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Brilliant performance by City. Champions yet again. Over the Moon. Jumped on em early and often, which is what they needed to do, providing a much needed cushion and an ease of the tension. As a side note, Kudus bicycle kick goal for West Ham was spectacular. A wonderful match day all around.

If that goal was given and there was no VAR, it would indeed be a howler. But chances are they see that in real-time, with the arm extended, coming off a set piece corner, where the referee is in prime position to see that. Typically the chances of the referee missing a handball off a corner is...

Not the same thing at all. On the West Ham disallowed goal, he had the arm extended, it was inside the box, leading directly to the goal, and it hit lower on the arm near the wrist. He pretty much punched the ball in with his hand there. You can't compare that scenario to what happened in the...

It's got to due with VAR. Linos have been instructed to do nothing when they see anything.

As it stands 49.1% want it scrapped, 35.5% want to keep VAR, and 15.5% are "on the fence". So far more want it scrapped here than want it to stay. And if you're on the fence, that's not exactly an endorsement of keeping VAR. Which is interesting since, according to this poll from the Athletic...

Your logic is sound, but as we've learned over the course of this VAR experiment is that it's a very slippery slope. Once you give the video referees in Stockley Park the ability to stop the match and review something, they become addicted to the control they have over the match and feel like...

City have won 5 of the last 6 Premier League Titles, and is on the brink of yet another. And the one time City didn't win it in that span they were runner-up. The run that City have been on in the Premier League under Pep is unheard of. This is a legendary run through the Premier League for...

The one area that VAR could possibly be a legitimate help is as it pertains to penalty decisions. But it's a very slippery slope, as we've seen. I'll be the first to admit that there are *some* situations in which VAR has corrected faulty penalty decision given on the pitch. A good example is in...

The problem with reviewing offsides in any capacity (even if the review gets it right) is that it's impossible to re-establish the continuity that would have occurred had the call been made by the Lino in real-time. If the Lino raises his flag, the run of play stops and it results in a free kick...

VAR needs a total sacking. They have had 5 years to get it right and it's still bollocks. The time for being promised the world about how it's going to get better next year and then it's still bollocks has run its course. I see some people arguing that it's not going to get binned, but this is...

It's difficult to pinpoint a specific decade as the peak, I just saw the sport progressing naturally and logically from my youth until VAR. Since then it's been like a dystopian nightmare, I'm not gonna lie I find it very difficult to cope with seeing the greatest sport on earth reduced in such...

Precisely my point. That was not a red card, only a red in this new bollocks version of football run by those with an agenda to strip away the beautiful game and replace it with a series of redefined parameters that do not serve the interests of anyone associated with the sport. It's a shame...

The distinction is between what constitutes a straight red on the pitch vs what can be construed as red during a VAR review. So it's not my definition of what constitutes a red card, it's the collective understanding of what we all have experienced throughout our lives of watching football that...

That's precisely why VAR is a problem and isn't fit for purpose. There was no reason to stop the match and use VAR to turn a yellow into a red there. Yellow card was fine, get on with it, play on. Instead we get VAR creating more controversy and negatively influencing the trajectory of the...

"in this era"? But not in any other era. On a football pitch, that is not a red card. With VAR if that's a red card then it's become something very different. Remember when VAR was introduced it was said to exist only to prevent "clear and obvious" errors. That being given as a yellow wasn't a...

There's no way that's a red. You can make an argument that it's only a red "in 2024" as in this new interpretation of what a red card is. But it's not a red card based on what we know one to be throughout our life. When you look at the pundits that agreed with the red card, they are seeing the...

Lets hear from good ol Dermy and company talking about the Celtic Rangers match. Specifically the Lundstram tackle seen here in the first part of the clip. Was it a foul? Clearly. Was it a Yellow Card? Sure, no problem with that being a yellow. He did come in hard, didn't get to the ball in...

The art of officiating has been contaminated. For the purposes of this discussion, a football match should be viewed as an orchestra and the on field referee is the conductor. The enjoyment and entertainment of the performance is inextricably linked to its natural flow and its center of control...

It has to go. It was rejected in Sweden. The Scots are having deep regrets about its introduction. We simply cannot continue twiddling our thumbs every year and kicking the can down the road in regards to trying new ways to beat a dead horse. We need to come the realization that it's run its...

VAR clearly and abundantly goes against the will of the fans, not just in Britain but throughout the entire world. It's just that it's being pushed down the throats from the top, this all started with the FIFA President...