Bottlers!!

[spaldy]

VAR is really starting to bring up the question of integrity in the game. Some of us think that the FA is corrupt to the core. However, VAR only seems to quantify that. It's really been awful the past season. To a neutral fan it almost defies belief how biased some of the calls are.

On a serious note. I really do enjoy the championship. It's often really good football and the officiating is so much "quicker". There are always bad calls in any game at any level but at least it's quick and the game gets going quickly.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Agreed Spaldy and the problem with over exposure and too many pundits is that silly ideas get hold, develop currency and are brought in to change the game.

Sport isn’t meant to be perfect no matter how much we strive for it - the striving for but not quite attaining it is a large part of what a few of us coming back I suspect.

Those that run football seem to think you can strive for perfection in all aspects of the game and introduce rules that don’t reflect the practical aspect of how the game is played often using officials to make decisions that haven’t played at any significant level - all overseen by bureaucrats who are just interested in the financials.

Football in my eyes is supposed to be a fast paced flowing game. Just as the players will make mistakes so will the match day officials. It’s part of the game.

Not only do all the reviews slow the game down - you have to wait to celebrate goals ffs in leagues where VAR operates - it removes responsibility from the ref and also means fans are starting to expect perfection which is unlikely to be achieved.

To compound it all the officials used for VAR etc often don’t seem to know what they are doing and there is little public explanation.

It is refreshing not to have VAR in the EFL and having bad match day officials gives those who like to moan something to moan about too.