Easy when you have a still frame to study at leisure
40 minute matches, official time keeper and clock stops when out of play.I'm firmly in the Shearer camp. Get rid of it.
The fans wanted it as we saw it as a way to improve football fairness. It's been an experiment that hasn't worked, it's caused more controversy than it has ended and made the game worse. It is open to manipulation and has been. Get rid of it, keep the goalline technology, revise penalty laws regarding unintentional handballs.
Oh and scrap the extra stoppage time law whilst you're at it. Players already play enough football every season, they don't need these additional minutes every game.
I have noticed that at the end of the first half the ref always adds three minutes, regardless of how much stoppage time has actually taken place, it is always three minutes. And it seems that at ninety minutes it is at the ref's discretion how many minutes extra are played. It's farcical, the whole refereeing set-up in this country is a joke.Oh and scrap the extra stoppage time law whilst you're at it. Players already play enough football every season, they don't need these additional minutes every game.
If we started a new season without VAR I would give it about two weeks before everyone agreed it needs to be brought back. A combination of incompetent and deliberately biased officials will make this inevitable. VAR is shit but unfortunately it’s better than the alternative.
And now we have gimps sat at a TV monitor who get the exact same decisions incorrect or disregard a legitimate goal because a toenail is offside. Offside used to mean "an advantage". Where is the advantage at someone being a kneecap offside? Where is the benefit to the game for stopping play for five minutes working that out?I have noticed that at the end of the first half the ref always adds three minutes, regardless of how much stoppage time has actually taken place, it is always three minutes. And it seems that at ninety minutes it is at the ref's discretion how many minutes extra are played. It's farcical, the whole refereeing set-up in this country is a joke.
You get someone who is new to the sport, just getting into it and trying to understand what you can and what you can't do, they are going to one game where a defender handles the ball and concedes a penalty. The next day another defender handles the ball and the ref waves play on as if nothing has happened.
When you consider what is at stake, how much money is involved, and the millions a club will lose with relegation, all that depends on the whim of one man, how he personally interprets an incident. And if anybody dares to question his decision making they are accused of doubting his integrity.
Ridiculous.
I do wonder if the referees would rather not give it and be sent over to change their mind, as opposed to giving it and being sent over to change their minds?How could Oliver not see that??? I mean he's looking straight at the incident.
The only thing he wants to see there is red and white ribbons on the Premier league trophy..... the bent cnutHow could Oliver not see that??? I mean he's looking straight at the incident.