Big_Ev
Mr. Brick City
Then watch them complain and want VAR to come back.
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Then watch them complain and want VAR to come back.
Young_Chitlin
Carajo 🇵🇪🧩
As we say in the Spanish, que crack! (what a great player!)
Blue_London
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The pundits here are on a mission to get rid of it
Big_Ev
Mr. Brick City
They just need better people running VAR
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The answer to all these issues is so fucking simple but nothing is ever easy in the EPL
VAR needs better marketing.
They should be throwing out stats of how many they do get right or highlight those incidents to drown out some of the noise.
It is easy to be critical of the system but it's no different in behaviour of certain fans, players and coaches in the game towards referees.
With no VAR, it will be "how did the ref not see it?!", "referee Mr X got an agenda against us. Every time we play and he officiated we always get a penalty against us and man sent off!"
Etcetera Etcetera...you know the rhetoric.
The biggest fault with VAR was that Liverpool goal disallowed against Spurs. That's inexcusable
They should be throwing out stats of how many they do get right or highlight those incidents to drown out some of the noise.
It is easy to be critical of the system but it's no different in behaviour of certain fans, players and coaches in the game towards referees.
With no VAR, it will be "how did the ref not see it?!", "referee Mr X got an agenda against us. Every time we play and he officiated we always get a penalty against us and man sent off!"
Etcetera Etcetera...you know the rhetoric.
The biggest fault with VAR was that Liverpool goal disallowed against Spurs. That's inexcusable
dontdiedontkillanyone
Show some love, you losers!
VAR was supposed to solve all the issues with refereeing and decisions but instead it seems to have caused even more problems.
It's simple: get better qualified people in to run VAR that don't have a vested interest in protecting their referee mates and PGMOL. Also, make the decision making transparent like in rugby where you can hear sensible, rational people having calm discussions and a clear explanation of the decisions being made are given to the audience. At least then it removes any ambiguity and no one's second guessing why decisions have been made. It's pure arrogance that offsides was decided not to be automated and a joke when VAR can't decide if a ball has gone out.
If they can't do that then take VAR out their hands completely and just automate it completely where robots are deciding goal line/line decisions and offsides.
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Agreed with all this.
Even with the arsenal vs Newcastle game (which I thought was a valid goal although there would have been less controversy to disallow it than give), i said at the time how there's all these multimillionaire players and managers on the pitch/pitch side, 50,000 plus in the stadium bringing further millions in revenue, yet there aren't enough cameras to distinctly tell if the ball is in or out. That simply can't happen in the modern game when balls already have chips inside them for goal line technology.
Regarding offsides, rightly or wrongly the Premier league (and by PL it is meant all 20 clubs as constituents) didn't even vote to have semi-auto offside come into play like they used in champions league and World Cup!
Why the Premier League doesn't use semi-automated offsides
A look at why the Premier League do not use semi-automated offsides, leaving the decision up to VAR
www.90min.com
The decision to use semi-automated offsides didn't even make it onto the agenda of the Premier League's Annual General Meeting in mid-June. All clubs, as shareholders of the league, have a right to vote on various decisions and came to the conclusion that they didn't need to discuss the new tech in depth.
There were concerns among the league's executives that the system - which FIFA began trialling in November 2021 - would soon become outdated.
It was a surprising call given that the Premier League suffered multiple refereeing errors regarding offside decisions last season. Four additional VAR cameras were added to eliminate the blind spots that cropped up last term but the Premier League still come across as Luddites compared to the rest of Europe.
Even worse apparently it had something to do with them having a Nike contract and the technology had been trialled with Adidas balls instead
Premier League's plans for new offside system affected by Nike deal
EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: The software which enabled automatic offsides to be used for the first time at last year's World Cup was created Kinexon and Adidas, who have a deal with UEFA.
www.dailymail.co.uk
dontdiedontkillanyone
Show some love, you losers!
Blue_London
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Could city version survive at chelsea?
dontdiedontkillanyone
Show some love, you losers!
Unethical hair
Roman Abramovich's sinister text message and more...
Quote of the day
“How much force is enough to knock someone over? 10 newtons? 12 newtons? We need to add a physicist to the VAR to measure strength.” - Rafa Benitez’s solution to confusing refereeing.FOOTBALL
Roman legion
As Chelsea gaffer Mauricio Pochettino braces for a spanking from Man City on Sunday, he can look forward to owner Todd Boehly storming into the dressing room to deliver a pep talk about “playing like rockstars”.
Annoying, sure, but it’s still preferable to the menacing approach taken by Todd’s predecessor Roman Abramovich.
According to former manager Carlo Ancelotti, every time Chelsea lost, Abramovich would text him a single question mark.
Which would be scary enough if Roman didn’t also have the Wagner Group on speed dial.
Former Blues midfielder John Obi Mikel revealed this week that a nonchalant Abramovich once offered to hire some mercenaries to rescue his father, who had been kidnapped in Nigeria.
"I remember Roman Abramovich saying ‘Do you want me to send people over? Because I know if I send people over, I can get your dad out’. I was like, "how are you going to do this?"
"He said don't worry about that. Just let me.”
FOOTBALL
Yeah my ballsack’s a little bruised and swollen but otherwise fine. How about you?
We’ve all got that one colleague who responds to a polite “You alright?” with a fifteen minute rant about their “really stressful kitchen extension” and their nine-year-old daughter’s verruca.
In the CBS studio that figure is pundit Clint Dempsey, who this week replied to a quick "What's up?” by announcing “Well, I’ve had the snip... No more kids.”
It drew a few surprised glances pre-watershed, but it could have been worse if they’d invited another Fulham legend on air.
According to one of our favourite rumours, former Cottagers boss Chris Coleman once spotted midfielder Steed Malbranque in the showers after training, and burst out laughing at the size of his tackle.
The manager’s mockery caused Steed to hand in a transfer request, but feeling self-conscious, he decided to undergo penis enlargement surgery and told clubs that were interested in him that he was out injured.
Tottenham eventually found out the truth, but saw the funny side and signed him anyway, telling fans he was out with “a groin strain”.
Probably bollocks, but enjoyable nonetheless.
FOOTBALL
All these things they do with kebabs now. Just cut em, fry em and stop putting fookin za’atar on em and things like that
Football in the Middle East is catching up fast - they’ve even got their own Gary Neville.
(If you need the headline explained)
FOOTBALL
Mbastard
When PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma returned to the San Siro, he knew he’d face a hostile reception: AC Milan fans rained fake cash down on their former hero and berated him mercilessly throughout the game.
But surely Giani could rely on his teammates for some support?
Unfortunately this is PSG, where anything short of arse-grabbing and ordering hitmen on your teammates goes down as exemplary workplace practice.
When Milan fans began chanting "Donnarumma, son of a bitch", club captain Kylian Mbappe simply joined the pile on and sang along.
FOOTBALL
Before you ride your new bike, do you mind quickly swabbing your cheek?
“The most important thing is my children. I am a family man,” announced Asamoah Gyan outside court this week, after finalising his divorce.
A charming sentiment from the former Sunderland striker, only slightly undermined by him forcing the three kids to take a DNA test to prove they are really his.
It was a pretty surprising move considering Gyan had been raising the children for the last decade, but he was locked in a bitter fight over child support with his excellently named ex-wife, Gifty Gyan.
Local press claimed Asamoah’s “face died” as he learned the results of the test, and the court has now ordered him to hand Gifty two homes, a petrol station and two cars.
Quick hits
Apparently in cockney rhyming slang, a tiny penis is known as a Jermaine Jenas.
While playing in the UAE, Asamoah Gyan was ordered to change his hairstyle after officials ruled he had “unethical hair”.
Former Chelsea assistant Henk ten Cate turned down the Ajax job because he’s playing the chief inspector in a new police series on Dutch TV.
New leader in our “most yellow cards at once” rankings: a Czech ref booked 16 players after a whole team and five substitutes took their shirts off in a coordinated goal celebration.AND FINALLY
Lest we forget
It's that time of year again, when crowds fall silent to remember those who lost their lives in war.
And what more dignified way to do that than by handing a wreath of poppies to Hammerhead, West Ham's permanently grinning mascot?
Very moving. But not sure it beats this scene at Tranmere Rovers in 2019...
Young_Chitlin
Carajo 🇵🇪🧩
Solid plan I would say
Ayo Roman sending a single question mark when you lose is scary tho…
Might not wake up tomorrow.
Yeah Im ringing him straight up 'It was John Terry not tracking his marker again, Roman'...
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