It also ties up his match report.Basically admitting that he's been time wasting all that time, but he's let him get away with it.
Not for me, it was very close but sadly he was off.
I said the same. There’s a hell of a lot of people who have turned away from football, and a hell of a lot of young people who don’t like it from a young age, because of two main areas…
Football is proper fucking boring half the time. The ball is in play for an average of just 56 minutes a game. That’s over 1/3 of the entire game, over half a fucking hour, where there are thousands of spectators in stadiums watching 23 blokes stand still on some grass.
And this is every single game in the sport. IT’S FUCKING BORING!
The other area is the diving and feigning injury.
Exactly the aboveI have said over and over that on the offside rule VAR has spoilt the game. You cannot spontaneously celebrate a good third of your team's goals because you're sitting there shivering in fear of it being overturned.
And this is basic: what's it all fucking about if not being able to let your passion rip?? What did we all fall in love with the game for, if not for that? These people who are running VAR don't seem to understand that any more.
I'm not asking for illegitimate goals to be allowed.
All I'm asking for is a bit of common sense. The offside rule exists, has always existed, to stop the attacking player from obtaining an unfair advantage, by one form or other of goal-hanging. As such it's a necessary rule.
But what kind of advantage does any player gain by having a toe, or a knee, or an armpit or a nose just in front of the defender? Make it by the depth of the player's torso, say, or their whole body, and everybody would be able to see that that makes sense. It's a minor adjustment to the rule which would help bring back enjoyment for all fans.
VAR is as much a vehicle now for keeping external interests on board as it is with delivering a decision that matches what actually happened on the pitch. The LotG are manipulated, whitewashed or just plainly ignored on the pitch by every ref I've seen since money rolled into the PL (and MANUre 'n the Dippers have but one title apiece since the Good Sheikh appeared), witness time-wasting goalies getting away with constant infringement of the laws until the 85 minute, unless yer name is Eddie and yer happen to do it once!I have said over and over that on the offside rule VAR has spoilt the game. You cannot spontaneously celebrate a good third of your team's goals because you're sitting there shivering in fear of it being overturned.
And this is basic: what's it all fucking about if not being able to let your passion rip?? What did we all fall in love with the game for, if not for that? These people who are running VAR don't seem to understand that any more.
I'm not asking for illegitimate goals to be allowed.
All I'm asking for is a bit of common sense. The offside rule exists, has always existed, to stop the attacking player from obtaining an unfair advantage, by one form or other of goal-hanging. As such it's a necessary rule.
But what kind of advantage does any player gain by having a toe, or a knee, or an armpit or a nose just in front of the defender? Make it by the depth of the player's torso, say, or their whole body, and everybody would be able to see that that makes sense. It's a minor adjustment to the rule which would help bring back enjoyment for all fans.
And they're all fat c#nts hahaHow can it be that every single ref is such an abysmal standard. Well they can't be. The richest league, best managers, players, stadiums etc. But the refs are all 'inconpitent'. Do me a favour.
The only way it evens itself is that united will get 40 favourable decisions and we will get 60 adverse onesSo the VAR at the Leicester game see nothing wrong with Oliver's decision not to send Evans off for the identical foul that the Mason on VAR duty for us decided to back the referee 100% and send Laporte off.
Zaha is a cheat he initiated the contact and both were grappling each other but Zaha screams with his arms outstretched , at least we know it evens itself up over a season ........................
Completely agree. The rule should be any part of the body onside is ok rather than any part offside isn’t. That way it’s more “clear and obvious” offside rather then absolutely marginal and more benefit to attackers and goals scoredI have said over and over that on the offside rule VAR has spoilt the game. You cannot spontaneously celebrate a good third of your team's goals because you're sitting there shivering in fear of it being overturned.
And this is basic: what's it all fucking about if not being able to let your passion rip?? What did we all fall in love with the game for, if not for that? These people who are running VAR don't seem to understand that any more.
I'm not asking for illegitimate goals to be allowed.
All I'm asking for is a bit of common sense. The offside rule exists, has always existed, to stop the attacking player from obtaining an unfair advantage, by one form or other of goal-hanging. As such it's a necessary rule.
But what kind of advantage does any player gain by having a toe, or a knee, or an armpit or a nose just in front of the defender? Make it by the depth of the player's torso, say, or their whole body, and everybody would be able to see that that makes sense. It's a minor adjustment to the ruwhich would help bring back enjoyment for all fans.
I get where you're coming from and at least we'd all feel better about "clearly offside", but no matter what the rules are, institutional bias would still rear it's ugly head with VARs involvement; we'd simply be left arguing that "Foden's trailing foot is still inline with the defender" vs ""there's clear daylight between Ronaldo and the defender" (if you get my point.)Completely agree. The rule should be any part of the body inside is ok rather than any part offside isn’t. That way it’s more clear and obvious offside and more benefit to attackers and goals scored
When you understand this reality, everything else makes sense.VAR is as much a vehicle now for keeping external interests on board as it is with delivering a decision that matches what actually happened on the pitch.
I don't have a specific problem with the decision If he's off he's off However, bearing in mind, the lino saw nothing, Palace didn't complain, the ball is back on the centre spot to re-start, VAR then take the best part of 3 mins to rule it out If it takes 3 minutes of forensic examination to rule out a City goal (as opposed to 10 seconds to allow a "red" goal), i'm sorry, i do now have a problem, if it takes that long, (and is that marginal) it should be ONSIDE!Not for me, it was very close but sadly he was off.
I said the same. There’s a hell of a lot of people who have turned away from football, and a hell of a lot of young people who don’t like it from a young age, because of two main areas…
Football is proper fucking boring half the time. The ball is in play for an average of just 56 minutes a game. That’s over 1/3 of the entire game, over half a fucking hour, where there are thousands of spectators in stadiums watching 23 blokes stand still on some grass.
And this is every single game in the sport. IT’S FUCKING BORING!
The other area is the diving and feigning injury.
Rant away, do! It's therapeutic!This is exactly what Jonny Moss did last time he got his iron lung pressurised. "Goal kick? Ah, time for me to get my breath back as I walk slowly back to the halfway line. If he still hasn't taken the kick when I turn round in the centre circle, I'll give him a wave." They don't bother. I think it is this kind of shitty reffing that will drive away fans from the game far sooner than having to suffer decades of a shit team. I kept saying to the guys next to me that he will book him on 87 mins. It turned out to be 85. Why a booking on 85 mins when the wastrel has been taking the piss at every goal kick for 84 mins? I can imagine what would be said if one of the Whistling Wankers ignored other infringements of the LotG for 84 mins. I find it totally insulting, having paid hard earned to get a seat and then see an opposition goalkeeper deny us five minutes of playing time each half. Two minutes at HT was another joke. I think a freshly scooped dog turd off the towpath of the Ashton Canal prior to kick off was about the standard of reffing today. And while I'm on the rant, the picture of the VAR offside goal was pretty clear - why did it take so long when I nailed offside two seconds after seeing the screen. I smell a VAR rat. Had they superimposed a pair of size 16 boots on Foden so that his toe nail was nearer the goal line? And another, their offside goal began with the forward collecting the ball five yards behind our last defender, three touches and he 'scores', and the lino puts up his flag. It was blatantly obvious the only outcome would be offside. Perhaps the wankers were waiting for the Palace time-waster on the goal line to run 115 fuckin' yards past everybody and toe-end it in?
Roll on Wednesday!
Exactly.. by taking that long they are looking for any remote possibility they can find to rule out the goal.. it’s totally the wrong approach. Fans go to matches to cheer when goals are scored and not to see them ruled out by a manufactured millimetre ‘offside’. Something is only clear and obvious if it’s a mistake made by the human eye.I don't have a specific problem with the decision If he's off he's off However, bearing in mind, the lino saw nothing, Palace didn't complain, the ball is back on the centre spot to re-start, VAR then take the best part of 3 mins to rule it out If it takes 3 minutes of forensic examination to rule out a City goal (as opposed to 10 seconds to allow a "red" goal), i'm sorry, i do now have a problem, if it takes that long, (and is that marginal) it should be ONSIDE!
Yeah I get your point but giving the majority of the benefit to the attacker is still surely better for the game, but I agree cheats will always be cheatsI get where you're coming from and at least we'd all feel better about "clearly offside", but no matter what the rules are, institutional bias would still rear it's ugly head with VARs involvement; we'd simply be left arguing that "Foden's trailing foot is still inline with the defender" vs ""there's clear daylight between Ronaldo and the defender" (if you get my point.)
Always blame 5G myself.When you understand this reality, everything else makes sense.
From the original footage I thought he was just onside as he was running at goal but from the replay it showed he was just off. However, when you looked at the ball being kicked it also looked like the ball had clearly left his foot rather than being kicked.I think it’s quite clever what they are doing taking 3 mins to work out if a player is offside or not,it’s more about killing one team’s momentum,while giving the other a breather to regroup..
Yes that and timekeeping are so easy to manipulate.When you understand this reality, everything else makes sense.