I voted England actually.
Thought it was pretty obvs I was taking the piss!
Aha...
... shows how much notice i've taken of this...
I voted England actually.
Thought it was pretty obvs I was taking the piss!
... shows how much notice i've taken of this...
pretty sure that the England team and English clubs have just passed their peak and normality will be resumed. Now, if JWP had been selected?According to this board the winner of this will only be runner up anyway.
timing! just as I clicked Switzerland!1-0. Ronaldo.
Exactly what I predicted could happen. Football doesn't always have natural stops the way other games do....yes, the ref was supposed to check with VAR, but the ball was in the keeper's hands....his chance to play out quickly would be lost if the Swiss penalty wasn't given. Not saying that VAR doesn't get some things right, but the VAR refs end up guessing on some incidents anyway. And they are going to show it on the screen (where possible)...I suspect for every decision it clarifies there will be another decision where the fans still get wound up because their opinion is different.
Some old bloke called Jose Fonte comes on for Portugal
VAR is here and it is here to stay. People will get used to it. My prediction is PL referees will use VAR more sparingly than European referees. From what I've seen in the FA and League Cups it has been used well in England - the on field referee doesn't watch the replay himself, he takes the word of the VAR official. And VAR referees don't guess. They make a decision based on various replays and in the case of handball law, it will still come down to interpretation. But there are far more plus points to VAR than negatives.Exactly what I predicted could happen. Football doesn't always have natural stops the way other games do....yes, the ref was supposed to check with VAR, but the ball was in the keeper's hands....his chance to play out quickly would be lost if the Swiss penalty wasn't given. Not saying that VAR doesn't get some things right, but the VAR refs end up guessing on some incidents anyway. And they are going to show it on the screen (where possible)...I suspect for every decision it clarifies there will be another decision where the fans still get wound up because their opinion is different.
If you just sprayed piss and sh*t at them from the sewer, they'd soon stop behaving like knobs.
Few batons to the head should do the trick.