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If they’d just used it to stop all the bloody diving and simulation, it would be the greatest step forward in the game since the forward pass.
They could start by just taking out and shooting every commentator who says "there is contact he has a right to go down"
There is also a problem with the "clear and obvious error" interpretation for this, it seems that if you can understand how the ref was fooled in real time, then a decision stands, rather than just correcting the mistake.
In terms of offside they should take away their ability to draw lines and it should be is the on field decision clearly wrong?
Make the lines equivalent to the on pitch markings, if you can't make a decision in 30 seconds or are unsure which frame the ball is kicked, advantage goes to the attacking team (as it used to do).
My VAR manifesto
1/ Most often, the officials get the decisions right (IIRC about 98% of the time) Only a few are wrong, and only a few of these are game changing (goals, offsides, penalties, red cards, etc.), and they usually result in a stoppage anyway (a decision given wrongly either has stopped play or needs to go back because play should have stopped)
2/ Give each team 3 challenges per game, to be used by the team on the pitch with a clear signal and within 5 or 10s of the incident, so no time for coaches or statisticians to use replays (but we could put a delay on instant replays anyway). Coach could still tell the captain to call it but it's based on the same view the ref had at the time.
3/ Benefit of doubt to the side not calling for VAR, so players only call clear and obvious errors.
4/ Players contesting decisions outside of the process, mandatory caution. Of course the 50-50 where the ball bounces out someone will always shout 'our ball' - that's part of the game but as soon as it goes beyond that, clamp it down. IN ADDITION to the caution; prolonged contesting and the referee may accept this as a call for VAR. So if a player chases you up the pitch moaning about a throw-in, burn a referral for them and check and see if the throw in needs changing.
I see the European Super League/Make some billionaires richer plan has been floated again.
Five of the 'big six' Premier League clubs invited, FIFA backing it, money, or at least debt, in place.
https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1318540299950559234
Bit risky for Utd, I'd have thought, unless relegation isn't a thing.
Low down stuff for you high flyers darn sarf, but if you get the chance have a look at Kemar Roofes injury time goal for Rangers in Liege.
Wow. Bloody wow.
Crivens! Like Beckhams but with added skillz before the shot.
Aye, must've been sweet, being ex Anderlecht he was getting the boo treatment when he came on, that's one way to silence them!
<Souness>
Disappointed for my keeper to get beaten from there
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I didn't even notice they had some fans back, assumed the crowd noise was fake. Urgh... 2020.
The keeper's dive makes the goal even sweeter, it's pretty epic.
Lol, Souness will not be disappointed at that one Jon!
Really rated Roofe when he was at Leeds and wish he hadn't been sold to Anderlecht.
If he can stay fit, he looks to have the lot Philby.
While we're doing fitba corner, do you reckon Rangers look the real deal and/or are Celtic shite?
I don't think Rangers look any better than they did first half of last season tbh, when they collapsed post winter break, and as always it's a marathon, not a sprint. The league is won away at Livingston, pishin wet winter nights in Dingwall and the likes as much as it is the big games.
Gerrard seems to have the beating of Lennon tactically, but Celtic have the winning mentality developed over a few seasons.
Rangers have a far better strength in depth now, 3 guys that came on last night were way better quality than we'd have had last couple of seasons.
I'm hoping the rest of the league gets dragged along as a result, our coefficient is higher than ever at present, which can only be good, but the likes of Aberdeen, Hibs etc don't ever really seem to step up, European football never lasts beyond the early quali rounds, sadly.
Man U 15th 😂😂😂..... there is always one dragged into the relegation battle - let’s hope it’s them 😀😀😀
Well, that was quite spectacularly awful.
Pogba back to his very worst I-really-can’t-be-arsed form, then some inexplicable substitutions
#OleIn
They accidentally awarded the +1 head start to the wrong team. I wonder how many games Man U have won in the last season and a bit where they didn't get a penalty awarded.
Spank the Bundesliga leaders 5-0 then put in a performance like that?!
Ole's record is weirdly good against top teams/managers and pretty terrible against lesser teams. Like Arsenal.
We were absolutely dismal against Chelski last weekend too.
Just watching Harry Maguire half-arsedly describing how bloody awful we were, but he doesn’t really understand why. He doesn’t seem particularly bothered by this
YOU’RE THE ****ING CAPTAIN 😡
Ole is a crap manager, that's it really. Lovely guy, just well out of his depth. 100th game in charge, long may it continue.
Up the Arsenal
Up the Arsenal
All the way to Europa League glory!
Sure, what's wrong with that?
All the way to Europa League glory!
Oh, how quickly we forget? 😉
In other football related stories: liking the look of the championship at the moment.
Oh, how quickly we forget?
Sorry, just checking, it was you who wrote that binners, without a hint of irony? Really? 😀
Oh, aye oop. Won A* premiership, have you?
*’A’ - denotes singular, not plural. Less than 2
😀
Remember when Man Utd fans used to endlessly accuse Liverpool fans of living in the past?
That would be Liverpool: current Premier League champions and current Premier League leaders. And Man Utd, er....
Does lockdown mean all leagues are stopping now and the positions stand? Asking as an Ipswich fan....
And Man Utd, er…
are shite!
Inexplicably, we were absolutely fantastic in Europe midweek, walloping last years semi-finalists 5-0, beating the finalists pretty convincingly the week before to sit top of the group, but have been absolutely gash in the Premiership with consistently woeful performances
Which, when you think about it, up until the last couple of seasons, was always Liverpool’s natural territory
While we’re doing irony 😃
You’re lucky to have seven points. How you beat Brighton - Brighton!! - I’ll never know and you left it very late v Newcastle.
Big match next weekend - City v Liverpool. Seems odd Liverpool are top given they’ve been pretty stodgy and all the injuries too.
He is such a nice bloke Ryan Giggs - real role model in the football world.
Prior to Marcus Rashford coming along, it's always mystified me why anyone would ever look to football players to be role models.
In other news, Leicester are second and looking good.
He is such a nice bloke Ryan Giggs – real role model in the football world.
He also "allegedly" beat up Danni Behr in a Manchester nightclub back in the day, but united managed to mainly hush it up.
Prior to Marcus Rashford coming along, it’s always mystified me why anyone would ever look to football players to be role models.
There have been quite a few decent ones, Kompany campaigned a lot for the homeless in Manchester. But largely they are working class kids who react to fame and fortune at an early age with predictability, god knows what I would have been like if I was a 20 year old millionaire. Their misbehaviour does make the headlines more frequently than the same from the bulligdon bullies though.
It seems Ole is really good at counter-attacking against top sides who go at them, and pretty woeful at working out what to do when teams sit back more. I think they should just cut their losses and get rid of Pogba.
Liverpool haven't been great but still grinding out the 1 goal margin victories. I don't think going behind is part of the plan but I do think they try to conserve energy for when it's really needed. VAR/refereeing luck hasn't been as good this season, must all be part of the conspiracy somehow.:)
And yeah, Leicester were brilliant last night.
VAR/refereeing luck hasn’t been as good this season
It did you well with the Salah dive at weekend.
I honestly don't understand why Ole is persevering with Pogba.
We generally look a worse team when he is on the pitch and with VDB coming in I expected Pogba to be on his way out. Even without VDB, the team looks better with Mata in the side.
The praise for Arsenal by the pundits was mystifying though. They barely had a shot on goal and if it wasn't for a daft challenge, it would have been a pretty mediocre 0-0 albeit they looked better than we did. I guess any win against a (former?) top 6 side is progress though.
The media poster boy Bielsa was tactically outwitted by our man Rodgers last night.
The Sky pundits and commentators were so desperate for the Leeds win that they just decided to talk as though they had won regardless.
I can only imagine the cringe levels of fawning if Bielsa had been the manager who engineered the win in that way last night.
I don't think we can continue to operate on this level with Europe every Thursday and mounting injuries but credit has to go to Rodgers for getting the team to be versatile and play in multiple styles depending on the game.
I agree re Rodgers/Bielsa, Leicester absolutely took them apart, it was almost embarrassing at times.
It did you well with the Salah dive at weekend.
He was fouled and exaggerated the response to make sure he got the pen. He also gets fouled all the time and doesn't go down and gets nothing.
Until VAR starts getting it's shit together and giving fouls when people stay on their feet, it's going to keep happening. See Raheem Sterling in most games for further evidence.
It's funny how the Masouaka just accepted it but salty City and United fans are outraged
Jota is on fire!
I thought at the time that was potentially the best move in the transfer market of any club.
I suppose thats what happens when you have the manager deciding what players he wants, rather than some bloke in the boardroom who doesn't actually know anything about football
He was fouled and exaggerated the response to make sure he got the pen.
Exaggerated? He might as well have gone all out and put his Speedo's on
I honestly don’t understand why Ole is persevering with Pogba.
You, me and everybody else. What was inexplicable was keeping him on the pitch and taking other, better players off. He was dismal at the weekend. Absolutely woeful. He is in every game apart from the three times a season he actually bothers to turn up. He didn't even look remotely arsed that his stupid, clumsy challenge cost us the match. He's just like Ozil at Arsenal. Lazy and disinterested. He should be being treated the same. we should have got shut of him a year ago.