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Of course not, but people just have to accept it. Much, much worse when referees decree themselves the arbitors of when and which laws to suspend.

I've got no problem with it. The referee applied the laws of the game correctly. It is literally all he is there to do. Them thinking that they are smart enough to do otherwise in order to preserve the spectacle or whatever is where the problems really start.

He couldn't get rid of Quansah and Elliott quick enough. He refuses to pick Endo. He could use Robbo more, even at right back in the current circumstances. All of them perfectly serviceable squad players. I'll give him a pass on Chiesa cos I don't think he's close to good enough any more. That's before you even get onto his seeming complete inability to harness young players in any meaningful way. He's clearly not responsible for all the errors in recruitment, especially as some of them pre-date him, but it seems like him and his defenders feel it is an abomination that he doesn't have at least two world-class players in every position and given that how could he possibly be expected to cope.

crypto-bro extravagance and self-defeating stinginess Word

The whole end to that game after we scored was next level chaos like I've never seen. If somebody could draw you a picture of what it looks like when the wheels have completely and utterly fallen of a project then that would be it. Self-destruction and then some.

Aye. I've gone through the resignation phase and feel like I'm on the brink of rage now. It is completely unacceptable by any measure.

See also 'Reasons why people don't like Steven Gerrard', in answer to a previous question.

Something like that, yeah

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They absolutely did

I find this as weird and as clueless as someone saying they will only play 3 at the back It's primary school level understanding of football

I'm always been as anti-Gerrard as anyone. I think he's an unpleasant character and a s*** manager and I've never wanted him near the club since the day he left. I'd 100% have him until the end of the season if the alternative is giving Slot one more day.

Absolutely nobody was saying this about United when Amorim was in charge.

The coach should be getting way more out of this squad. United and Villa have better players than us? Do they f***.

I'll blame him for the clueless first half, the spineless reaction to going a goal up and the fact that every team now knows to just keep going against us and it will come.

Top 4 being in play was all the more reason to bin him off. Too late now.

It was time to say that at least 3 months ago. I feel like I'm living in a simulation now.

Awful for 45 minutes, turned up for half an hour, then lost all courage after we scored. And of all the very many problems we have, conceding in injury time is now in itself a crisis. The polar opposite of everything we were.

Get out of my f***ing life

Barnes wasn't a left winger for most of his time here

Barnes got 75 goals in his first four seasons - better than one in two. It obviously off loads after that. But yeah, not an awful lot between them.

He's not playing him because he'd rather have the 35m to spend on someone else in the summer. If there was no clause he'd have played more, can't see how anyone can deny that.

What?

It's absolutely their perogative to not play him if they don't want to trigger the clause. It's complete b*****d behaviour to try to make out that we should be dropping the clause.

Correct. It's utterly bizarre to claim otherwise.