hypochondriac

A reading from the book of hypochondriac: "and on the 7th day, Matthew Le God realised he was wasting his life attempting to convert the believers to his particular brand of militant atheism and went back to beta testing football manager 2021." Thanks be to God.

"And God said in the year of our Lord 2019, let there be a Web forum called saintsweb and let that forum be visited by a dry, pedantic, borderline autistic irritant with social problems and let him be known as Matthew Le God. And lo it was so."

Had there been a reasonable margin of error involved and the first Norwich goal had been allowed, it would have been utterly uncontroversial. Had that Norwich goal stood, I don't think there would have been anyone that wouldn't have thought it was fair enough. I mean ffs I was watching the game with 4 spurs fans and they all thought it was mental and judging by the multiple texts on BBC sport also from spurs fans they clearly felt similar. Its quite simple really, var was introduced for clear and obvious errors. If it takes multiple camera angles and replays and it's still not 100% clear then it's not clear and obvious and the goal should stand. Sounds like they have listened to those complaints from fans who understand how the implementation is ruining the game and will make changes along those lines so happy days. It will displease the autists but it has to be done so we aren't continually disallowing goals by the width of a hair.

In reality there isn't going to be much controversy about goals that to the naked eye look onside. The Norwich goal in particular at the weekend is an example of a goal that would have been utterly uncontroversial had it been given. No one would have batted an eyelid.

Because its pathetic to have an opinion on this simply because your team has benefitted from the current rules over half a season.

I just don't understand why anyone would be in favour of the current implementation of var based on a very small number of games where we have happened to benefit.

Luckily the authorities aren't listening to you and will be bringing in some common sense changes shortly. Thank goodness.

It's the end of the year and this has become a late contend or for my 2019 thread of the year.

No he wants to change the offside law so that goals that may currently be viewed as offside by a fingernail are no longer deemed offside.

A first generation immigrant female with East African heritage, getting a good education and becoming a prominent member of the government. What great proof that you can achieve something in this country regardless of race or skin colour or where your family are from. Let's not also forget that she had prominent roles under Cameron so she is hardly an example of a sudden lurch to an "extremist right" like the left like to claim.

I think the divide is between people with a MLG mindset who are happy to have every measure taken and everything analysed to a minute degree in order to achieve the "correct" result every time and those who would prefer a tolerance built into the system so that all decisions aren't just left to a machine and the width of a hair follicle.

Whoosh

As the article says, it's an attempt to highjack the conservatives on the same way Momentum have highjacked Labour. It will be concerning if they succeed in getting control of party mechanisms and influencing policy but its going to be futile isn't it and they've already said they reserve the right to cancel memberships where extremists have slipped through the cracks.

Would you be making this same argument about numbers of people if Labour were in the Tory position?

If it were confined to those decisions only then no one would complain. It seems at the moment like the referees are abdicating their responsibilities and it erodes their authority imo because they are compelled to defer most of their decisions to a machine.

They will acknowledge how badly its gone down when it starts to affect them financially. It will have to change and it will just a shame about this sort of thing in the meantime.

All three of them should have been goals tbh.

Be honest, that Norwich offside decision is ridiculous.

It should be clear and obvious. It wasn't clear and it certainly wasn't obvious so the referees decision should stand. Mental to call that offside and var has not got rid of controversy.

Absolute joke. Var is killing football.

The most ridiculous disallowed var goal ever for Brighton. I mean ffs how is that clear and obvious?

Who is the grassroots? Its not momentum.

But his birth is celebrated on that date.

I think at this point I can't see many saints fans being too upset by any of that. We would probably keep some elements of the crest and I personally don't give much of a toss what the stadium is called. I think it's a pretty ****e stadium anyway.

The fact that posters on here keep going on about the world club champions like its a thing is hilarious. It's the most pointless cup ever and not a sign of any quality by any stretch of the imagination.