Wasn't it just? Everyone back to the centre circle ready for the kick off, TV had 1-0 Brighton, and 1 min added time for a 2 min delay, it just does not work. I'm supposed to be at a bbq right now, I'm not a good lad :lol:
When I was a kid playing at teen level and under, if we won we got a certificate or a trophy, if we lost we got sod all. Nowadays if you participate you get a trophy of sorts. Sanitisation (word?) has been going on for many years, but VAR at the top level just tops it all off for me.
I was thinking this during the match. No officials on the pitch and a horn goes off when a decision is given, it really isn't that far from reality. We've seen the decline in umpires decisions in cricket since VAR, and boy have they got some badly wrong recently, refs will just be the toyboy of...
Why feel the need to qualify what you have done? What on earth does that have to do with the VAR crap we are dished up with? How can it improve? Berating decisions is part of football folklore. We have lived and died by it for nearly a century and a half. Technology in this game has a threshold...
Until the day players like Matty Ryan give up running 80 yards to celebrate a goal not given, the day us supporters give up cheering a goal that 2 minutes later is not given. If sanitised football is your bag, best of luck to you.