Fair points. I think I probably had the first scenario in my head as they are so hard to get right. Getting those wrong must lead to a lot of goals being disallowed, or whistles before the forward gets his shot away. I get peoples antipathy towards it, but on balance I think it's a positive step...
AWB will be a great back-up for TAA. I think I'd always favour TAA because he's so good in attack.
Jude Bellingham at Birmingham is one to watch over the next few years.
IMO prior to VAR linesmen use to incorrectly flag for offside and prevent legitimate goals a lot more often than they failed to flag for an actual offside in a build up to a goal. Whenever linesmen weren't sure they tended to be conservative and flag. So I think VAR will increase the number of...