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Fair enough. For some reason Jethro Tull's song 'Aqualung' popped into my head while reading you reply :ohmy: :wink:

Ah, the TV pundits. "That was a goal". "That wasn't offside". "Let's look at that from multiple angles" And on the radio it is worse "That was a coming together!" (oo-er missus!). Luckily I think they have all been warned now to not say "It's a man's game". Apart from Souey. All that aside...

Wenger's rule (actually he said it after me so HWT's rule) - clear blue water: you can't be offside if any bit of your body overlaps that of a defender. If you feel this is too simple (ho, ho, ho) then restrict the rule to the 'decision is made on the body waist down'. It is about preventing...

Precisely. And the answer to lack of competence isn't to abandon the process. The answer is better training. It is the same in my game (drug research). A lot of what is done is shit, and new rules about design and analysis (do it randomized, do it blinded) have been introduced by some...

It shouldn't take forever. I have long argued that if VAR can't decide in 30 seconds (perhaps less, 20 maybe?) the ref's decision stands. There is absolutely no need for them to piss about the way they sometimes do. I happen to think that decision are normally much quicker now, as the operators...

For me, definitely. For me, being robbed of points, or having a player deliberately injured with the guilty party getting away with it during the match destroy the spectacle. Avoidable bad reffing decisions kills the game for me. The wait for VAR confirmation is perfectly fine as far as I am...