Off Topic IS VIDEO ASSISTANT REFEREE WORKING?

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Video Assistant referee good or bad?

  • Stop using it

    Votes: 4 25.0%

  • Continue Using it?

    Votes: 12 75.0%

  • I don't really care

    Votes: 2 12.5%
  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .
johnsonsbaby said:
I'm trying to stay open minded on it but I keep coming back to - I will love it when it favours us and not when it doesn't <laugh>
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Fans are ****. Ruin the game for everybody with their bias and their whining and favouritism. What we need is some cool, unbiased, objective people in the game, maybe dressed in a uniform, like all black or something, and that thing they have on Match of the Day, where they go back and look at something in slo-mo to make sure the rules are followed. What's the point of having rules if you're going to be easy-oazy about them? You know what happens? Nobody ever goes to Monopoly jail and the nazis invade Poland again. Nice one, VAR critics, you anti-Semitic fascists.
 
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Muppetfinder General said:
Fans are ****. Ruin the game for everybody with their bias and their whining and favouritism. What we need is some cool, unbiased, objective people in the game, maybe dressed in a uniform, like all black or something, and that thing they have on Match of the Day, where they go back and look at something in slo-mo to make sure the rules are followed. What's the point of having rules if you're going to be easy-oazy about them? You know what happens? Nobody ever goes to Monopoly jail and the nazis invade Poland again. Nice one, VAR critics, you anti-Semitic fascists.
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Muppetfinder General said:
Fans are ****. Ruin the game for everybody with their bias and their whining and favouritism. What we need is some cool, unbiased, objective people in the game, maybe dressed in a uniform, like all black or something, and that thing they have on Match of the Day, where they go back and look at something in slo-mo to make sure the rules are followed. What's the point of having rules if you're going to be easy-oazy about them? You know what happens? Nobody ever goes to Monopoly jail and the nazis invade Poland again. Nice one, VAR critics, you anti-Semitic fascists.
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Yes, imagine football without fans, be great wouldn't it. Or to put it another way non-existent. o_O
 
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johnsonsbaby said:
It's one of those things you can never go back and see what would have happened. But I'm pretty sure in the early days the only money going into the game was from the spectators.
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People played the game prior to spectators passing paying money. There are lots of things in the world that don't have the following football does but still exist.
 
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Zanjinho said:
People played the game prior to spectators passing paying money. There are lots of things in the world that don't have the following football does but still exist.
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Yeah but even in the modern game the match going fans are of huge importance outside the Prem at least, they're the only constant at each club and a large percentage have a huge amount of loyalty regardless of what's happening on the pitch.

How many times over the years have clubs been saved by fan action or fundraising etc. Extreme example maybe but look who it was who stepped in down the road from us after they'd been ****ed by about 4 dodgy owners in a row and plummeted to the 4th tier.
 
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Libby said:
Yeah but even in the modern game the match going fans are of huge importance outside the Prem at least, they're the only constant at each club and a large percentage have a huge amount of loyalty regardless of what's happening on the pitch.

How many times over the years have clubs been saved by fan action or fundraising etc. Extreme example maybe but look who it was who stepped in down the road from us after they'd been ****ed by about 4 dodgy owners in a row and plummeted to the 4th tier.
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I was commenting in the "non-existent" bit mate. It obviously wouldn't be the same without the fan backing but it wouldn't be non-existent.
 
Zanjinho said:
I was commenting in the "non-existent" bit mate. It obviously wouldn't be the same without the fan backing but it wouldn't be non-existent.
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You take all the fans away from a club, then it would die imo mate.
 
Libby said:
Yeah, that's exactly the same. I was talking if you did it now btw.
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What difference does the era make? If people like it, it'll grow.

Fans are people that like to watch or support something. Taking fans away doesn't mean there wouldn't be people that like to play still. Something that MUST have happened at some point in football.
 
Zanjinho said:
What difference does the era make? If people like it, it'll grow.

Fans are people that like to watch or support something. Taking fans away doesn't mean there wouldn't be people that like to play still. Something that MUST have happened at some point in football.
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Well yeah but we seem to be straying a bit from the original point here, which (for me anyway) was the importance of supporters in football.
 
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When I said nonexistent I meant in the form that we know it ...... obviously. Anywhere in the world where there are two kids and a stone on the ground, they're going to be playing football. The game itself will never cease to exist.

Competitive football (which is what I was talking about) has always needed fans in order to firstly keep the game alive and secondly grow the game. Ironically, with all the sponsorship money and tv money, the gate receipts aren't as important as they once were. A study was done on it recently and it was found that some clubs (Everton was one cited) could get by without any fans turning up at all, so heavily is their reliance on tv money.
 
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