Saturday football

[Coffee]

"ASTON VILLA vs BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION (1230) Four wins from six have seen Villa climb surreptitiously up to sixth. Brighton have done even better. They’ve won all but one of their games this season and were it not for defeat at our hands they’d be level with Man City at the top. Two managers with a reputation for detail and decent football make for an appealing start to the weekend’s fixtures. It also makes it hard to predict. So refuge will be taken in the comfort of the fence. Draw. BOURNEMOUTH vs ARSENAL (1500) Things aren’t quite so finely balanced at the Vitality. The fence is the most the Cherries can realistically spire to in this one, though even that seems a tad far off. The two managers are childhood friends and seem to share the same barber. This should be fairly straightforward, but it has to be done. Away win. EVERTON vs LUTON TOWN (1500) The Toffees have a couple of encouraging results under their belt, at last, which should instil some of the confidence that’s been painfully lacking for a long time. Luton will want to put a stop to that, but can they? Nope. Home win. MANCHESTER UNITED vs CRYSTAL PALACE (1500) Ninth hosts tenth. Man U are too good for Palace. No surprises today. Home win. NEWCASTLE UNITED vs BURNLEY (1500) Eddie Howe seems to have a record of getting his sides properly into gear only once a few games are under his belt. Their midweek victory over Man City should have given the Geordies a mega boost. Sorry, Burnley, you’ll still be second from bottom at the final whistle. Home win. WEST HAM UNITED vs SHEFFIELD UNITED (1500) Only one who? Yep, him. What kind of reaction will the Blades show to their 0-8 mauling last week? With luck, their confidence will remain shattered, presenting all three points on a platter to their massive opponents. An early goal will help. Home win. WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS vs MANCHESTER CITY (1500) Wolves have managed four points from their six games to date. An uneven encounter is in store. Away win. TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs LIVERPOOL (1730) This should be a cracker as two top managers and top four sides do battle. Impossible to say who’s favourite… so: Draw *SUNDAY* NOTTINGHAM FOREST vs BRENTFORD (1400) Forest are still unbeaten at home while Brentford haven’t yet got into the swing of things. They lost their last two league games – at home to Everton and away at Newcastle – and drew at home to Bournemouth. They won’t find Forest an easy opponent. Draw. *MONDAY* FULHAM vs CHELSEA (2000) Fulham are three places and three points above Chelsea, whose confidence is close to an all-time low. And that despite the billions that have been pumped into the players and staff. How things change – and how Fulham would like to get one over their near neighbours. Will they? It’s hard to say. Draw. *TUESDAY* LUTON TOWN vs BURNLEY (1930) Combine these two sides’ points this season and they’d still be in the bottom three. But Burnley should be too strong for their hosts. Away win. *CHAMPIONSHIP* Former leaders Preston were help to a draw at lowly Rotherham last time, allowing Leicester and Ipswich to leapfrog them into the top two places. Southampton, many people’s favourites for promotion, are severely missing James Ward-Prowse as they’ve slipped dangerously down the table, having lost all their four games this month and shipping 12 goals in the process. They take on sixth-placed Leeds in today’s early game. Michael Carrick’s Boro have lifted themselves from the bottom of the table and visit Watford this afternoon. Millwall in 11th host Swansea (21st), and tomorrow lunchtime sees table-toppers Leicester travel to Blackburn. The Championship is as competitive as ever."

[fraser]

SoH - That was the red Mancs Twoleftfeet - Sterling hasn't trained this week and hasn't been dropped

[Side of Ham]

Didn’t them scouse cunts score at our place when the ball was about a yard out of play….I don’t think they’d even replay it….it was that blatant…fuck’em forever more….

[Tomshardware]

Typical that he's gone and scored. Cunts are 2 up now.

[twoleftfeet]

"Fulham are quite poor, glad we got Alvarez rather than Paulinha."

[twoleftfeet]

Sterling benched by Chelsea. Guaranteed to now be picked by Southgate.

[Tomshardware]

People moan about Benrahma but Mudryk is absolute dogshit in comparison and cost about 3 times as much.

[Mad Dog]

"Would there be anywhere (ANYWHERE) near as much fuss if this were us, or Burnley against on of the top twat teams. Yes. Var fuck up. WeXre on the receiving end of loads of mistakes. Chelsea away anyone"

[arsene york-hunt]

Are Liverpool asking for the game against us to be replayed for an even worse decision re non giving of penalty after foul on Bowen

[El Scorchio]

"Agree. I thought this would be a sensible option from the outset- also it's like in NFL. You have a couple of challenges per game or per half, and if you win it, you keep it, if you lose it, you lose it- that will prevent frivolous challenges. I also think VAR could be very quickly used for things like Alvarez's booking on Saturday as it looked (and I may be wrong here) very much from the stands like he got the ball pretty cleanly."

[violator]

"Should just go down the cricket and tennis route, you get two VAR appeals, can be used in your side's defence or to push through a decision in your favour. After that you're in the hands of the on-field officials."

[El Scorchio]

I think you're probably quite correct in that assumption.

[Headtheball]

The answer is using automated VAR system for offside similar to the World Cup. However before the season started the Premier League voted this down. The top 6 or 7 clubs refused to back it. I assume because they usually get favourable decisions from the VAR team every game.

[El Scorchio]

"He's only saying that because he used to play for Arsenal. As an aside BBC have suspended comments on their news story regarding this. Presumably because people were writing things that hurt the feelings of the darling Liverpool fans. If this had happened to a non big six club, it would basically be an 'oh well shit happens must do better on to the next one' story. Why does it only get the proper attention drawn to it when it affects one of them? Absolute double standards in the game as usual. And the Liverpool fans can fuck off. They've benefited so many times from dodgy or plain wrong VAR/ref decisions. Didn't hear them piping up for the integrity or the good of the game then. Cunts."

[El Scorchio]

"He's only saying that because he used to play for Arsenal. As an aside BBC have suspended comments on their news story regarding this. Presumably because people were writing things that hurt the feelings of the darling Liverpool fans. If this had happened to a non big six club, it would basically be an 'oh well shit happens must do better on to the next one' story. Why does it only get the proper attention drawn to it when it affects one of them? Absolute double standards in the game as usual. And the Liverpool fans can fuck off. They've benefited so many times from dodgy or plain wrong VAR/ref decisions. Didn't hear them piping up for the integrity or the good of the game then. Cunts."

[Percy Dalton]

Monkey face Martin Keown reckons the match should be replayed. Is he for real the dopey cսnt.

[Fauxstralian]

The VAR twonk should then obviously have corrected the referee if they restarted with a free kick I think he looked at Dias and the player near him and didnt think about Romero (?) on the near side Either that or the two of them were wanking each other off rather than watching the game EITHER IS POSSIBLE

[,]

When was the last time the two Manchester and two Liverpool clubs lost their league matches on the same day?

[Manuel]

Sydney - Every time you post it's either a 'LOL'..a Twitter comment or a youtube link. Pretty fucking tragic to be fair. Shocking decision though.

[Sydney_Iron]

"Hahaha, and of course this has to happen to the victims, they will dine out on this all season…….. From the Twitter of ESPN editor Dale Johnson: So the VAR, Darren England, checked offside thinking the onfield decision was ""goal."" It was a quick offside check because it was clear Diaz was onside, so he told the referee ""check complete"". In telling the ref ""check complete"" he is saying the onfield decision was correct."

[Sydney_Iron]

"Some deluded Scousers around.....LOL Been a few demanding a retrospective fix to results when VAR make a huge fuck up, will never happen though."

[Leavemyarcelona]

Love to.see both Merseyside clubs in meltdown

[arsene york-hunt]

"Love it that Liverpool fans are bemoaning crap reffing all over the internet. Oh the irony. they weren't complaining last week though, about the penalty not given to us. Hate it that spurs got lucky."

[zebthecat]

goose 10:41 Sat Sep 30 They quite obviously never checked it properly. That Ooh-Doggy fellow was a whippet on the wing and a terrier in tackles.

[goose]

"Referees' body PGMOL have admitted the decision to disallow Luis Diaz's goal in nine-man Liverpool's 2-1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur was ""a significant human error"". Useless cunts the lot of them."

[Mike Oxsaw]

"A draw between LiVARpool & Tittinhand Hotcock (fnar,fnar) would have been the better result from out point of view, but at least we pulled 3 points back on the victims."