Wullie

Nacho Gonzalez? I even thought of his name then my brain completely ignored him.

Uruguay too.

That dentist's a hoot. Total Walter Mitty.

Next season with VAR we will get more penalties and the opposition will get more Red cards than the last 2 seasons put together. You can quote me on it I think discussing a core rule change to the game with people whose main criteria is whether it specifically benefits their team or not is one of the more pointless exchanges I've had on here in fifteen years. Might as well discuss whether or not we should automatically disallow any goal scored past a Slovakian goalkeeper.

Oh I get it now, you mentioned Newcastle United because everyone hates the club and don't give us any penalties. Yes we should definitely change the game forever because of your bizarre paranoia. What if the people in your little cupboard hate NUFC too? Why wouldn't they?

Rugby league. Fucking Rugby League. A game where the teams take turns to attack and defend is "as fluid as football." Must be why it's so popular. I'm off to bed.

What other sports is it used in that are as fluid as football? What part of this statement can possibly be argued with? "When a goal is ruled out for offside by VAR but another goal is allowed because the contravention of a law happened in a phase not checked by VAR, the game’s result is actually distorted more by the technology, not made more correct. It is, in effect, an inherently contradictory model unless it is used for all decisions wherever and whenever they happen on the pitch or in the game, just to make sure they are right because any mistakes at all will affect the game. It cannot be otherwise." Getting rid of the clock is a fucking daft idea as well, would encourage shithouse behaviour but without the current sanction of a "timewasting" card. I don't understand all these people who seem to hate football as it has existed for over a hundred years, absolutely desperate to change the rules fundamentally to suit the way they want the game to be, really weird.

We get it, you are prepared to put up with wrong decisions, to me that is just batshit crazy, especially as an NUFC fan. I'm lost, did NUFC invent it or something?

There are no "bigger moments" in football. A foul not given 2 minutes ago in the centre circle is as big a moment as any if it leads to a goal. Every kick affects every other.

I will never understand how anyone thinks standing around waiting for someone hundreds of miles away to watch a video of where somebody's toenail was adds to the game or experience. As he says, it's very much a personal thing. I already liked football enough before this total nonsense was introduced.

I take it you're content to extend VAR to every single thing that happens on the pitch? As the article points out, being pro-VAR and not wanting that to happen is preposterous and inherently contradictory because in football, every decision is potentially as big as every other one.

Did you even read it?

Every syllable is bang on. https://www.football365.com/news/on-the-scourge-of-var-football-should-be-poetry-not-mathematics

You're not wrong.

The offside rule is there for a different reason now? I don't think so. It's just policed far too rigorously, and that is solely because camera technology has improved and TV now controls the game in a way it didn't before. TV used to be there to show the game, not to referee it. Are you saying VAR shouldn't be used for offsides? I wouldn't use it for anything, I hate it.

The offside rule is there for a different reason now? I don't think so. It's just policed far too rigorously, and that is solely because camera technology has improved and TV now controls the game in a way it didn't before. TV used to be there to show the game, not to referee it.

Because that's not the point of the rule. It was introduced to stop goal hanging, it's not there to police the exact position of somebody's toenail when watched in 4K resolution. In a few years time we'll have an atomic camera looking along the line at the molecules of Raheem Sterling's knee.

Your whole body should have to be offside for it to be called.

Neymar accused of rape https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-48487805

Its been 6 days, 142 pages, thats 3350 posts, of utter weirdness, its mental The Bible's shorter, but more grounded in reality.

If you don't want to read something that's total and utter bullshit from start to finish, probably best not to come in this thread anyway, that's why I don't typically bother. Already 142 pages of this total bollocks.

That's absolutely tragic. Always loved that goal he scored against Boro (and Martin Tyler's commentary) when it looked like the invincible record was going to go down right at the end.

More total bollocks.