Recent content by Arthritic Toe

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Because I was right. This is just blatently untrue. Video technology was peddled as the panacea by the tv people and moaning managers who had just had a decision go against them. A large majority of fans jumped on board too. Trouble is - none of them had actually thought through how it would...

There was a huge clamouring for VAR by TV pundits, 'wronged' managers, 'wronged' fans - none of whom actually thought it through. So we've got what 'we' asked for. Hope everyone's happy.

To what though? Wherever you decide to draw the line, be it six inches / one yard ahead VAR will give you a binary decision. You either make it a human decision or a binary VAR decision. If you want VAR this is what you get - there's no discretion - it can't work like that, its the reason for...

The Twitter image is misleading. The defender was sprinting back and the attacker was running back from an offside position to try and get onside. In the quarter second between the ball being played and us first seeing the attacker, the relative positions have changed significantly.

Yes - because thems the rules. The attacker was ahead of the last defender. Unless we all agree to change the rule to add a clause "unless it prevents one of the greatest comebacks in FA cup history, in which case it shall be deemed onside", then it should be offside.

This old debate again. Don't understand the arguments at all. If you wanted VAR, here it is. It has correctly identified that the player was offside. Just because we all wanted the Coventry goal to stand doesn't change the FACT that it was marginally offside.

Its all a bit contrived. Those 'jobs' they do along the way have obviously been researched and set up in advance, so their route must be preordained to arrive at that point. Its all obviously highly stage managed which makes the whole thing a bit crap.

Utter madness on this thread - if all our first team were to go down with the plague and we had to field the under 12's side, would these people still be blaming the manager for 'not reacting well to injuries' or being 'found out'? Well we are half way to that situation and a top 10 finish...

I like the idea of promoting from within. Now that the whole RDZ playing style has become part of the club dna, it would be a shame to throw it all out the window.

That was annoying and calling only 5 mins of added time just encourages it. There was virtually no football after 80 mins. Most of the added 5 mins was taken up with Roma players lying on their backs and not one second was added.

It is a mockery - just random numbers. I don't really get what they were making such a fuss about with the 10 points. They weren't going to go down and won't qualify for Europe, which is still the case now. On the face of it it was a substantial penalty which send the right messages, but in...

Ferguson looks way off at the moment. He’s not battling for the ball or moving into positions to receive the ball the way he did so effectively last season. He just seems to have completely lost his confidence. Hopefully it’ll just take time and for the ball to break to him to slot one away.

Yeah if only it had been before the final whistle

I just don't buy it - there were shenanigans afoot. Mac goes to Liverpool for a low - middling price. Liverpool come in with a 110 million bid for Caicedo and Chelsea overbid it. When Klopp announced it, it just sounded like he was following a script ("I have been asked to announce that we...