Ellafella

Championship is going to be cracking next year if Bolton win the P-offs as I suspect they will. Far better than the Prem in my view. 

1. Kick-offs - why was that changed?
2. Offside rule - can anyone explain that nowadays?
3. Drop-balls - what happened??
4. Goal- kicks …wtf?!
5. 4th official - what do they do?
6. VAR - farce. 
 
Football - created by the poor; stolen by the rich. 
 
 

1. Kick-offs - why was that changed?
2. Offside rule - can anyone explain that nowadays?
3. Drop-balls - what happened??
4. Goal- kicks …wtf?!
5. 4th official - what do they do?
6. VAR - farce. 
 
Football - created by the poor; stolen by the rich. 
 
 

I have been alive for six Derby Wembley appearances, missed West Ham (too young) and West Brom (booked a holiday at my wife’s behest, as we were pretty much guaranteed automatic promotion 🤨), but made the four losses…

I’ve got all 4 - couldn’t make WBA. 

You and I have so much in common. Perhaps we are brothers separated at birth? 🐑

1. Kick-offs - why was that changed?
2. Offside rule - can anyone explain that nowadays?
3. Drop-balls - what happened??
4. Goal- kicks …wtf?!
5. 4th official - what do they do?
6. VAR - farce. 
 
Football - created by the poor; stolen by the rich. 
 
 

I’ve got all 4 - couldn’t make WBA. 

…& has to be there for the hair-drier treatment from coaches 😲

1) I guess because teams nearly always pass it backwards straight away so why not change the rule to allow it? It was always a bit of a pointless exercise tapping it forward an inch or two so that another player could then pass it backwards.
2) I THINK I could (but that doesn't mean to say it's always implemented as you'd expect as some of it is subjective)
3) I don't have a problem with the new rules. If the play is stopped because of a suspected head injury, the ball hitting the referee etc why should the team in possession have to risk losing possession with a contested drop ball trough no fault of their own? The problem is that 1) referee's seem too keen to stop play even when it clearly isn't a head injury and 2) players abuse the rule by feigning an injury and lying prone on the floor.
4) Agreed. Bizarre rule change.
5) Duck knows. What's equally odd is why the managers rant at the fourth official for a decision that has gone against them even though they must know the fourth official can't do anything about it.
6) In principle, I don't think there is anything wrong with VAR but it does need some serious tweaks.

Couldnt do without 4th official, he holds the board up for subs and time added on😉

1. Kick-offs - why was that changed?
2. Offside rule - can anyone explain that nowadays?
3. Drop-balls - what happened??
4. Goal- kicks …wtf?!
5. 4th official - what do they do?
6. VAR - farce. 
 
Football - created by the poor; stolen by the rich. 
 
 

1. Kick-offs - why was that changed?
2. Offside rule - can anyone explain that nowadays?
3. Drop-balls - what happened??
4. Goal- kicks …wtf?!
5. 4th official - what do they do?
6. VAR - farce. 
 
Football - created by the poor; stolen by the rich. 
 
 

1. Kick-offs - why was that changed?
2. Offside rule - can anyone explain that nowadays?
3. Drop-balls - what happened??
4. Goal- kicks …wtf?!
5. 4th official - what do they do?
6. VAR - farce. 
 
Football - created by the poor; stolen by the rich. 
 
 

Championship is going to be cracking next year if Bolton win the P-offs as I suspect they will. Far better than the Prem in my view. 

Along to this tune.
“Your Ma…..Your Ma’s a Mattress….Your Ma…Your Ma….Your Ma’s a Matress”…..
Quality chant is that. 

I met Ena Sharples many years ago, I took her up the back passage in the snug 😁

I liked the retort to Chelsea fans when they sang "We pay your benefits" and South Stand retorted "We build your aeroplanes".
If that was an original, it was very funny! 

When the Heanor lads used to arrive on the Ossie end and shout “Eanor , Eanor” and the Popside would respond with “Sharples ,Sharples”  
You have to be over a certain age to get that 
 
 

A lot of them not for the better though.

The old promotion was good enough for 100 years, the play offs are an interference to a fair promotion purely for extending the interest of more clubs for a longer period of time and to feed the media frenzy.
We have 46 games to decide who should go up, it's totally illogical for a team who have out performed another team by many points over those 46 games, to be robbed of a deserved reward by one moment of bad luck, bad play or bad refereeing.
Just because we know the rules at the start of the season, it doesn't mean that those rules are just and fair.

Me too. 😲

You’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties 😲

You’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties 😲

Championship is going to be cracking next year if Bolton win the P-offs as I suspect they will. Far better than the Prem in my view.