The Rolling Football Thread: Season 2025/26

[DuncinToffee]

"Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins."

What a match at Easter Road last night. Well done the Hibees.

Things appear to be looking brighter for Morecambe. Let's hope next Saturday the fans are back in the stadium soaking up that match day atmosphere.

Has everyone who’s playing finished their FPL team selection?

Nope, keep tinkering with mine.

Still deciding on who to make captain

Done mine 😇

All done for GW1 ⚽💙

Now finished mine, after some agonising!

I hope someone is keeping an eye on how many times Liverpool get away with grappling with someone in the penalty area at set plays, so we can compare it to Arsenal's 3 red cards on Sunday...

Ah, so Liverpool don't have to worry about hand balls any more. Nor for non-captains having a go at the ref.

I'm sure they'll all be applied in spades on Sunday.

PGMOL carries on as normal...

Oh, you mean like the handball in the first half by Bournemouth that wasn't given and which all the pundits decried as the wrong decision? Handballs like that? S'ok, we are used to VAR missing handballs against us - Odegaard had reason to be very grateful for that.

Btw, you do realise that not everything is about Arsenal, right? Oh wait, what am I saying - of course you don't! 🤣🤣🤣

Ah, looks like it was reported back to front where I was looking. Although there was obviously an Ekitike hand ball as well. Fair enough. It sounds like that wasn't dealt with properly.

And if you'd had as many dodgy decisions made against Liverpool, You'd be wary as well.

I have seen comments that Semenyo received racial abuse in the first half

He did. The game was paused and the fan was wheeled out in his wheelchair by the bizzies. Scumbag.

All teams have dodgy decisions against them! VAR isn’t infallible and sometimes the onfield decision has to stand!

Racial abuse though is never on

yeah having just seen it Bournemouth were lucky to not get that decision against them!

Absolutely disgusting for any player to be racially abused. I hope the bastard who said it is charged with a criminal offence - he will definitely be banned for life by Liverpool. I am glad it was dealt with visibly and properly, but it shouldn't happen in the first place.

Funny how teams that so often get it in their favour always say this...

Cracking start to the premier league season that though.

roll on tomorrow. With all the talk of loyalty in football, of all Sunderland’s signings this summer the one I am most happy about is Luke O’Nien’s new contract. His statement was absolutely lovely and the day I see him on the pitch in the premier league will be an absolute joy.

and which team is that?

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/45340176/every-premier-league-var-error-ranking-winners-losers-referee-stats-2024-25

www.si.com/soccer/every-2024-25-premier-league-var-error

Both these have Everton the team that gained the most and Brentford the one who lost the most points

and Arsenal were only -1 from this so it wouldn’t have made any difference

now arguably VAR errors are different from the idea of perceived bias but the latter is far harder to prove and show given that most of Arsenal’s contentious decisions weren’t error but things that could go 50/50

but really yes it does even itself out the top would still be the top and the relegation still the relegation!

Keep telling yourself that. Until it happens to you.

Wait, what? Everton gained the most, as if 😂

But I will leave you to it.

Yeah apparently so I was surprised as well!

another one had Newcastle another had Newcastle dropping a place. This was the one I found 3 separate sources had down

because only offside and ball crossing lines are absolute the rest is subjective which I guess is where the issue lies!

as a spurs fan married to a Liverpool fan I am very much aware of VAR decisions I just think it can be perception bias

Pffft @Tiswa we’re not here for your facts and statistics. Feeling hard done by is what matters the most.