Ref Watch

Basically admitting that he's been time wasting all that time, but he's let him get away with it.
It also ties up his match report.

I have no access to such documents but there will be a line which says something around 'I had reason to request the Palace keeper to move the ball quicker on more than one occasion, despite further warnings he failed to do so'...yellow card.

He has ticked the yellow card for timewasting box. All is fine in Pew's world.
 
Not for me, it was very close but sadly he was off.

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.
 
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.

yep - a few thousand people spent £60 on a ticket yesterday, so £20 of that watching someone take goal kicks...slowly
 
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.
Exactly the above
Offside, as it was for over a century, should be judged by the eye of the linesman, unless there is a absolute clear and obvious error that can be see by the VAR official without the use of lines and freeze frame VAR should not interfere. I’m convinced that there would be no complaints over VAR if that was the criteria. VAR pretty much gives the advantage to the defender, no way was Phil able to judge staying onside in the situation yesterday impossible for him, until VAR was introduced yesterday’s goal would have stood and rightly so. Also we wouldn’t have to endure the ridiculous situation that despite a clear offside play continues
 
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.
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!
 
How 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.
 
How 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.
And they're all fat c#nts haha
 
So 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 ........................
The only way it evens itself is that united will get 40 favourable decisions and we will get 60 adverse ones
 
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 ruwhich would help bring back enjoyment for all fans.
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 scored
 
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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
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.)
 

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