The Court of Arbitrary Arbitration - Random Facts, Thoughts, Etc.

Rest in peace/power Sir Bobby's brother and iconic Ireland manager in the 90-94 WCs, Jack Charlton

 

Sad news

the 66 winners are all mid 80s ish now

 

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...n-republic-ireland-manager-exceptional-leader

Great read on Big Jack.

 

I want to win the FA cup, but we'll probably need to rest guys soon.

 

We definitely need to rotate/rest. I'd be surprised if we don't have mix and matched lineups for the next 2 fixtures, possibly 3. I expect we'll be full strength for Leicester.

 

WC 2022 schedule has been released.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/53419741

 

Was always clear that Ramos was pretty strong. But was never aware he was this jacked: seriously impressive.

 

The lighting and photo editing definitely add to it but Jesus Christ my guy is YOKED

 

Horse shit. Offisde is offside. As several unbiased folks have said, this is the part of VAR that they actually get right all the time. We don't like it because the margins are fine and we can't tell the difference with the naked eye, but it is what it is.

We also win our fair share of penalties because we play quick football and we have Rashford and Martial in the opposition box. Mane and Salah are good, but it feels like half of their chances come when they are beyond the last defender. We rank among the bottom 3 teams in the league at passing beyond the last defender (Pogba has half of our passes beyond the last man this season). If most of our chances fall to 2 of our proflic strikers who are good dribblers and faster than most defenders well yeah... of course we will get some penalties.

 

The more famous teams and franchises in us sport, always have a bias toward them
If you generate money for the league then you get soft calls

Utd always had them, the Fernandez pen vs villa was the biggest joke of all

then Liverpool vs arsenal, trent catches saka full on the shin but it doesn’t go to var yet nketiah gets a red vs meow eater after they check for 4 minutes

it’s mainly English referee incompetence and bias

 

Like Robert Pires kicking his own shin pads for the unbeaten season? The biggest joke of all?

 

He dived but so did Rooney to end arsenals run

 

I think we already admitted it was a soft penalty against Villa. But other way reaction dont go our way Romeu should have been sent off for his challenge against Greenwood and we would be third.

 

Lol I'm sure Liverpool fans will be up in arms over this.....

 

Don't see what they would have to moan about, if we're being perfectly honest: a Pool player wouldn't have won anyway.
Lewandowski is the one who should feel cheated: he probably would have been the overwhelming favorite this season. The way he's played and the numbers he put up (at 31 especially), were simply incredible.

 

Because they also love to play victim for any reason.

 

Dublin
Stuttgart
Genoa
New Jersey

Countless memories

Thank you, Jack! pic.twitter.com/N2WGKA54Uz

— Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 (@IrelandFootball) July 21, 2020

 

I've decided to try and do a ManU career on FM2020 using what you folks have said in the transfer thread for upgrades/sales.

Pretty much keep the team they currently have and sim until the end of May in 2020 and see what I can get money wise. Then I can sell off Mata, Pereria, Lingard, Matic, Jones, Smalling, Sanchez, etc.

Unless I get sacked. lol

The midfield is where I'm a little torn. In the game it'll be Pogs/Bruno with Matic in the DM slot during the sim (playing a DM with two CMs/ L/R AM). I guess it all depends on if Pogs wants to leave after this year (VdB appears to have greater upside, but Partey is more physical and ready now).

Try and grab Sancho first thing (depending on how much money is around) then the CM/DM and maybe a CB.

I'd love to have your folks input on this.

EDIT: Thanks to the mod for moving this to the right place - I wasn't sure where to put it.

 

The Prem's 2020-21 season will kick off Sept 12th and end May 23rd 2021.

Not confirmed yet, but the league is considering giving teams in Europe this August an extra week before they get started (depending on how far they go).

 

Sancho cost too much on it and best position is LW. Would be better getting Jimenez for the initial 50 m given or Bentancur.

 

Well, I managed to get Sancho, Partey, a LB name Wober, Ruben Dias (CB) and had enough left over to pick up... Haaland. lol

Sancho cost aroud $100m USD, Haaland was another $83m (release clause). Dias I don't recall off-hand.

Sold both Shaw and Dalot for almost $70m combined. Smalling left for another $35m I think. So I started with $168m and sold about $166m in value - so it was a pretty fruitful offseason.