What’s wrong with the current system?
It’s not clear to me whether this implies that dissent is seen as deserving more or less severe punishment than a dangerous (yellow card) tackle.

This is all so stupid and overly complicated.

Watching Chelsea against Gladbach.

If we don't finish above a team with Abraham leading the line and Pulisic as their best player...

Dortmund have been excellent tonight in German Super Cup vs Bayern. Moving the ball nicely. Reus commanding
And £8m for Sancho has to be some of the best recent business. Great solo goal and assist. They’ll get more than Pépé money from United or Chelsea

Great goal, Sterling. What a player he has developed into. With Hazard having departed he has a real case for being the best attacker in the league.

Was already better than Hazard, to be fair.

Oxlade-Chamberlain looking at Guardiola like a kid seeing a celebrity.

I love the Guardiola- Klopp battle where both are pleasing poverty. Klopp has outspent everyone on transfers in the past 2 years and paid the highest wages last year. Guardiola only had the most expensive squad in league history. They’re both like little kids.

By the way. That’s the Liverpool model.

Claudius wrote:

What’s wrong with the current system?
It’s not clear to me whether this implies that dissent is seen as deserving more or less severe punishment than a dangerous (yellow card) tackle.

It's basically to avoid giving a yellow card to a player for dissent. E.g. RVP yellow card would be a sin bin instead.

It's also fucking stupid. The problem is the "offence". No player should be getting a yellow card or sin bin for telling the ref he needs his eyes checked.

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That sideways glance. 😆

Dickhead.

Been telling you since day one. Fraud

Na, he's a very good defender, but I think fans have gone overboard with the praise. The whole inspitstional leader stuff is bollocks and has gone to his head a little, though, I agree with that.

As a defender, he makes many more mistakes than is acknowledged, especially when he has runners into the box. He loses his man frequently and is prone to making bad decisions when he doesn't have time to decide. Yesterday is an example; I didn't see a single person anywhere criticise him for the fact that he completely lost Sterling for City's goal. Mustafi would have been sluaghtered, and rightly so.

I think Liverpool won't be as good this season as last and van Dijk, along with a few others, will be thought of a little less highly a few months from now.

Not disagreeing with anything you said Ricky. I'm saying he's a fraud literally, people lap his shit up all day long because mouth breathers like Deeney add to his legend and act like he can do no wrong when his inspirational horseshit is exactly that and way too few recognise what a dirty cunt he can be on the pitch. There aren't many centre backs in the league where perception and reality display that kind of chasm

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That sideways glance. 😆

Dickhead.

😆 Tbf Henry used to check himself out on the big screen more than anyone.

Henry had the looks and the panache, he could afford being a bit vain. Van Dijk on the other hand has a weird face plucked eyebrows and puts strawberry perfume on before games.

Deeney gave an interview once where he talked about VVD and how he smelled annoying. Might of course be just his troglodyte ways but putting on perfume on your kit is well dodge where I'm from

I just checked it was Sturridge who put on strawberry perfume, Deeneys interview said it was just perfume didn't specify what type. Still the idea of putting on shin pads checking your studs then spraying some cologne is ridiculous either way

You took Deeney's word? He looks like a chromosome-deficient pitbull and doesn't have much more sense than one. Cojones is your source?

He was actually praising him throughout the interview I dont see a reason why he'd be lying about that particular part. Of course there's always the chance that he mistook the unfamiliar smell of toothpaste or Listerine for perfume but I'm willing to bet in this case, it just perfectly fits VVD