Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
We need to get back to the days when the officials did it for free and were therefore not expected to know anything about the Laws of the game, the rules or even indeed, football in general. The days when even an unashamed disdain and contempt for the game and all who played it was considered a healthy, desired advantage.

Better that than the humourless, faux-righteous, unironic ****show we have nowadays.
Where headmasters, coppers, and prison officers just did it on the weekend for a few extra bob and to get away from the wife?

I think they have to take var away from the refs. Have specialist var officials that are trained differently and report to somebody else.

More than anything else, we have seen in the last year or two that it isn't var that is the problem. It's the people operating it.