How's your footy team doing?

Pliers,  did you watch the T.V. Games this afternoon ??

The reason I ask is that a REF actually went to the pitch-side screen of his own volition, watched the incident where he had  given out two yellows then adjusted his decision & gave one of the 'combatants' a Straight Red !! Apparently it's the first time that has been done. So at least one ref knows he ain't quite a Footballing God  .

They trialed VAR in the cup before introducing it to the greedy league the following year. I wonder if they're doing the same with pitch side monitors and we'll see them in use next season. I won't hold my breath PGMOL move slowly and in mysterious ways.

Another Yorkshire derby next Saturday and the GS and I are of to Oakwell to watch. Hope it's not as cold as Wigan and I'm sure the Tykes won't look after us as well as the Latics.

UTT Rog

I saw the match highlights, and yes, the VARing seemed to be much better than some we’ve seen. It’s a new thing so hopefully will improve with practice!

League Cup semifinal 1st leg at The Swamp tomorrow night. The 2 clubs have agreed to reduce the allocation of tickets for away fans to 3,000. Tickets are now on open sale, so expect there will be “1 or 2” away fans in the home stands 😱.

Getting nervy already, hope we put on a better performance than last time we played our local rivals!

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Well it certainly wasn’t boring at The Swamp tonight!

Only half time, so anything could happen....

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Been a grim few weeks for The Gas and their "bright new manager". Could be to do with my absence from the terraces so I'm off to The Mem this afternoon to see if he can inspire his "bright new signings" to do a bit better than they did against the worst team in the entire league on Wednesday night! 

Wish me luck! 👍

We enjoyed ourselves at the Riverside last Sunday. Ground was fairly full, so a great atmosphere. Tottenham players looked throughly miserable, body language said “I do not want to be here!”🤣 Jose was on form, stalking the box. Boro lads did ok, they just lacked the ball skills of TH, hardly surprising really. Bit disappointed we didn’t get to see Harry Kane, but it was a good game, and they deserved the trip to London for replay......where they can only ask for a merciful result!

Our local PL team are doing rather well, trying to persuade OH to go to Bramall Lane. I like my footie at the top end😲

 - and that's putting it politely! 

Away to top of the table Swindon Town and went down 3 -- 1.

But Brian ain't upset, reports seem to say it was a good game all round. But I've not seen anybody who actually went  to the game so I'm relying on BBC's on line report -- which I'll have to get used to in a couple of weeks time when 'Red Button ' service becomes limited.

Don't growl too much Moulesy, you lot are still a bit higher up the ladder than us Crewites  .

Mrs M has just reminded me that,  apparently, "it's only a game"! 

You ladies - what do you know? 

What a refreshing change. Yesterday I saw a match played in the right spirit with no cheating, no play acting, between two teams at opposite ends of the Championship. Brentford  are easy on the eye with, according to our manager, the best front three in the division, that they only registered one shot on goal, it hit the post phew!,says a lot for our defense. Town had a good chance to win, our top scorer blazing over from six yards.

Town introduced four new signings and what a difference they made.

I was frozen but thoroughly enjoyed it, we even had a decent ref for a change.

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