Recent content by Swango1980

A win with 2 men is unbelievable

I hadn't been watching it, but if he did, presumably he did so because it is a law in the English game only?

I like this in theory. But even if VAR takes 5 minutes, the team that suffers will often complain. If they only get 15 seconds, they'll be accused of not thoroughly checking for a mistake. I think that was an issue with one of the earlier big mistakes a season or two ago. The officials were a...

I'm very sure it would never happen, it is just an idealised opinion of what I think would be good to see happen. Even if I was in charge of everything, I know that as soon as we have no VAR and a team suffers due to a severe onfield mistake, then people would be asking for my head.

I agree. But much lower profile leagues like the EFL, or isolated weekends like the FA Cup, it can be difficult to truly appreciate the differences. I bet there are some horror decisions in the FA Cup, but in lower profile games than the few televised big ones. I feel a full season, or even...

Yes, but that is nothing to do with VAR. You support Spurs :)

I would love to see the authorities scrap VAR for a single season. Just to test out manager and fan opinions after that year is out. Then decide if it should be brought back or not. The advantages will be that decisions will be immediate, and fans and players can act with passion in the moment...

Who is Haarland? Is he a decent player? :)

Those rules were abolished to be more in line with the league and UEFA rules, as well as easing flexibility for clubs acting in the January transfer window. I believe they were originally brought in to stop big clubs hoovering up the best players whose clubs had already been eliminated from...

It certainly rules out Man Utd signing Ben White as a replacement for Dalot :ROFLMAO:

Your hypothetical is pretty nonsensical to be fair :) Pope interfering with play? Maybe Pope should be offside then :ROFLMAO: . It doesn't matter if a goalkeeper or defender moves and inadvertantly or advertantly catches a player offside, they are still offside. From the image shown, I thought...

9 added minutes. 3 of those probably for injuries/subs. The rest for VAR

I just so happened to see Elanga when I commented :)

Even if there isnt a red card incident, VAR might find a reason to recommend one. Maybe a soft pull on a player's headband

I already said Pope wasn't getting there, and I didnt make a comment on all 22 players positions on the pitch. I was only referring to the defender Haaland had his arms around. Swap that defender and Pope, people would rightly say Haaland is blocking Pope from diving left. All that said, I'm...