With respect, we were missing TEN actual first team players.
Van de Ven, Romero, Bissouma, Sarr, Maddison would all have started. Bentancur has gone down again. So our first choice CBs and our first 4 midfielders out.
Richarlison, Solomon, Perisic, Sessegnon all give us depth and may have come off the bench.
No club in the country could absorb this scale of player absence, yet we still dominated the match and should have won.
also sacking the Icelandic guy
I can’t believe for a second anything comes of this. It has already been heard and it is far beyond any normal recordkeeping period so it seems almost impossible to make a defence in 2024.
Further to that the evidence was gathered by Sky Andrew breaching Jermain Defoe’s privacy by accessing his phone records.
This one will go to court if they decide to make any sanction.
You are completely wrong. If your approach was adopted you’d have extraordinary amounts of VAR stoppages way above what we already have now. Imagine every VAR review the ref has to go to the screen and deliberate after the time VAR has taken to decide he’s missed it and get the footage and explanation ready.
You’re describing an approach that kills football as a sport.
I think we’d be better with a review system, honestly. Give teams a chance to challenge decisions whenever they like (limited to a number of incorrect challenges) and have no VAR pro activity at all.
No, HE was sanctioned. I would imagine that Abramovich has some legal avenues still open and that is what is causing the delay.