Cole Palmer has just one decent season to his name and a record \u2018bloated\u2019 by penalties. He gets a proper kicking.<\/p>\n
The Man City v Arsenal Mailbox is here now<\/a>. E-mail us at theeditor@football365.com<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Enjoying Spurs\u2019 impending relegation<\/p>\n I would quite like them relegated.<\/p>\n I have been an avid football fan for 41 years now and I have seen one season Spurs were relevant.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve had great players and been very funny. Relevant. No.<\/p>\n But whether it\u2019s the London media or their fanbase it keeps coming up big club. BIG BIG club. Are you really?<\/p>\n Danny Blanchflower was 65 years ago this year. And I\u2019d wager very few Spurs \u201cfans\u201d demanding leagues and trophies know who the f*** he is.<\/p>\n F*** em.<\/p>\n And I\u2019m not confident they bounce back<\/p>\n And they\u2019re no loss except guaranteed 6 points<\/p>\n Please redact my name. I know I have a stick and and am stirring. Also West Ham same goes for you. You peaked Bobby Moore and a whole generation of journalists who idolised him. Not a big club.<\/p>\n To start the argument\u2026 Manchester United Rude late arrivals Honorable mentions Small clubs who smashed it and there is a strong Brian Clough theme: READ: Morgan Gibbs-White relegates Tottenham Hotspur unless hungover, depleted Palace beat West Ham<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n That was rough on Spurs<\/p>\n Not a Spurs fan or sympathiser, and generally would enjoy seeing the team that beat us in the Europa League finals last year lose.<\/p>\n But that was heartbreaking and devastating, even for me as a viewer. Don\u2019t know how they come back from this even if and when they beat Wolves next match.<\/p>\n Commiserations to Spurs fans. That was rough. \u00a0<\/p>\n Spurs not relegated yet<\/p>\n Jason is right that the weekend was bad for Spurs<\/a> but wrong to say Gibbs White relegated Tottenham.<\/p>\n There are 15 points to play for and we are currently one point from safety. We\u2019re also playing the worst team in the pl next week and played markedly better yesterday.<\/p>\n Spurs will fight to the last minute of the last day and only when that whistle blows will we know if we are relegated or not. COYS! \u00a0<\/p>\n On referees and PGMOL again<\/p>\n Another day, another controversy. Five days after sending Lisandro Martinez off for taking off Calvert-Lewin\u2019s hair tie, resulting in a 3 match ban, Paul Teirney looked at Ouattara pulling Bassey\u2019s hair and decided it wasn\u2019t even a foul. Ok fair enough, on Monday Tierney also didn\u2019t think much of the hair pulling incident at first glance, but lucky for Leeds fans VAR was there to intervene to give Martinez the card he deserved according to the letter of the law. So far so fair one might feel.<\/p>\n Except today, when Tierney didn\u2019t pause for a second thought, VAR were not interested in re-refereeing the game and Tierney was not invited to look at the serious foul play, Ouattara did not get the card he deserved according to the letter of the law, from a referee who red carded Martinez for the same offence on Monday, meaning a week on Monday, when Manchester United face Brentford, Ouatarra will likely feature while Martinez will still be banned.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not convinced that there is a conspiracy against Man Utd. I do think it\u2019s more likely gross incompetence from match officials. But it is a problem when the conspiracy is so plausible. The inconsistency in decision making by PMGOL and its referees throughout this season and before is beyond a joke.<\/p>\n From the non-red card for Collins preventing a goal scoring opportunity for Mbuemo in Brentford vs Man Utd compared to the Maguire red card and penalty against Bournemouth, less than a minute after Truffert was allowed to pull down Amad in the area for no foul or penalty. Or disallowing a goal for Martinez against Burnley for a foul so soft it should be captured and turned into luxury toilet paper, but failing to rule out Okafor\u2019s first goal after Calvert-Lewin smacked Yoro in the face with his forearm immediately before his clearance fell to Okafor. An VAR intervening to call back the game for \u201cserious foul play\u201d in relation to Martinez\u2019 hair pulling antics but not pulling the game back for Walker stamping on a prostate Dorgu, which was also caught on camera.<\/p>\n It should not be a tribal thing where we are OK with inconsistency when it affects another team but get up in arms when your team is on the receiving end. I imagine Fulham fans must be wondering why they had to see the game out against 11 men. I know Spurs fans saw the foul by Calvert-Lewin on Yoro and wondered why Kolo Muani\u2019s goal vs Arsenal was disallowed. And to top it off Maguire got an extra game ban for allegedly telling an official \u201cthey\u2019re a f**king joke\u201d, which he denies claiming he said \u201cit\u2019s a f**king joke\u201d. The joke is that, without evidence beyond backing their own man, they decided that Maguire was guilty (even though they are demonstrably shit at doing their job and frankly in either case whether Maguire directed the statement at an official or in general, it\u2019s a spot on assessment) and gave him an extra game ban rather than look at or address the inconsistency in their decision making.<\/p>\n To bring it back to hair pulling, it\u2019s hard to believe that none of the match officials beyond Paul Tierney saw the Martinez incident this week, but you must believe it to be so if they all disregarded the clear foul and the precedent set on Monday this week.<\/p>\n It is a joke, it\u2019s embarrassing. We\u2019re constantly told the Premier League is the best league in the world and yet week after week decisions look arbitrary enough that there is fertile ground for conspiracies to thrive. Given the money involved both in terms of prize money, and the money that fans in the UK have to pay to see the Premier League, as well as the billions made betting on the sport even if we don\u2019t actual care about the nobility of the ideal of competing on a level playing field, I think the least we can demand is that decisions are consistent and implemented fairly. \u00a0<\/p>\n Chelsea v Man Utd questions<\/p>\n 1-who told Cole Palmer that\u2019s a cool haircut- Stevie Wonder?<\/p>\n 2-do Chelsea disapprove of home fans singing ?<\/p>\n 3-do Chelsea not practice set pieces?<\/p>\n 4-per #3: FYI-near post corners should be above 4\u2032, didn\u2019t you get the LinkedIn memo?<\/p>\n 5-how the hell did Amorim not play Mainoo every week ?<\/p>\n 6-whatever we received for Garnacho, whoever did that deal was a genius<\/p>\n 7-is there a better teenage CB than Hayden in the league?<\/p>\n 8-booing Mount , how classless are Chelsea\u2019s fans?<\/p>\n 9- if Delap is the answer, wtf is the question ?<\/p>\n 10-is there a better player in the league than Bruno Fernandes?<\/p>\n 11-did Garnacho beat his man once?<\/p>\n 12-if Palmer wants to play CL next year, does he know the bus # from Wythenshawe to Stretford?<\/p>\n 13-is there a better header of the ball offensively as well as defensively than Uncle Cas?<\/p>\n 14-who\u2019s that twat from Argentina? READ: Rosenior sack certain as Garnacho excuses exposed by Manchester United again<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Is Cole Palmer actually any good?<\/p>\n Obviously a worrying result for Chelsea, in a series of worrying results. I only saw the highlights but they seemed pretty unlucky to me. Hit the post or the bar, what, 3\/4 times? Just wide of the upright a couple more times as well. One of those days where you could play 180 minutes and you\u2019re not going to score.<\/p>\n Anyway. This one is a particular bugbear of mine. Cole Palmer apparently said before the game that if they don\u2019t get into the Champions League everything changes. Translation \u2013 he\u2019s going to do one if their form doesn\u2019t improve.<\/p>\n So here\u2019s a blue sky, out of the box thought. Why doesn\u2019t he try living up to his reputation and play a s**t load better then? His reputation is based on *one* \u2013 count them , *one* \u2013 really good season. He never hit those heights before and he sure as hell hasn\u2019t since.<\/p>\n His record is bloated by endless penalties and precious few goals or assists otherwise. But to hear him described, you\u2019d think he was the Second Coming of Gascoigne sometimes. Tuchel clearly sees it the same way as I do, Palmer isn\u2019t going to the World Cup. We need someone as good as his reputation, not the player he really is.<\/p>\n Someone will undoubtedly pay top bananas for him and he won\u2019t live up to the price, not even close. Pep doesn\u2019t let real quality leave until they\u2019re too old to contribute. He didn\u2019t let a top, top player leave here either.<\/p>\n Brains of a suet pudding, a stupid smug goal celebration and a horrendous f**k ugly hairstyle that needs immediate sorting. He\u2019s cosmetically challenged enough as it is.<\/p>\n Personal abuse is never right of course, but I just can\u2019t stand this m****f****r. So I\u2019m making an exception in this case. \u00a0<\/p>\n Mocking Everton history with zero class<\/p>\n Just after Everton scored the opening goal the commentator screamed, \u201cANOTHER PIECE OF EVERTON HISTORY\u201d<\/p>\n Now I\u2019m going to set aside the hilarity that it then got disallowed by VAR, but it\u2019s equally comedy that scoring a goal against their big city rival counts as a piece of history. Liverpool win Champions Leagues and domestic trophies galore while Everton sometimes open the scoring at their own stadium. It\u2019s sweet that even in our worst season the levels still are what they are.<\/p>\n First of all, to give credit where due, that Gakpo assist was so filthy it should\u2019ve come with an age warning. It was so good that I was watching on TV and honestly thought he\u2019d misplaced the pass for a second until suddenly my brain saw what his had at pitch level and actually executed to perfection. Fair f**ks pal. Easier to write this because of the W obviously.<\/p>\n Konate was all at sea (as usual) for their goal. I get that people switch off or have brain farts sometimes but why does he always do it on match day? He\u2019s really not done anything to justify a new contract. Letting him go for free stinks but I think it would set the right tone, especially if we can make an agreement with someone like Senesi for the summer. It also annoys me that this switch off led to not only the goal but also the injury of our second keeper. Woodman did fine but does he have what it takes to see us through the last 5 games? Maybe a PNE can write in to advise\u2026<\/p>\n
Non contestable big clubs and it pains me who I start with:<\/p>\n
Liverpool
Everton
Leeds
Newcastle
Arsenal
Aston Villa<\/p>\n
Chelsea
Man City (but they were always big just unsuccessful)<\/p>\n
Wolves
Sunderland
Middlesborough<\/p>\n
Derby County
Nottingham Forest
Ipswich
Blackburn
Leicester
Name redacted<\/p>\n
Aman <\/p>\n
Sam<\/p>\n
Daniel, Cambridge<\/p>\n
Steve (ex-Flixton Red), Ontario (better Arsenal than cheating City)<\/p>\n
James, Liverpool <\/p>\n