Kolek planning to go pro
Daniel Levy should hire Depaul or St John's ADs to handle their manager search. JFC. 🤪🤪🤪
Gattuso's managerial career:FC Sion: Sacked in under 90 days.Palermo: Lasts 6 games after only winning 2 before being sackedOFI Crete: Lasts 6 months, improvement! Leaves due to supposed financial difficulties but had a winning percentage under 30% and made no friends there.Pisa: Smartly drops down multiple levels. Actually gets them promoted to Serie B, leaves suddenly after the season for vague reasons. Comes back...they finish last and he quits again.Milan: Despite showing nothing but crap as a manager, somehow gets to manage the most successful Italian club, presumably because he was a legendary player. Finishes 5th and 6th, no CL qualification...gets sacked.Napoli: SOMEHOW ANOTHER TOP CLUB IN ITALY GIVES HIM A JOB. Napoli misses the CL for the first time in 5 years, and then miss it again. SACKEDFiorentina: In his quest to manage every respected club in Italy, Gattuso somehow gets the Viola gig...and then quits 2 weeks later due to friction with ownership.In spite of this absolute s***show of a managerial career, Spurs are intrigued. I mean, Italy loves their own, so I guess I can see what happened there. But my god, how is anyone in England attracted to him for an opening? Did Daniel Levy love him for a hot minute at Rangers 20 years ago?
Spurs reddit claims this all has to do with Jorge Mendes? Which is some sort of agent for players and managers?
If they want to bring in another Mendes client, just hire Nuno Espirtio Santo.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
I question France's tactics at times but boy do they score some pretty goals. That first goal from Benzema was something.
These knockout stage games have been such a huge step up from the group stage ones it's hard to believe it's the same competition. A lot of "weaker" teams playing to the level of the "stronger" ones.
VAR in theory is a very good thing. VAR in practice has very much been a mixed bag, mostly because different countries use it in different ways (surprisingly MLS is one of the leagues that executes it well). VAR at the Euros has for the most part been well executed. Some delayed celebrations is worth getting the call right IMO. The amount of delay that has happened in various leagues since VAR's inception (over the most miniscule margins) has been way too excessive IMO and hurts more than it helps. The fact that both offsides and handball rules have been tweaked multiple times over the last 2 years or so suggests that it may have gone too far and needs to be dialed back.
That's all fair. And for egregious calls, I agree its worth getting it right. But for things like coming off the line early on a penalty or an inch or two on an offside call, that stinks. I'm not sure how you fix that, especially on offside. Those calls remind me a lot of out vs safe on a steal attempt in baseball. Once you're looking at it on video, you have to make the correct call, but it flips from the spirit of the rule in real time to the letter on review. For baseball steal attempts, if the throw beats the runner and the tag is close enough to make the ump think it was applied, I want to see that guy called out regardless of what is on the replay. Similarly for offside, if momentum in real time makes the ref think one thing but it turns out a defender's arm position kept a guy on (can't remember which Euro game had a call reversed for that) then I'd rather have kept the original call.
Agreed. I think it’s helpful for reviewing contact and other penalties. And making offside checks. But I HATE HATE HATE bringing out the colored line and watching for minuscule separations for offsides. A striker having his hand past a defender’s back foot by 6 inches while his entire body is otherwise onside has no real advantage but gets called back 95% of the time with VAR. I also think they can be far too liberal with fouls in the lead up to goals as well. I hate most of those reviews.
I totally agree on the reversed calls when a player is a millimeter offsides, but I'm not sure what can be done about that. If you're going to review the play, and the review shows the play offsides - even just a fraction - you have to overturn it. Otherwise, you're saying "he was offsides, but not by much, so we'll allow a rules violation," which seems an even worse outcome to me.