[Albion] Denamrk v Maty Ryan

Kalimantan Gull said:

Nothing changes with VAR, it just moves the goalposts. Without VAR the football pundits would be talking long and hard about the Iran goal, how a clear offside was allowed to stand. Instead, with VAR we're talking about slight handballs, whether England should have got a penalty for Kane being wrestled. Without VAR there wouldn't have been more than passing comment about either of these incidents.

The end result though remains the same, discussion on controversial decisions that might have changed the result, together withadded time-wasting, loss of spontaneity about goals, and so on. Its a no from me.

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Tyrone Biggums said:

Hopefully we go out and Maty Ryan can go have a well earned break and be fresh for the next PL season.

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maffew said:

I have mixed feelings about that as I want him the be the hero in a penalty shoot out whilst he is there

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Munkfish said:

The Lino flagged for offside in the Iran game.

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Triggaaar said:

They don't seem to have been using the rules like this for some time. If the rule was always correctly followed, players like Bruno wouldn't defend in the box with their arms behind their back.

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Kalimantan Gull said:

I could have sworn he didn't, but told the referee he thought it might be offside, and to check VAR. I'm pretty sure that without VAR he would have flagged yes.

But sure. My point was more that a simple decision was easily cleared up as VAR intends, but VAR now means we have shifted our focus and spend ages discussing things that weren't previously that debatable, with the same controversy and feeling of being hard done by by referee's decisions.

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Munkfish said:

I agree with your main point. But the lino flag is up straight away. Check the replay!

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Not Andy Naylor said:

If the Aussies had had any sort of striker worth the name, they could have won that.

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