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Alli is a serial offender as we all acknowledge, however, this match was littered with players going down with the slightest contact and Kevin Friend did extremely well to sort out the genuine fouls from the manufactured attempts to con him. Just 20 minutes into the Man U v Chelsea match and similar...

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Come on quoon ---you can't have the fans enjoying themselves at matches.

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Great tribute to a real 'Claret' who served the club for so long and was certainly a character.
You can guarantee that he would have entertained us had he been able to see the building as it is now.

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CHEWBACCA wrote:Oh dear .
Anyway Pontus Jansson looks a talent,worth a cheeky bid in the summer to our feeder team?

A 6ft plus Swede who hails from a place just a bit north of Newcastle and who finds it necessary to wear gloves in evey game he plays in our mild climate ----he would go down very well with SD.

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Fan on the pitch attacks player on pitch. Who shouldn't be there? No case to answer ---player didn't go looking for trouble.

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I hope that you get sorted out with a lift.
Because I sustained a bad head injury on Christmas Eve I am not allowed to drive until August at the earliest so I am stuck up here in Ashington because the train is a hike and a half.
Good luck with your request.

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Bennell is getting his just desserts, however, I am very sure that this is only the tip of what could be quite a big iceberg. I understand that there are investigations still going on in various places, how much will come to light will be open to conjecture and could well depend on other victims hav...

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Good to read about Clarets doing well at whatever level. Everybody has to learn their trade and the fact that they are playing means that they are learning!

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It must be good for the lads to be involved in such a competitive league rather than one where one club is running away with it

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I have watched two and a half games on TV today plus one local game live this morning. One of those games was played between two teams who made no attempt to cheat or con the referee and it was a pleasure to watch and a very competitive match where the teams and their management showed respect to th...

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Unfortunately, Charlie, it will not stop, it will be expanded because it is being media driven. I think that it is such a shame that the powers that be are making all sorts of decisions which will change a game to satisfy the whim of one or two. The people who will suffer the most from this are the ...

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IanMcL wrote:Technology is there to assist, not change what would happen on the pitch. In line is in li e from eye view, not a milimetre via a line on a screen....that's not football.

I agree totally Ian.

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My sister and nephews have gone on the Leeds - Bristol City game (birthday party for one of their friends), so I think I'll watch that when they kick off. I'd like Rochdale to win. I remember going to Spotland for a trial about 92 years ago (or so it feels). I had to laugh at your 92 years ago beca...

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I'll bet his agent is doing all he can to get him a move --nothing to do with whether or not he is happy, it is all about more money for the pair of them!

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Interesting reading this with all these ideas about making the game more exciting. Many people tell me that the game is much better to watch these days, with far more superior players ----so ------what is the problem?

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Technology didn't fail - the reviewer failed to interpret the event and the rule that says, if level, attacker deemed onside. So poor reviewing refereeing. So one person's opinion should have been the same as the opinion of the onfield official, however, because of technology, this didn't happen. ;)

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The officials, including their leader, are being directed from a higher authority, although I am not 100% sure who. The whole thing could well be media driven, as someone has stated above, because he who pays the piper calls the tune! Wherever the driving force is coming from the whole thing has not...

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Mata was probably as far offside as where the ball was placed outside the quadrant on three corner kicks taken by Huddersfield on their left hand side in the first half. It was very obvious that no part of the ball was on or overhanging the line, in other words, it was obviously place illegally and ...

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Sounds like it was an entertaining game and it keeps it very tight in a very competitive league. Thanks for the updates CT

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I too am at a loss for words. I had a fall on Christmas Eve which resulted in a head injury which has stopped me from driving for 6 months and I was feeling down because I can't get to the Turf. I now realise that, at the same age as you, I am extremely lucky that I am able to get on with things reg...

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IanMcL wrote:According to my BBC sport app there is less than a 1% chance of any of the top 9 clubs being relegated this season. Breathe out!

B'mth in 19th have a 2% chance!

It could be that 37 points is enough this season.

We are Premier League...again!

Ian --did you mean 10th for Bournemouth?

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It's a smashing game to watch with the various tactics involved. Just watched the GB Ladies win a very tight match against China which went to an extra end. They now have 2 wins and 1 defeat so far.

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A bit before my time would he get in the present team sounds a good un utc He would get in a lot of teams in the modern game. He played at a time when football was far less sanitised than it is now and was far better to watch because you had class like Martin but also wingers with pace and defender...

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For a Lancashire lad he was certainly very cultured. Happy Birthday Dobbo and thanks for the memories.

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Now that cheating has become acceptable if they then ban tackles it will actually cease to be the game I started watching all those years ago, if it hasn't already. Add to that players getting more per month than many people will earn in a lifetime it will then be time for many, including possibly ...

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All those statistics prove is that, apart from the Swansea and Southampton games, out shooting is far more accurate than the opposition. The game against Newcastle that you show was the best for shooting accuracy with both sides being 41% accurate, however, we scored and they didn't.

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Jack Grealish today got quite a kicking one way or another but he stuck to his task and we are just talking about one player not multiple players in one team. Someone mentioned about Guardiola wanting tackling banning. I remember reading an article attributed to him about four years ago where he was...

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Looking at the current bottom three, they really have some possible hard fixtures coming up. Southampton have still to play Chelsea and Man City at home but also have Stoke ( who are in the mix) and Bournemouth --these are their only home games because they played West Ham at home when their stadium...

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The best thing about Smalling's dive was that a free kick was awarded, he was cautioned and Newcastle scored from the resulting free kick. For once, justice was done! Having said that, I watched three games today and the one that had the least attempts at cheating was the Championship deby game betw...

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Pearcey wrote:Nothing like Kevin Long imo. He is looking every bit a Premier League defender. Some players develop later than others.

Exactly what I was getting at!

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Yes but it must have been very entertaining for them Bournemouth fans who have to do a 500 odd mile round trip. They can't complain because they have been entertained and seen 5 goals, even though their team didn't muster one shot on target in the second half ===still 5 goals to be entertained with...

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Do you mean just like Kevin Long?

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Well they aren't in the highest league position that I have seen them in, however, their performance as a team is amongst the best I have ever seen from the Clarets. It is such a shame that the team performance is unappreciated by many fans. All the hype around football these days try to make us bel...

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Just for the record, even if you add Pope and Heaton's saves together they are still not top of the list.

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You have to remember that they are playing against Eddie's ---you score a few and we will score more ---philosophy of football ---ecpecially for those of our fans who are craving more entertainment rather than results.

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Andre did manage to get on for another 8 minutes today in a Watford defeat at West Ham --he must be good because he replaced Richarlison!

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"Swansea have took 6 points off us for a team that's been in the bottom half all season is certainly not good enough "

I think that someone needs to check their facts. It is still only 3 points for a win ---isn't it?

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Yes, it certainly is bad that we have gone the same way as Liverpool and Arsenal and the all-conquering Wolves in recent matches at the Liberty Stadium. We have only beaten Swansea 4 times in 22 attempts away from home before today so, in view of Swansea's recent form and the past history, it was no...

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Thanks for the updates, better go and get warm now and prepare for tomorrow.

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Your night is getting worse by the minute CT, still 28 minutes to go though.

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Come on CT --how much pleasure did you derive from this sentence?

"It’s the return fixture at Thorp Arch with the young Clarets looking to do the league double against the Championship club’s youth team."

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Good programme for those of us who often think outside the box ---is it my fault that we haven't had a penalty this season?

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It is not being replaced because it would cause lots of arguments if they had to show things from the VAR. The FA has decided that it would be better to keep the fans who attend matches in the dark as to what happens in a review, thus avoiding any controversy!

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Tall Paul wrote:He won't because deflections don't count, which was the original premise of this thread.

You can bet that that will depend on who is playing whom --it is all in the referee's opinion you know

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We had been long overdue a change of luck in the penalty area and it happened last night, thank goodness, because the referee did nothing to help our cause during most of the game.

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Good report Tony and enhanced by a couple of my son's photographs --- one of which, as a Clarets fan, he was happy to have captured --the other one not so!!

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His first PL game apparently and unfortunately it showed. How he could not give us a penalty for the foul on Cork I found incredible. It was up there with the none award at Huddersfield Not quite his first. He refereed the opening PL game of the 2016/7 season between Norwich and Crystal Palace. Thi...

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I had also read about what he has gone through and it was a very sad thing to read of his suffering. R.I.P. Paul.

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Rowls wrote:Only the top line is the definition of a foul.

The rest is explanation of different kinds of foul. Contact is not necessary to commit a foul and its mpresence does not automatically equate to a foul.

Except if you are a pundit!!

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JohnDearyMe wrote:Is he a regular starter for them? Now out for our game anyway

Yes, he has started the last 11 PL games after an in and out start to the season when he started 3 and came on as sub in 5 PL games.

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