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2025-03-16 20:23:04

If United could keep the ball for more than three passes, they'd be running away with this game. Also if they could pass the ball forwards more than once every 5 minutes.
Basically if they weren't the usual turgid back-passing sideways-meandering loose-passing chocolate fireguards they currently are.
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2025-03-16 16:40:21

Prediction: several dodgy decisions go for Liverpool who also avoid at least one red card and they eventually win on penalties only because a Newcastle player hoofs it over the bar.
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2025-03-13 21:26:57

Harsh red card for Real Sociedad. Don't think Dorgu had a clear goal-scoring opportunity there and it wasn't a "violent" enough foul for a straight red. Definitely a cynical foul and a yellow card. But not a red for me.
On the other hand, finally a game where the officials aren't shafting us.
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2025-03-13 20:50:55

If I was Højlund, I'd be begging for a summer transfer. He's making good runs into space and people are still opting for pointless long distance shots instead of passing to him. Unless Amorim puts his foot down and starts laying down the law to the people not passing to him, he's better off out of it because - through no fault of his own - he's essentially a wasted spot on the team.
(It's not specific to Højlund's troubles, really - there's an almost complete lack of football intelligence in this current team. Almost always choosing the wrong option. It's maddening to watch.)
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2025-03-13 20:07:26

Within the first six minutes United have given the ball away a few times - all in their own half - most of them leading to Real Sociedad attacking the goal three or four times. Playing out from the back when you're not 100% on top of control and passing accuracy is flagrant insanity and the manager should be changing the tactics. Lob it up into the opposition half and then if you do lose it, you're not three steps from conceding. This is not rocket science, Ruben!
On the plus side, Garnacho has done a cross. I mean, it went straight out and nowhere near a United player but it's a small divot of progress.
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2025-03-11 21:25:30

If PSG were a little more fluid and tighter with their passes, they could have been 3-4 goals ahead by now. But they keep giving the ball to Liverpool. They're just lucky that Liverpool are having even more of a shocker tonight.
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2025-03-11 13:18:36

I'm no expert in PR but I reckon that if you come out on Monday and say you have to make hundreds of low-salaried people redundant and raise all ticket prices because "the club will run out of money by the end of the year", maybe, MAYBE, don't come out on Tuesday and say you want to build a whole new stadium for £2bn. It's not a good look.
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2025-03-11 08:04:04

“[Ratcliffe] believes head coach Ruben Amorim will be at the club for “a long time”
Place your bets on United having a new manager before the end of this year.
Said it before, will keep saying it - Ratcliffe was/is the wrong person to turn the club around. (The Qatar bid would also have been wrong but for different reasons.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c7571gng06wo
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2025-03-09 18:27:47

Bloody hell, Garnacho has against wasted many opportunities to pass. Amorim really has to start laying down the law about his insistence on selfishly spaffing the ball over the bar or we're never going to make progress.
(If they were going in, it wouldn't be half as bad but they're not even close! Also it's not just Garnacho - the whole team generally lacks football intelligence at the moment - but he's definitely one of the worst offenders.)
Also bloody Raya. He's saved this game for Arsenal at least three times.
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2025-03-06 19:02:00

If Garnacho could pass the ball into the box instead of spaffing shots that have no chance of going in, that would be great. That's at least three today he's wasted where someone else was in a far better position.
Not that United are playing well - it's the same old turgid slow build-up from the back and then giving the ball away with poorly placed passes or wild Hollywoods to an opposition player.
(Also Dorgu just got penalised for pushing a player over. Wrong red shirt, I guess.)
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2025-03-05 21:45:24

PSG are a bit loose in their passing and semi-giving the ball away pretty frequently. Luckily Liverpool - with the exception of Alisson - have been absolutely shocking and either fail to get the ball or give it straight back.
(Also the officials have been letting some ludicrously dirty play from Liverpool go unpunished. Not just PGMOL then!)
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2025-02-26 19:48:48

I am amused by the TNT commentator calling him "Garnasho" like he's one of the Bash Street Kids.
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2025-02-26 19:42:42

I've not jumped on the "Calamity Onana" bandwagon because, y'know, every goalkeeper behind a shambolic defence is bound to be skittish but bloody hell, he makes it difficult when he does insane things like he's just done to give Ipswich the lead.
There's three United defenders covering one Ipswich player. Absolutely no need for Onana to even move, never mind come to the edge of the box. Just braindead nonsense idiocy.
(If this is part of Amorim's game plan, mind, then I retract my shaming of Onana and place it firmly on Amorim instead.)
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2025-02-19 20:18:02

TNT commentary pointing out that the ref is going easy on Liverpool and not giving fouls or cards when they foul opposition players.
Which makes it the third or fourth Liverpool game I've seen recently where this has happened.
Probably just a coincidence.
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2025-02-19 19:57:09

Mac Allister tries to pick a fight with Disasi, comes off worst, rolls around holding his face, and gets the Villa player a yellow because the ref isn't paying attention.
Does Mac Allis...who am I kidding, he plays for Liverpool, of course he doesn't get a card for trying to assault an opponent.
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2025-02-16 18:21:11

1-0 down at 90 minutes and Amorim makes his first substitution. I do not think this is a good approach to a must-win game. I'm also starting to think Amorim isn't the saviour everyone claimed he was and, in fact, isn't really up to the pressures and strains of managing a Premier League team like United.
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2025-02-16 15:23:08

Jota does the most flamboyant and obvious dive to win a second penalty for Liverpool. VAR have sent the ref to the screen and amazingly he has overturned the penalty but then hasn't given Jota the yellow card for simulation. Make it make sense, PGMOL. Absolute criminal officiating.
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2025-02-16 14:43:47

In the process of getting a soft penalty (which would probably not be given for any other team), Diaz pushes the Wolves defender to stop him getting the ball.
Which Liverpool have spent most of the week since the Everton game claiming was an absolute foul. The hypocrisy is astonishing.
(Oh and Konaté just body-checked a Wolves player with no intent of going for the ball and ... a Wolves player gets booked. The corruption is shocking.)
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2025-02-16 14:32:41

Superb. Referee is basically letting most Liverpool fouls go (occasionally giving a free-kick but not giving the yellow cards he should) and, obviously, this is frustrating the Wolves players, one of which just got yellow carded for expressing that frustration.
Getting ever more difficult to believe that PGMOL don't have a standing "go easy on Liverpool" order given what they get away with every single match.
(And you know just how bad it is when Carragher of all people is explicitly calling out the referee's softness towards Liverpool.)
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2025-02-11 21:20:18

Much as it pains me given their opponents but Real Madrid are bloody awful tonight. Trying to walk it in with a hundred tiny passes in the City box rather than just walloping it when they see an opening (which may not work but what they're doing now isn't working either.)
Still, nice to see Silva blown up for a foul after one of his usual dirty fouls. Shame PGMOL refs don't follow the same rules as UCL refs.
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2025-02-08 20:49:40

Dunk is lucky there's no VAR in this FA Cup round because that cheeky off-the-ball elbow to Palmer's chin would (should!) probably have been looked at. Easy yellow card. Could make a case for it being red given it was fairly deliberate and not related to making a tackle, jumping, etc.
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2025-02-07 21:54:40

Honestly thought that Fernandes had spoon-sliced that free kick over everyone and straight out for a Leicester goal kick.
(Also, yes, Maguire was offside and the goal would have been easily ruled out if VAR was in operation but then again Leicester should have had a slew of yellow cards for their dirty challenges. Fair's fair.)
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2025-02-07 21:17:02

Bloody hell, we might have no VAR for this FA Cup round but it's not stopping the officials being absolute showers. Leicester are pulling United players to the ground right in front of the ref and it's not even a foul, never mind a card for the repeated offences (nor one for the late kick on Amad's foot which was the clearest yellow you've seen this week.)
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2025-02-06 21:36:38

Ok, Liverpool are being helped by the ref letting their dirty play skate without punishment but bloody hell, Spurs are being AWFUL tonight.
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2025-01-16 22:15:01

Today's "WTF PGMOL" - Southampton's keeper retrieves the ball a good 2ft behind the dead ball line and ... no corner given even though it came off a Southampton player last.
(Also it sounds like Southampton's goal came from a corner given from a play that should have been offside but I haven't seen the pictures of that yet.)
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2025-01-15 20:53:11

Second time in a week that an "elite" set of officials have given a corner that shouldn't have been given that results in an equalising goal. Absolute shambles, PGMOL. No wonder you could hear people chanting "cheat cheat cheat" on the Radio 5 Live commentary.
(Also from the sound of Radio 5 Live's commentary, the referee in this match is being just as shamelessly biased towards Arsenal as Madley was on Sunday.)
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2025-01-08 21:25:50

Liverpool are definitely getting the rub of the official green again. Jota alone has committed about 6 obvious fouls and shouted towards least 2 of the 3 officials with no card.
Spurs on the other hand are doing a Spurs masterclass[1] and I am amazed it's still 0-0 because they are Not Playing Goodly today.
[1] (e.g. Bergvall does some great work to dispossess Allison but Porro misses an easy shot, gets a second chance from Bergvall, and misses another easy shot.)
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2024-12-29 16:14:36

Michael Oliver doing his best to help City win this game. De Bruyne dives in the box to try and win a penalty? No card. Haaland pulls a Leicester player back by the shirt and then pushes them to the ground? Throw-in to City. It's just such a blatant "thumb-on-the-scales" approach that PGMOL should be investigating.
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