Premier League Games 3/4 Sept '22

[kaz7]

I like having a second team to follow , not when we play them obvs

 

[stan bowles]

Leicester on the ropes. Could end up 5 or 6.

 

[jimharri]

Lifted off the caff...

"You could put Great Wall of China in front of this goalie (Ward) and he would still concede. I'd say he wakes up distracted."

Made me titter anyway.

 

[Lavinda Past]

It sounds like you would be happy to get rid of var.
Would you be as happy when a ref gave a blatant offside goal to the rags in the next Derby.
Then the linesman flagged a wrongly awarded offside to chalk off our equaliser.
I wouldn't.

Would you be happy if the boot was on the other foot? Of course you wouldn't.

I watched almost 60 years of football without VAR. Saw thousands of good and bad decisions by refs over the years but it never put me off the game.

VAR ruined the game for me in it's first season. Leave all the decisions to the match officials on the pitch.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Leicester are abysmal

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It sounds like you would be happy to get rid of var.
Would you be as happy when a ref gave a blatant offside goal to the rags in the next Derby.
Then the linesman flagged a wrongly awarded offside to chalk off our equaliser.
I wouldn't.

I’m actually someone who does defend VAR at times in general. But it’s not about individual instances being right or wrong really, it’s about what made this sport special over and above all other sports, not being as special as it once was.

I’ve not celebrated a goal at 100% since VAR came in. I don’t know anyone who has. When Gundogan scored that winner last season against Villa I went fucking wild, but not 100% wild because I did wonder whether he might be offside or not or whether something else happened I might have missed that could chalk it off.

I think while VAR has improved the amount of incorrect decisions being makes in the sport, goals not being as special as they used to be does override that to a certain extent.

Vincent Konpany’s screamer against Leicester the last great goal of football before VAR took the magic away from celebrating goals.

 

[mexico1970]

Would you be happy if the boot was on the other foot? Of course you wouldn't.

I watched almost 60 years of football without VAR. Saw thousands of good and bad decisions by refs over the years but it never put me off the game.

VAR ruined the game for me in it's first season. Leave all the decisions to the match officials on the pitch.

It feels like it's ripped its soul out, people may disagree but that spontaneity is gone.

And the bad decisions keep on coming, some of them blatant and obvious but there is no recourse.

 

[jimharri]

Leicester are abysmal

Theyre not even that good.

 

[blue for life]

Would you be happy if the boot was on the other foot? Of course you wouldn't.

I watched almost 60 years of football without VAR. Saw thousands of good and bad decisions by refs over the years but it never put me off the game.

VAR ruined the game for me in it's first season. Leave all the decisions to the match officials on the pitch.

Totally agree. Goal line technology is great because it’s fail safe.

 

[mat]

Ward still getting Karma from taking the piss in our league cup shootout a few years back.

Shame.