That was football mate, win some lose some, seen some horrendous decisions over the years but accepted them, don’t get me wrong, I moaned like fuck every time.. Players were diving long before VAR fucked the game up, shed loads of pens given for diving cheats since VAR darkened our door ...so for 40 years you never berated and got angry at the decisions made by the ref and just accepted a ref giving a blatant dive and a lino missing a blatant offside ?
fair play. i would be happy to scrap VAR if every fan was like you.
That was football mate, win some lose some, seen some horrendous decisions over the years but accepted them, don’t get me wrong, I moaned like fuck every time.. Players were diving long before VAR fucked the game up, shed loads of pens given for diving cheats since VAR darkened our door ...
In terms of offside it’s simple, change the rule so clear daylight is needed between the attacker and defender, dead easy for lino’s then, VAR hasn’t stopped diving at all.. They change the rules every 5 mins to suit these days but not to help officials .... Football is a simple game, it’s been over complicated and it’s over analysed to the detriment of the game.this is where we are different, you are happy to accept horrendous decisions - I personally can not and felt especially in the last few years that the speed of the game is so fast, the cheating is so good by players diving and then you have hostile crowds appealing for everything - the Refs needed help, i just think it's wrong we have to force them to make at times a blind guess - whilst everyone else at home can see what's actually happened with the benefit of replays.
VAR has not been great at all, i knew it wouldn't at first and i'm happy to accept alot of it is trial and error because there are so many gray areas in football - but the good thing is VAR/lawmakers will always look at ways to improve it. they couldn't improve a ref and a couple lino's to the modern game much longer.
slowly it has already improved, there is less outcry about decisions then there was last season and alot of people actually get angry when a player has scored and is correctly ruled out for offside that a lino would not have spotted. that's crazy to me.
In terms of offside it’s simple, change the rule so clear daylight is needed between the attacker and defender, dead easy for lino’s then, VAR hasn’t stopped diving at all.. They change the rules every 5 mins to suit these days but not to help officials .... Football is a simple game, it’s been over complicated and it’s over analysed to the detriment of the game.
I will concede that VAR isn’t going away, if it’s going to be successful, it needs a root and branch overhaul, as do the rules for offside, handball and what constitutes a foul, it’s a contact sport but any form of contact is penalised these days.... The buzzword is inconsistency in the application of the rules ...
Spot on.
Especially the last line,as seemingly,if the complaints are loud enough from TV pundits and other media the rules get changed sharpish too.
If that was the only goal we'd scored vs West Brom then, pre-VAR, we'd have been robbed of two points just because a linesman did something indescribably stupid. Because of VAR the goal stood. Doesn't sound like fucking
It wasn't.If that was the only goal we'd scored vs West Brom then, pre-VAR, we'd have been robbed of two points just because a linesman did something indescribably stupid. Because of VAR the goal stood. Doesn't sound like fucking it up to me.
VAR does not do diving, but certainly encourages it.that's all we and good but let's see if you would actually accept and just shrug your shoulders at a blatant salah dive or a Man Utd goal against City when a player is miles offside.
The law doesn't need to be changed, just the lino. I expect she'll be quarantined for a fortnight or so whilst she digests fully the law pertaining to offside.Okay, they've not changed it yet but it's probably coming. Can't let those unpalatable & immoral goals scored by City stand can we?
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It quickly became the 'dead' hand of football. I think it would be improved immeasurably if the ref were to boom out what they were checking for in the same manner as we have refs in American football explaining what's goin' on!It wasn't.
Ive seen us robbed of, and awarded, goals by reffing mistakes for 56 years and it has never altered my love of the game. Nowadays a bit of that love is eroded every time I see 'VAR checking'
Think I'd prefer strippers.It quickly became the 'dead' hand of football. I think it would be improved immeasurably if the ref were to boom out what they were checking for in the same manner as we have refs in American football explaining what's goin' on!
it;s after game analysis thats ruined your love for the game as they picked and chose which outrages decision to highlight and make issue of many others it was are well never mindI was doing that for 40 years before VAR came along and ruined my enjoyment of the game
VAR has not been great at all, i knew it wouldn't at first and i'm happy to accept alot of it is trial and error because there are so many gray areas in football - but the good thing is VAR/lawmakers will always look at ways to improve it.
Reminds of a few years back when we whupped somebody and their manager would be shown the door.So the pattern here is every time man city wins the match fa will change laws as they go along .
Just give the title to rags . End of it
stevie wonder can see how they are trying to corner man city .Reminds of a few years back when we whupped somebody and their manger would be shown the door.
On the OS Extended highlights package it clearly shows he was onside when the ball was played -on the replay there is a line drawn on the screen and at least one WBA player was closer to the goal - the lineslady got it wrong.
I must admit i thought the lines woman got the decision correct, i know where VAR put the lines and out of the two my money is still on her, as her accuracy is vastly superior to Swarbrick`s, just remember the media will use this to show how we benefited from VAR albeit the second of five goals, all that said she should not have raised her flag on a decision so tight even if it is down to the ref to whistle.
They should ban that lying down behind the wall shite.
Whet fucker started that shite.