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Hoping you're having a better day today AET.

No it doesn't. Yes some errors were made but we got a full blooded exciting game of football without five minutes of dead time staring at a big screen. It demonstrated how much more entertaining football can be without the nonsense of VAR

Gerrinto 'em

First saw this on some show presented by P**do R*lf, just popped into my YouTube feed. Brilliant cartoon, very clever yet simple.

Hubba!

Eh? The ball must fully cross the plane of the goal. It's a simple rule and it is easy to implement using video technology. Those "laws of physics" dictate that it is a much simpler problem to address with technology. It works instantly, it has thrown the occasional bad error but we can accept...

It really isn't. But you know that.

The decision must be as "instant" as the linesman raising his flag. I have no problem with technology, the goal-line tech is obviously working well (though even that has had the odd hiccup). I accept that nothing is or can be perfect which is where I diverge from the VAR cheer leaders. The...

FTFY

Of course it is, I was using dramatic exaggeration to make the point. That's not football drama though is it? It is a manufactured nonsense which for those in the ground was a period of staring at a big telly waiting to be told what had happened, no replays in case that gets them agitated or...

To pretend that VAR is not removing these things from the experience of watching football "live" in a stadium/ground is abject denial.

Is four thousand really too many?

That drove me nuts. The PC badly phrased his intervention and the Zionist conflation of criticism of Israel with Anti Semitism springs into full "outrage" mode. Of course it might be unsafe for a Jew to wander into protest about the actions of the IDF in Palestine. The officer should have...

Entertainment, excitement, romance, drama, passion No, get rid of all that nonsense, after every period of play we will check and correct any and all officiating errors and adjust the scoreline or order a reset as appropriate. It may take a little longer (no more than half an hour probably) but...

Schrödinger's forward. Wants and probably needs a new challenge/club

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Ah the foolish notion that football is something that can be defined by a set of rules correct to the least particle of existence. One molecule of the attacker beyond that of a defender and he's off. Ah but they cry, what of quantum entanglement there is a calculable chance that one of the...

Nothing a 1kt nuke wouldn't sort.

Worse than that is people "whooping" when they recognise a song with extra dikkhead points if the song is particularly sad or mournful. A special shout out to the vacuum skulls at a Jason Isbell gig who whooped and hollered to the intro to "Elephant" (a song about visiting someone dying of...