Archive for September, 2022
Queen Elizabeth 1926-2022
“London Bridge is down.” The Queen, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, has passed away at the age of 96 after 70 years on the throne.
Buckingham Palace has said the Queen ‘died peacefully’ on Thursday afternoon at Balmoral. Her death came three months after her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June.
Her eldest son Charles is now King, having acceded to the throne immediately upon her death. Charles will formally be proclaimed as the new sovereign at St James’s Palace tomorrow, when his regnal name will also be announced. It is expected that he will choose to be known as Charles III, although there has also been speculation that he will reign as George VII.
VAR under scrutiny
👉🏻 www.bbc.com/sport/football/62787324
The Premier League is to review the controversial VAR decisions at Chelsea and Newcastle yesterday with referees’ body PGMOL as a matter of priority.
West Ham were denied a 90th-minute equaliser when Maxwel Cornet’s effort was ruled out after Jarrod Bowen was judged to have fouled Edouard Mendy in the build-up – a decision David Moyes called “scandalous”.
The Good Shepard
God is not only the Good Shepard searching for us. He also works through every circumstance to try and get us to search for Him. He will not dispense with our response nor compel it, but he will move heaven and earth to try and elicit it. His purposes are relational and his mode of working is international and political.
Gott ist nicht nur der Gute Hirte, der nach uns sucht, Er arbeitet auch mit allen Mitteln, um uns dazu zu bringen, nach Ihm zu suchen. Er wird nicht auf unsere Reaktion verzichten und sie auch nicht erzwingen, aber er wird Himmel und Erde in Bewegung setzen, um sie uns zu entlocken. Seine Absichten sind beziehungsorientiert und seine Arbeitsweise ist international und politisch.
Michael Lloyd, Cafe Theology. Exploring live, the universe and everything
With VAR You Never Know
With 0-0 after the first half between Chelsea and West Ham, Antonio opens the score at Stamford Bridge in the 62nd minute with a goal from close range (assist: Declan Rice), before Chilwell pulls Chelsea level.
That sparks a frantic finish, with Maxwel Cornet almost winning it late on for the visitors, only to see his header come back off the post and the Blues immediately score themselves through a clinical Havertz header from Chilwell’s cross.
Then Chelsea’s keeper Edouard Mendy stops Jarrod Bowen in the box. He is on the ground as Cornet takes a touch and hammers a shot into the roof of the net.
89’ GOOOOOOALLL !!! 2-2
Mendy stays down, and VAR checks for possible foul.
After the VAR check West Ham’s goal is disallowed by referee Andrew Madley and Bowen is penalised for a foul on the Chelsea keeper: he just caught Mendy’s arm with his studs as he hurdled him, but contact was minimal.
That seems an extremely harsh call, writes “The Telegraph”. You could also call it a ridiculous decision.
90 min: Chelsea 2 West Ham 1
Robbed.
Rapid Wien in der Krise
Der populärste Fußballklub des Landes, Rapid Wien, steckt schon wieder in der Krise. In seiner Jugend schwärmte profil-Sportjournalist Gerald Gossmann für Grün-Weiß. Warum ihn der Verein einst faszinierte und heute bloß noch irritiert.
— Weiterlesen im Profil: “Und täglich grüßt die Vergangenheit“
We aren’t Liverpool…
… to come from behind and score a winner with the very last kick of the game deep into injury time (Liverpool 2 Newcastle 1), but with Wednesday’s draw against Spurs (1:1) West Ham have shown that David Moyes has a good team now with his latest signing of Lucas Paqueta from Lyon (who made his debut in the Spurs game) and we can look forward to the progress of this season!
Also West Ham did come from behind and Tomas Soucek equalised Thilo Kehrer‘s own goal in the second half. Tomas Soucek scored after a stunning flick from Michail Antonio, playing his 200th Premier League game for the club.
In the last minutes of the game the Hammers had two or three good chances to score and could have managed to get their second win of the season (after the 1-0 away against Aston Villa). But we can be happy with the performance and the result which could have been very different if referee Peter Bankes had stuck with his original decision of giving Tottenham a penalty in the first half. Harry Kane’s nod back had hit the outstretched arm of Aaron Cresswell, but after a lengthy check by VAR and the referee, the decision was overturned as the ball had hit the full-back’s head first.
Next game: Chelsea away on Saturday.
EXTRA TIME 
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