Today's Football - 2023/2024 Season

[summerisle]

Another one who thinks that because they exist in the same country as the PL that they are entitled to some of the PL money.

The lower league clubs are in danger of becoming parasites dependent on handouts from the PL.

What a weird take. It's not as if Premier League clubs are parasites for taking the TV dollar, is it ?

 

[sd_1992]

What a weird take. It's not as if Premier League clubs are parasites for taking the TV dollar, is it ?

Maybe the PL clubs should ask for some money from La Liga whilst we are talking about clubs asking for money that they have no part in generating.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Or, hear me out, let's FIX VAR.

Literally everyone knows what the problems are.

1) Make the offside rule make sense. No more one fingernail offside is offside. If the video can't show clear offside after 30 seconds, it's not offside.
2) Only have the ref go to the screen when an obvious foul was committed in the box. Not one of these he saw it live and called it good, then a 50/50 call gets overturned. Or worse. I'm thinking about calls like Keane's stepping on a toenail against Brighton a few years back - that's clearly not a penalty.

Even just addressing #1 will make 90% of peoples' issues with VAR go away. There are way too many offside calls that are borderline. The offside rule was never intended to be applied down to the inch. VAR is now trying to make that application.

 

[Nymzee]

Or, hear me out, let's FIX VAR.

Literally everyone knows what the problems are.

1) Make the offside rule make sense. No more one fingernail offside is offside. If the video can't show clear offside after 30 seconds, it's not offside.
2) Only have the ref go to the screen when an obvious foul was committed in the box. Not one of these he saw it live and called it good, then a 50/50 call gets overturned. Or worse. I'm thinking about calls like Keane's stepping on a toenail against Brighton a few years back - that's clearly not a penalty.

Even just addressing #1 will make 90% of peoples' issues with VAR go away. There are way too many offside calls that are borderline. The offside rule was never intended to be applied down to the inch. VAR is now trying to make that application.

You need to fix the users of VAR not VAR.

 

[carolinablue232]

Or, hear me out, let's FIX VAR.

Literally everyone knows what the problems are.

1) Make the offside rule make sense. No more one fingernail offside is offside. If the video can't show clear offside after 30 seconds, it's not offside.
2) Only have the ref go to the screen when an obvious foul was committed in the box. Not one of these he saw it live and called it good, then a 50/50 call gets overturned. Or worse. I'm thinking about calls like Keane's stepping on a toenail against Brighton a few years back - that's clearly not a penalty.

Even just addressing #1 will make 90% of peoples' issues with VAR go away. There are way too many offside calls that are borderline. The offside rule was never intended to be applied down to the inch. VAR is now trying to make that application.

Semi automated from next year on should solve the offside issue.

It’s the decisions outside that that need fixing. And that goes directly to incompetence from the current referees, bias (whether conscious or unconscious), and ultimately the oversight. There’s no accountability.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

You need to fix the users of VAR not VAR.

Not with respect to the application of Offside.

For penalties, yes.

 

[Nymzee]

Not with respect to the application of Offside.

For everything else, yes.

FTFY

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

FTFY

What other than penalties is VAR used for? Turning yellows to reds?

 

[Nymzee]

What other than penalties is VAR used for? Turning yellows to reds?

You think VAR only intervenes for penalties???

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

You think VAR only intervenes for penalties???

No, but those are the ones that matter. Yellow to red, OK. And then when a goal is scored it goes to build up play fouls, which should go away.

It's not being used for deflctions, corners vs goal kicks, etc, etc. Only things that impact scoring, generally, like a pen, a build up play foul, or sending someone off

 

[Goat]

Tons of empty seats at Brighton, what a crap fanbase.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Was the game better when we didn't have VAR ?

Absolutely not

And that's the inly thing that should matter

 

[Nymzee]

Tons of empty seats at Brighton, what a crap fanbase.

People who live in Brighton don't watch football. They just play lead guitar in really crap amateur bands.

 

[Nymzee]

Was the game better when we didn't have VAR ?

Absolutely not

And that's the inly thing that should matter

I barely remember football pre-VAR

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Was the game better when we didn't have VAR ?

Absolutely not

And that's the inly thing that should matter

I truly could not disagree more.