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But it'll still primarily be an athletics stadium, it's Birchfield Harriers' home, and the site of UK Athletics. Seems totally wrong to me for it to be anything else. I'd not like to see Villa women play there to be honest.

Um what... What were they even trying to say there?

Guen he wants to

It was always likely to fail first time. Space is hard. As long as funding isn't pulled they'll get it right eventually.

Because we've realised that the rules say that a shirt pull that starts outside the box and continues into the box would be a penalty. It is in the rules, although I hadn't realised it was. So the red card and pen must purely have been for the shirt pull.

Just came here to post the same thing! I'd not realised this before somehow.

Ooh, you're right, I didn't know this rule but it is in the laws: If a defender starts holding an attacker outside the penalty area and continues holding inside the penalty area, the referee must award a penalty kick. https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-12---fouls-and-misconduct

Somebody remind again what the rules are regarding penalties and red cards? I thought you wouldn't get a red card for a genuine attempt at getting the ball. Against Stevenage, I can just about at a stretch accept that Dendoncker was red carded for the shirt pull, but then that was outside the penalty area and should never have been a penalty. If the penalty was given for the subsequent challenge (i.e. the ref chose to ignore one foul in order to give another) then that seemed a perfectly legitimate attempt to get the ball, so why a red card as well as a penalty? I'm a bit confused about the choices made by the ref and VAR in that incident. The rule is below. I swear the ref and VAR got this totally wrong. It should have been a penalty OR a red card and free kick outside the box: DENYING A GOAL OR AN OBVIOUS GOAL-SCORING OPPORTUNITY (DOGSO)Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling,pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.) the offending player must be sent off.

Surely it's either a red and a foul, or a penalty and not a red? It can't be both.

No way a penalty.

Hopefully just a sprain rather than anything worse. At least he managed to limp off.

Hahahahajaha

Leon Bailey .. . Just why?

Crikey

Winner of city/Chelsea's likely to play arsenal. Definitely a good year for top clubs going out in early rounds

Hmmm... Stoke away if we get through. Could have been worse, could have been better.

Aaarrrghhh

And another save!

What a save!

Good man that Nic Cage

Because we have the second highest number of seasons in the top flight? Everton are first, then Villa, then Liverpool. I'd just assumed that the number of top flight fixtures exactly mirrored the number of seasons in the top flight, but that obviously isn't the case and must be due to the timings of when teams were in the top flight at the same time. Being relegated four years ago has very little impact on 100+ seasons in the highest league, albeit a season or two more would drop us behind Liverpool.

He has *that* trophy with him!

And this is why I hate him and anyone who voted for him so much. Your best bet is not to "throw a dead cat" in, it is to understand the opposing argument, accept the facts and attempt to take that on board and adjust your position. NOT have a hissy fit and start deflecting in a big strop

Bad year for snow vehicle accidents it seems... With Jeremy Renner having run himself over with his own snow plough (seems like he'll live though)

Do you also have a Kane-in-law?