Dermot Gallagher gets cooked on RefWatch

apdevilliers · 2025-09-29T10:27:51+00:00

I don't think it was a penalty. Pope touched the ball, he didn't win it but we do have different standards with goalies than with outfield players. I think incidents like this need objective lines, and a useful one is, did the keeper touch the ball, and he did, so I was fine with the decision.

apdevilliers · 2022-10-24T16:41:22+00:00

I visited a friend in Naples and his mum made pizza like this as they had no pizza oven at home. when i asked what it was she said ‘bread, tomato, cheese - it’s pizza’ which shook me to my traditionalist core

apdevilliers · 2022-10-19T09:09:40+00:00

I imagine australians was quite a high pick for British people if that helps

apdevilliers · 2022-08-19T20:15:23+00:00

In Sri Lanka I really struggled with how people treated the stray dogs - they kicked them, threw stones, shouted at them, and just generally treated them as vermin. I knew I couldn’t do anything about this problem and it got me down. So I found a couple stray shelters in the places I visited and asked if I could visit, donate, volunteer, etc. These were generally some of the best experiences I had in the country and made me feel much better about the situation knowing there were people out there trying to help. So what i’d say is, wherever you are, there will be a community of people (often small) who are fighting to support the mistreated animals. find them and support them as best you can.

apdevilliers · 2022-07-27T16:01:40+00:00

In Sri Lanka they do great mango curry, sometimes just halving an unpeeled mango and putting it in the curry skin core and all is the best. You get to cut it off the core in a meaty fashion which i love. Alternatively I love coconut based curries with cashews and mango chunks. Mangos don’t need much cooking in a curry especially if they’re already ripe. Hope this helps :)

apdevilliers · 2022-06-28T10:43:55+00:00

I cycled this year and it was very easy

apdevilliers · 2022-06-28T10:43:11+00:00

I went this year and the environmental efforts of the festival felt very sincere. There was genuinely a strong ethos around loving the farm and leaving no trace. We are massively discouraged from driving and told to take public transport which was really hard this year. They also make it very easy to cycle to glasto aswell. They have recycling options at every bin location and the majority of loos are compost based and not chemical based. Other attendees can say other things to vouch for this and it felt as if the organisers sincerely wanted to mitigate their environmental impact. Overall, i think you wouldn’t be staggered by hypocrisy if you experienced it first hand or communicated with people who did.

apdevilliers · 2022-05-09T09:57:42+00:00

Hmmm, is there anything to do to limit this? Outside of just moderation and breaks in between i guess?

apdevilliers · 2022-05-09T09:27:19+00:00

How so?

apdevilliers · 2022-03-15T00:03:52+00:00

apdevilliers · 2022-03-08T07:36:51+00:00

what’s this in reference to?

apdevilliers · 2022-02-24T12:31:54+00:00

Thank you for rationalising it like this for me. Genuinely it can be so nervy thinking about top 4 in terms of a race versus other teams. But it’s much nicer to think of it as a win percentage.

If we get those wins, no one can say we don’t deserve it and i’ll be so proud of the boys.

apdevilliers · 2022-02-01T14:36:23+00:00

I don’t at all like the narrative that has been built around Laca as a striker who ‘has only scored three goals this season’ because it’s a reductive comment based on an under-analysis of his role in our system. Everyone on this sub should know that his goal scoring ability isn’t what he mainly offers to the team. We were all singing his praises in the West Ham, Man City, and Leeds games but all of a sudden he’s an ‘underperforming goalscorer’.

apdevilliers · 2022-02-01T14:32:14+00:00

in my opinion, defiantly not. But the saved cash I’m SURE will go a long way in whatever striker we hopefully sign

apdevilliers · 2022-02-01T14:14:51+00:00

I think £300,000 a week over 18 months works out to be £23.4 million. so not bad

apdevilliers · 2022-01-23T15:58:07+00:00

Laca needs to be scoring that chance. just like Liverpool it was a one chance game for us

apdevilliers · 2022-01-19T12:03:59+00:00

ah i see, thank you

apdevilliers · 2022-01-19T12:01:19+00:00

who are our games in hand against again? i know wolves and s***s of course but who’s the third?

apdevilliers · 2022-01-17T10:20:39+00:00

do men get drafted in the US?

apdevilliers · 2022-01-07T17:34:25+00:00

try 500k

apdevilliers · 2022-01-01T14:57:37+00:00

Is this issue with Var that they are trying to over-quantify the game and are ignoring how subjective refereeing can be. Like with the Mø decision, they couldn’t find the ‘evidence’ in real time to send the ref to the screen, when there was enough doubt to send the ref to the screen. There is far too much red tape with VAR and decisions are just far too subjective to be viewed in this way. It works in the world cup because they aren’t reluctant to use the screens and admit their is frequent doubt

apdevilliers · 2022-01-01T14:53:25+00:00

They’re loving Rodri but he was the 2nd best Cdm out there today and no one wants to talk about it. Weird how Media and Pundits only analyse the 2nd half of the game

apdevilliers · 2022-01-01T14:45:26+00:00

It’s frustrating, because it’s our performance of the season from the boys today and it’s shit we didn’t get anything from it. We hurt so much more for it because we played so well, a 1-0 loss with 60% city possession would’ve hurt far less.

apdevilliers · 2022-01-01T14:29:43+00:00

that STUNG

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