Master_Tactician

The LIV "tour" has completely killed the PGA tour and i hate it. Youve basically as i see it now got a two tier tour on the PGA tour. Youve got the designated events (which is kind of PGA Tours answer to LIV....get all the big players together for a big pot) and the everyone else events that the other players who arent exempt are playing for. So basically if youre playing the designated events, and youve already got exemptions into all the majors anyway.... then you might as well just play the LIV which is basically the same concept with guaranteed higher purses. Its shit really. I hate it. Ultimately if the two tours dont combine both will die. One is built on a sportswashing model and has no commercial appeal, tv or fans, the other is built on 4 day cut events with 150+ player fields and top players wont be filling the field. Everyone SHOULD be playing PGA Tour but its under existential threat

Lets be real, they were never in a title race. A good spell of 10 games is not a title bid.

Ange's style is ballsy. He takes forward risk and the style is attractive. Until they had injuries to key players they were looking great. Theyve got no Kane either whos arguably THE best in the world. Youd call Dyche "one dimensional" but hes a perfect fit for everton's players and crowd, they like that direct balls in the box style. They like the energy, the tackles. It fits. Obviously it wouldnt at Man City but they aint Man City

I feel the opposite. Think the Premier League quality is great this season. Some of the "smaller" teams like Aston Villa, Brighton, Brentford are capable of great football on their day in totally different ways. Spurs have been highly entertaining. Everyone except the bottom 3 can really make it difficult for anyone on the day. Its why the points totals at the top are lower than normal....everyone can take points off each other. And whats more hardly anyone is playing tippy tappy, almost everyone is playing pass and move aggressive football, getting it forward with good quality. Even those who counter attack. Been the best Premier League for a long time IMO

Im on Keegan Bradley and Rickie Fowler's side of the fence with this one. For many, many reasons. 1) Limiting the ball as a concept.....ok...... how exactly do you propose that to reflect golf as a whole? within the tours and recreational players youve got players who generate tons of ball speed and LOW spin. youve got players who generate tons of ball speed and HIGH spin. Youve got recreational players who generate hardly any ball speed and high spin. youve got recreational players who generate hardly any ball speed and generate low spin. Theres not some arbitray number in play here that "swing at X speed you lose this....." it really depends on your launch conditions, so its not really going to have the linear effect the governing bodies think. 2) The whole argument is centred around the premise its not sustainable to make golf courses longer to make them harder. Which is a completely bogus argument in the first place. Let me give you some examples of courses that are not super long, yet play super hard on the tours: Spyglass Hill for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM. Measures 7,026 yards Pebble Beach for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Measures 6,802 yards PGA National for the Honda Classic. Measures 7,081 yards Harbour Town Golf Links for the Heritage. Measures 7,191 yards Merion. A major venue when selected for US Opens. Measures 6,946 yards Theres some examples. None of those courses are long. But they all play hard, because theyve got tiny little firm greens, deep rough, water hazards, and quirky design where you cant just pummel it anywhere you like. So if you want to actually make the course HARD, grow the rough so it puts a premium on being accurate, dry the greens out, and there you go. 3) Costs.....this is the bit that really annoys me. Manufacturers will have to change their entire manufacturing process to manufacture a new ball, and in doing so theyll probably also launch whole new lines of clubs to combat the effects of the reduced ball, ones that move CG into different locations to manipulate launch or raise/cut spin, so avid golfers will probably feel they have to buy new tech to offset the effect of the ball. 4) Fun.... If someone wants to bang it 320, bang it 320. If you can swing a driver at 125mph, more power to your elbow, thats a SKILL that you have, just the same as being able to run fast, jump high etc. What does it matter what the winning scores are in tour events? or monthly medals? its still everyone competing against each other and best player wins whether its -5, -15, -25 winning score. Some people like to see intricate shot making, some people love the wow factor of the sound of a monstered drive or visual of the ball flight live, whats wrong with that? I could go on, but theres 4 reasons.....theres many more

The MOTD commentator for Luton v Arsenal was convinced Raya has had a brilliant start to his Arsenal career..... He has made at least one cock up every game he has played

the biggest problem nowadays is the scapegoating of referees has reached such proportions that every team who loses has lost because of the referee. Someone could have tackled Grealish. He could have missed. The referee could have blown for a foul on Haaland. Man City missed stacks of chances and defended badly, none of which is to do with the referee. The easiest cop out in the world is players the media and especially fans constantly bemoaning referees when their own players cant take care of business. I have sympathies with teams like wolves but nothing on sunday gives a player a right to scream in someones face when an hour before they couldnt score from 10 yards with an open goal. Bored of hearing how its always the refs fault for a loss and how the ref is always brilliant when a team wins.

I dont think theres anything inherently wrong with building from the back and possession football. Far from it. What is highlighted in those clips though is to do it well and be effective you still need to pass FORWARDS. If the keeper plays a short pass to a centre back, to play out effectively those in front of him have got to make angles to play forwards and it needs to go forwards STRAIGHT AWAY. The whole problem with playing from the back at times is if a defender has it and goes square.... the next player has less options. So he goes square. Next player has even fewer options and by this point youre just inviting the other team to keep pressing to recover the ball right next to YOUR goal. Also, dont be afraid of a direct line breaker. EDERSON does it all the time. So does Alison. If the balls on, play it. Get it forward with quality early. Thats not hoofing, its pragmatism. The current Leicester team imo doesnt have the right balance between scripted play and direct play (yet) but the examples in the clip are the style we want being implemented correctly

Very few IMO For one, rather than have one fullback go to make a back 3 and one go into the DM area, the spurs wingbacks will go much higher up the field in build up. Sometimes right to the edge of the box. Secondly when playing maddison has license to roam all over the place. He will come very deep at times, or drift wide left. Leicester have a much more structured pattern of play where the two "8s" will go into spaces between the centre of the pitch and the wide players. Usually Dewsbury Hall and Ndidi. Thirdly spurs are far more vertical than leicester. Less square passes, forward play with more urgency and more inclined to use a counter attack than leicester. Comparisons to man city with leicester are lazy too. Man City play with a genuine striker who does not get involved in the buildup. Often leicester will use a striker to come deep to get involved in the buildup. Man city also use a centreback to go into midfield rather than a full back so their structure is different. In many ways leicesters play more closely represents arsenal in positional play and style. Wide players who pick the ball up wide up want to come inside, box midfield created by a full back and striker wanting to come deep rather than be out and out