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The thing that irks me most in football is the cheating. Players diving and feigning injury to get a penalty or a player sent off.
Use Var more for those decisions, even England captain Harry Kane went down the other day holding his face after minimal contact from an arm to his chest, absolutely pathetic to watch from grown men.
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Originally Posted by i961pie
Yep, go down like a sack of spuds holding this & that, get the decision get up walk off. The ref should issue a yellow for it & award the freekick to the opposition. If the player is that bad the trainer will come on so the player has to go off automatically. Maybe the ref should just bring the trainer on, so the player has to go off
Ronaldo bugged me at United. Why the media didn't interview him after a game & show his dives & ask him to explain why he did it,especially when there was not any contact. Pure cheating at its best
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Kane, Vardy and Alli are the worst players for diving in the league but no pundit slags off the Ingerland biys EVER.
If a foreign players does it he is instantly called a cheat and bought that side of the game over to England which is complete bollox.
If you tune in to MOTD just watch Murphy defending Kane with the incident you mention it was pathetic.
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The most frustrating decision of the weekend for me was the Teemu Pooki (sp?) offside for Norwich against Spurs, which was so borderline it was ridiculous. We should change the offside rule to favour attackers again, but there will always be contentious decisions no matter what the law is.
For me, we need to scrap this forensic analysis - if it takes more than two viewings, it’s not a clear and obvious decision so go with the ref’s decision. Christ, the police spend less time trying to solve crimes than some of these offside and handball decisions.
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Funny you should say that. It seems that the authorities are thinking along the same lines as you:
"Football's law-makers say the video assistant referee system should not be "too forensic" when it comes to offsides - and should only be used to reverse "clear and obvious" errors".
A load of bollox in my opinion, offside is offside even if it's only by 1mm. The bigger question is "has VAR had a positive or negative effect on the matchday experience?". I think it has made no positive addition, but has had pretty big negatives.
It's undoubtedly here to stay, but thankfully not at our level.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50944416
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That’s good news, thanks for the link.
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If we are going to do this there should be an element of latitude, like in cricket where there is a margin of error, there surely is a margin of error with the offsides. Particularly the timing of the pass forward. The frame rate itself isn’t good enough.
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