TheEagleTweets
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Not a fan of the new massive speakers at Selhurst Park that block the view even more..!


The ball was bundled into the net at the far post and the visiting supporters went wild. While the celebrations continued, I was sitting 136 miles away, in a dark corner of a TV studio in west London, fearing the worst. As the video assistant referee (VAR), I had spotted three potential offences in the build-up. As I worked through the checks, it felt like the walls were closing in, the darkness was intensifying and my mouth was getting drier while my heartbeat rose. In 20 years as a referee on the pitch, I never felt the kind of pressure that goes with being a VAR. Eventually, more than three minutes after the goal had been scored, I confirmed that it could stand. It had felt like a waste of everyone’s time, that a joyous and spontaneous moment had been ruined by a nerd desperate to find cause to wreak misery. Nothing could be further from the truth. Referees are people too, and feel the pain inflicted by a video review system that is simply not fit for purpose. Graham Scott, The Athletic's new referee columnist. 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/71836…





🚨 Chelsea believed to have activated release clause in Michael Olise contract & expect to complete signing in due course. If deal finalised it would guarantee Crystal Palace £35m. 21yo recovering from injury @TheAthleticFC after @FabriceHawkins #CFC #CPFC theathletic.com/live-blogs/tra…




🚨🇦🇹 After direct talks today, Crystal Palace inform Oliver Glasner that they want to continue with him. Tense 24h at the club, but Palace insist to keep going together, for now. @FabrizioRomano

🗣️ Glasner: "The expectations are just getting higher and higher and higher and higher, and we can't fulfil them in the last months. That's the reality." @awmcs

🚨 👀 Oliver Glasner and Crystal Palace board, in direct discussions today about Austrian manager’s immediate future. @FabrizioRomano


