevin De Bruyne is still coming on guys don’t lose your heads over the RS yet

I laughed cos its true and people losing their heads is amusing.

 

[gazzaa2]

City too open defensively this season. The murderers will walk the title

City will win it on the last day again.

 

[Goat]

Nathan Ake playing for City gives me hope that I could.

 

[vagablonde - kopite]

No way City are winning the title this season with that defence, leaking goals against average sides, even Chelsea put 4 past them. Just hope they can stop the RS in the fa cup.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Nothing wrong with the rule for me.

Players getting injured is an unfortunate side effect but it’s far better for linesmen to play on, in the interest of sport.

If they put their flag up every time it was tight they would inevitably rule out opportunities to score.

Before this was the rule, people constantly moaned about tight onsides being flagged as off. That was why they changed it.

The only way to fix this particular issue is for technology to be used which automatically decides offsides similar to goal line technology.

Just a prime example of the media desperate to find something to complain about, and managers not helping either.

You are 100% correct. The flag cannot go up on these offsides while we have VAR because it will inevitably lead to a scenario where good goals are disallowed with early flags.

It can't be right that we would have a system where a goal can be disallowed where the linesman incorrectly did not flag for offside, but where the linesman incorrectly flags for offside, we can't award what would have been a perfectly good goal.

Until they have an automated system for offside, then we need to let it play out then the flag goes up. Injuries unfortunately can't be removed from football or top level professional sports.