Today's Football 2023-24

[Shogun]

Newcastle are scum tbh.

[Stumpy]

The concerning for me is that the lack of offside lines makes me think they couldn't conclusively say when Joelinton made contact in that short time they give themselves and therefore just decided they couldn't call it offside? I'm convinced Gordon is ahead of the ball.

Sky confirmed it (before showing what seemed like a pretty conclusive replay...) that this is the case. Pointless.

The integrity of this league is a complete joke.
A multi million pound game, with two bob officials.
Week after week we are seeing pathetic calls that are changing results with no logic behind these decisions.
They are a total and utter embarrassment to their profession.
Just fuck it off, get rid once and for all it has sucked all the life and joy out of the game

[Shogun]

Why are Sky acting like Newcastle have just gone top of the table?

[Shogun]

The concerning for me is that the lack of offside lines makes me think they couldn't conclusively say when Joelinton made contact in that short time they give themselves and therefore just decided they couldn't call it offside? I'm convinced Gordon is ahead of the ball.

Sky confirmed it (before showing what seemed like a pretty conclusive replay...) that this is the case. Pointless.

The integrity of this league is a complete joke.
A multi million pound game, with two bob officials.
Week after week we are seeing pathetic calls that are changing results with no logic behind these decisions.
They are a total and utter embarrassment to their profession.
Just fuck it off, get rid once and for all it has sucked all the life and joy out of the game

Agree. Wrong decisions every week, may as well just let them make them without the technology.

[Stumpy]

Sky confirmed it (before showing what seemed like a pretty conclusive replay...) that this is the case. Pointless.

The integrity of this league is a complete joke.
A multi million pound game, with two bob officials.
Week after week we are seeing pathetic calls that are changing results with no logic behind these decisions.
They are a total and utter embarrassment to their profession.
Just fuck it off, get rid once and for all it has sucked all the life and joy out of the game

Agree. Wrong decisions every week, may as well just let them make them without the technology.

I remember the season before last when boro knocked spurs out of the fa cup a young lad, coburn i think his name was scored a screamer late on to win it spurs called for offside, the flag stayed down the goal was given(right decision too) no var the place went mad celebrating because they knew some arsehole in a studio wouldn't steal all the joy that goal gave them away because he was a fag paper in front of the defender.
My heart aches to able to go back to the days when the ref gave the goal and we could celebrate.

[biziclop]

I love how there are still pundits in English football saying Kane should've stayed to try to beat Shearer's meaningless record instead of...*checks notes*...scoring 3 hat-tricks in 10 league games for Bayern.

[biziclop]

Agree. Wrong decisions every week, may as well just let them make them without the technology.

Exactly. Yes, fans may be raging for a bit at a marginal decision going against them but ten minutes later they'll just go "it was close tho, fair enough". Whereas if you've got all the technology at your disposal, it being close is no longer an acceptable excuse. You either get it right or you can fuck off and come back when you have worked out how to make the correct decisions.

Imagine if goal-line technology was introduced in a similar way with decisions taking five minutes and every week there'd be one so incorrect it's visible with the naked eye, but hey, we'll figure out how to use it in a few years. No, they were rightly told to work on it until the system makes the correct decision in an acceptable amount of time, demonstrate their ability to do so in youth tournaments, and only then were they allowed to deploy it in a proper competition. And guess what, no-one is complaining about it. Whereas VAR was pushed in arse first.

[Bob Sacamano]

Kane has to be wondering why the hell he wasted so much time at Spurs.

[TheRam]

Two of the best teams in the country playing eachother and only three shots on target all game.

I find modern football so boring these days.

All about beating the press, pressing from the front and little on doing anything to score goals.

[blueToffee]

Two of the best teams in the country playing eachother and only three shots on target all game.

I find modern football so boring these days.

All about beating the press, pressing from the front and little on doing anything to score goals.

It feels like Arsenal and some of the others at the top lack a willingness to try other ways of approaching a game if during a match things are at a stalemate or whatever. It seems as though if plan A doesn't work, they're happy to just try more of the same.

This game was marginally better than the Arsenal v Man City game earlier in the season, but not by much. Really only because this one had one or two talking points.

[biziclop]

Two of the best teams in the country playing eachother and only three shots on target all game.

I find modern football so boring these days.

All about beating the press, pressing from the front and little on doing anything to score goals.

That's why I really love watching quality women's football. They have the skills to be exciting but lack the athleticism to be boring.

[TheRam]

Two of the best teams in the country playing eachother and only three shots on target all game.

I find modern football so boring these days.

All about beating the press, pressing from the front and little on doing anything to score goals.

It feels like Arsenal and some of the others at the top lack a willingness to try other ways of approaching a game if during a match things are at a stalemate or whatever. It seems as though if plan A doesn't work, they're happy to just try more of the same.

This game was marginally better than the Arsenal v Man City game earlier in the season, but not by much. Really only because this one had one or two talking points.

Arsenal are the worst example of this.

They’ve spent a lot of money on a goalkeeper because he’s better at beating the press than the other goalkeeper they spent a lot of money on.

It just seems a bit too much now and has taken away from the enjoyment of the game.

[MayorFarnham]

I think even armchair fans are getting sick of VAR now. Just scrap it.

[Bob Sacamano]

Having a ref on the soccer Saturday show is just an absolute piss take.

[Cereal Killer]

Arteta is at Klopp levels of twattery