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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: VAR
« Reply #210 on: August 18, 2019, 09:23:12 PM »
They really didn't, the big five of the 80s was talked about on a regular basis and it was those 5 clubs.

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« Reply #211 on: August 18, 2019, 09:25:31 PM »
They really didn't, the big five of the 80s was talked about on a regular basis and it was those 5 clubs.

It was a TV thing to hype them up in the early days of talks about a breakaway league. 

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Re: VAR
« Reply #212 on: August 18, 2019, 09:28:16 PM »
Was it bollocks! Liverpool, Everton, man u, Arsenal, Villa. There is absolutely no cocking way anybody on the planet in the eighties thought spurs were "bigger" than us. Even fucking spurs fans.
No. Cocking. Way.

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Re: VAR
« Reply #213 on: August 18, 2019, 09:29:02 PM »
There was a big 5 in the 80s.

Was there? When I started watching football you knew the title was going to end up in Liverpool, just not which side of it.

Liverpool, Everton, Man U, Arsenal, Spurs.


With all due respect, one of those you've listed only got included when the debate got stretched to a big 6.

Spurs!? .
Sure it was Villa aswell as the other 4 mentioned at the time

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: VAR
« Reply #214 on: August 18, 2019, 09:29:55 PM »
Apart from they were. It was all to do with a super league, and those 5 were the ones in meetings that led to the Premier League. As Dave says it was a media thing but to say it didn't exist is wrong.

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Re: VAR
« Reply #215 on: August 18, 2019, 09:31:00 PM »
There was a big 5 in the 80s.

Was there? When I started watching football you knew the title was going to end up in Liverpool, just not which side of it.

Liverpool, Everton, Man U, Arsenal, Spurs.


With all due respect, one of those you've listed only got included when the debate got stretched to a big 6.

With all due respect, that isn’t correct.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: VAR
« Reply #216 on: August 18, 2019, 09:31:21 PM »
It was those 5, started around the time we were shit, we may even have been in division 2 at the time, can't remember exactly what year it started, was around the mid 80s though.

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Re: VAR
« Reply #217 on: August 18, 2019, 09:38:33 PM »
I would guess it was 1986/87, the season we went down and Clive Allen scored something like 49 goals and Spurs still won nothing after losing the FA Cup final. It would have been hilarious had we not gone down and the fact they lost that final to Coventry.

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Re: VAR
« Reply #218 on: August 18, 2019, 09:40:51 PM »
Do we need to go back to late 80s and review some footage in order to confirm the big 5?

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« Reply #219 on: August 18, 2019, 09:42:14 PM »
Do we need to go back to late 80s and review some footage in order to confirm the big 5?
Who cares

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Re: VAR
« Reply #220 on: August 18, 2019, 09:42:57 PM »
Do we need to go back to late 80s and review some footage in order to confirm the big 5?

Some guys in a studio somewhere have already done it and the result will come up in the scoreboard any second now.

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« Reply #221 on: August 18, 2019, 09:47:05 PM »
It was about 1985/86ish, and Spurs were in it based on finishing third once that decade.

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Re: VAR
« Reply #222 on: August 18, 2019, 09:47:47 PM »
Only use it when the studio refs spot something absolutely obvious and the on pitch referee doesn't see it, or if the on pitch referee asks for a review himself (or herself).  Slows the game down and doesn't allow fans to know what's being said, like they do now in cricket on the big screen.  It's of no use whatsoever when is comes to Billing kicking fuck out of Villa players and getting scot free away with it either.

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Re: VAR
« Reply #223 on: August 18, 2019, 10:02:48 PM »
The "Big Five" was a load of London-centric bollocks trying to pretend that no marks Tottenham were a big club and Villa weren't.

It did exist as a concept, though.

Offline BC Villain

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Re: VAR
« Reply #224 on: August 18, 2019, 11:39:50 PM »
Not a fan.

I get that they want to get decisions right - especially with the money tied up in the game - but it makes games too stop start, and you almost cant celebrate a goal just in case someone's left testicle was offside.

Also the lack of consistency.  We had a very strong penalty shouy last week not reviewed, but they looked at a "potential red card" for McGinn which was a total non-incident.  It almost feels like they pick and choose which incidents to review just to suit them.

 


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