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Video Assistant Referees are highly-trained and experienced officials that you’re talking about.

Yes, and why is that a problem? We've had bad calls since the law was first introduced. Football is not an exact science. The idea is to eliminate the most egregious mistakes. VAR mistakes will be marginal at worst. Sometimes the defending team will be lucky by a few mm, sometimes the attacking team will be. That's life, who cares? Just like a lucky bounce or deflection, take it on the chin and move on. This is not chess we are talking about. We want to avoid the ridiculous offside mistakes like the one in the Cup final My suggestion is 30 seconds for all decisions (not just offside).

Who cares? An inch is better than a mile. VAR should make a decision within 30 seconds. If he isn't sure by then the attacker isn't offside and the goal stands. He may make a few mistakes by fractions of an inch, but that's massively better than going back to the old way of a middle age man several feet behind play making an instant decision without a chance to review. The idea of VAR is to eliminate clear and obvious errors, not to judge offside by nanometers. It will still be subjective, but to a much higher degree of accuracy.

Luke also said Jesus condoned beating slaves. I wouldn't trust Luke.

References are cited. e.g. Robert M. Price (a Christian atheist) who denies the existence of Jesus agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price "Jesus at the Vanishing Point" in The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN 0830838686 p. 61

I don't have to go out in the middle of the pitch to know that VAR wouldn't miss Watford's handball goal (as just one of hundreds of examples). Sorry Grandad, the PL, UEFA and the rest of the world doesn't agree with you. No offense.

Exactly this. Have offside decided by feet position only, and give the Video Assistant Ref (it's not a machine!) 30 seconds to make a judgement. Occasionally he'll make a mistake (by millimetres), but so what? Better then a plethora of on-field ref's centimetre or metre mistakes in the past. I don't understand why people whine about minuscule mistakes and think we should go back to the old huge ones. VAR has a better view than the on field ref. No-one (apart from Whitey Grandad) can argue about that. The only legitimate complaint is if it takes too long (like the farce in the Women's WC). Thankfully the PL hasn't made that mistake. As I said, give VAR 30 seconds max to rule on offside or overturn any other decision, otherwise it stands. Simples.

Yes, he'll get at least one. You can bet your house on it. Glasgow, take note.

Whether you believe or not the biblical stories about him, there's little doubt among scholars that he existed as a person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus#Historical_existence

In a word, yes. Much better than going down because a Watford player punches an equaliser into the net with his hand. VAR may not be perfect, but it's much less likely to make a mistake, and if it does it'll be by millimeters, not centimeters or meters by incompetent on field refs. Someone suggested having offside decided by feet only. Good idea. On top of that, then let VAR have 30 seconds max to decide if his feet are offside. If VAR can't decide by then the goal stands. Problem solved.

He had a history of being crap. As they say, a donkey doesn't change his eeyore. OTOH Adam's is young and at least has potential. The jury is still out.

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Good shout. Hope not though, that'll be them safe and one less team to help us finish above the dreaded 18th.

I doubt someone who said "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me" advocated beating slaves. Unless he was a masochist. I'm no scripture expert and don't want to get into a boring discussion about true meanings, but I presume such passages were some sort of parable, lost in translation over the centuries, or just made up by the sheep herder who wrote it. So you're agnostic. Got it. Nothing wrong with that.

Villa and Norwich look like good candidates. But with Nasty Nige at the helm and Deeney now fit Watford are starting to look like the team of last season. So it looks like us, them, Hammers, Bompey, BHA, Burnley and Newcastle are going to have a huge dogfight to avoid the third spot. Annoying that Sheff. Utd. are playing out of their skins and look out of it. Credit to their manager for making a silk purse out of a pig's ear.

The words of Jesus are a fantastic guide on how to live one's life, even if you don't believe it's historically accurate. The rest of the bible is basically a lot of bollocks written by sheep herders, with some wise words and some interesting history in between. I find it amusing that atheists point out absurdities in the bible to prove that God doesn't exist, and that believers do the same to prove God does exist. Agnostics are the only ones being logical.

If one of our defenders had made that mistake he'd be crucified here.

Don't understand the criticism of Boufal. He's done ok, and made some very good runs at the Palace defense.

So same odds as a game of Russian roulette. Which is appropriate because if we go down we're ****ed.

Given that Liverpool are going to win the league anyway, part of me wanted Leicester to lose 9-0.

All the players get 10/10 from me. Except Armstrong, who gets 11/10. Outstanding display.

I think we at Saintsweb should all get together for a nice drink to celebrate Christmas.

Sorry Cascarino, the people running the club may be stupid but even they are not completely mad enough to sell someone who gives us a chance of staying up. Talking about trying to stay up, has anyone mentioned that if Ings gets injured we're ****ed?

Absolutely. In particular avoid like the plague table legs and large bottles of salad cream.

Nasty Nige is an underrated manager. It was bad news for us and the other relegation candidates that Watford sacked a crap manager and appointed him.