2024 - 2026 Football Thread - Page 130

WombaT

Northern Ireland26802 Posts

11 hours ago

#2581

Shame results last week or so went the way they have

There was a scenario, providing Villa win the Europa and finish exactly 5th, where Brentford could be playing Liverpool and would actually need to lose and finish 6th, so as to not overhaul Villa in 5th, so they could make the Champions League

That woulda been bloody interesting albeit farcical stuff haha

With Villa in 4th, the Prem wouldn’t get an extra slot into the competition, as the team in 5th would have the fifth slot. If Villa finish below 5th they’d get it by virtue of winning the Europa. But if they finish 5th there’s an extra slot for whoever finishes 6th

Bacillus

Finland2052 Posts

9 hours ago

#2582

Maybe the extra slot goes to Slot?

Liquid`Drone

Norway28798 Posts

9 hours ago

#2583

I think there was a scenario in the Dutch second division this year where a team had to lose to have a shot at promotion, or something to that effect. It might not actually have manifested but I read it was a hypothetical scenario.

aseq

Netherlands4000 Posts

8 hours ago

#2584

On May 19 2026 02:16 Liquid`Drone wrote:
I think there was a scenario in the Dutch second division this year where a team had to lose to have a shot at promotion, or something to that effect. It might not actually have manifested but I read it was a hypothetical scenario.

Wow, knowledgeable! Our second league has this silly format where 4 champs from 4 quarters of the season take part in a play-off promotion league. Is not that different from this European thing actually - because those have precedent over regular league spots, one team needed their last opponent to win to possibly become one and not count in the league. Never actually manifested because of other results, but indeed, this type of craziness is hard to avoid with all those systems in place.

Speaking of craziness, did you guys ever read about the Barbados - Grenada group deciding match, where Grenada had to score in EITHER goal to advance?

evilfatsh1t

Australia8866 Posts

8 hours ago

#2585

On May 18 2026 18:46 Jockmcplop wrote:
That second United goal yesterday was a joke.
VAR did their job great, but the pigheaded ref wouldn't accept he was wrong.

If there was anything on that game at all I'd be absolutely fuming about it but in the end it doesn't really matter for Forest and the main thing was it was a really fun match to watch.

i think the decision was consistent with how they deal with those handball situations now, where for some reason if an attacker miscontrols the ball and it hits their arm by accident, play is allowed to continue.

the rule itself is stupid though. why is the attacker given leeway for a miscontrol? much easier to just give the handball.
also if mbuemo had scored that then they would have actually ruled the goal out. it wasnt ruled out because mbuemo didnt actually score and play continued. the handball rules are a shambles.

that said, bruno got his 20th assist from that goal so im not complaining one bit lol

Jockmcplop

United Kingdom9849 Posts

8 hours ago

#2586

On May 19 2026 03:17 evilfatsh1t wrote:

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Yeah this explanation is the one that makes sense from a ref's point of view, but I don't think its necessarily consistent, its an extremely finickity interpretation of the rules, when all the ex-players, Howard Webb, all the ex refs etc. all say it should be handball.
The issue, which was well explained on sky, is that the obvious way he controlled the ball with his arm should override whether or not it was deliberate.

Again though, there's nothing on the game so I don't really need to argue it, and it was a really fun match.

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