The refs and var in this tournament have been excellent. It should be the template for the PL next season. I'm not holding my breath for that though ?
AmandaJR
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Strikes me the ones looking at VAR are not about bigging up their part and being total jobsworths...quick look, make a decision and that's that. The final Denmark goal was the exception that it took a while.
Refs have let a lot go - feel like they're saying "get up you nancy he barely touched you"!!
pendodave
Tour Rookie
Agreed. I think this also happens during the knockout games in the champions league. It's as if good refs can tell when players are just falling over...
Beezerk
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Yes, he's on the TV though isn't he ?
fundy
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the clown on tv is danny murphy isnt it
If you are watching on BBC then it's Danny Murphy ?
Beezerk
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Oh Christ, you may be right. Just as bad though ?
fundy
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Golfmmad
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I can't really argue with that, as I said earlier, I didn't watch the game with Turkey.
But I wouldn't call him a "White van man".
I mean, I sometimes drive a white van! ?
Ha ha, fair cop. It's a lazy phrase but you knew exactly what I meant. We need another description that people understand but doesn't tar decent 'white van man' ?
BubbaP
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Has VAR been slower in the games played in England? ??
Italy not looking so invincible now...
Italy not looking so invincible now...
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Austria had a couple of close calls go against them... Italy going through
fundy
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HeftyHacker
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Austria have really impressed me tonight. Not watched too much of the euros to date but they've ended up being my second team due to the goalkeeper being married to my partners cousin. Really nice guy and has had a hell of a year careerwise! Gone from not making the bench for Watford to being first choice, getting promoted to the Premier League to then being recalled for Austria and becoming first choice for the Euros!
Not sure 30 minutes of extra time is too enticing a prospect based on that second half.
Austria have been excellent tonight at nullifying a previously strong looking Italian team. The Italians seem to have run out of ideas.
Edit: that should liven things up
Austria have been excellent tonight at nullifying a previously strong looking Italian team. The Italians seem to have run out of ideas.
Edit: that should liven things up
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BubbaP
Occasional Player of Golf
Great skill for the goal.
Not sure an England sub coming of the bench could pull that off, but hope I'm wrong ?
Not sure an England sub coming of the bench could pull that off, but hope I'm wrong ?
fundy
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hairball_89
Club Champion
Isn't it funny that there's barely been an issue with VAR, and specifically the speed at which decisions are made. Apart from the English VAR official, who took an age with every decision today?! But it's VAR that needs binning and not our refs in the domestic football, apparently!
4LEX
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Spot on. The entire tournament VAR has returned quick decisions on the few occasions it was required. Yet today the English clowns needed 2 minutes to make a decision that was so clear Stevie Wonder would've got it. Embarrassing stuff yet again and these are the cream of the crop by all accounts
Next season will be ruined by the mini Matt Hancocks in Stockley Park.
AmandaJR
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Italian player called Immobile 
