By joining everyone else in live commentary? Great shout.
Y'know, just being no more of a cunt to them than I am to anyone else.
Grudgingly treating them like 'normal' people.
Prefixing your bigotry with "I'm not racist, but-"
Daubing their houses in hilarious respectful graffiti to make them feel part of things.
Lynchings.
By joining everyone else in live commentary? Great shout.
Last night showed another problem with VAR. Lino puts up his flag, defenders (could) see it and stop defending, attacker carries on and scores - VAR allows it. We may as well get rid of linesman - just play on until VAR decided.
All the defenders carried on except young. The flag didn't seem to go up until Arsenal took the shot. Play to the whistle 101.
That lino was a disgrace. Decision insanely bad, put flag up too early (and did this repeatedly during the game), has he even had the VAR briefing? I guess a linesman's flag is 'non-binding' technically (play to the whistle) but I wondered whether they might have weaseled their way out of giving that goal on a technicality. Ref was close to whistling it as well.
He was flagging absolutely everything. Man Utd must have had about 3/4 different free kicks crossed in and offside was given. Just play on if you’re going to force VAR to be a thing and review it later.
Whole different type of foul in the box, that.
Humans fucking up by themselves > humans fucking up while using technology. So VAR out please.
Yeah, a challenge system would be ideal and is exactly how cricket uses it, to often hilarious effect.
Refs having the power, as we are seeing, just leads to them checking absolutely everything and grey areas emerging. The best logic to use is: referee makes a call > is there evidence to overturn that call? > yes/fuck off. VAR does none of that, it's basically a glorified version of that BACK, AND TO THE LEFT thing from JFK.
You also need to have the video ref mic'd up while he does things.
Making it a red card offense if a player storms the VAR room in Stockley Park is a perfect summary of it's implementation. It makes a farce of the system and the rules the system governs.
The reason that Son offside is stupid is because offside is stupid, not VAR. The reason handball decisions seem ludicrous is because it's been a joke for years, not VAR.
Right but isn't it doubled down because the ridiculousness of the situation was supposed to be eliminated by "removing" the human element? Or am I missing this entirely?
Remember when Tony Pulis said Gnabry wasn't good enough for West Brom?
I like the cricket analogy. Offside is the caught behind where there is a 'definite' answer, and everything else is subject to the dreaded Umpire's Call.
Why don't they do the little look at the tv thing for the onfield ref anymore? In many of these marginal situations I'm sure a referee would be more likely to change their mind than someone in a tv room hundreds of miles away would be to overrule them. At least go through the charade.
Yes. 4 officially: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cybrown.../#106965f56fa9. And then many more where they refuse to overrule a wrong ruling by the on-field official in case they do the same to them the following week when they're in the middle.