LarryDavid wrote:

It’s mid-November.

Its over. 2nd-4th to be decided and relegation. If I was a bookie id pay out now.

Liverpool wont win the league.

RamSteelwood wrote:

LarryDavid wrote:

That ‘pen’ shout hits Silva’s arm first so it would’ve been a freekick to us. I don’t think there’s any of that unnatural arm position stuff for the attacker, if it hits your hand, then it’s handball.

Yeah. Even if accidental, if the contact from Silva arm led to a goal they would disallow it, so you'd think the same would be true of it causing a penalty. I think TAA was lucky though as i think his handball was a 'foul'.

MOTD2 said that City should have had a pen for TAA handball as he deliberately moved his arm towards the ball. They discounted silvas handball as accidental.

Syph79 wrote:

I don’t think there’s such a thing as accidental handball for an attacker anymore, it’s more whether it would have gained an advantage- and in this case it did (or would have). It wasn’t a penalty.

MoTD2 claimed that VAR didn’t look at Silva’s handball, so I got the impression that it’d have been a penalty if they’d given the correct decision.

Which would have been incorrect, as it should have been a free kick to Liverpool.

I used to understand football.

Liverpool scraped a draw with Man United. 2019-20s Man U! Barely beat Villa and needed the softest penalty to beat us. They’ve also let in the first goal in their last five or so games including the great Genk.

They played a team that attacks to defend and shield their awful defence but Man City aren’t singing there at the moment - note they needed to wait till basically the last minute to beat a team at the etihad that had been humped 9 zip the game before.

Did I actually say that?

I think it’s not right to declare the season over on the basis of one game when there are clear indicators why it won’t be a foregone conclusion. Not least Liverpool blew a huge lead last year because they drew a tonne of games they should have won.

Dino is Tabloid Narrative made flesh. Every result has meaning. The signs were always there. Have a lead? Done and dusted. Throw a lead? They’ve always been bottlers. Nothing exists in a bubble. It is all connected.

That’s the ending to Death Stranding that we’ll never get. Dino is the bridge baby, seeing all possibilities at all times. Connecting rumour, triumph, failure, signings, tragedies. He doesn’t talk in his sleep, instead while he sleeps his body broadcasts TalkSport through genetically mutated pheromones.

This sounds like an insult but I find Dino’s enthusiasm infectious. Please never change.

I’m being serious, though - I like what Dino brings to the thread. A lot of us are cynical bastards. Dino ain’t that.

You’re not just any cunt. You’re my cunt.

Warnock linked to Hibs & Hearts. In the name of patter, please, make this happen.

mistercrayon wrote:

Did I actually say that?

I think it’s not right to declare the season over on the basis of one game when there are clear indicators why it won’t be a foregone conclusion. Not least Liverpool blew a huge lead last year because they drew a tonne of games they should have won.

A ‘tonne’? From losing to city in January we dropped points 4 times. Away at Utd and Everton, at home to Leicester and away to West Ham. In any normal season points at Goodison and OT aren’t terrible results. Obviously draws against Leicester and West Ham weren’t great but it’s difficult to be perfect. We then won 8 (I think it was in a row to finish up. The ‘huge’ lead we had was 10 points when City had a game in hand and we had to go to the Etihad. A game probably decided by 11mm. We then lost the league by a point with 97 points, 97 points, which no one else, except for City the season before, had ever reached before. We were magnificent and almost perfect. It’s just City were even closer to perfection. This time round City have to be perfect (effectively) to get a 100 point season from where they currently are. Our margin for error is almost certain to be a lot bigger.

Having said all that, obviously it’s not over, it’s November. But we can say it’s not over whilst avoiding criticising Liverpool for a season that was extraordinary.

Not to over-dramatise it, but that looks like a pretty nasty scar that Sterling has left Gomez with. Certainly more than a 'scratch under the eye' that the papers initially reported it as. Who'd thought Raheem could be such a prick?

Was he ever going to beat stokes though?

Ben

I have warmed to the Ham recently and there is no doubt he is one of not the greatest drivers of all time but still comes across as a bit of a petulant twat (especially on team radio). It's well reported that he pays no tax in this country which will hamper knighthoods and how he is perceived by the public. He's flashy and not particularly humble which aren't the type of character traits that endear him to the general public. The UK still has an underlying problem with racism too which no doubt another reason he hasn't won more SPOTY awards.