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they call him Dozy, hilarious

 

Mildly interesting snippet I heard on R5 Live this morning. Bristol City haven't been awarded a penalty since November 2021.
Well, I thought I thought it was worthy of note...

 

Second half season registered players.
Aaron Connolly

Lewie Coyle

Cyrus Christie

Karl Darlow

Greg Docherty

Malcolm Ebiowei

Callum Elder

Oscar Estupinan

Jacob Greaves

Matt Ingram

Alfie Jones

Ryan Longman

Dimitrios Pelkas

Tobias Figueiredo

Jean Michael Seri

Xavier Simons

Regan Slater

Benjamin Tetteh

Adama Traore

Ozan Tufan

Ryan Woods

 

And that right there is your playoff winning squad.

Back the Bid!

 

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Comment posted by ps4, today at 17:11ps4
17:11
Southampton would be better off with Bridget Jones! I'm just off to run aggressively towards a referee, wish me luck!

 

Shame Bournemouth couldn't hold on to put TWS in the bottom three ahead of their second cup final in a week tomorrow

 

It seems VAR forgot to draw lines in the Arsenal v Brentford game. It also turns out it’s not the first time this season, as it happened in the Arsenal v Liverpool game.
Football was dodgy before VAR, now it’s still dodgy.
I’m generally getting bored with sports right now, a lot seems to have the technology to get the right outcome, but due to humans running it, it’s not working & the constant media saturation, either live or on the sports channels, just highlights it even more.
It’s not just football, NFL referees watching a short burst of action, has replays in every game, yet still get calls wrong.
NBA, same as NFL.
For me, it’s getting to the, “what’s the point?” Moment.
Nowadays, it’s just all about making money & people will lose interest if this continues.

 

I was all for VAR when it was first introduced as I could see how similar technology had improved decision making in cricket but I'm afraid that in football it's just rendered the game a farce.

The notion of the offside rule coming down to the measuring of millimetres isn't really understanding why the law was introduced in the first place and the utter inconsistency of applying the handball rule is sucking the joy and spontaneity completely out of the game.

Goal line technology - that works. Everything else consign to the bin.

 

Although I was always against it I agree entirely
Goal line tech is superb, and if it was available and not used that would be stupid.
VAR is a nonsense. Bad decisions remain and it’s killed spontaneity too to the point it wouldn’t be worth celebrating a goal where it’s used, until the review.

 

Var would be fine and a great addition if it was used in a good way

it should be used to replay an incident. eg. did player A strike player B?

did player A touch the ball and/or did he take out the man

did player A dive in the box? or was there clear contact

offside should have a degree of error.. was player A 2 yards offside?
or was he offside by a toe?

offsides like a toe nail or a hair splinter should be left, just rule the clear and obvious offsides
1 yard and further

if you need to draw some lines to pixel perfect amounts to determine if he's offside or not, then that should be left alone

 

I always liked how when watching Sky, you could see the cheats clearly, the offsides immediately clear, the errors that the refs made pointed out within seconds, so VAR should have been Equally easy to see all these things happening, but no, they come up with something that just doesn’t do what it says on the tin.
If they’re employing incompetent people to do the job so they can get rid of it & just get the refs to make controversial decisions on the pitch again, so the “right” teams win, then they’re doing a great job!

 

most of those examples are still too much for me.

I could maybe be convinced about a check for a penalty which had been awarded, just to see if someone dived, but that's it

 

It’s tough either way to get it right. I would reduce some of the things VAR is used for but where do you draw the line.
I still remember screaming at the ref during the England/France match for missing obvious stuff especially the 2nd pen when I think it was Mount who got clobbered right under the refs nose. He didn’t give it but VAR did then Kane missed. Cue my further melt down.

 

Just seen on BBC news sport bit that cheating has arrived in the ladies game of football. After a vigorous tackle a man utd player pushed a Tottenham player on the shoulder, over falls the player holding her face getting the man und player sent off.

 

I bet she didn't get called a 'bitch'...

 

McGregor struggled to let it in

 

Cracking punch by the West Ham fan on the Chelsea idiot

 

The two videos had me howling … especially the 2nd one