The ball strikes two Arsenal players before it reaches Tottenham’s goalscorer. The first of the two - Takehiro Tomiyasu - intentionally moves his body to block the initial shot.
Yet VAR declares neither to have deliberately played the ball, and Micky van de Ven to be offside. 🤷🏻‍♂️…

‘FA has change of heart after majority of clubs and regional associations vote against the use of technology even in European competitions’

This goal. This kit. This player 💙

Who sat through five hours of Parliamentary debate today on Football Governance? OK, just us.

Summary of discussion via the link/thread below.

#FanLedReview #Regulator #Update

thefsa.org.uk/news/football-…

Is there a club whose players and manager wave and gesticulate to their crowd more than you know who? It’s a minimum of several times a game, every game. Bizarre.

An excellent read and the most common sense take I’ve read on this sorry situation. Well said Adam 👏

Mark Clattenburg calling out officials for ‘mind boggling’ mistakes. This Mark Clattenburg?

In 2005, Brentford were in League One and had £7m debt.

They got Premier League Southampton at home in the FA Cup and got a replay.

That run earned the club over £500k.

Yet Premier League managers, like Brentford’s Thomas Frank, complained about replays and now they’re gone.

Eric Dier, Man of the Match.

Poetic. Just poetic.

The Newcastle set-up against Spurs yesterday may have set a blueprint for how to play against the inverted full-backs.

From a high-press man-to-man 3-4-3, Newcastle quickly shifted into a low block, zonal, 5-4-1.

THREAD

As they squeeze more and more money out of fans, remember: The Premier League’s elite clubs do not have a revenue problem. They have a spending addiction leading to a new age of greed.

Column.

inews.co.uk/sport/football…

Imagine punditry like this on a regular basis instead of the nonsense we have to put up with. We can dream…

Ashley James, on culture wars and woke. Absolutely kills it.

Are there other countries that hate their own strengths as much as the UK?

Here’s this week’s cartoon for Guardian sport

theguardian.com/football/pictu…

Six weeks to go in the Premier League season. Two teams with points deducted, both appealing those punishments. A team below (Luton) and above them (Brentford) who have no idea how many points they might need and no exact indication of appeal verdict dates. Horrendously messy.

Some day, UTR❤️🏆

This is... really quite good. It's been so long since I saw effective government communication that I'd almost forgotten what it looks like.