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A lot of assumptions there. If we are thriving outside the EU it won't matter who is Labour leader or who wins the Red Wall constituencies - the Tories will win regardless. That's a big if though.

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Think you’re the one who’s views are tinted by loyalty. The lack of ability of the match officials to make the correct decisions was the reason VAR was brought in.

You appear to be living in a parallel universe where the match officials havn't been making glaring errors week-in week-out. If anything, the use of VAR has shown how near impossible the linos job has been over the years. 13cm margin of error for VAR, it must be close to 6ft margin of error for some old bloke trying to run down a line and at the same time try and work out who's in line at the exact moment the ball is kicked in a completely different area of the pitch - all whilst receiving dogs abuse from thousands of ****ed up football fans. And as we all know, any level of doubt and teams like Saints get **** all our favour when against a glamour side. Give me 13cm any day.

Goal should be given - the benefit of doubt should go to the attacker because it cannot be 100% sure of it being offside.

I prefer the VAR bloke making the decision - he’s the one with the better view, slow mo replays etc. Plus he’s going to be less influenced by screaming fans and moaning players. The only issue I have with VAR is the forensic offside analysis, streamline that and it’s fine IMO.

Everton are awful.

It’s still a choice. Granted it’s easier for some people to change than others but that doesn’t stop it being a choice.

It’s been quite a tough Xmas schedule so I would probably rest the whole first eleven.

They just have to allow for the margin of error, it’s not rocket science. In effect you just draw a line the width of the margin of error for both the attacker and defender and is there is any overlap then he is onside. So it favours the attacker - they might be very slightly offside but as it is impossible to be sure they get away with it.

It’s good to see the Tories carry on a good Labour policy, especially considering they voted against the minimum wage when Labour introduced it, say it would cost 2 million jobs. Hopefully it will keep rising.

You are talking complete ****** as usual grandad, the reason VAR was brought in was because so many decisions were regularly incorrect, sometimes spectacularly.

Why would you want to change something that for once has us top of a league? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50944416

To be fair, he's just stating a fact.

You are illustrating my point perfectly. According to you geniuses, leaving the EU is supposed to make us richer by boosting industry and making food cheaper - a new golden age brought on by Brexit - ergo we didn't vote to be poorer.

I suspect that's true for old people but the vast majority of working people it wouldn't be. If it is a disaster and factories start closing because of Brexit that's going to be hard line to sell to someone struggling to put food on the table for their family. We're supposed to be richer after Brexit so we can spend more on the NHS, that's what Boris's bus told us.

That’s nonsense, the law just needs to state that the benefit of doubt goes to the attacker.

That wouldn’t make any difference, there would still be someone offside/onside by a fraction of a boot, it would just move the lines.

Exactly. VAR is a bit annoying but with the amount of blatantly wrong decisions we’ve been on the end of at bigger clubs over the years I’m surprised any Saints fan wants to go back to how it was. It needs to be streamlined but it’s better overall IMO, if only for cutting down on the amount of diving.

VAR isn’t perfect but neither is having a Watford player punch the ball into our goal or having a perfectly good goal disallowed in a cup final. They just need to tweak it.

If it’s a disaster people will soon change their minds, the EU have made it perfectly clear we would be welcomed back in. It obviously all depends how it turns out but no-one voted to be poorer.

To be fair it doesn’t mean they were not right, it all depends how Brexit turns out. If it’s a disaster then they will soon be re-elected.

Obviously it depends on the movement of the players but the Frame can be frozen at the position that gives most benefit of doubt to the striker, if wether the contact is slightly earlier or later makes a difference.

To be fair it doesn’t have to be that precise. If you are giving the benefit of doubt to the attacker then you freeze it when there has obviously been contact with the ball (probably a split second after the ball has been struck).

**** knows why Pep took de Bruyne off. Not even Liverpool can mess this one up now.