I like that the referees admit fault and are then duly asked to consider their actions during a week off. However it’s always been a key principle that what happens on the pitch ends at the final whistle. Once you start allowing the reversal of a decision, you’ll need to allow for appeals. You’ll be in a position where you don’t know from one week to the next where your team are in the table.
Reversals should never ever be allowed to happen because all it will do is have every team in the league complain about a goal, put pressure on the referee of that game to say they was wrong then on that evidence the club put's in a request for a reversal of the goal. Clubs would abuse it and they know it as in 'that penalty should never have been allowed because of this', 'that goal from the free kick should never have been allowed because of this', 'the goal from a header should never have been allowed because of this' and so on and so on. Naturally clubs would say they would not abuse such a system but the pressure to get into a European competition is so great that clubs will resort to ways and means to abuse the system so it works in their favor.
Yes, I do, especially when you consider that Spurs were prepared to offer £70m for him last January.
I beg to differ.
Why should they have taken the money?
Agreed.
Guehi is an excellent player, but Liverpool did not take those particular transfer negotiations seriously.
As many are unanimous that the final result says the same, should the Leagues, footballing bodies stop reviewing, and then making public, controversial decisions? What ideas do others have, to facilitate the correct decisions being made on field, as we are seeing many poor decisions being influential in the result of a game, which can cost clubs in the EPL millions based on there final table position. Should VAR only be looking for offside when a goal is scored, and leave the referee on field to do the job of assessing incidents.
VAR should be dropped in my opinion. As should the silly offside rule. It should go back to how it was. If you are offside, you are offside. None of this not interfering with play BS. If you are a £125 million striker in the oppositions box, you are interfering with play!
VAR was a one-way street. When it was being introduced I was against it, but now that it is here we're stuck with it forever. But I would say that I don't think VAR has improved the enforcement of the offside law. It's changed how we deal with offside, but I don't think it's 'better.'
Well it’s difficult to do worse than last year. Richarlison has his moments but can also wander out of games or worse do something rash. I guess the policy will depend on who takes over but they should be able to compete with the revenue from the stadium
Kudus will do well for them. Never rated Richarlison.
Yep. Any club chairman willing to hire Mourinho receives a grade of 'F' from me. 🤣
Gosh.
Agreed.
With VAR, I think it’s use case should be to assess fouls, that are potentially a red card offence, initiated by the match referee, and VAR consisting of a former player and refereee. There was an interesting discussion on VAR with Howard Webb, that talks to the issue of subjectivity in decision making, and potential solutions.
