> Should be like cricket - team captain allowed an appeal - only one for > football, or how about 3 appeals but a team loses one for each yellow > card...... > > Damian > > Talking of cricket I played last year for the first time in more than 30 > years. I enjoyed it so much I'm going to play again this year :) > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Tim Leslie <t...@3lv.uk> wrote: > >> Seeing as we're all bored, just a quick moan about VAR if that's OK??? >> >> I've argued for years that Referees need a professional backup to do >> their job, in the 21st Century. Goal line technology is fantastic and the >> concept of video technology I fully support, TYPICALLY, for Footballing >> authorities, it is being appallingly implemented and I think, in ONE >> fundamental area, they've got it ALL. TOTALLY. WRONG. >> >> Italy's penalty last night was, in my humble opinion, never a penalty. If >> we're going to give them out when someone accidently steps on someone's >> foot (Who has lost control of the ball anyway), we might as well all pack >> up and go home. Stupid. Anyway, the referee gave a corner, the Italians ALL >> insisted it was a corner. That HAS to be the end of it. It simply HAS to be >> down to the referee, not some faceless individual hidden away who then >> confuses everyone and holds up play to make a decision such as that. That >> wasn't, as is written in the VAR guidelines, a "clearly wrong decision ... >> made in conjunction with the award or non-award of a penalty kick" - debate >> reigns today across the football world as to whether or not it was penalty >> ... hardly clearly wrong if you ask me!. >> >> Conspiracy theorists of the World can unite IF that sort of decision is >> made by a German, against England, in a World Cup Final (Fat chance I know, >> but you get the gist!) OR a Brazilian against Argentina etc. etc. >> >> My biggest and, really only, argument against it is that it HAS to be >> used ONLY by the referee, when he (or she) is not certain about such a >> decision. Last nights example; Corner. That is what the referee, >> confidently, gave at the time. So all those 'traditionalists' who moan "Oh >> you can't have that, it will take all the debate out of the pub and spoil >> the fun" ... clearly it won't, people would still argue it was a penalty >> today. If the referee, a 40 something year old man, struggling to keep up >> with a bunch of millionaire athletes who ping a ball around WAY faster than >> any human can move and are TAUGHT and train at how to cheat!, see's someone >> go down in the penalty area and they are CONVINCED it was a foul. Penalty, >> there and then. Done. IF, and only if, he may be unsure (HE, no-one else) >> then he should be able to call in VAR to help HIM make the decision. I >> suspect if this was the case, many many more Yellows would be shown at the >> time, thereby punishing the cheats, rather than in retrospect, when the >> points have been won or lost. >> >> That's all really, just felt the need to use you all as my VAR therapist >> .. Dr Mike, how much would that be at normal rates??!?! :) >> >> Toodle Pip >> >> StigOfTheVARDump >> _______________________________________________ >> Leedslist mailing list >> Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist >> To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org >> >> Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ >> >> RIP Jimmy WAC-COE >> > > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org
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