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***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20
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dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
You gain the correct winner.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Love to score the same amount of goals as the opposition and lose.
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Away goals as a rule makes literally no sense. The best defence of it is it's been around for ages which isn't really a great defence. Not something I massively give a **** about but I'd struggle to mount an argument in favour of it.
And while there are cases, as Uppercut has highlighted, of it leading to greater entertainment it also leads to an equal and opposite amount of negative tactics. Tend to think it's zero-sum in that regard.
No big fan of penalties but it's a better way of settling ties IMO.
And while there are cases, as Uppercut has highlighted, of it leading to greater entertainment it also leads to an equal and opposite amount of negative tactics. Tend to think it's zero-sum in that regard.
No big fan of penalties but it's a better way of settling ties IMO.
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GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
The EFL Play-offs routinely produce crazy entertainment year on year and they dropped away goals about 17 years ago.
Obviously you adapt to the situation, and I don't dispute it makes for some knife edge situations. But so does not having it.
Anyway I wasn't particularly calling for it to be scrapped (though I would be in favour, and if the rule didn't exist anyone who suggested it would be laughed out of the room) but someone posted that it was a good way of preventing a tie going to pens. I am not sure how that is a justifiable reason because to me pens is a much fairer way of settling a tie.
Obviously you adapt to the situation, and I don't dispute it makes for some knife edge situations. But so does not having it.
Anyway I wasn't particularly calling for it to be scrapped (though I would be in favour, and if the rule didn't exist anyone who suggested it would be laughed out of the room) but someone posted that it was a good way of preventing a tie going to pens. I am not sure how that is a justifiable reason because to me pens is a much fairer way of settling a tie.
Cabinet96
Global Moderator
Fairness has always been a secondary priority in football. Of course, one can very reasonably argue extra time and penalties are more exciting and dramatic than the potential for goals that swing a side from losing to winning and vice-versa anyway.
No denying its existence is weird in a world where penalties exist for domestic comps and international tournaments though. Personally I like it just because it adds something different to certain fixtures and lets me nerd out on the increased number of permutations with the scoreline.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Useless Benteke even quicker than usual to make a complete mess of a decent chance, once again sending it closer to the corner flag than the goal. How exactly does he get a game ahead of Tosun? Or ahead of any promising forward from the youth team? Whilst not usually keen on scapegoating individuals, his complete uselessness makes him a thoroughly fair exception to that rule.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
The collapse is on 
OverratedSanity
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Yikes de gea
Niall
International Coach
Hes not dropped a clanger for a while so it was to be expected.
Not much better though by Pickford who really should have saved that utd goal.
