The statement from his family uses the past tense a couple of times, unfortunately. https://www.theaftd.org/posts/all-u...-announces-actor-has-been-diagnosed-with-ftd/ Probably says something that it's signed by both his wife and his ex. He seemed to manage a respectable relationship with both, which isn't easy.
“I could have needed VAR sometimes, but not to the amount they use it now. I was frightened to make a decision. I see these referees now, there's a fear and they're scared to make a decision. When you're scared you don't make one. And then the VAR doesn't make one either.” - Mark Clattenburg Clattenburg, of all people, explaining one of the faults in the current use of VAR. It also explains the advantage that some officials give to teams, which is what I expected. They make decisions in some situations and VAR doesn't overturn them. They fail to do them in similar ones and VAR doesn't overturn them, either. That's a massive advantage if you're getting those marginal ones or even those you shouldn't.
In rugby, it seems to me that the match ref wants the video crew to show that a potentially game changing event / error has not been missed/made by them (which would make them look bad) . VAR by contrast seems to be geared towards never making the pitch officials look bad, whether the error was incompetence or not.
In rugby, the technology is used to assist the on field ref to make a decision. There is a dialogue between on and off field officials and often this process results in the correct decision being made. Matters can be drawn to the on field ref’s attention he might have missed - and they are not too afraid to admit that they may not have seen something or are unsure. Decisions such as grounding of the ball, foot in touch, off the ball incidents etc benefit from the process. This is a completely different dynamic from football where the on field ref makes a decision (or not) without assistance and VAR looks to uphold that decision unless it is obviously wrong. Too much emphasis is placed on protecting the integrity of the ref’s decision making rather than reaching the right outcome. And football’s crazy rules on issues such as handball, offside and what constitutes a fair tackle means there are no objective standards to be be applied by the ref or VAR so that even when the technology is applied properly, the subjective element leads to inconsistency. Time for a big re-think.
Didn't work out particularly well last weekend with that prick Wayne Barnes. 'Discussed' the dangerous tackle by Antonio on Herring with the 4th official and still gave a yellow. This week Antonio was cited and will be banned probably for a significant period. Most obvious red card - but as he generally only gives bad decisions against Ireland you have to wonder whether there is some other motivation! And despite that, he will be the official in a further 2 Irish games this tournament.
Do the club still print the handbook, my dad had them from the 50s,60s and 70s and when he stopped going it was my job to pick one up at the first home game of the season, it was one of those things he treasured even though illness stopped him going to the lane he would study the current seasons books Unfortunately when he died for some reason my mum and her sisters got it into their heads that all dads stuff should be removed from the house and I was unaware that these things were sent to the charity shop or binned, it still hurts that my brother and me have so few of his possessions
The last one that I can find was for the 20/21 season and it's not on sale any more: https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2020/december/202021-official-handbook-now-available/ It may have been replaced by the Tottenham Annual: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915295572/?tag=not606-21
Thanks, I looked and could not find any past 20/21 I was thinking of tracking them down to make a collection, something to pee off Mrs Conn
RIP Was more of a Grandstand watcher myself, but Dickie was such a well-known face of life in the 70's.
RIP Richard Belzer, best known for playing Detective John Munch in many, many shows. Spanned 20 years, 23 series and about as many US networks, rather bizarrely. Started off on Homicide: Life on the Street, but also included The Wire, The X-Files and The Muppets.
RIP Another famous face. Although a face that was probably best suited for radio! Only really remember him from L&O which I watched keenly.
RIP Defective Monk (fans of the show will know)... ...cuckolded by Lennie Briscoe and a complete conspiracy theory nut job. What a great character.
They had wrestling, on that show, which was "worse than 3 day eventing and ice dancing, which stunk out the BBC from time to time." It was never seen in my childhood home. NEVER!
RIP Dickie a familiar face on our TV, mainly because On The Ball with Brian Moore was much better than Football Focus with Bob Wilson. Always switched over when the ITV 7 racing started! But we were back for the wrestling because Nan loved it!
Always a better chance of seeing the Spurs game on Sunday's, London weekend TV The Big Match with Brian Moore , looking out for a glimpse of yourself on the TV or the occasional dog running on the pitch which was always shown The one thing that sticks in my memory was Jimmy Greaves having a dance with someone and it was part of the opening footage
World of sport had alternative sports Darts , cliff diving, lumberjack log climbing and log rolling and my favourites motor bike scrambling( Bryan Wade) and car Rally Cross
As a non London resident from rural Kent, we had Southern rather than LWT, but in the main still got the Big Match, but just occasionally we would get Southern Soccer and tuned in expecting to see Spurs only to be greeted by Fred Dineage and welcome to the Dell for Southampton V Norwich!!
My old man banned ITV from the house, including World of Sport. The Big Match was allowed but I don't remember much else. He said it was common....he had a lot of weird ****ing ideas.
