You definitely can.

However, wearing any clothing associated with your team is a huge no.

Depending on your characteristics will depend on your risk of being punched or beaten up if found out. What I mean by this is a football hooligan is less likely to take umbrage if you’re a child, a pensioner, a woman or have a broken arm for example. You’re still at risk but they’d sooner punch a 25 year old guy than an elderly lady.

Finally, you don’t have to go crazy when the home team scores but you probably have to stand up and clap. Likewise you have to feign annoyance or indifference if the away team scores.

The key thing about sim binning is it SHOULD make it harder for a referee to fuck up.

This is because there’s a huge difference between a yellow card and a red card both in terms of what warrants one and also the consequences. The addition of a sim bin makes this difference smaller

Ban them from the ground but arresting people for this kind of thing is awful and a super slippery slope

Look at how clueless and biased pundits can be.

Just get the referees from rugby

1. I’m not an Arsenal fan

2. Two teams can have aspects of their team compared without equating their overall achievements and quality. To suggest otherwise is nonsensical

My percentage prediction is:

Man City - 50%

Arsenal -25%

Liverpool - 20%

Other - 5%

They are the most dominant team in terms of field tilt and how deep the opponent sits back. Source

This means teams will be defending their own box for 80 minutes and will get tired. They are then more likely to switch off and make mistakes the longer the match goes and the more tired they become.

Another factor is that because they have a great record of scoring late on, the players will believe that they can score. The opposite is true that the opposition may believe they will concede late on because of Arsenal’s record. This was certainly the case with Manchester United under Fergie.

Full freedom of speech is an awful idea. If I go into an airport and start threatening to bomb the plane I’m about to get on, I’m going to have consequences for what I said

Bringing Bobby Charlton who wasn’t a striker into this is just silly.

It all depends if he can keep up his current form this year. If he plays for 5 more years roughly, it’s 10 goals a year which is a big ask but not out of the question.

Lukaku ends his career at the top of this list

There should be an open category and a female category.

As for the case of FtM then they would have to play in the open category as that would be the same as doping if they were to play in the female category

Some of those teams did great things like Italy in 2020 and Spain in 2012, others lost to a country with a population 200 times smaller than theirs

I think they’ve actually gotten away with it.

The standard at the bottom is so low and Everton are actually a decent team this year they should e fine.

Lucky it happened when they’ve got Dyche for a full 38 games and not Lampard

This has got to be Salah and VVD’s last hurrah. It’s a real shame they aren’t in the CL with them both performing at close to the peak of their powers for one last time

It’s embarrassing.

No clear protocol.

No professionalism calling each other by their nicknames.

No technical language at all.

Could you imagine a rugby referee describing something as ‘not nice’?

I don’t think Ole even played that good football. They didn’t have loads of possession. They didn’t play that high a line. They were middle of the road in terms of pressing.

Sure some people don’t like the defensive style of Jose but it wasn’t like Ole was playing good exciting football.

Jose’s transfers were bad but wasn’t it Ole who spent £75m on Sancho and then £80m on Maguire?

For me it’s the fact he was given the most time and still didn’t deliver a good style of football or a single trophy. At least the others delivered a trophy

1. Jose Mourinho. 2nd place finish getting 81 points. Nobody else has come close to 80 points. He also won League cup and Europa league and got to the final of the Fa cup.

2. LVG. He took over the worst United team there was as it was too old with the least real talent. First year he got United back to the CL and the second year he won an Fa cup. This is the last big major trophy United have won. Gus second season in the league was poor getting 66 points but he only missed out on CL by goal difference.

3. ETH. He took over a poor United team and got them CL football again. He also has the highest points per game in all competitions. I suspect he will overtake LVG but that Fa cup is a big factor for me. It’s also very early for ETH.

4. Ole. He’s not a bad coach but to succeed at a club like United you need to be a great coach. He won zero trophies which is awful and even though his league finishes were great, 3rd and 2nd, he got 66 points coming third which LVG got to come 5th and Jose got 69 to come 6th and his 74 points to come second is very low considering some years you miss out on top 4 with that.

5. Moyes. Not backed enough and overhated. He came 7th which is dismal but 64 points is not too far off what Ole came third with. He was also 30 minutes away from a CL semi final which is irrelevant as they didn’t get over the line but i included it as a thought provoker to think how different would things have been.

Here, I wrote mainly about points and trophies as that is more tangible but I also think style of football and tactics come into play in my rankings, I just haven’t explained it because this is not the forum to do so in depth. I’d say from 1-5 is the managers with the strongest identity of tactics.

I mean you for 98 points that CL season. You were 100% good enough to win the league in fairness

There was not as clear a style of play as Arteta has. Emery relied on individual brilliance from Aubameyang and Özil more than Arteta relies on individual brilliance.

As for your point about back to back 8th place finishes. That’s very bad faith. Emery was more responsible for that first 8th place finish than Arteta was. He got 18 points off 13 games, 1.38 points per game, as opposed to 33 points in 20 games, 1.65 ppg.

Also, Emery was getting worse and worse at Arsenal. He started amazingly before bottling Champions League in his first season and then having an awful start to the season.

Arteta’s first 12 months was awful but after 12 months, they just kept improving and improving with a clear plan, style of play and a positive spiral as opposed to the negative one with Emery. Only Manchester City got more points in their last 24 games of that season than Arteta’s Arsenal.

This means his first 34 games as a manager were awful but after that, he got very good results.

It depends on how you judge managers.

For a club the size of Villa, I think there is a really strong argument for Emery being the third best manager.

However, the comparison with Arteta is too easy to make and it doesn’t seem he could rebuild a club in his image like Arteta has done and like United need to do