The Barclays Premier League Thread 2013/14

[Ant]

Eriksen is outshining Lamela at the moment. Cracking little player and probably bargain of the season.

[Plubby]

Torres must be carrying a black hole around in his shin pads because gravity is unnaturally intense around him.

[stokeriño]

Torres must be carrying a black hole around in his shin pads because gravity is unnaturally intense around him.

You have to admit it sounds easier than Spurs' divers, who have to do the work all by themselves.

[Plubby]

It's true, Townsend really put a lot of effort into trying to draw that foul. On replay, I actually thought the Chelsea player did well to avoid touching Townsend, he clearly went looking for contact but ended up with a mouthful of turf, a pocketful of sheepishness and a booking for all that trouble.

Seems to have unlocked Beast Mode in him though as he ate them for dinner going down that flank the next two times.

[GoN_]

Chelsea is doing very few things right.

[Plubby]

Against our fullbacks, they don't need to get it right a lot to find chances.

[stokeriño]

Mata on for...Mikel? Hmm. Would have taken off Lampard over him, but okay.

[stokeriño]

ARGH, chance.

[Plubby]

Who the fuck is this and what have they done with Fernando Torres?

[Colly]

Well Torres is a lucky boy. Presumably the yellow prevents any retrospective action?

[stokeriño]

Chelsea have been working on an evil Torres clone for two years now, down in Roman's volcano lair.

[Plubby]

Well Torres is a lucky boy. Presumably the yellow prevents any retrospective action?

Depends, if he was booked for the clip, and the ref claims he didn't see the scratch, maybe they can do something for that?

[DavidMarrio]

Well Torres is a lucky boy. Presumably the yellow prevents any retrospective action?

Didn't they change the rule for that this season?

[Colly]

Well Torres is a lucky boy. Presumably the yellow prevents any retrospective action?

Didn't they change the rule for that this season?

They changed something based on Haidara, but its wooly as fuck.

[GoGo Yubari]

Of course now Mourinho has realized that Juan Mata is good at football.

[Colly]

I've never been one for 'I put the radio commentary on because TVs is shite', but Owen and Halsey are really pushing it.

[DavidMarrio]

Here we are found the rule change

There has been a change to The FA's retrospective action process for the new season

The FA has made a change to its policy regarding what constitutes a 'not seen' incident for the new season.

From the start of the 2013-14 campaign, where the referee’s view of an incident has been completely obstructed and the assistant referees or fourth official are not in a position such that they could be expected to judge the challenge, based on factors such as their distance from or line of sight to an incident, The FA will be able to take retrospective action.

The amendment follows a tackle last season involving Wigan’s Callum McManaman and Newcastle United’s Massadio Haidara in which the match referee’s view of the incident was blocked whilst the other match officials were not in a position to judge exactly what had occurred.

Prior to this change, which was ratified by The Football Regulatory Authority, The FA was only able to take retrospective action when none of the match officials had seen the ‘coming together’ or when the incident was truly exceptional, for example, in the case of Ben Thatcher's challenge on Pedro Mendes.

This change is not intended to usurp the authority of the match officials who are, in the vast majority of cases, best-placed to deal with incidents at the time they occur. It will only be utilised in the rare circumstances outlined above.

[GoGo Yubari]

Chelsea have been working on an evil Torres clone for two years now, down in Roman's volcano lair.

The crew cut makes all the difference.

Diving aside, way better game from Townsend than his last two.

[Plubby]

Get amongst it, Nacer!

[stokeriño]

MATA! TERRY! GOAL!