🚨 BREAKING: The EFL say decision to scrap FA Cup replays from next season was agreed solely between the Premier League and the FA pic.twitter.com/Zh2FYukWIb— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) April 19, 2024
So do we think he'd turn down the England senior job too? Not disputing your point at all but I didn't see that comment and it's quite rare for a coach to only want to remain in high-level development football.
We'll have to wait and see. I maybe totally wrong but I think after the England job is sorted there will be a fair bit of movement in the headcoach/manager market. Remember both Cooper and Potter don't have Jobs either.
I have no idea, but we know for a fact he's turned down the Ireland job already (so I think its pretty presumptuous to think he's suddenly going to take it in September) and as mentioned he was quoted as saying the below
A lot of league jobs will be sorted before England. Particularly if the FA undergoes leadership changes in the wake of the Replay’s debacle.
If the @FA wants to protect the FA Cup and make it more attractive, they should do the following✅Replays to be reinstated right up to the Final✅ Semi-Finals at a neutral ground✅ Final at Wembley, last game of the season✅ Stop showing all Prem ties on TV✅ Introduce…— The Real EFL (@RealEFLSocial) April 19, 2024 I can’t see many of those happening.
I wouldn’t even entertain arguments over player welfare from the premier league if I was the EFL.They couldn’t care less. They just want to increase their profits by playing more continental and international games. It’s pure greed. EFL teams play a 46 games season, plus two cup competitions (3 for league 1 and 2) and possible play off games. The resources they have are not even comparable to that of the premier league yet they do not complain nearly as much. Premier league teams also have multi million pound academies which they do not use.
I wonder what the Europe playing Pl clubs would do if push come to shove and they have to play a replay within 48 hours of a European match. Would they accept playing so close together with full adware’s or prioritise one and play an entirely youth squad.
NEW | Downing St: FA Cup replays have been a “welcome source of income for smaller clubs throughout the years”, & it’s “incumbent on the FA and PL to explain this decision [to scrap replays] and why it is in the interest of fans”, reports BBC’s @HarryFarley_ ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/DlSZdZrSCX— Dan Roan (@danroan) April 19, 2024
Dutch football club Vitesse Arnhem deducted record 18 points for rule breaches."Indications" that Roman Abramovich "has or has had control over Vitesse" and "risks of violation of sanctions and money laundering." Follows @guardian & @TBIJ reporting.https://t.co/zGo4vONO3P— David Conn (@david_conn) April 19, 2024
🚨🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester United have agreed compensation to appoint Jason Wilcox as new technical director.Deal completed now, he’s joining from Southampton as former Man City’s Head of Academy will be key part of INEOS project at #MUFC.Talks continue for Dan Ashworth too. pic.twitter.com/EdviPABgOf— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) April 19, 2024 🔴🤝🏻 Jason Wilcox starts as Man United technical director with immediate effect, involved to plan for the summer transfer window.Wilcox will work on recruitment and Academy, key figure of future structure with Dan Ashworth and Omar Berrada.He was never close to joining #LFC. pic.twitter.com/no5aYvC3gq— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) April 19, 2024
Apparently replays in round 1 and 2 have been scrapped to fit in more EFL Trophy matches. It all stems from the fact it was all meant to be in one massive deal but the PL clubs voted against Masters plan for the New Deal and the FA - having a fixed deadline - has brought it’s part in without the the rest of it.
🚨 Guardiola: “People can’t understand the punch in our face to be out of the Champions League”.“Why not give us an extra day with Man Urd, Chelsea, Coventry not playing in midweek?”.“For the broadcasters... ok, don't ask me to do extra things after the game — because I am… pic.twitter.com/NUif6JwWgr— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) April 20, 2024 Pep doing all he can to make the EFL push for extending FA cup replays with his winging.
What's going on with the Saudi League then? Haven't heard much in the way of big transfers mooted for next window.
Back in the real world, whilst Pep cries about fixture congestion, Gateshead have just played 4 games in a week to reach the National League play-offs... only to now get kicked out by the EFL as their OWN council will not sanction a guarantee that they will remain at their ground for the next 10 years!
Laughable tbf VAR just stole what would have been one of the best moments in FA Cup history.It's a cancer on the game. #MUNCOV pic.twitter.com/6KR4iyGJmQ— Name cannot be blank (@baltipiesmugglr) April 21, 2024 Do we have the biggest clowns in Europe manning VAR?
No because (most) offside’s are objective decisons. It’s not a subjective decision like a penalty. All goals are checked and if it’s says offside the goal has to be disallowed - there is no discretion in the rules. The decision was not incorrect based on the rules. Every countries VAR would have given the same decision. There has been many offsides where nobody has initially noticed it (Inckuding rival players and coaches) but this was not one of them either. I imagine the semi automated offside would also have disallowed this goal.
No it's crap all over Europe, I'm not using that pixelated photo presumably taken off a TV as evidence of anything.
If we had semi-automated offsides maybe but can't be that objective when it's so close and a person is responsible for drawing the lines. That looks as level two players can be and at that point you can freeze the frame a nanosecond earlier or later and can change the decision entirely. When it's that tight there's no reason not to just call it level because you can manipulate the decision either way. You can't say every country's VAR would give the same decision when the decision can be changed so easily on the time the frame is frozen and how the person draws the lines. A player can move over ten CM more or less offside based on a 0.02 second freeze frame either side.
I just can’t stand these offside calls when it’s so tight and offside because someone’s nose is a toe nails length offside! Surely they can come up with a better way like it being obvious with the naked eye the player is offside. If it looks tight and you have check and double check then the benefit of doubt should come into it imo.
Like the line drawing the freezing of the frame is done manually. They've demonstrated it on live TV numerous times. Not only is that susceptible to human error but it can almost never be done at the exact time.
That would require a rewriting of the law of the game and how Offside is determined. There has been movements but it takes time and they would have to decide what the rule says. Having it say something like the naked eye wouldn’t be particularly clearer what with semi automated offside in international use and in the PL from nest season.
🚨 The government of the Madrid region will implement an “Mbappé Law”. 😳It will reduce certain income taxes for rich foreigners. 🤑(Source: @mundodeportivo) pic.twitter.com/KthAYNrkUo— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) April 22, 2024