New Football Laws

[LiberalCommunist]

Doucoure's handball, and the off side goal in the league cup final against Utd come about years apart. And for this, we have implemented a system that confuses already fairly incompetent officials, ruins the match day experience, and now seemingly chooses when not to interfere. Madness. Bin it off.  Its shit. 

Edited March 4 by LiberalCommunist

[Whitey Grandad]

4 hours ago, LiberalCommunist said:

Doucoure's handball, and the off side goal in the league cup final against Utd come about years apart. And for this, we have implemented a system that confuses already fairly incompetent officials, ruins the match day experience, and now seemingly chooses when not to interfere. Madness. Bin it off.  Its shit. 

Not actually an incorrect decision. 

[LiberalCommunist]

He wasn't offside. Berty was. 

 

[LiberalCommunist]

Gabi was denied a hattrick in a cup final because of incompetence. And what do we get, even more incompetence. 

VAR is still driven by human subjection. They still decide what to look at, and the angle, to seemingly confirm their decisions. What we now see in our seats, they can take five minutes to ponder, and still get it wrong. 

It's a busted flush. Bin it. 

 

[Oisin]

My twopenneth - and a bit random

VAR - one review each half, captain to call it, keep review of its upheld. That’s it. 
Indirect free kicks for accidental handball. Stop the insane penalty awards

And that’s probably it on the proviso that there is a directive to refs for zero tolerance. There are already rules for excessive time-wasting, time taken on gk clearances, man-handling at corners, dissent, ungentlemanly conduct, retreating 10 yards, only captains able to speak to the officials. They’re all there - refs just need to enforce it. 
 

Back in the real world …

[Kenilworthy1959]

VAR should have been suspended the moment in 2019 when Mike Read didn't send Anthony Taylor to the monitor to check a foul because "he's a mate".

 

 

[skintsaint]

Lets hope this new intepretation of the offside rule isn't brought in....VAR delays & decisions will increase ten fold...

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/OGc5WR6baU

[benjii]

Ref loved his 5 second countdown last night.

[benjii]

52 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Lets hope this new intepretation of the offside rule isn't brought in....VAR delays & decisions will increase ten fold...

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/OGc5WR6baU

Christ, that's horrible.

[beatlesaint]

1 hour ago, skintsaint said:

Lets hope this new intepretation of the offside rule isn't brought in....VAR delays & decisions will increase ten fold...

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/OGc5WR6baU

Wenger has too much time on his hands and/or tries to be too bloody clever for his own good.

[saintwbu]

54 minutes ago, benjii said:

Ref loved his 5 second countdown last night.

Has anyone seen anyone else have their throw in switched round this season? I’ve only seen it 3 times and all 3 have been us. Maybe we’re just really slow but feels like another rule refs mostly can’t be bothered to enforce.

[Saints4Prem]

Our throw ins have been laughable for years, even when we had Delap we couldn't score from his throws like Stoke did. We take too much time and have very little in the way of outlets. Perhaps a 'Throw in' coach would be the answer ?

[benjii]

Is everyone forgetting Mo "MegaThrow" Salisu?!