Whitey Grandad

I had forgotten about Mara.

I’m with you on this. The TV companies go out of their way to court controversy. They are constantly trying to analyse every situation in order to generate arguments. They’ve paid a lot of money for the sport and they want to control it. It’s not that long ago that most games had no cameras present. If you missed a goal you never saw it again.

Take £30m provided McCarthy goes with him?

A penalty is “in the opinion of the referee”. Not in your opinion or mine. I watched that game and I saw nothing wrong with it. The referee actually on the pitch had a far better view than anyone who was watching it through a television camera.

I am of that age where everybody at school was addressed by their surname.

It would be. Many people will be away from home and going direct to the game from somewhere else. That would not be the way to treat cutomers who have splashed out several hundred pounds.

Never a problem, all under control. A slight miscontrol but wthout the whistle the ball would have been cleared.

Eh? And who’s Matt?

Agreed. Such possession is all very laudable when you’re in the lead but if we are level or behind is it going to lead to the necessary goals?

And on this point you are very wrong.

I hate watching on television because it bears no relation to what is happening in real life out on the pitch. It is a two dimensional attempt at making entertainment. Don’t ever believe that what you see in a flat electronic screen is anywhere near the reality. Oh, and I spent many years in television research and have several technical papers published on the subject.

It’s video game football. Nothing like the true game it always used to be. Television is the problem and with that comes the influence of big money.

No, no and thrice no. It ruins the very essence of the game. Gabbiadini wasn’t offside but Bertrand was and could have been considered to be ‘interfering’. Of course we are all biased towards Saints but others more neutral might take a more balanced view. Charlie Austin is hardly likely to be independently objective either. Lampard’s effort would have been picked up by Goal Line Technology which gives an immediate result and doesn’t slow down the game but even that is not infallible. The refs are only an issue if you don’t agree with their decisions.

Thanks for digging out the links. Most of the corrections seem to relate to a different set of officials coming to a different conclusion to the one actually on the field at the time. Again, most of these are subjective. I’m not convinced of the process of sending the on field referee to look at a monitor. The very act of doing so suggests to him that he’s got it wrong and the more times that you look a5 an incident the more you will convince yourself that an action was deliberate and intentional. Slow motion is also a big culprit in misinforming.

And two more goals 😏

Except that they weren’t. So many decisions are ‘in the opinion of the referee’ which unfortunately seldom aligns with the opinion of the football fan.

Just bin it

Apparently Sheffield Wednesday were unbeaten at home in 24 games in all competitions. Until we turned up.

I agree. Even the Gabbiadani effort involved an obvious offside from Bertrand.

Quite so. Much worse than coitus interruptus.

That is subjective.

Like I said. Show me a shot looking along the line. This is a common preconception amongst people who don’t know what they are looking at. It is quite common for there to be a gap between the line and the ball when seen from certain angles. It’s one of the first things that you are taught on a refereeing course. So I ask again. What’s wrong with that?

Very exciting but got kicked around a lot last night. He deserved better protection from the referee. I suspect we shall have to get used to this sort of ale house physicality.

No it should not necessarily. What it should be is “Hoist with my own petard” if you are going to stay true to Shakespeare but since Mr. Miserableoldgit is using his own words he is free to write whatever he wants. Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4

And what’s wrong with that? It’s quite possible that part of the ball is over part of the line and anyway, VAR has never been used or intended for the ball in or out of play. It’s football. Just get on with the game.