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What a fucking mess the game is in.
Nobody can fully claim to understand the logic of any of the following:
Handball
Serious foul play
Offside
Anything VAR
Accumulation of fouls
Tactical fouls
Time wasting
There’s probably more,
If you were making the rules as opaque as possible to create the maximum controversy, how would you do it differently?
Is it like this in other countries?
La Liga isn’t as regularly full of fuckery.
Do the FA, the Premier League and the PGMOL all need major reform at the same time?
Plus we should be giving attackers the benefit of any doubt if decisions are marginal to promote a forward thinking approachThe offside rule is ridiculous as is VAR.
Football is about goals and great goals at that and we are being deprived of them because a player is millimetres offside. No,player can adjudge whether he is offsid when such measurements are considered. It’s the foot, only the foot and the whole foot that can should cause a player to be offside.
Again, VAR is supposed to,assist the referee but it is taking over. Perhaps it should only be used if the referees asks for it to look at an incident of which he is unsure. The term ‘ when a clear error is made’ is used but when VAR takes 5 minutes to reach a decision or tells the referee to look at the pitch side monitor, where is the ‘ clear error’ then?
I actually heard 2 pundits talking about this earlier. One said it shouldn't have been a red. The other said normally it shouldn't have been a red, but because it was Romero it should, because he is nasty and absolutely had malicious intent.Inconsistency is the problem. Maybe the inconsistency because of the ever changing laws but it's inconsistency all the same.
We've seen fouls given as reds when in other games, they simply haven't been. We've seen handball calls that have been given when others haven't. Offsides that have been given when others haven't.
Those shouldn't be hard. It also doesn't help that the officials try and be leniant at times or try and keep players on the pitch. Kovacic against Woolwich a massive example of this.
Romero was sent off yesterday for a follow through despite getting the ball. Yet last week Caicedo goes over the ball and plants his studs on a Brentford players shins and didn't see a red. What's the rules here?
I watch La Liga and Serie A and both leagues are full of crazy decisions just like the PL, the difference is as far as I'm aware those countries have far more respect for the rules and unless they're terrible calls they don't become a story unlike the PL.What a fucking mess the game is in.
Nobody can fully claim to understand the logic of any of the following:
Handball
Serious foul play
Offside
Anything VAR
Accumulation of fouls
Tactical fouls
Time wasting
There’s probably more,
If you were making the rules as opaque as possible to create the maximum controversy, how would you do it differently?
Is it like this in other countries?
La Liga isn’t as regularly full of fuckery.
Do the FA, the Premier League and the PGMOL all need major reform at the same time?
Thank God for that at least.Goal line technology works. Leave it at that.
Kicking the ball away at free kicks
Waving imaginary yellow cards
Both still going unpunised arbitrarily.
Just so annoying
They always have the ability to use multiple camera views we just don't see it/ need to use very often. They say they are time stamped so exact same moment from another view.Offside should just be judged via feet for starters. You can't tell me that a lean of 10 degrees gives any advantage if your feet are level: it just means you're ready to go and thinking faster/anticipating faster than the defender.
Also, yet to hear any explanation as to why they showed the son offside from one side of the pitch and having found it inconclusive, they looked from the other side...which meant you couldn't see the defender clearly. Does this happen on the regular?
I think I heard/read somewhere that there were 17 VAR checks in the match Monday, and that 14 of them required stoppage of the game.
See if you can answer this one correctly (from IFAB's own website)...
If a free kick is kicked directly into the team's own goal, the referee awards a corner kick to the opposing team.
It made sense at the time we made that rule.See if you can answer this one correctly (from IFAB's own website)...
If a free kick is kicked directly into the team's own goal, the referee awards a corner kick to the opposing team.