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Rashid bowling very well, however, one or two of the others have been bowling too short and not a very good line.

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Taffy on the wing wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 9:40 pm
Just 0/72 from 7 overs.......forgettable debut!

He also had a golden duck.
Things can only get better from here for him. Line and length bowling was non-existent and you will always suffer if you don't get that right before you try any variation.
Good luck to him for the future.

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Great to see that England are still playing Hundred cricket.
Oops, I forgot, they have now faced 129 balls and only lost 8 wickets -----is this really a 50 over per side game?

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PGMO (there is no L now) are definitely not being dictated to by the Premier League. They have to use the laws as laid down by IFAB but at least make some positive attempt to use common sense. Very good Tony, however, perhaps somebody should let this lot know! https://www.premierleague.com/en/refer...

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Remember that it is the Premier League who are dictating to the FA and PGMOL just how the game should be played and administered and, as long as the officials are under their control, they will have to do as they are told in order to continue in their jobs. It is a sad state of affairs, however, whe...

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Quite a diatribe Rowls, however, the majority of things which you complain about have been prevalent in top football for many years now. PLayers not retreating 10 yards at free kicks, foul throws, throws and free kicks taken somewhere in the vicinity etc. Don't blame referees for not clamping down b...

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Newcastle fans hardly ever had a good word for him because they did not understand his contribution during his first half season to help their defensive frailties. In his second season, when he played, he never got the service because they didn't put crosses into the box. At least he stayed loyal an...

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Chris always scored more goals for us in the second half of the season and there is no guarantee that he would not have done the same when he left. He score 49 league goals for us and 28 of those came in the second half of the season. HIs transfer to Newcastle added a lot to their defence of set pie...

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Sorry it didn't all copy over. Here is the complete interpretaton guidance:- The referee will decide when the goalkeeper has control of the ball and the eight seconds begin and will visually count down the last five seconds with a raised hand. If during the counting process an attacking player press...

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Can you show me this rule change please because I don’t think this is correct. JUst to clarify that this is what is written in the interpretation of the 8 second Law by IFAB. The referee will decide when the goalkeeper has control of the ball and the eight seconds begin and will visually count down...

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He has never given us a decision against any of the supposed “big”clubs. Only good win I can remember with him in the middle was a 0-3 at Crystal Palace. That had more to do with how dreadful they were and no contentious calls to make. BTW. It was a pen. A shove in the back and the ball was live. T...

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The referee will decide when the goalkeeper has control of the ball and the eight seconds begin and will visually count down the last five seconds with a raised hand. If during the counting process an attacking player pressures or prevents the goalkeeper releasing the ball, an indirect free-kick aga...

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We certainly need a finisher, however, we all knew that anyway. We had some really good spells in that game but if you don't score goals when you are having these spells it will nearly always come back to bite you at any level.

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Kgun5 wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 16, 2025 3:49 pm
He's the only ref that I'm positive is a jackass to know off the pitch.

Great bloke who does a lot for local football and always has and has no airs or graces Sorry to disappoint you ---his dad is exactly the same and was also a League referee.

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Clive 1960 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 15, 2025 11:20 am
Just was wondering if we should sing the National Anthem when we play Liverpool at home and see if they join in after booing it in the Charity Sheild last week..

To achieve what?

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What the hell was Smith doing? He had the warning with the first two balls which he didn't need to play at but then -----what a sucker!

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Smashing series to watch and it could still be an interesting finish. When our 4th wicket went down in the first innings we scored a further 72 runs before we were all out with Brook being the lsat wicket . WHen our 4th wicket went down in this innings we needed a further 73 runs to win. The compari...

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claretburns wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 03, 2025 9:37 pm
Didn't Charlie Austin fail one at Hull back when he was with us and Steve Bruce released the info to the press and the reason for the failure and therefore we received a lower than expected offer from QPR when we sold him?

Yes but Charlie thought that it was high.

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Christ that didn't take long. Congratulations deteriorate into "well, the standard is terrible and Lucy Bronze wasn't playing with a broken leg". They played against women, they won the whole tournament, and Lucy Bronze played through a lot of pain to do so. Well done her, and well done them. You c...

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Just like the 'rule' about making a player leave the field if they require treatment (except keepers), cue a new phenomenon of keepers getting cramp and groin strains three times a game. This has been happening in the Womens' Euros with keepers going down 'injured' when their team has been under a ...

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Surely if implemented correctly the introduction of this law would be welcomed? As was seen last night and in other games I have watched in the Womens' Euros, it is not being implemented correctly, although the keepers can be very crafty and bump into oponents and this could be seen as impeding the...

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The eight-second count begins when the goalkeeper has full control of the ball and is not being challenged by an opposing player. The referee will visibly count down the final five seconds, ensuring the goalkeeper can see the countdown. If opponents begin to pressure or obstruct the goalkeeper durin...

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It certainly wasn't applied in the Womens' UEFA Championship game between Germany and Spain last night, although it is in operation in this competition. The referee, who was very robotic in everythig she did, failed to punish the keepers for holding on to the ball. The German keeper in particular he...

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Pretty academic now, of course, but if Siraj had his wits and his bearings about him on that last delivery, could he have kicked the ball away as it trickled towards the stumps? Think I read somewhere that providing a batsman has already hit the ball, (which he had) then he would be ok doing that. ...

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Smashing Test Match and a good win for England in spite of their shortcomings in certain areas.

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Great to see 3 out LBW and 2 out bowled -----what a difference accuracy can make. Come on guys, keep it up.

Smashing catch of his own bowling by Jofra Archer.

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One bowled, two lbw and the other wicket down to a fast, short bowl which drew the batter into playing a poor shot. I am pleased that they have seen fit to bowl in a very sensible fashion and have got results. A good game to win from here.

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Batters only get bowled if the bowlers bowl at the stumps. We have lost that art as far as I am concerned. It will be the usual mix of too short and too wide in the hope that we can buy wickets. We are unable to play Test cricket these days, with one or two exceptions.

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Three days have seen 232.5 overs bowled so, even if you add on a further 8 overs for between innings, we are still 30 overs short of what should have been played. If this continues we will be short of another 20 overs in the next two days which makes total of 50 overs in the match. This equates to m...

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Watching Gill and the Indians complaining about Crawley calling the physio on because he was struck on the fingers reminds me that, just yesterday, Gill, who was fielding, lay down on the field because he said that he had some injury or other. Physio came on and they treated him for quite some time ...

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Last 7 tests against India we have managed 2 win and 5 defeats and three of those, including today, were very heavy defeats.
Certainly need a rethink for Lords, however, I am not confident that it will happen. CoolClaret hits the nail on the head with his observations.

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Our first win and Derbyshire's first defeat. Thoroughly deserved and very fitting that Jimmy took the catch to win the match.
Some really good performances and we looked like a team with desire. Onwards and upwards.

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:36 pm
Nick Woltemade looks a real talent

Which is more than can be said for the referee who has fallen for every dive that the Germans have made. Yes, some were correct, however, it looks to me as though he has never played the game.

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Well done to our lads who stuck to their task and defended well and were helped by a couple of smashing saves by our keeper. Semi final next. Good luck to them

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Switch the sound off, the football is still the same and just like being at the game. Better than ever with some good vinyl playing as well.
Sadly, that [enalty will cost us because it had given the SPanish a boost. The ball should have been in Row Z but that rarely happens these days.

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CleggHall wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:02 pm
Brook a very lucky boy, caught off a no ball in the last over, irresponsible youth!

We have a team who ae excellent at falling for their own hype. That shot by Brook, at that stage of the game, was horrible. He is a very lucky lad but Bumrah will sort him tomorrow

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If the ref had got it correct he wouldn't have apologised to Emery afterwards, which he did. It was an innocent mistake by a good but raw ref, one local to me who was a teacher before a ref and he deserves a fair break. The scandal is how PGMOL appoint refs to these games, in a fashion which disadv...

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Was he VAR then? No he wasn't. He had been VAR on the Manchester City v Newcastle UNited FA Cup game two weeks before that Chelsea game, however he did not referee again until he refereed us on the Tuesday after that Incident at Chelsea in our home match against Wolves when he booked two Wolves pla...

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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Sun May 25, 2025 8:49 pm
Didn’t this same referee send one of our players off incorrectly, against Chelsea I think?

He’s a complete clown.

No he didn't.

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This is an excellent example of how there are two different interpretations as to The Laws of the Game dependent at which level you are playing football. Only in the Premier League is there the interpretation which led up to this terrible injury. In every other game of football played in England on ...

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I saw it on tv in real time, it was blindingly obvious. Stevie Wonder could have given that offside and he's 75 now. I feel sympathy for Sian Massey-Ellis because she knows that she would hav flagged in any game outside of the top level and the free kick would have taken place 5 yards inside the op...

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He’s claiming to have given up being in control of Forest I believe. Yes, this was in our local paper the other day:- "With Forest set for European football next season, Marinakis recently relinquished day-to-day control of the club in order to avoid breaking UEFA rules. While he remains the club's...

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Ash has always given 100% and that is really all that fans require from any player. I wish him all the best whatever happens in the future.

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The referee, who has been much maligned on this board, was in the perfect position to see the incident and there was no offence committed as far as he was concerned. He probably judged it to be a 50/50 challenge which is a normal part of any game. THe problem is that, in the future, I can see all ph...

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SO many Clarets fans are quick to slag off both Liverpool and Leeds fans for whatever, however, their fans have given the football authorities every reason to throw the book at clubs whose fans invade the pitch for whatever reason. No fans went on the pitch of one club who had just become Champions ...

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Ashingtonclaret46 wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 23, 2025 6:42 pm
First game in August 1952 and seen 9 promotions and 9 relegations ---I would like to think that I have reached my limit, however, who knows what is round the corner in football and in life.

Should be 10 and 10 ---the ups and downs of being a Claret.

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First game in August 1952 and seen 9 promotions and 9 relegations ---I would like to think that I have reached my limit, however, who knows what is round the corner in football and in life.

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Who knows what the "West Ham Way" is? David Moyes certainly achieved their best position in the PL in 2020/21 when they finished 6th, their highest place this century and this was folloowed by 7th place in 2021/22 which led to their entry into the Europa League which they won in 2022/23. In 2020/21 ...

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CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:37 am
I note that Backhouse has only been given a couple of L1 and L2 games since the Sunderland game. Not a single Championship game since.

He is refereeing Middlesbrough v Plymouth Argyle on Good Friday.

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Goliath wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 12, 2025 7:59 pm
How old is he?
I remember him being linked with the big boys at 15/16

He was 22 in February.

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