Have to say I'm torn on VAR. I get your point and agree with you on much of it. Trouble is, we've all complained for years about poor decisions costing points/results and feeling that refs needed help. The not flagging for offside is a ****ing joke mind.
It is the way forward and when its introduced, eventually in the championship, we can then stop whinging about apologetic letters from referees and the mistakes they made that cost us.
Do they trust the keeper? He’s been all over the place this season. Anyway, 4 semi finals for England since I became addicted to football in about 1969, lost them all. But I’d rather be losing in this semi final than playing a friendly against Belarus or Paraguay. Come on Holland for the final.
Stones is just too arrogant. He thinks he can do things he can't, or should never even try in certain positions. Van Dyke is arrogant but also ****ing brilliant and he'd never try any of that ****. Stones also isn't a very good defender.
Yeah, it will have its teething problems for example the African champions league final. Espereance v WAC Casablanca. WAC equalised but ruled out for offside. Replays showed it was clearly onside but the ref refused to go to VAR despite the whole stadium seeing the replay. WAC refused to carry on, officials flooded the pitch, scuffles broke out and the cup was awarded to the home team. Wrongly I may add.
So QPR were ****e all year, England were ****e, VAR is ****e unless it goes in our favour and the nation's league is mickey mouse ****e...don't know why I watch to be honest
It's not just about the flow of the game though (important as that is), it's the joy of the game too. If you can't properly celebrate a goal until some faceless people have taken a couple of minutes out to review it, you're taking the immediacy and spontaneity away. It's not a video game.
If it's the difference in us winning or a wrong penalty shout/offside against us then that will bring me a hell of a lot more joy than not losing a minute of my life to an incorrect, unfair decision.
You have no soul, Bob. Football shouldn't be about absolute correctness in every facet, it should be about joy and anguish and imperfection. It should provoke argument about disputed decisions, it should never be clear cut. Did Geoff Hurst's shot actually cross the line in 1966? I was there, and yes it did because the Russian linesman said so. We didn't have to wait five minutes to celebrate.
I should think offside and goal line technology / comms with match officials could be made so decisions could be given in seconds rather than the minutes it seemed to take today. Good enough? As I was celebrating that goal today the TV replay was already showing Lingard fractionally offside, yet the decision took some time to be made.
