Recent content by halfcenturyup

"Seems" to work well. That is the problem. It looks nice and is relatively quick, but how do we know it's accurate? Who knows how it actually works? And I don't mean FPS, the number of data points, the frequency of data and other PR guff. I mean how do they actually determine an off-side? A nice...

Noticeable that James committed nasty fouls consistently until he was booked. Then not once afterwards. Funny, that .....

Was that from Dale fucking Johnson? It sounds like him. No questioning of why a tolerance is needed, no questioning of why 5 cm, no questioning of how Wirtz was at least a foot (a literal foot) offside, no questioning of what the need for a tolerance says about the technology, no questioning of...

This is what does my head in. Correct thanks to the technology? What sort of bullshit is that? How do we know the technology is correct? It's all just bollocks from people who have no idea what they are talking about. And I am done with it. Football isn't what it used to be.

I must say your faith in the veracity of what we are told is commendable. They have also told us that games won't be re-refereed, that referees must always make an initial decision and, the crowning turd in the water pipe of half-truths we are told, that VAR is being introduced to eliminate...

I am sure some buffoon at FIFA is looking at this right now: VAR has problems determining offside, let's just change the rules and have no offside. The reality is that the people who made the rules a century ago knew what they were doing and why. The people running the game now could take some...

Unless I am missing something it's just moving the mm offside measurement to the back instead of the front. So we will still have mm offside decisions, we will still have debates about tolerance and about the accuracy of the technology. We also make it more difficult for defenders to practice...

The way the referees handle it will change at the end of the season. It's just part of operation "let Arsenal win the league". Good for the League. But it's unsustainable now everyone is doing it. The game is a mess. The response is for goalkeepers to push their own players into attackers to try...

Yes. Most of that post was wrong. I could have written a long correction but, frankly, it's not worth the effort. And it was what people wanted to hear after all this time.

And he bought a dog. The fruitcake.

To conclude, yes. Not to get the liability judgment, I would imagine. Don't forget, even after we get that, there is still a sanction hearing and judgment and then possible appeals.

All fans are deluded. It's a tribal game with neanderthal attitudes. You know that, I know that, every fucker knows that. However, that doesn't mean that our particular tribe isn't refereed differently week in, week out. I get that you think you are being balanced in your approach. This seems...

You lucky bugger. I didn't get a terrible blow followed by unexpected bliss until I was in my twenties :(

Well, as we know, apposites attract :)

Sorry for being obtuse. Pearce wears two hats: one for the EAA which invests in Etihad, and one for the club which receives money from Etihad. Two hats. Magic. Reference to Magic Top Hat not to twat, I should probably explain .....