Match Day Thread General matchday thread.

What and leave it to the saudi league refs who work here.

I dunno bro

 

VAR really is ****e isn't it?

Is there a single fan or manager in the prem who wants it?

 

Goal line technology and automatic offside like in the WC. The rest should get in the bin.

 

You can't close pandoras box unfortunately. Too many armchair ****ers wouldn't accept the odd offside goal going against them.

 

I'd extend that goal line tech to include the whole of the dead ball line

But yeah, the rest of it causes more problems than it solves.

 

Yeah, I agree. It's what I was intending to say in honesty.

In this day and age, the boundaries of the pitch should be able to be monitored with a sensor in the ball and calibrated sensors on pitch limits. The equipment wouldn't even be that expensive, but the licences and 3D imaging package would a a lucrative thing. Like Hawkeye.

 

You can't slide in with your studs up, but because Everton are playing the victim since they got caught cheating financially we'll be drowning in self pity all week now.

 

How did fans ever cope in the days without TV cameras? Only people at the match saw what happened and if you blinked you missed it.

 

Yep, they use it in Tennis, Cricket and in Rugby ?, so it's not a great leap to apply it to football too.

I'm in favour of applying the offside rule as Wenger has suggested, where there has to be clear daylight between attacker and defender

But the tech should be used for the absolutes. Where there is a clear yes or no decision. Everything else should be left to the Ref with the proviso that he won't always get it right (because VAR doesn't always get it right either)

 

The players are worth such high amounts it's about keeping their assets safe. Lewin could have accidentally broke a leg.

 

Well, you can, can't you... unless there is VAR.

I'm not saying that studs up challenges are carte blanche ok, but anyone that knows anything about playing football knows that was never a red. Which aspect made them class it as clear and obvious error? Out of control? Nope. Reckless? No. Endangering the opponent... only if you're a mouses brain.

I was a big advocate for VAR when it was brought in, but it's so strictly bound by written laws / guidelines that it's dangerous in the hands of inexperienced refs. VAR with common sense applied by former pros would be better, but in all honest, I'd just bin it for all bar the aforementioned points.

 

I am old enough to remember going to some grounds where they had to build a scaffold gantry for the TV cameras and a Portacabin for the pundits.

 

It actually is a red according to the rules and that's why they sent him off. He studs up over the ball and could have broken a leg.. that's dangerous to the opponent.

I remember de Jong breaking Ben arfas leg and not even getting a free kick or a yellow

 

Dunno about the daylight thing Wenger went for, but I personally thing it needs a tweak to be the attacking player's leading, or otherwise planted foot.

 

How is it a red? Please explain which aspect pushed it over the red threshold, and caused VAR to make it a recommended clear and obvious error.

It would be helpful if you actually quoted the laws if the game to prove your point.

The fact that you can remember something that went unpunished pre VAR is circumstantial whataboutery, and quite frankly pointless.

 

I've just told you why so pipe down you mouthy tit.

 

Nah, you've not at all. You've said what you think, and I disagree.

To be a red, it has to pass certain metrics... thresholds they're referred in the laws IIRC. I just asked you to

I won't pipe down just because you don't like what I say (**** me, you're the expert in this field). You just don't like being challenged on something that you're going to have to do some homework to prove. It can be a learning exercise for us all, no matter who's right.

The only one getting mouthy here is you (unsurprisingly). Get your morning sh1t out, have your milkshake or whatever it is you do, strangle a w@nk out over GG's meltdown and come back to us on it. Maybe I'm wrong and we can all learn something.

 

@Sucky and probably most scousers.

They'd have one less thing to cry about.