There is a way to make VAR work to referees, and footballs, benefit. It isn't stopping the game to play geometry, with laws changed to serve officials but not the game. So this isn't it.
The clue is in the actual name.
-
"In last night's match between Tottenham and Chelsea, the ball was in play for just 43% of the total match time (47:57 of 111:15), the lowest percentage for any Premier League game over the last two seasons"
-
Agreed. But I'd suggest that, in the case of offsides, they should officiate the way they always did (and they way they still do at grass roots level) which is to stick the flag up if they think it's offside, and leave it down if it isn't. Then if a goal is scored they take a quick look, decide if it's too close to call or not and officiate accordingly.
It's not perfect - there'll always be arguments and opinions - but it might cut down on a lot of the time wasted.It seems strange to me that we play a game in which a ball can go for a throw and play may restart some distance from where it exited the pitch with barely a complaint, a free kick can be taken from anywhere within quite a large radius of where the offence was committed, a referee arbitrarily strides out the distance from the kick to the wall, and yet we stress over millimetres on an offside call. The game's tied itself in knots.
-
I don't understand the rational that it has to take forever to check every angle. In the old days if you looked level then the advantage goes to the attacking player. It worked fine for years. Now it's just fucked.
I haven't been to a live game with VAR at the ground but can imagine it's annoying as fuck and the bars should serve drinks whilst we wait. This will discourage the Video assistant ref from faffing around because the denizens are getting restless.
The whole thing is silly.
Pity Chelsea are above us again. I suppose Spuds need to be beaten up a bit before the face us. Would be nice to get a result against them this year.
Chicago: Living in the real world
-
I see that a medical emergency in the stand has stopped a game again. I just don't get it. Why do fifty thousand people have to miss their trains, just because someone has semi-karked it in the general vicinity?
Obviously having played football for a long time, it's not unheard of to have medical interventions on your pitch, or nearby. I have football friends who would seriously cone off a medical emergency and play around it. Although it can be distracting when someone is screaming in agony for two hours with a snapped leg (all the way through, like a twig, after a block), waiting for an ambulance. As happened in the vets game a few of the lads played in last weekend.
-
I believe Charlie said in his day they would have been rolled under the seats until the final whistle. They would have been fuck all use at the battle of vimmy ridge.
-
Our Greek brethren gave our next opponents a game but lost 1-0. Pretty much a full strength West Ham team though and no one was subbed until the 80th minute, so hopefully they'll be a little tired on Sunday.
-
Choketastic performance by Spurs.
-
Leicester fail to score and lose for a second game in a row. Please be the start of the death spiral.
Sadly Derby won comfortably at home against Barnsley, and are only outside the playoffs on goals scored.
-
Bournemouth bugler made a pretty half-arsed job of The Last Post just now. Why do we insist on some Grade 8 level brasswork for Remembrance?
-
Newcastle don't look very good.
-
They have about 3 teams out
-
That’s cheating.
-
12 I think. So less than us last year.
-
Not laughing. 😂
-
I see that managers are starting to publicly say what they've been thinking for a while. The laws are ridiculous, and the officials are shit. Men in black savaged by a gerbil:
