Dogawful Officiating

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Effing finally. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

18 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

I don't see how examples of poor refereeing at Championship level provides justification for VAR in the Premier League. 

 

I'll fight anyone who thinks the standard of decision-making has improved since VAR came in

 

Think the only thing you could argue is that offsides are 'technically correct', which also means fuck all for the spirit and enjoyment of the game. 

 

There are just as many dodgy penalties, just as many dives and just as many non-handballs as before. 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2024 by AyeDubbleYoo

[joeyt]

It's because they're all subjective calls.

 

All you're doing is swapping an opinion of one human to the opinion of another human who can use technology. It's still someone's opinion against someone else's opinion at the end of the day

 

That's why offsides can work because it's black and white. The bit where offside cause controversy is like the wolves one at the weekend where humans have to interpret whether they're interfering with the goalkeeper

[Yorkie]

11 minutes ago, Joelinton7 said:

Semi-Auto offside Technology next season. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/11/premier-league-to-use-semi-automated-offside-speed-up-var-calls

 

Naturally I'm not pleased about the news because it doesn't eradicate the negative side-effect of checking offsides. My preference would be to bin its use on offsides altogether. 

 

However, once it's in use, it'll really shine a light on the laughable imprecision and cumbersome nature of the current system. It's a total farce that offsides have ever fallen under the umbrella of VAR without the proper technology. 

[timeEd32]

This is good news. The manual drawing of the lines is ridiculous.

[joeyt]

It baffles me how anyone ever thought VAR would ever be any good for football. 

 

The technology works in tennis and cricket because they're pretty black and white decisions. The controversy in cricket is always when a human has to make a decision to see if someone has taken a catch cleanly or not, which again is down to opinion a lot of the time. 

 

Apart from goalline technology and to an extent offsides, it's always just going to be one person's opinion against another

[Likelylad]

I genuinely think this helps Isak. Been a couple times he’s been wrongly adjudged offside. I’ll be adamant till the day I die that Liverpool goal was onside. 

[The Prophet]

2 hours ago, joeyt said:

It baffles me how anyone ever thought VAR would ever be any good for football. 

 

The technology works in tennis and cricket because they're pretty black and white decisions. The controversy in cricket is always when a human has to make a decision to see if someone has taken a catch cleanly or not, which again is down to opinion a lot of the time. 

 

Apart from goalline technology and to an extent offsides, it's always just going to be one person's opinion against another

 

It seemed like a good idea to me because it was billed as clearing up the "clear and obvious". It's gone way beyond that remit.

[54]

So that ref in the Man United game was utter dogshite. 

[Skeletor]

The sooner the corruption is exposed the better.

[midds]

Hope Bournemouth are looking forward to their token apology on Monday afternoon. Sure they'll feel much better about things 

[Norseman]

4 minutes ago, 54 said:

So that ref in the Man United game was utter dogshite. 

Next level biased/bent. The worst decision was the Man U pen. Never a pen and gave me some PTSD flashback to PSG away, and this cunt couldn’t wait to give the pen. Utter crap

 

How did the VAR not overturn it?

[beardsleymagic]

How the premier league can say with a straight face that there's no bias towards the so called big six wankers is laughable.

 

Actually no it's disgusting.

 

It makes me think that the premier league know that at the minute those six clubs have the biggest support worldwide, and in their small and self preserving minds they think that if their darling clubs are knocked off their perch then the global brand will suffer.

Only thing I can think of as nothing is ever done about this blatant corruption.

 

 

Edited April 13, 2024 by beardsleymagic

[Guest]

Sorry for being a dull fuck with this one, but say Isak had been leaning forward another foot for our 3rd and his nose was inside the Spurs half while the rest of him is in his own half, people are happy for that as an offside law?

 

 

Edited April 13, 2024 by Optimistic Nut

[Froggy]

3 hours ago, Norseman said:

How did the VAR not overturn it?

 

Because it's a penalty.

 

 

[Froggy]

3 hours ago, beardsleymagic said:

How the premier league can say with a straight face that there's no bias towards the so called big six wankers is laughable.

 

 

We must stop this corruption.

[54]

6 minutes ago, Froggy said:

 

 

We must stop this corruption.

[TRon]

3 minutes ago, Froggy said:

 

 

We must stop this corruption.

 

 

I know you're trying to be funny (but serious at the same time) but when you have the commentators on BT Sport congratulating the ref in today's game for keeping the cards in his pocket after blatant cheating fouls from both sides, then there's your problem right there. This "it's a mans game" philosophy might have sounded good 20 years ago, but it really just punishes good football and rewards the cloggers.

[Lush Vlad]

Need to see it again. But I’m pretty sure he was outside the box? It was a foul, though. 

[JigsawGoesToPieces]

with SOAT I think we will be going back to toe nail offsides as its done by a sensors in the ball and cameras

[80]

33 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

Sorry for being a dull fuck with this one, but say Isak had been leaning forward another foot for our 3rd and his nose was inside the Spurs half while the rest of him is in his own half, people are happy for that as an offside law?

 

 

 

Civilisation is built on dull fucks.

[nufc123]

40 minutes ago, Froggy said:

 

 

We must stop this corruption.

Please post a picture of Maddison foot in the back of Murphy while you are at it..

[nufc123]

35 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:

Need to see it again. But I’m pretty sure he was outside the box? It was a foul, though. 

It was. The Frogster not done his homework here.

[Norseman]

7 hours ago, Froggy said:

 

Because it's a penalty.

 

 

I didn’t think so and even ten Hag admitted it was dubious.

 

You can probably give it by interpretation by the law, but it’s extremely poor judgment to do so.

[Froggy]

28 minutes ago, Norseman said:

You can probably give it by interpretation by the law, but it’s extremely poor judgment to do so.

 

What?

 

These penalties are an absolute joke. I don't think anyone disagrees with that, but as you say, by interpretation of the law, they are indeed penalties. 

 

He leans towards the ball. He knows it. The guilty player doesn't even complain. It's instinctive, but that's what he has done. Even Jamie Redknapp says it's a pen and he despises us. 

 

7 hours ago, nufc123 said:

Please post a picture of Maddison foot in the back of Murphy while you are at it..

 

Yep, poor decision in my opinion. Top 6 club corruption isn't it? Definitely nothing to do with refs just being inconsistent and incompetent.

 

Every game has stupid decisions now, and people have short memories. What about the game where you beat Arsenal? Bruno G elbowing Jorginho in the back of the head and getting away with it? Or the ball being out for Gordon's goal? Or Joelinton pushing Gabriel in the back in the same sequence? 

 

Havertz should have been sent off that game too. Top 6 corruption? Only if you ignore the multiple decisions that went Newcastle's way in that game. 

 

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Time for some people to grow up and get over it. Our refs are shit and it's as simple as that. We've have a mountain of decisions go against us this last few years and a few go for us. It happens to us and everyone else. 

 

Honestly the people that suggest there's corruption or a brand to protect are one step away from an asylum. It's fairly embarrassing.