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*Official* English Football Season 2016-17
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grecian
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We've just put in a 3g pitch, not for playing but practicing. Doesn't have the bits that give you cancer luckily enough.
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Surely they'd prefer it to most non-league pitches at this time of year.
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I agree but top level players moan about them constantly. Maybe a sign of how good the best grass pitches have got.
sledger
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Yeah, I never really understand the rage about them, but perhaps that's right.
The only downside to them for me is that unless you play in tracksuit bottoms (or manage to avoid falling to the floor somehow) you will end up getting horrible burns all over your legs. Especially if you play in goal.
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Eh, dunno. Maybe.
I'm sure they won't trouble Arsenal, but Sutton are immense at home. They are the only team from the bottom half we have lost to. Their home record would probably be title-challenging form. It's like a non-league India away sort of situation. Just seems like players really struggle to adjust.
As I say, obviously Arsenal will be fine result wise - but it will be interesting.
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Yeah it's definitely difficult to adjust between different surfaces, just because the ball behaves differently when it bounces. Makes sense that non-league sides would hate going there.
At amateur level the big difference is that you can trust a 3G surface enough to play out from the back. It changes the game completely, the big hoofball CBs that are invaluable on grass become worthless. Would expect that to suit Arsenal though.
sledger
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Yeah those were basically just sandpaper. Hateful.
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getreading tweeted earlier that Reading were close to signing Yermas Dildo 
Scaly piscine
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Sin-bin plan to be looked at by football's lawmaking body Ifab - BBC Sport
About bloody time. Of course it will be bad if you're getting yellow as you do at the moment for a mistimed tackle or actually going for a 50-50 ball where two people commit to it. It should totally be for all the cheap tactical fouls Spain got away with for 10+ years with their possession football and getting caught meant giving up a foul on the halfway line instead of being left 2 on 2.
About bloody time. Of course it will be bad if you're getting yellow as you do at the moment for a mistimed tackle or actually going for a 50-50 ball where two people commit to it. It should totally be for all the cheap tactical fouls Spain got away with for 10+ years with their possession football and getting caught meant giving up a foul on the halfway line instead of being left 2 on 2.
duffer
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Lollipops, I've seen this movie before.
sledger
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Haha, yeah, I guess. It just struck me that it's not entirely out of the question that Beevs sits at home waiting for news items to appear that will allow him to take a crack at things he doesn't like.
For instance, I wonder what his reaction would be to some news item about a new umbrella being developed or something.
"Ah good, a new umbrella will help keep the rain off. Speaking of rain, the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. ****ing Spain, I hate those ****s [insert long rant about Spain/Spanish footballers]".