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Two worst rules for me now are the handball interpretation when the old ball to hand rule was fine. When you have defenders defending with arms behind their backs you know the rule is a joke. The second rule is the sliding tackle being penalized...

Nail on the fluffin' head here. What was once a pretty simple game to play and watch in terms of rules, is being ruined. As I've said before, VAR has in my humble opinion not improved football - it's done the opposite. More opaque and bizarre...

Lambs to the slaughter this is. I can guarantee there'll be a showdown between fans and club over the latter's ambitions to socially engineer who we are.

The problem with that is that any actual Everton legend is now collecting their pension

Should have been called 'Former Players Match'.

Liverpool's support has a similar socioeconomic demographic. They simply grew fans elsewhere. That's what we will do also if we are successful. The rupture is sadly inevitable as American businessmen are not known for social democracy, let alone...

Football ombudsman - chocolate fireguard. Funded by the industry itself.

We need to learn lessons off others. There's a real opportunity here also to get daylight between Everton and Liverpool on this and grow at their expense. My concern is that there'll be a headlong rush into commercially sweating that dock...

My fear is in generations to come, local fans are a total irrelevance and the clubs lean towards / become geo-mobile ‘franchises’ as per the NFL.

That is disgusting from Liverpool FC, can feel for the supporter and as you rightly say could well happen here. Needs looking into by at least the sport regulator.

They’re on Sky Sports

I like the PK - score or dead ball on save. Already a 70% chance of scoring. Often on fouls that were barely in the box at positions with acute angles.

Bizarre. So they're changing the balance to give the defending team, the team that commited a foul in the box, a greater benefit? Every new rule introduced makes football worse. It used to be a simple game. It's now an unnecessarily complicated...

I've become increasingly disinterested in modern game, however changes this season have been last straw for me. TV companies being allowed to change games with very little notice, will no doubt end up inconvenience fans, as well as benefiting RS...