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It's simple just come clean on his injury and there won't be as many wild theories.

It’s clever- distracts the opposition!

Jim was a fabulous keeper but not around long enough to be as influential as TG

Him & Archibald speak volumes for the ambition at the time under Don Mackay - so to that extent…they tell the story 😉

I don't claim to understand the motives of the people that run this club. Nonsensical decisions are commonplace. Making him captain then forcing him out would not surprise me in the slightest.

Why am I getting a cross between Cool Runnings and Joe Biden?

Without doubt, a great player.

🙋‍♂️ I used to wax lyrical (because I know a top player when I see one)

Line of duty series 7 confirmed Top show even though I was disappointed with how they ended it in what they said was the final ever episode

Yeah, but how many POTY awards did he win though?

A truly great midfield player.

As per usual, had he been at any other club he would have received many a red card however he got the protection from the refs as all united players did.

He was a nasty bastard as well. All this shit about “ he’s not really a very good tackler “ or “ he just doesn’t know how to tackle “ - bollocks, he knew exactly what he was doing.

Yorke needed a good kick up the arse TBF

That would come under serious missed incident. I was just talking about clear and obvious error.

Why give him the captaincy in the first place if he was x amount of games away from hitting some target where his money goes up? Not playing isn't going to get Cantwell a transfer that he wants. He ended up here because there wasn't anyone else in for him and he didn't pull up any trees last season. He had started this season well and if he carried that form on then yeah an attractive move may open up for him

On the 1st November, Cantwell posted an Instagram/Facebook story of a photo of him walking on the beach with the caption "The next step is always the most important one". Sounds like he's planning something.

I’m not sure it’s that easy to extrapolate, English football has a pyramid with four figure crowds reported down in the 8th tier, not replicated anywhere in the world. Take away the Old Firm and is that top flight figure any better than that of a Belgium or a Sweden? There are hugely supported football clubs outside the PL in England but clubs like Bournemouth in it. A proper football country, to be sure, then so is England.

As much as I enjoyed the total stunned silence when Denmark equalised a 2nd time, it was difficult not to get wrapped up in that finale. This Scotland side have dug deep a few times. Ive only been to 1 game on Scotland (not old firm and pre VAR) but i found it refreshingly less sterilised than in England and bit more like football 20/30 years ago. Plus 'a view from the terrace' is very decent viewing.

Great out outcome for Scotland, and fully deserved for their fantastic fans. Football is more popular in Scotland than any other country in Europe if you base it on the per capita of population who go to watch it at the top level. Scottish PL 18.5 per 1000 people in 2024, the best in Europe, English PL 6.9 per 1000.

I don't want to be cruel but have you not been paying attention? Of course it's possible he's got a knock and it's gotten worse. It's also incredibly plausible that he's been frozen out or there's been some kind of agreement.

The other issue with VAR is that it makes complaints a lot more magnified - especially if the decision appears to be wrong. Pre-VAR there was always plausible deniability for the officials. It's easy to miss something if your view was obstructed, there was a crowd of players, you didn't have the best view of the incident, and so on. You'd still get comments of "how could a ref, linesman and fourth official miss THAT?" but there is some latitude for explaining decisions which appeared to be or were incorrect. When you've got multiple angles in slow motion and minutes to analyse them then what excuse is there? Mistakes simply cannot happen in that situation, because it's either incompetence from multiple officials or a genuine intent from multiple officials to fail to uphold the laws of the game. There aren't really any other feasible explanations that can be given. It starts to break down into "interpretation" and at that point we aren't really much further from where we started. You loop back to the "it should only be used for clear and obvious errors" argument, and everyone will have their own view of what that constitutes. Most memories I have of people being genuinely incensed by decisions come from two main problems - goals that should have stood but didn't (Lampard's goal against Germany, for example) and clear offsides. Hawkeye has already solved problem one, and I can't believe technology doesn't exist that could effectively eliminate problem two without the need for VAR. I sometimes think VAR is the proverbial sledgehammer being used to crack open a nut. There are some other situations I can think of outside of the above two - Henry's handball goal for France against the Irish, Maradona's "hand of God", some reckless tackles/assaults that should have seen red but were missed - but how often do such egregious situations actually occur? Do they happen enough to justify VAR as a comprehensive solution? Football clubs would probably say so, to be fair. At the highest levels especially the key factor is money and if VAR means that an unjust decision doesn't cost you points and potential relegation then that would probably be considered worth the sacrifice from a financial point of view, spectacle of the game be damned. For fans though, I'm not so sure. Feels like I'm starting to argue against myself now so I'll stop before I develop a split personality, but it's certainly an interesting topic with all sorts of valid arguments for and against.

As long as the commission is good then he's good enough for this club. 💰 💰 💰

That's fair do's, I just don't think they should be able to get multiple replays in slow motion. If you need to watch it in slow motion then it's not obvious.

So if from the refs angle you cant tell what the ball has hit because there is a crowd of people, and from the reverse angle it’s clearly handball, why would you not want to use the better angle?