Tottenham vs Man City tonight be like pic.twitter.com/xQetnweCeo
— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) May 14, 2024
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Tottenham vs Man City tonight be like pic.twitter.com/xQetnweCeo
— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) May 14, 2024
Mikel Arteta's ready for a big evening! 🍿😂#TOTMCI pic.twitter.com/uvekjXiNGW
— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) May 14, 2024
Tottenham fans right nowpic.twitter.com/xfAD7IAf8F https://t.co/tfDpCn8g3p
— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) May 14, 2024
SEETHING BIG ANGE 😤
— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) May 14, 2024
“The last 48 hours to me have revealed the foundations are pretty fragile”
No amount of “mate” was going to soften this. 🥊
pic.twitter.com/K8tjkei0Jp
A Spurs fan was apparently telling Ange to throw the game throughout the 90 minutes and eventually Ange lost it at him.
— george (@StokeyyG2) May 14, 2024
Fair play 👏
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And if they get rid of it, I look forward to the vote to reinstate it after TV cameras show a bunch of offsides goals and missed penalties the first 2 or 3 weeks of next season.Rudyjax said:
Premier League is voting to scrap VAR.
https://www.90min.com/premier-league-clubs-to-vote-scrapping-var-2024-25-season?utm_source=fotmob&utm_medium=share
TXAggie2011 said:And if they get rid of it, I look forward to the vote to reinstate it after TV cameras show a bunch of offsides goals and missed penalties the first 2 or 3 weeks of next season.Rudyjax said:
Premier League is voting to scrap VAR.
https://www.90min.com/premier-league-clubs-to-vote-scrapping-var-2024-25-season?utm_source=fotmob&utm_medium=share
The idea of VAR was to take the human element out. But it hasn't taken the human element out, it has succeeded in taking the context of the game out. Looking at plays in slow motion from an office 300 miles away from the game is just giving you a different human's perspective.Dre_00 said:
Yep. It's like VAR came along and everyone's memory got wiped by that MiB pen and they think everything was sunshine and roses pre-VAR.
I'm old enough to remember the constant anger and discourse pre-VAR insisting that VAR was needed and that the referees needed help. The speed of the game had increased so much that it was impossible for 3 refs to succeed.
Changing where the line is just moves the point of contention. A lot of folks think it ought to be full-body ahead… that just means when there's the tiniest of gaps between the bodies, it'll still get blown dead and piss everyone off.YNWA.2013 said:
I know it's easier said than done, but once offsides is automated (like goal line technology), I think it will make a huge difference in the perception of VAR. Like the full ball crossing the full line, offsides should be objective. Have a consensus on what the threshold should be (i.e. maybe a little more than a toenail) and you are either off or you're on. And the decision should be reached fairly quickly. None of this spending 7 minutes drawing lines and deciding which pixel is included
Pre-var was also pre-social media explosion. Everyone who attends a game is a potential broadcaster of bad calls; and many of them live to stir up controversy.Agthatbuilds said:
Compared to var times, pre var was sunshine and roses.
The game hasn't gotten better. People are still upset with referees. People are now also upset with var/instant replay and it's application.
It's an unnecessary drama and time suck that's been added to already broken up games.
It was better when poor referee calls were accepted and overcome instead of stopping g games down to check what is typically unseeable in the full speed version of the play.
A better option would be to hold officials accountable to their success and failure on the pitch.
A guy like angel hernandez should be pouring beer at the corner bar, not calling baseball games. Even then, it's a 50/50 shot he will hit the glass. We shouldn't need to upturn an entire system because most baseball umpires are right only 98% of the time.
Mathguy64 said:
Just use the MLS model for offside on a monitor. Use the grass lines and if you can't tell, let it go. It's fast and nobody is *****ing either way. And you won't get mad at toenails either way.
jeffk said:Mathguy64 said:
Just use the MLS model for offside on a monitor. Use the grass lines and if you can't tell, let it go. It's fast and nobody is *****ing either way. And you won't get mad at toenails either way.
Pleeeeeeease let me live to see a world where the English have to bring in Americans to train their officials on how to call their crown jewel sport correctly.