General Football 23/24

[Scratch]

Make the VAR lines a little thicker, and if they overlap, then it's not clear and obvious and benefit goes to the attacking team.

[Mark79]

Why not just follow the IFAB guidelines:

“Clear and obvious still remains – it’s an important principle. There should not be a lot of time spent to find something marginal.”

“If something is not clear on the first sight, then it’s not obvious and it shouldn’t be considered."

“Looking at one camera angle is one thing but looking at 15, trying to find something that was potentially not even there, this was not the idea of the VAR principle. It should be clear and obvious.”

All this 10cm thing does is shift the margin by 10 cm.

[dom9]

Why not just follow the IFAB guidelines:

“Clear and obvious still remains – it’s an important principle. There should not be a lot of time spent to find something marginal.”

“If something is not clear on the first sight, then it’s not obvious and it shouldn’t be considered."

“Looking at one camera angle is one thing but looking at 15, trying to find something that was potentially not even there, this was not the idea of the VAR principle. It should be clear and obvious.”

All this 10cm thing does is shift the margin by 10 cm.

Yep

[baitman]

Why not just follow the IFAB guidelines:

“Clear and obvious still remains – it’s an important principle. There should not be a lot of time spent to find something marginal.”

“If something is not clear on the first sight, then it’s not obvious and it shouldn’t be considered."

“Looking at one camera angle is one thing but looking at 15, trying to find something that was potentially not even there, this was not the idea of the VAR principle. It should be clear and obvious.”

All this 10cm thing does is shift the margin by 10 cm.

That 'clear and obvious' wording will be getting changed soon to accommodate VAR.

[ChesterDave]

That 'clear and obvious' wording will be getting changed soon to accommodate VAR.

It can't because not all tiers of football use VAR so the rule needs to be fit for purpose for them

[Irishnev]

Swiss Ramble in Milan - moral of the story is they are ****ed through a series of shocking decisions mainly in the transfer market

Buying and selling players 'properly' is a prerequisite to any form of success. Throwing money at it doesn't work

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[Harv]

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Still cracks me up. Everything about this is perfect....and then you get the bloke at the end apoplectic at the injustice and yelling at anyone in earshot

[Kenneth]

It's a good show, but it was staged

[Cormack74]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51474229

The Premier League will not take any action against referee Jon Moss after Bournemouth alleged he made comments during Sunday's 2-1 defeat at Sheffield United, says BBC Radio Solent.

Cherries midfielder Dan Gosling says Moss showed "zero respect" and was a "disgrace" for making "sarky comments" about their league position.

The Football Association will also not be taking any action against Gosling.

Bournemouth are 16th in the table, two points above the relegation zone.

Bournemouth and Gosling consider the matter closed, but back their player unequivocally after the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, who are are responsible for match officials in English professional football and the Premier League decided no action was necessary against Moss.

Moss apologised to Bournemouth's Adam Smith in 2017 after wrongly booking the defender.

And while Moss again irritated the Cherries players on Sunday with some of his decisions, Gosling says the official also made disparaging comments about the club being in a relegation battle.

"The ref didn't help. Giving soft fouls away and little comments to two or three of the lads didn't help as well really," Gosling told the Daily Echo.

"I thought it was very disrespectful what he was saying.

"It was just the little niggly ones and then the little sarky comments.

"The officials talk about respect at the start of the season and there was zero respect from Jon Moss on Sunday.

"The comments that he made especially to me and one other player - talking about the relegation zone and 'you're still in the relegation zone', 'you're having one', 'your team's having one' this and that and it was very, very disrespectful."

Gosling confirmed the comments were made during the game before adding: "I think he should really come out and apologise because I thought he was a disgrace."

Sunday was the first occasion this term that Moss had taken charge of a game involving Bournemouth.

[Kenneth]

That's funny.

[EwarWoo]

I think it's atrocious. He's supposed to be unbiased, sledging one of the teams certainly isn't the best sign of it.

And they can't give him **** back because they're supposed to "respect", what kind of message does it send?

Should be suspended.

[S-RED]

He has history with Bournemouth from previous seasons, needs to be looked in too TBH

[dom9]

I think it's atrocious. He's supposed to be unbiased, sledging one of the teams certainly isn't the best sign of it.

And they can't give him **** back because they're supposed to "respect", what kind of message does it send?

Should be suspended.

Nah.

The amount of grief they get on and off the pitch, they're completely entitled to give some back. A lot of players thrive on that "banter" with the ref too.

It's the culture of football. From Sunday league in the park to the top of the game.

Storm in a teacup.

[Kenneth]

Not for one minute do I believe he gave them **** without provocation. From the comments above, it sounds like it came from their reaction to him giving freekicks against them.

[dom9]

There's an (obviously long but quite interesting) article about how the referees have handled the idiots, and indeed been complicit in the idiocy of their trade in The Athletic.

I'll post it if anyone wants.