Welsh wizzard 13 » Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:38 pm wrote:It's destroying the game you don't even celebrate the goal now cause ya know var will get involved somewhere.
Offside needs to be clear and obvious offside simple as that, this finger nail by mm or an armpit is pathetic
Exactly, it’s taken the spontaneity out of the game, years ago if a goal went in you glanced at the linesman and if his flag wasn’t up you went nuts, these days though goal celebrations are pretty much broken down into 2 stages spread over 2 or 3 minutes, sometimes even longer.
Maybe you could accept it (personally I wouldn’t but at least there’d be an argument for it) if VAR eradicated all wrong decisions and controversies but if anything its creating even more controversy.
The great thing about football compared to other sports was that it was fast, simple and fluid, the game flowed, it wasn’t stop start like say American football, cricket or rugby but now footy is slowing itself down and bogging itself down in boring on field analysis (ref’s walking to side lines to gawp at tv screens a la American footy etc while players stand around with their hands on their hips).