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Yeah it's quite condescending to imply that for certain teams, a f**k-up means more and only those count. I cited Wolves because they have had a lot of dubious VAR calls go against them this season that have cost them points, whether that was against Man Utd, Luton, Sheffield Utd, Newcastle, West Ham, Bournemouth and goodness knows who else, and missed out on points that would've got them a lot closer to Newcastle & Man United in the chase for Europe. Equally, every club has, at one point this season, felt they've been f**ked over by VAR. It's not a unique thing anymore. It also doesn't change my opinion that Liverpool have taken themselves out of the title race with their recent collapse in form. Sure, the refs in that game at Spurs were exceptionally bad, but it's no guarantee Liverpool would've won that game either, and since the Carabao Cup final, they've just not looked right.

3:15 in this video. Have at it and see if you can tell if it went over or not.

You can guess that if Rodrigo has to move the Manchester shows that it'll cause a bit of uproar. If it's bad enough that Liam Gallagher's shows in June there have to be pushed back, it really will cause annoyance amongst a Manchester crowd, I image. I mean, you can blame covid & Brexit for the uncertainty about a lot of things, but I'm less sure about this being one of them. Just seems like promising you'd be ready earlier than you actually were, a bit like Wembley Stadium when that was rebuilt.

Refs and the Man City empire are one thing but if you put your chances away and stop conceding the first goal, that would help. They've left so many points on the table through crap finishing, not least with Salah having looked out of form since his injury and Nunez being unreliable. Though have Liverpool been that f**ked over by the refs? That game at Spurs was one saturated in active incompetence, but they don't seem to have had as many problems as, say, Wolves, who seem to get one ridiculous call against them every week. I've seen it suggested losing that cup tie 4-3 at Old Trafford has kind of broken the Liverpool rhythm, and I'm guessing that mauling at home to Atalanta in the Europa League didn't help much either. But so too is that in bringing back all the players that recovered from injury, it meant suddenly half the team is trying to regain match fitness at the same time and is as a result a few steps off pace.

VAR did check but ruled the video evidence was inconclusive so couldn't give Barcelona the goal.

There are so many people who want Ferrari to recruit Newey, who has gone on record to say that his regrets include never working for Ferrari and with Lewis Hamilton, and next year, you can cross those two off in one. Though one rumour I heard was the Ferrari were looking with more intent as Pierre Wache, who is Red Bull's technical director. Aston seem meanwhile to be trying to basically buy Red Bull, having already signed Honda as engine provider and hired multiple Red Bull types. This isn't confirmed yet - another article today said the multiple sources splashing on Newey leaving Red Bull came as a surprise to Newey himself, let alone Red Bull, but it seems like the situation around the team is unstable. I still would be very surprise if it lead to Max deciding to bail and move to take Hamilton's vacant Merc chair though. Imo I think that's likeliest to be with Sainz, and with the kid Antonelli replacing the out-of-his-depth Sargeant at Williams if he can get the super-licence points.

Only 212 to go.

The Big Moon did a similar protest for their show at the Kentish Town Forum last year where they refused to sell merch in the venue and instead went to a pub over the road to avoid the venue taking a 25% cut. Which is certainly quite enormous.

Someone I was chatting with on Reddit was flying over for this and is pretty annoyed. It's certainly making me consider my option. I had been up for coming up to see The Killers there but this is making me doubt if it'll be ready by then. In theory, it should be ready for those show's June dates, but who f**king knows?

Pretty much. Man City's financial antics are one thing, but Liverpool's form in the last month or so has been pretty poor. Salah and Nunez have been much better going forward than in recent works. Also I see how little faith the poster had in Arsenal sticking the landing and keeping the Man City wolf from knocking down the door.

With La Liga, it's more that they didn't use goal-line technology. Something which, until the weekend, I didn't know as I assumed most big leagues have it, not least given the Premier League has been using that for over a decade, the Championship now uses it and it seems to work just fine when they remember to turn it on (the exception being Villa v Sheffield United in the first game back after lockdown).

Well I knew it was running at a reduced capacity anyway, but this isn't ideal.

I saw this earlier. Yeah it's pretty sobering to learn a dour 9-5 office job out-earns this by quite a margin. Quite remarkable we've done a lot to make the music industry what it is while also trying to close the pipeline.

It sounds like that might well have issues anyway given one of those gigs is on the same day as a Manchester City home game that Sky picked as a late (5:30pm) kick-off.