Our VAR offside. They spent ages checking Ozil's foot. They scrolled through to

VAR man had £100 on nil-nil

Do you blame him?

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Originally Posted by WES

BTW - Labour suspending Trevor Phillips?

Yup, can't see that creating any negative publicity or prompting all sorts of conspiracy theories. :hehe:

They really don't want to ever be in government ever again, do they?

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He's been in their sights for years due to his unfortunate habit of voicing unpalatable truths about the propensity of certain ethnic groupings to commit a disproportionate amount of certain types of crime. Being black could only protect him so long.

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Originally Posted by WES

What I find fascinating is the belief that a new offside rule or thicker lines will change anything. Wait for Wenger's proposal of clear daylight between the defender and the attacking player - then wait for a debate as to how much daylight there actually needs to be. Or wait for thicker lines - then wait for the debate as to how close the thick line needs to be to the defender or attacker.

:hehe: It's ridiculous as all we've done is moved from moaning about referees to moaning about VAR and no rule change will change that. Get rid of the f*cking thing on the basis that it is making the game less enjoyable to watch and in the end the real problem with VAR is that it takes sport far too seriously.

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Wenger's rule simply suggests that if any part of the body that can legally is level then it is onside. The word daylight was never used in his definition, it was simply added later as a lazy way of explaining it. It will be as clear cut as the is now but just shifting the advantage to the attacking team not the defending one.

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Originally Posted by Burney

Just off the top of my head:

Stop it being a safety net for referees and instead put its use in the hands of the teams, with limited referrals in any game. This would have the effect of limiting its use due to the jeopardy of losing an unsuccessful review. It also puts the onus on the teams to get it right rather than leaving everything at the arbitrary and inconsistent whim of the officials (which is one of the things that causes resentment at present).

Insist that the referee's on-field decision has primacy and that no decision should be overturned unless there is a clear and unambiguous reason to do so (the equivalent of 'umpire's call'). In the case of offside decisions, this could indeed be 'daylight'.

Place a time limit on the review process. This could be as little as 90 seconds, preventing significant hold-ups.


That's just off the top of my head, but all these proposals would improve the process. It's never going to be without controversy, but at the moment, VAR is simply being used as a way of finding reasons to rule out goals. That's not what it should be for. It should be a means to arrive at better, more informed decisions.

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I like the idea of that, but how do you determine umpire's call? If WHU had challenged Laca's goal, was that umpire's call or not?

Also, penalties that are a matter of interpretation. It would be bad enough to have a penalty refused because the ref thought there wasn't enough contact or he made a meal of it, but to then lose a review for a later howler wouldn't be good.

Also, I hate what goes on at corners. All this obstruction and shirt tugging is just as much a cheat as a dive.

I think that the first team to do it should be penalised. If the first grab is by a defender, then penalty. By an attacker, yellow card.

And let them review that at corners. It would soon stamp it out.

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Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult

I like the idea of that, but how do you determine umpire's call? If WHU had challenged Laca's goal, was that umpire's call or not?

Also, penalties that are a matter of interpretation. It would be bad enough to have a penalty refused because the ref thought there wasn't enough contact or he made a meal of it, but to then lose a review for a later howler wouldn't be good.

Also, I hate what goes on at corners. All this obstruction and shirt tugging is just as much a cheat as a dive.

I think that the first team to do it should be penalised. If the first grab is by a defender, then penalty. By an attacker, yellow card.

And let them review that at corners. It would soon stamp it out.

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You determine the call by virtue of the fact that the game is reffed as usual until there's a challenge to a decision. In marginal calls (ie those where there isn't a cast-iron reason to overturn it), the on-field decision stands, but the appealing side don't lose a review.

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You determine the call by virtue of the fact that the game is reffed as usual until there's a challenge to a decision. In marginal calls (ie those where there isn't a cast-iron reason to overturn it), the on-field decision stands, but the appealing side don't lose a review.

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So was Laca's goal a marginal call or not? Would it have been different if the on field decision had been a goal and challenged by WHU?