Did you see the VAR penalty decisions for the handballs in the City/Leicester game? Ridiculous. Leicester's wasn't given in the first half and then City got one in the second.



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I can't see what the difference is between them. They're either both handballs or neither are. They need to get some consistency with the handball rule. It's either all or nothing. Either give them anytime the ball hits the hand in the area or only give them if they're purposeful which is hardly ever.

Bastard tokeweed with the correct score on this match again. Only person to get it as well.

It will all depend on the contract. Wilder probably has a rematch clause if he loses seeing as he's the belt-holder. If he wins he'll probably just move on, but maybe Fury also has one. Depending on how this fight goes a third fight could be even bigger.


Lol. It's not going to be on Youtube. The only way you'll be able to watch this for free is if you find an illegal stream. Dazn are showing it on some of their platforms but it depends where you live. It's on the German one but not The Canadian one for example. They do offer a free month trial and you can cancel at anytime and it's a great service in my opinion if you're into sports as they show a lot of stuff not just boxing.

I had 1-0 down but then changed it to 1-1. Just watched the highlights and not sure it was a red card. Another one of those hard-to-call ones or ones where there's not much in it. I guess they probably just kept watching it and then decided they probably should have given it. Seen them given before but at the same time others get let off. They probably shouldn't have said anything. I think the VAR refs having to make a decision as quick as possible is going to lead to these sorts of things and errors made both ways. It's not like this was deciding a goal or a goal-scoring opportunity though so it's not that big of a deal in my opinion.

This is one of those fights that is so evenly matched it's hard to call, especially after the draw in the first one. Wouldn't surprise me at all if that happened again but draws are fairly rare in boxing so it's probably unlikely to happen especially when that decision was so controversial (even though I think it was the right one). Wilder is probably the slight favourite to win and if I had to pick a winner it would be him but I think it might go the distance again if he doesn't knock Fury out. Gonna set my alarm for 4:30 in the morning so I can watch it either way.


He's said a lot of stupid stuff in the past but I thought he was over this nonsense and had grown up a bit. It's a shame because he seems like a decent guy otherwise and could be a good role model and spokesman for a lot of causes but always puts his foot in his mouth. I'm sure he would have been a shoe-in to win the BBC Sportsman of Year Award but he always says something controversial around the time they do the nominations and he screws himself over.

This is the issue for me though. How can UEFA be objective or be fair in handing out punishments. They seem the judge jury and executioner. Couldn't they just pull a random figure out the air to fine them? It's obviously in their interests to fine them as much as possible and that why these things need to be independent of the governing body. I dunno how I feel about it. I don't know the full extent of what City did yet as I haven't read up in depth, but there definitely needs to be some harsh punishments for teams that essentially just cheat by throwing money at players, but at the same time I don't think they should ruin clubs or be biased in their decisions.

Cliques are obviously going to develop anywhere and people make friends just as they do enemies. There's nothing wrong with that but people are becoming biased to certain things especially if they're pally with people and the reporting of users posts as off topic when it was one of their buddies that took it off topic in the first place is a perfect example of that and people need to knock it off. If people don't like each other they should either just ignore them or keep their beefs out of every other thread and keep it confined to Reputation or something because threads going off topic is out of hand.


Some will leave, but what about all those users that are given negative that don't deserve it? If you haven't got a thick enough skin or feel like the forum has betrayed you in some way you would have every right to think fuck it and leave and this probably happens more to newer members than older ones. Neither shouldn't have to accept it or just grin and bear it. You might not get along with certain people and not like their behaviour but obviously users like tecshare and timelord don't deserve negative feedback as much as you might dislike them. If you're not a scammer or there's no very strong suspicion that you are one then people shouldn't be leaving negative feedback. The only exception I would possibly make is for the full time trolls who are only here to be disruptive, but again and as I've said before, I think people are stretching the definition of a troll and tagging people who they just don't agree with.


It's helpful, especially to newbies, or at least it was more so before the flags, but people should be responsible for their own money I guess. I honestly don't know whether it would be worth just getting rid of negative feedback for all the drama that's involved with it, but it would lead to a lot more people getting scammed but that's the compromise.


Unless you can somehow make all mods part of a hive mind then there's always going to be difference of opinion in enforcing the rules, all you can do is enforce them to the best of your ability, but one person may think someone is trolling whereas the other doesn't. Some people think their posts are on topic when they're clearly not and when there's humans involved in either scenario you're going to get differences of opinion.

Are you sure? I think they should be given a grace period as to appeal so it doesn't effect them if they're successful in their appeal, but from what I've read the ban comes into effect for the next Champion's League and is until 2022.

There's a lot of questions answered in this article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51511252

Luckily for City it seems most of their big players are contracted beyond 2022 so they should be safe from refusing to sign a new deal because of no Champions League play. Sergio Aguero's expires in 2021 so he could leave then but only waiting one more year for Champion's League football shouldn't be a biggie. I wonder if Pep will be true to his word as well. Something tells me he could just throw a fit behind the scenes or something just to get sacked, which I'm sure he would be anyway if they don't start winning the league again, which should be much easier with no CL games to worry about.

Yeah, I went with 3-0. And yes, the most frustrating ones are when you lose out on any points at all by one goal. Even more so when you go for a risky draw and you're one of the only ones who did. You go from getting a very valuable three points to nothing and other's grow further away in the table. I guess that's the gamble though and you've got to take them with the wins you do get, especially when nobody else goes for them. 


They can't be relied upon now. Certain teams like Man United and Chelsea used to be called 'bankers' as betters and bookies say, but not so much these days. I don't mind playing them on the pool but they're not usually teams I'll be so sure about putting on an accumulator.

It's possibly a good idea. Whilst it's rare that it happens, there have been a couple of instances where a user has disagreed with where their thread should go and then kept moving it back every time. Those users just ended up with a ban though. Maybe mods can choose to 'lock' a thread into a particular section if this happens but I'm not sure it happens enough to warrant changes and as I said users would just get a temp ban if they became a nuisance. As for the thread I think you're referencing that's a tricky case. I think due to the wording/promises he made it does look like a scammy HYIP, but I'm not sure it actually is.


This would be even less likely I think. Threads can be locked once they're resolved but they shouldn't be trashed. As long as they're not constantly bumped for no good reason they will quickly be forgotten about.

Yeah, it's getting annoying. Even more so when I'm one goal out and he gets the correct score  . I think Chelsea should win this one, though maybe 1-1 is also a good call. Spurs have won their last three games but aren't playing great really and especially without Kane. Two of the teams they've beat aren't anything to boast about but they did beat Man City three weeks ago. I'll probably go for mostly narrow home wins this round. A couple of draws here and there. The Leicester/City match being one of them, though I hope Leicester win. It's probably the only game I'll watch from this weekend. Anything could happen in that game really.

So Pep addressed the city situation after the West Ham game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKVY-2-8kw

He said he will stay with City until they sack him so that's respectable. He even apparently said that he would stay with City even if they were relegated to the second division. Now that's something I would like to see  . It's going to be interesting seeing what does happen with this situation. There's obviously going to be a long legal battle as City appeal. I don't know the full extent of the shenanigans that they were involved with but I think there should be some serious repercussions for teams that purposely break the rules and try hide it, and it shouldn't be limited to fines either. I think they should start docking points or even relegating teams. That would send a clear message that it's not going to be tolerated and I doubt any club will even try it after that.


Yeah, I had no interest in them. Roll on next week.

It was a decent enough. Liverpool actually had far more possession - 73 percent in fact - but I'd say the game was 50-50-ish overall. Liverpool had a goal disallowed and I think they deserved a point at least. They should win the return leg I think, but they could have done without the pressure, but if they can come back from a 3-0 defeat at Barca then they can certainly do this one as well. Not gonna bother with watching the two games tonight. Gone for narrow home wins in both fixtures. Next weeks matches are far more interesting. Madrid vs City will be one to watch.

Don't forget there's a sneaky PL game on tonight. Man city v West Ham. Can't say I'm bothered by this game or the other two Champion's League fixtures today and City should win comfortably, but the City game might be worth watching to see if the West Ham fans are chanting anything about their ban haha. I'm sure there'll be some boos or 'cheat' chanting. The Leicester/City game on the weekend could be a big one. Definitely one I'll be watching.

Yeah, that was it. I was flabbergasted by that, especially when I didn't think it was a foul and any rational person can see what happened. I can't wait for the time a player punches someone in the face but VAR finds a foul earlier in the build up and then has no option but to rescind the card  and the player gets away with a free punch. I mean, it's not a foul right if VAR says otherwise  ? It really annoys me when they pull things back like that. Unless UEFA can invent a time machine play should stop whilst they make the decision. Or just not bother with it if the ref hasn't called it.

Well it's obviously much more difficult to predict because these teams don't play each other twice a season and often teams have to go against different styles of play that the European leagues have. Travelling to different countries makes the away games even more difficult than usual as well I think. Maybe even climate plays a part. England is sure a lot colder than Spain especially right now  .


I think he would be unwise to play anything other than their full strength team and I can't see him resting players. I don't think this game will be easy for them. A draw is likely what I'm going for unless they do put out a weakened team.


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Line-ups:

Atletico Madrid Starting XI: Oblak, Vrsaljko, Savic, Felipe, Lodi, Koke, Thomas, Saúl, Lemar, Correa, Morata
Liverpool Starting XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Mane, Salah, Firmino

I had 1-1 in but 1-2 is looking tempting or maybe even a 1-0 Liverpool win now. Liverpool seem to have their full strength team out and Atheltico are without Costa, though he is on the bench. Liverpool are by far the better team and Madrid haven't been playing great, but as above away in Europe is a big factor.

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Ex Member. He's not on my trust list any more. I'm now a lone wolf.

Well of course he's going to say that. He's not going to admit to violent conduct and suggest he should have been sent off . The Son situation is very similar but a bit different. He blatantly kicked out at someone in frustration. Son's was worse and more clear cut in m,y opinion.


Yeah, momentum is never taken into consideration either. A similar thing happened for Real Madrid a while back. I can't remember what game it was but a player struggled to stop and clashed into Marcelo and knocked him over and the goal that was scored after was disallowed because of it. It was ridiculous.

I watched the game. The kick incident was 50/50 to me. At first from the angle shown it didn't look like he did much and maybe he just kept his leg up to avoid a clash, but then from the replays he did extend his leg as if to give a light kick. I've seen players sent off for things like that but it was very light. I'm not sure it was a sending off offence but I suppose you could make the argument that it was technically violent conduct. One thing people were complaining about though was the ref didn't even review via VAR.

It's a real shame about the two disallowed goals. VAR strikes again with someone being an inch offside. I thought the disallowed goal for the push was harsh too. He went down real easy.

But we've heard this all before. I'd suggest you remove any mention of specific profit levels and just advertise it as a trading bot if you're serious about it being legit. If what you were saying is true you really wouldn't need to sell it because you could just reinvest your own money time and time again and profit infinitely until you have all the money in the world.

Not unless you ask a mod. If you're confused just said a friendly PM to the sub board mods to see if they can shed some light on it. If you're repeatedly having posts removed that you don't believe should have been then either contact an admin/Global or create thread in Meta with an argument as to why you believe they were removed in error. You can PM as well and I can search the report queue to see if there's any handled reports but if another mod has just removed the post of his own volition then I wouldn't be able to tell. As I've said before, I think the best solution would be for theymos to implement a system where we can choose a reason from a drop down menu and/or give comment in an additional field and that would solve a lot of problems. Sometimes users might make a relevant and on topic post but if it's for instance in a thread that has been necrobumped then all new posts are liable to be removed and this has annoyed a lot of people in the past because they just see their relevant and constructive post get deleted.