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Off the top It seems that it'll favour teams with talent in depth... ie. not QPR. OTOH it may give us a chance to see what some of our younger players can do in a first team environment.
I think a knock-on should, and maybe will, be the introduction of an official timer to track stoppages. There are too many as it is, and while adding two or three minutes at the refs discretion is maybe acceptable, five or six or more is courting controversy.
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Five subs, Good or bad? on 14:58 - Jul 13 with 1150 views
Going to have one of our rare disagreements Dave, very little game management there and we were only 1-0 up.
Did an open age friendly last night, 2-1 the score, no time wasting, why, because it was a friendly - to deny its not possible is nonsense, of course it is - its down to the players, not the refs or IFAB!
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Five subs, Good or bad? on 15:01 - Jul 13 with 1135 views
Different sex, different physical capabilities - its like calling all women athletes sub standard because they can't beat a decent male club runner - nonsense argument.
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Five subs, Good or bad? on 15:59 - Jul 13 with 1084 views
Horrendous in my opinion. Means all the big teams will hoarde more players than they currently do. Like FFP, keeping the elite at the top and everybody else further down.
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Five subs, Good or bad? on 16:44 - Jul 13 with 1026 views
Someone recommended it. And, for most of my football watching life, it's been flagged as the pivotal game at least so far as English football is concerned. I'm 74, so too young to have been aware of it at the time, but it was referenced regularly by my father and others of his generation. Up until then there was a general assumption that it was "our game" and we were better at it than anyone else. The Hungarians chewed that notion up and spat it out in 90 minutes. For any one interested in football's historical development it's well worth a watch.
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Five subs, Good or bad? on 16:53 - Jul 13 with 1022 views
Yeh the system is weighted towards the bigger clubs but that just means the others have to think outside the box and adapt to the situation. A bit like how we sunk the mighty Spanish Armada by using smaller more maneuverable ships
Thanks VH. I didn't realise film of the 90 mins existed. I'll try and find time to search out and watch. The story of those two matches and their run to a WC final a year later, is legendary.
Shame for them it dissipated soon after and they haven't been a major force since.
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Five subs, Good or bad? on 15:32 - Jul 14 with 776 views
There's also a better quality version with Hungarian commentary, but Kenneth Wolstenholme's commentary is worth the price of admission: eg: "Goalkeeper Gilbert Merrick is the only English First Division player who wears a moustache." Fascinating!
He also, often unknowingly, provides excellent and genuinely astonished context for the difference between the two teams. "Hidegkuti is centre forward but he's back playing defence!" and "Astonishingly the right winger keeps popping on the left side!
Even if you don't watch the whole match the first 15 minutes or so are worthwhile. By that time Hungary are two goals up and the second set up by Puskas, is a beauty. It seemed to knock the wind out of the England's players.
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