Today's Football 2025-26

[weimaranerblues]

Ha pissing about with it

[Stumpy]

Ha pissing about with it

They've been doing it all night, they have constantly coughed the ball up playing out from the back and the only surprise is it took 87 mins to get caught out.
Frankly Villa have been abysmal.
Third in the league and they've gone at the fa cup half cocked, i just don't get it

[CannockPricey]

What a day of football.

Went to Khalsa v Kidsgrove. Kidsgrove 1 up at half time. Tactical re-jig at HT and Khalsa won 3-1

Then, post match, watched Villa and despite having the most fortuitous set of decisions I have ever seen. Goal offside, Digne should have walked and the most obvious pen missed of all time, they have still completely shat the bed.

Greedy I know but if Brighton could...then it might be one of the best days of football on a non Everton matchday i have seen.

[Shogun]

Brighton won't do shit.

[CannockPricey]

Brighton won't do shit.

I tend to agree but it's been one of those days. After 45mins at Khalsa, I didn't fancy a result, just before HT, I didn't fancy Villa to get knocked out. Been marvellous.

[CannockPricey]

After seeing Mansfield's win today, I googled Nigel Clough. That did make me feel old. 60 he is next month. 60!

[Irishbornevertonian]

After seeing Mansfield's win today, I googled Nigel Clough. That did make me feel old. 60 he is next month. 60!

Makes me feel old, I remember his dad as manager of Forest


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[biziclop]

Every time the fa cup comes along people say how great it is with our VAR , but it just highlights why it was needed to begin with because Officiating is shite

Except you can't separate the two like that.

Referees are not unaffected by VAR, they got a lot worse since they started relying on VAR. In fact that's one of the very strong arguments against VAR.

[weimaranerblues]

Yeah and tonight highlighted that the officials are crap. Whether with VAR or with out..

[Shogun]

Brighton won't do shit.

Narrator: Brighton didn't do shit.

Fed up with these type of teams.

[blueToffee]

Maybe we're just waiting on VAR AI to come along or something

These games are a reminder of why VAR even came into the conversation as people are seeing all these glaring errors easily from their own TVs. You say referees should catch them, but maybe the game is just too fast for them now? Too much cheating going on too perhaps too?

[Shogun]

I don't think the game being too quick can excuse a failed offside given from a static freekick and a handball that was a mile inside the box though. The standard of refereeing is just really poor.

The Digne challenge can be put down to that put the other two incidents not so much.

[blueToffee]

I don't even know if current refs are that much worse. I think we had plenty of these sorts of incidents pre-VAR too, it just gets a bit forgotten in the VAR mess of today. I was watching a Championship game a few weeks ago and they missed some really blatant stuff there too, offsides that were a mile off.

It feels like the thing that's changed over time is the perspective TV watchers get has drastically improved. We get the multiple angles, we get the slow-mo, etc etc.

It's a shame fans watching couldn't be unbiased as it almost feels like crowdsourcing would help. Have everyone press a button on their remote if it should be a goal or a red card or whatever I think it'd lead to more common sense results than currently. Gogglebox refereeing