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Sadly, many people - even some on here - think it is wonderful to be able to have an 'absolute' yay or nay on offside. They might moan about the time it takes, or about the VAR trying to find ways to disallow goals, but they still go down the line that 'offside is offside' even by a toenail.

Yes, but try explaining this to PGMOL. They just don't have the nouse or common sense to realise this.

You're dead right - half the reason we got VAR in the first place was the media and bloody pundits using stills, slow-mo, probably lines as well, to make an enormous fuss about marginal refereeing decisions - showing us - and the football powers that be - that we had a 'problem' which needed to...

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Bring in a ten second rule. A howler can be seen almost straight away - if it takes more than ten seconds, it isn't a howler. (N.B. this suggestion doesn't in any way contradict my vote for VAR not only to be binned, but stomped into little pieces and force-fed down its proponents' throats!)

Yes, agreed. Half the problem then was pundits (BBC and ITV) over-analysing the ref's decisions (with slow-mo) time and time again until we were all convinced there was a problem. Well, they were right in a way - we do have a problem now!

Yeh, yeh, alright. All the people shouting for the end of VAR are Neanderthals that voted Brexit. Burn them! - let's have change after change in football - after all, change is good, change after change after change is known as 'progress'. Anything else is reactionary, backward looking...