Just to conclude - like you, is scrap VAR. But if you don’t, changing the offside law to something else would be worse.
Which was why your original post was wrong. And I think I can read.
What would the new rule be?
“They either need to change the offside rule or scrap VAR”
You did type those words, yes?
How would you change the offside rule?
Or did you just mean “they should scrap VAR”? (In which case fair enough - I agree.)
What would your new rule be than? I apologise for not ‘leading to read’ but I genuinely don’t know. (You started the thread by saying the rule needed to change.)
I can only imagine how long the VAR delays would be while they decided if there was daylight between the players.
I would also scrap VAR. But in the absence of that, the current offside law is at least unambiguous. ‘Some daylight’ is just meaningless.
Not sure of that at all. Pre-VAR you could always be called for being marginally offside. Now if linos aren’t sure, they have to keep the flags down and wait for VAR. So there’s *more* advantage for playing right on the shoulder.
Interesting. It’s true that you had a chance of getting away with being offside, pre-VAR, where’s now you don’t.
But equally you were more likely to be incorrectly called for being offside. I’ve never heard that it’s changed positioning. Not obvious to me that it would be for worse, anyway.
(There was never ‘an allowance’ built in pre-VAR. Just inevitable inaccuracy. Linesman - and I was one - were always trying to apply the same rules. Just sometimes imperfectly.)
Eh? So what would your new rule be?
For offsides? No, they don’t actually.
So do you think offside should be abolished altogether and goal hanging allowed?
If not, there will always be marginal calls, whatever the rule.
It’s totally different to chucking. If Wrexham were one goal up and Chelsea equalised in the last minute with a marginally offside goal, we’d be celebrating VAR for seeing it.
Players don’t position themselves differently because of VAR
(If it had been the other way round, we’d be celebrating that overrule and agreeing that VAR is sometimes a good thing)
Rugby is soo Tory / Reform.
Offside is just a rule of football. He was offside.
Why? I mean, we all want Wrexham to beat Chelsea, but if he’s offside, he’s offside
Yes, embarrassingly so.
Thing is, it’s also so unsurprising that a Tatlers Features Editor would be dating a Reform UK parliamentary candidate. If you wrote a state-of-the-nation novel you’d include that detail.
My Lord that makes one squirm. I had to read it twice just to make sure it really said what I thought it said. It was even worse the second time.
Tony Blair still an Executive Director of the Board of Peace however
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How deeply shaming
Is Tony Blair still connected to it in any way?
This TNT montage of Tottenham fans is epic stuff.
Their run-in is better than WH’s, I think.
But easier fixtures is no good if you’re rubbish, obviously. Betting odds make Spurs (slight) favourites to finish 18ty now
Not sure I really see why the former implies the latter. It does feel like Arsenal have retreated tactically. (But I do think Odegaard being present or absent makes a big difference.)
have you got those stats for first half vs second half of season, out of interest? It feels like they've got quite a lot less fluid as the season has gone one. But may be just my perception.
My God Arsenal are *so bad*. They have barely attacked the opposition half in the entire game. They won’t win the league, but if they did, it would be very weird
We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia
Can't read the article, but I'm old enough to remember Harris and Waltz using the 'Republicans are too weird to vote for' line in 2024...
Ha, yes. A very different kind of dull. Maybe we just like a bit of chaos.
I'm purely talking, as a neutral (my team languish in the championship...), about entertainment value.
Which of course is very subjective. But I don't think it's that much of a stretch to say that so many goals from corners, and the physical scrapping as part of them, is fairly dull to watch.
