Mails: LiVARpool, Nuno to United, Arsenal, Chelsea and more
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Arsenal thoughts
I know we were the lesser team in the second half but surely everyone can see how terrible and one-sided the officiating was during the match. Chelsea got away with so many tactical fouls in the first half, each of which should have been a yellow but only about 2/3 were given. Then in the second half Jorginho makes a blatant tactical foul by holding onto an opponent and he escapes without a second yellow despite the ref giving a yellow literally every other time this was done during the match. Apparently because he’s already on a yellow card nothing short of violent extremism will get him a second one.
Then to top it all off about 3 minutes of the 7 minutes of added time were wasted in arguing and feigning injury by Chelsea players but the ref still blows for full time at 7 minutes on the dot. If most of us performed this badly at our jobs our employers would have a serious word with us and likely demote us to doing something more simple. This guy should be dropped into refereeing games at a much lower level in fact I wouldn’t trust him to ref a f***ing P.E. match at school.
Vish (Arsenal and rightly indignant), Melbourne
We can have pages and pages talking about VAR but is there anything more frustrating when a ref books one of your players but then refuses to give a second yellow to an opponent for an identical foul?! For far too long refs in this league actively avoid decisions that they know will make the headlines, think about the threshold for fouls in the penalty area being so much higher than anywhere else on the pitch, or a yellow card in the first minute being allowed to slide by because it’s so early in the game, or time wasting only being carded late in games.
I understand the need to use common sense (often not used by refs either) but the greater need is consistency. There is nothing in the rules that allows for greater leniency in certain situations.
Rich AFC
I’d like to congratulate Arsenal on the seamless integration of the new manager. You’d hardly know anything had changed. Impressive.
Too early for Arteta out? Maybe next week?
And please don’t write in, saying give him time. Most of the players are still mediocre and January will see few, if any, comings and goings. He’s not exactly a box office draw is he?
Top-flight team since 1919. I wonder if it’s going to be 101 and out? Good knock though.
Stu, (too depressed for brackets) AFC in France
Chelsea thoughts
Well what a strange game that was, Arsenal dominated that first half and even Ozil looked good, but thanks to Leno gifting Jorginho the easiest goal he will ever score during his career and then concluded with a fantastic counter attack which lead to the winning goal.
Next up is Brighton, naturally we will likely lose to them based on our current form against bottom half teams but we may change that pattern in 2020.
Mikey, CFC (Dortmund casually announcing Haaland was a surprise and a half!)
I had originally written this mail after our loss against Southampton as a mid-season review, writing now after Arsenal win. Most of my points don’t change including the fact that this is one of the most enjoyable seasons for me as a Chelsea supporter.
As the half-way mark of the season is done, here’s my take on Chelsea so far
1. I am absolutely stunned we’re 4th even after our hit and miss season. That tells me how bad Spurs, United and Arsenal are, and importantly the PL as it is is now going through a transition (I could also say the quality is diminishing among teams other than Pool and City from the traditional top 4/6).
2. Along with Zola, Frank Lampard is my all time favourite Chelsea player ever. I have spent enough nights wondering life w/o Lamps when he was a player (incidentally my first email to F365 7 years ago was on Lamps). But it is high time he got some criticism for some of his decisions.
3. From the start it was clear we struggled vs low blocks especially at home. This problem is enhanced because we have one of the worst midfields in the top half of the table (don’t let hippie you tubers fool you, our midfield is a joke). Our full backs are inept defensively and can’t produce attacking numbers also (Alonso aside as a wing back). Of course Lampard didn’t design these problems. He merely inherited them. But his choice of personnel, formation and substitutions baffle me at times. Note – this was written pre emirates game and to his credit, Lamps showed he is learning. His substitutions were spot on yesterday, especially young Tariq was the real game changer. I think Arsenal struggled to deal with young Tariq more than anyone else.
4. Take the Southampton game. Why do you start with a back 3 if your best attacking wing backs Alonso and James are injured? The whole point of back 3 is wing play. Holds good for Arsenal game also. Baffled at the decision tbh. Emerson is our joint worst signing in last 3 years and the number of times he loses ball, randomly hits the ball w/o technique in the name of a cross or worse gets joked around in our defensive half is legendary. Azpilicueta has been on the wane for years. Add the tiredness factor and the back 3 was a doomed decision.
5. I am going to say it – Chelsea lose when Jorginho plays in Lampard’s structure (this definitely aged well as I wrote this post Southampton). Also, Jorginho is only ok if he has two central midfielders next to him, but no way must he play in a pivot. Under Sarri he was good. Opponents go past him like he doesn’t exist when he plays in a two man pivot, often loses ball while passing which results in turnovers and goals (e.g. Man City away), is nowhere to block opponent passing lanes and is physically not robust. Everything Mikel was at his peak or Matic. Now don’t get me wrong, Jorginho is a good player with technique. But him and Kante is a recipe for disaster as the midfield as a unit becomes an instant joke. When a third midfielder plays next to Jorginho, then his liability side gets limited.
6. Is Kante also slowing down finally? He hasn’t had the best seasons this season but I’m totally ok with it (don’t misquote me on this). This was bound to happen given he’s running all around and he had an injury.
7. Surprisingly, Kovacic is our best midfielder this season (a player I didn’t take to initially). He’s grown on me tbh, but I feel he must do more. A 10 G+A season is a minimum for me to think he’s successful.
8. When I add all of this, Chelsea have a midfield that allows free runs from opponents, full backs who can’t defend and attack. A short summary.
9. That brings me to the Kepa problem. Gentlemen, he’s our worst signing in the last 3 years (with Emerson and DDW). He can’t save half the shots at him, positionally is weak, and often mispasses. A calamity for disaster. His time is running out and if Chelsea don’t get a good coach to improve him, we’re in serious trouble. If our midfield and full backs are the reason we allow great chances for opponents, Kepa is the reason our GA statistic is more than what it must be. Half our goals conceded could’ve been saved by an average keeper. I may sound cynical, but Kepa worries me and I hope for his sake and our own, he improves (no, don’t give me the he’s Spain’s number 1, a rapidly declined DDG is his only opponent at Spain).
10. Tomori (sporadic performances aside), Abraham, Mount, to a varying degree Pulisic, Kovacic have been stand out performers performing at a consistent level. Willian has been performing at his own level (which honestly is always a 6/10, the spurs game aside). The rest of them are really at a level or two lower. Rudiger is a hyped defender who I find average (can’t defend 1v1, bad aerially, makes Luiz look positionally awesome and if not for his pace, he’d look worse). CHO is back from injury, is young and is going to take time to realise potential. Batshuai frustrates more than he delivers. Giroud has one foot out of the door.
Most of the problems are inherited for Lampard. But, he also has made mistakes as a coach and I want to see improvement from Frank in terms of smart personnel choice. Don’t wed into ideas till we have a homogeneous squad. We have one bunch of potentially great players and a big bunch of average players. Mixing them in any combination is going to be at best a top 6 season. Again, clusterf*ck all around us means we’re in top 4. I am not passing any judgement on Frank, merely stating what I see as his issues (choice of personnel and tactics at times) along with the mess he inherited. I back him wholeheartedly, he needs 2 transfer windows to get his ideas through along with learning from his mistakes.
Make no mistake, for whatever negatives I’ve written, this is the most enjoyable Chelsea season for me in ages mainly to see the younger players realising potential (some of us always rave about the academy and we are happy). I don’t care about league table or where we finish. The positives alone (refer point 10) is worth it this season. Chelsea have a core now. We need to sell off many average players and need to build around the core with similar quality across pitch (starting with full backs, a thuggish central defender, defensive midfielder, striker, left footed winger) and we’ll be good.
And folks, belated Christmas wishes and advance new year wishes.
Aravind, Chelsea Fan.
Love for Lampard
Hello there, F365,
Frank Lampard is doing a great job at Chelsea. To be in the top four after the half-way point of the season is superb. Given the transfer ban that they had, to be where they are is a good return for them.
I’m a Derby supporter, and I feel I need to say a few words about that. The season before Frank took over, we finished sixth under Gary Rowett. We lost quite convincingly to Fulham in the Play-Off semi-finals, and got what we deserved.
But our one season under Frank was superb. Yes, we lost some games by an embarrassing margin (the away games at Villa and Brentford were painful), but overall I was thrilled with how Frank did.
Some people will say that we only achieved the same as we did under Gary Rowett. That is true in one way — we finished sixth under Rowett and Lampard. But here are two facts — under Rowett, we lost in the play-off semi-finals, whereas under Frank we reached the final. So that, for me, is progress.
But more importantly, we played great football under Lampard. And we appreciate that — and that’s why Frank Lampard will get a great reception if he ever returns to Pride Park.
Lampard is a credit to himself — apart from the Leeds farrago, I thought that Lampard carried himself very well, and from what we’ve seen so far, Frank talks like a the Premier League manager.
For Chelsea fans, this may or not be a top four finish. Of course, I don’t know. But Frank is a great manager, and if you stick with him, I know that he’ll get you into the Champions League, sooner rather than later.
Here’s another fact — with more than half the season gone, Chelsea are fourth, and four points ahead of Manchester United. Frank is not a flash in the pan. He can’t be. To be in the Champion’s League positions at this stage is a serious achievement.
Frank was brilliant at Derby, and he’s proving himself to be a seriously good Premier League manager.
Oh, and Mason Mount has stepped up superbly. I’m so happy to see him doing well. As for Tomori, he’s an excellent defender, and I hope he comes good.
Best wishes,
Charlie
Liverpool were OK
I thought Wolves were excellent today and sadly it was their turn to see that the offside rule is no longer fit for purpose and people are blaming that on VAR. I’d argue a draw would’ve been a fair result.
I was excited that Souness at half time pointed out what I’ve been saying on here; offside should be based on the back of a player not the front. It will make calls much faster, it favours attacking football and doesn’t penalise attackers for anticipating an attack quicker than a defender.
For the Liverpool goal VAR was perfect, although the ref did his best to f**k it up by blowing his whistle.
Overall I thought Liverpool were ok but not much more. VVD might be knackered because his brain farted twice during the game though thankfully it didn’t cost us anything. Trent spent the first half of the game believing his own hype and then got a proper hiding in the second which will have brought him back down to Earth. Wijnaldum did a really good job of keeping it all ticking over today, he was the standout midfielder for me and I love the games where he’s constantly getting mixed in; he’s got so much talent and I think we mostly ask him to do a restricted and specific water carrying job but he’s capable of way more.
I think Firmino is being asked to fulfill a different role recently. He is so deep now that as play develops he’s an auxiliary central midfielder. It’s only when the ball shifts wide in the final third that he’s legging it to get into the traditional number 9 spaces. I don’t know if this is because we want an extra body in midfield, to help us evade a press halfway up the pitch or because it means he’s harder to mark when he arrives upfront.
Minty, LFC
A few end of year thoughts:
1) May I be (one of) the first to say it. I think next year could be Liverpool’s year.
2) It wasn’t too long ago that it took us 30 games to reach 55 points, at which point we’d desperately hope to get another 15 and scrape European qualification. I prefer it this time around.
3) The last few weeks have had a number of VAR controversies i.e. marginal but correct offside decisions being made. It seems to me we have two options: live with the current status quo, or get rid of VAR and live with other incorrect decisions being made. Personally I prefer annoying correct decisions to infuriating incorrect ones.
That’s it for now Happy New Year!
Rob
Nuno for United
I can understand some Man Utd fans wanting to get Mauricio Pochettino in as boss, he was brilliant with Southampton and Spurs, but they should definitely go for Nuno Espirito Santo. He has done wonders with that Wolves team. They where brilliant against City and Liverpool and those players really work for him.
His 3-5-2 would really suit utd as it would get an extra defender on the pitch, Pogba in a 3 man midfield and Rashford and Martial upfront together. He wouldn’t cost the earth in wages (although given the Sanchez deal United don’t really seem to care about that part), has good experience in the league and bring a fresh new feeling to Old Trafford.
Robbie DFC
*so this VAR then, it removes the human error by having humans in it??
This does not slip
Dear F365,
Just letting you know Rangers under the guidance of Steven Gerrard won at Celtic Park today for the first time since 2010.
And boy does it feel good. Having played them off the park in the recent league cup final yet still losing, the players today showed immense bottle as they once again domimated Celtic who havent lost at home in the league for an eternity!
I hope some of the readers down south watched the match?
It had a saved penalty…a Celtic goal that if VAR existed in Scotland wouldnt of stood. Goal line clearances. A sending off and plenty of drama.
Barasic, Rangers’ full back, is a star. Steven Davis is still way better than any Southampton midfielder and how no team in England never bought Aribo when available for a snip shows a neglect to League One.
Anyway feels good and finally in Scotland we have a genuine title race. But after years in the doldrums Rangers the worlds most successful club (yes its true!) are back.
Kudos to Stevie G.
Best.
Neil, Glasgow
Concussion discussion
I know the topic of head injuries in football is an uncomfortable one, because none of us want to see heading phased out of the game. But there still exists a wilful ignorance towards the concept of concussion and second impact syndrome in football.
Take, for instance, a moment on the hour mark during yesterday’s game at The Emirates, when Antonio Rudiger and Skhodran Mustafi both went down after a forceful- and difficult to avoid- collision of heads. After both had been down for about a minute receiving treatment, Frank Lampard decided to take the opportunity provided by the injury-enforced break to bring off Fikayo Tomori, leaving Rudiger as his only remaining starting centre-back. This was before Rudiger had undergone any sort of head injury assessment, or really done much aside from writhe in pain, which at least signified he was conscious.
There may have been a subsequent on-pitch head injury assessment, and in fairness I can’t say that either Rudiger or Mustafi showed any outward signs of lingering effects once play resumed, but that’s quite beside the point. It never seemed to cross Lampard’s mind that Rudiger would or should not continue playing- he was conscious, and any subsequent head injury assessment was likely a formality that wasn’t going to affect his decision to leave his only remaining centre-back on the pitch. I can guarantee that if Rudiger stays down clutching his knee, Lampard waits for word from his medical team to see if he can carry on.
When are we going to start taking head injury seriously? In all likelihood, it will only be addressed after a player suffers a potentially catastrophic second head injury following an earlier one- the kind that Rudiger and Mustafi were at risk of for over half an hour yesterday, and the kind that carries a high risk of significant morbidity and even mortality. I’m not talking about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the ample evidence that exists for alarmingly high rates of dementia in retired footballers- this is a much more immediate threat to the well-being of young athletes.
And I’m not trying to attack Lampard for an attitude that is endemic in the game- I am a Chelsea fan, but I’m also a neurologist, and I’ve seen the effect of post-concussion syndrome and second impact syndrome on young people. I just feel that if we really care about the game, we need to be proactive in protecting the welfare of our players.
Jeff, Some Place Far Away
LiVARpool’s year
Dear editor,
Sure you’ll get a lot of these. But let’s just see it for what it is. In December Liverpool won 7 games by an aggregate score of 20-3 (excluding villa for obvious reasons).
I can understand the desperation to blame outside influences (see FergieTime), but this team is simply brilliant. Let’s not cheapen it.
We will drop points. We will lose games. It’s not over. But if we win it, it won’t be down to VAR.
Marc (London)
Full disclosure – I’m a Liverpool fan.
How can it be that the correct application of the law, twice in our favour, can seem so morally wrong? Particularly for the equaliser.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take it, but I’m baffled by the gap between my perception (harsh on Wolves) and the reality (the law was correctly applied).
Can’t help but feel that’s at the heart of the issue with VAR.
Nick Glover, Scouser in Brum
Writing this as an LFC fan watching the Wolves game.
F**k VAR. Its killing the game.
That is all.
Chris (the machines are taking over, where’s John Connor when you need him?)
OK, I give up. If the Premier league’s intention was to do VAR so sh*ttily that everyone would stop asking for it, they win. No more VAR.
F***ing hell it shouldn’t be anywhere near this hard.
Dan, Plastic LFC
Think we were due a VAR call like that. After Firmino was judged to be an armpit offside we were due.
Fraser Igden, St. Helen’s.
Can you imagine for one second what the reaction from Klopp and the Liverpool fans/media would be, had roles been reversed in the Wolves match?
One minute silence at the bare minimum for the next home game.
John, Wolves, London
Here is a thought:
Let the players go into the field and play without rules…you know, like animals since is so hard to use VAR properly in the EPL.
Nelson (wish other teams can be as unlucky as Liverpool fans claim they are) Lagos.
The rest of the VAR nonsense
You’ll have plenty of these for sure, but let’s look at this objectively.
The Lallana decision was correct, the ball plainly hits his shoulder.
The Moutinho offside was also right, in the context of the calls this season.
Is the offside rule, as currently applied by VAR, complete b*ll*cks and need changing? Absolutely. However, this shouldn’t obscure that neither of the decisions yesterday were wrong and the opposite result would have been unjust. This is true no matter what fantasist Fred (who, after keeping his head down (back in the sand?) for the last few games, will no doubt return with another paranoid, borderline-psychotic, spittle-flecked and weirdly overly-capitalised rant) and his ilk might persuade themselves is the case.
Love and hugs.
Matt D, London
So, VAR, eh? Remember all those letters in the mailbox over the past few seasons, complaining about decisions going against them, pleading ‘why, oh why, can’t we just use technology to GET DECISIONS RIGHT EVERY TIME’? The only thing that can be said about VAR with any certainty is that it’s here to stay. Neither FIFA nor the Prem will be jettisoning it, that’s not how the world works.
So, how can it be improved? If it’s as god-awful as most people feel, it shouldn’t be hard, right? My starter for ten is: offside should be based on where players’ feet are. Not their chest, armpit, head or butt cheeks. Offside has always been taught ‘it’s where you’re standing when the ball is played’, not how far forward you’re leaning. That makes it a hell of a lot easier for whoever is drawing the lines across the pitch, for starters.
My second suggestion regards how and when VAR is used to overturn decisions, this would include offside, potential yellow cards etc. As it’s their jobs on the line, and they are the ones who get asked about VAR every day of their working lives, how about we let the managers decide? Give them a vote on how they would like it implemented. By empowering them, this would encourage them to a) buy into VAR and its success b) stop bitching about it at every opportunity (except Jose, of course).
There are plenty of other suggestions, but I think both of those are easy to implement?
John, Chicago
Ok, please can someone tell me what is wrong with this proposal for offside.
Firstly, everything is judged by the foot that’s most forward. This way we’ll avoid situations like in the Liverpool v Villa game whereby Firmino’s armpit is to be adjudged off side. At least with the foot there’s not disputing which part of the body is a goals scoring body part.
Secondly, there needs to be a time limit. Sure there’ll always be people who’ll be annoyed that someone’s big toe is offside. But Liverpool (correctly) lost out on the league last year because a couple of CMs weren’t over the line and we are all fine with that, and if offside could be that black and white most of us would be fine. But unfortunately that’s not possible so let’s tackle the second most annoying thing: the delay.
If the VAR crew can’t determine without 30 seconds how off or onside a player is, then how bad can the call be?
VAR had come into a lot of criticism this year, but one thing it can’t be faulted for is the blatantly obvious offside calls of the past. I’d much rather be screwed over by a quick, marginal, subjective but ultimately incorrect call than an correct call that takes 5 minutes. So let’s say, even with the tools they use, if they can’t over-rule the on-field decision with 30 seconds, then just how wrong can that decision be?
Thirdly, and completely unrelated, this is a PSA: it’s time to cancel your Prime trial!
Big D, Luxembourg
Blades went to Citeh yesterday and gave them a good game. If we’d lost through a combination of their class and our poor finishing then you can accept that. However, every Blade walked out of that stadium cursing VAR. Again.
Apart from getting involved by having Mousset’s goal chalked off for having his knob offside, VAR then chose not to get involved when the ref played a lovely pass to De Bruyne who set up Aguero for Citeh’s opener. The first instance was not really a clear and obvious error – in fact Pep was moaning about a possible foul on Aguero down by the Blades corner flag – I don’t think a single Citeh player appealed for offside. The second is absolutely a clear and obvious error. I have seen games stopped for a dropped ball with the slightest touch of the ball by the ref. In this case he actually played the ball to De Bruyne. How can VAR not get involved? This was yet another game when the talk on the way home is all about VAR and not the actual football we pay so much to follow.
As for the rest of the weekend, Norwich fans must be steaming after Pukki’s beard was caught offside (that ought to convince him to have a shave, the scruffy git) and Wolves fans must be losing their shit after Jonny’s toenail was offside. And there’s more but I can’t be bothered to rant any further. Riley needs to sort this mess out. It’s killing the game.
Incidentally, the beneficiaries of the Canaries, Wolves, Blades woes were Spurs, Liverpool and Citeh. No big team bias from VAR eh?
Football – it ain’t what it used to be.
Bladey Mick (wonder how many teams will be relegated due to VAR controversies?)
Frankly, I console myself in the fact that I am among the millions of football fans across the world seething at more recent VAR controversies in the EPL. I am fed up with the lame excuses of the ‘authorities’ to rule out perfectly legit goals. I am all for VAR ‘correcting’ a wrong referee decision to ‘disallow’ a goal (like for Mane’s goal) to say that it should be a goal. But I am at a loss to find it acceptable that a goal like Wolves’ is ruled out just because at some point, one bit of hair or shoe of one player not directly influencing play is ‘deemed’ offside, when there is serious build up with crisp moves/passes that eventually lead to a beautiful goal.
I also can’t get it that Pukki’s goal against Spurs is chalked out because of some infinitesimal offside. Isn’t the referee of the match the ‘main’ one? Doesn’t he have a pitch side TV where he can decide for himself? VAR is supposed to ‘assist’, not to impose!
This EPL season is for me terribly flawed (no wonder it is LiVARpool’s season with the amount of favorable VAR decisions they got). The EPL is not enjoyable anymore. I am all for VAR but not with the way it’s been applied to rule out goals and diminish entertainment.
Rishy, New York
All the talk is on the millimetres in the VAR decision. Whilst I also hate these margins and the delay, sometimes I think we all miss the point. Taking Pukki’s offside v Spurs – if you follow the full replay, as Spurs break forward he is slowly walking back from 20 yards offside. Once Norwich regain possession he is still perhaps 5 yards offside and realising this checks back ‘level’ in his mind making a run that is found by a nice ball forward.
Did he really do his absolute best to be onside? Should he not have been jogging back just in case possession was won? Did he not cut his check back rather fine so brought VAR’s millimetres into the equation?
I think I’m saying – Stop pushing the boundaries. Time your run better, your ability to do this well is part of why you are paid as a Premier League striker & I’m not. If you’re not sure you’re offside then you’re equally not sure you’re onside and YOU wasted a great opportunity. We don’t like VAR, but push it close & guess what gets to make the decision. Usually a great run takes you yards in front so it’s rare you need the fractions. You train for this, get paid a lot for this, I just turn up to watch expecting better.
PS Don’t get me wrong, I’d ditch VAR in a heartbeat. I just think morals & money mean there’s a wider picture to consider. It’s all too easy to blame the ref/technology.
Alan, Norwich
2 good goals chalked off in one evening. F#¢k VAR.
Ded Revil
An illegal goal by City allowed to stand. VARy bad use of technology. I’m VARbergasted.
Ded Revil
u ok, Fred hun?
I’m sure after our latest match many of my fellow ‘moronic’ Liverpool supporters are very concerned with Fred’s health.
But at least his blood pressure should be slightly lessened by Spur’s recent ‘luck’ with the Pukki ‘offside’ and THEIR undeserved win at Wolves. Or does his fascination and hatred of us mean he won’t accept such views?
Mike Woolrich, LFC
Let’s just do some lines
Mark Chapman on MOTD2 the other night, bear with me, made a good point about the issue with offside and VAR might well be the rule and not the technology.
So how about this..
The offside rule remains the same and VAR look into whatever scenarios they deem worthy of inspection, however increase the width of the lines they use to compare the players positions so they appear to be the same as the lines on the pitch. Only when the attacking players comparison line is sufficiently in advance of the defenders line that they don’t overlap are they offside.
If you get me. I like the symmetry with the all of the ball/all of the line rule too.
Mark Hamilton- Everton
VAR does Countdown
Hi
Easy way to solve VAR – time limit. The VAR ref has to return a decision in 30 seconds. If they can’t, then it’s too close to call and advantage is played.
So take the LFC/Wolves game. Liverpool goal – 1 look and you can see it hits Lallana’s shoulder. 1 look and you can see that Van Dyke does not handle the ball. Done in 30 seconds.
Wolves goal – 1 look and it’s too close. You need 10 minutes of f*cking about with coloured lines to get it down to his thumb was offside – that is not the spirit of the game.
I am a totally biased, 1 eyed scouse LFC supporter – but if Wolves were given that goal, no real fan would have argued against it.
Theory of VAR is CLEAR AND OBVIOUS mistakes. NOT 10 mins of analysis.
Play the “countdown” clock – that will sort the problem. The fans can also sing along to the tune. Win-win.
Cheers,
Ian, LFC
