Oh my word! What a weekend for VAR in the Premier League. Are the video assistant referees intentionally trying to sabotage VAR so that it gets scrapped? Probably not, but as every week goes by more and more supporters from more and more clubs are getting properly cheesed-off with puzzling VAR decisions. This weekend alone … [Read more…]
The Premier League has recently appointed a new Chief Executive, Richard Masters. One of his first challenges was to comment on the under-fire VAR system, and he said that it was not going to be scrapped, but needed to be made better. Based on the stat that 2/3 of fans are saying that the game … [Read more…]
A couple of years ago I commented on the fledgling VAR system and it is proving to be the game changer that I believed it would be at the time. Now, After several weeks use in the Premier League, I am pleased to report that it is working fairly well . After watching the women’s … [Read more…]
Earlier this season I praised a tactic used by Man City, which I had never seen before, in my post ‘Tales of the Unexpected’. On Saturday, it resulted in their second goal, against Everton. The MOTD pundits, Shearer and Murphy, were singing the praises of Leroy Sane whose link-up play in the build-up was excellent. … [Read more…]
The offside law has always been confusing to many football watchers, and over recent years there have been several subtle tweaks to the law to try to make to the game more exciting. These tweaks have generally been introduced to allow attackers to be given onside in situations where they may well have been given … [Read more…]
I am writing this while watching the Everton v Chelsea match, and referee Bobby Madley has managed to annoy me, not for the first time this season, for the amount of time he takes to re-start play. The Everton left-back Martina has fouled Chelsea’s Moses near the corner of his penalty area. Madley has decided … [Read more…]
Have been to the King Power a couple of times in the last week to see Leicester v Leeds in the League Cup and Leicester v Everton in the Prem. These days, before kick-off, on the big screen, we show an excellent compilation of our recent successes, in glorious technicolour, and our collective pride is … [Read more…]
Ashley Young and Dele Alli got away with a particularly ridiculous bout of macho posturing at the weekend. If you didn’t see it, it was that thing where they go forehead-to-forehead, almost but not quite head-butting each other. On the day, the referee didn’t feel the need to hand out cautions, which, in my opinion, … [Read more…]
Call me a miserable old so-and-so if you like, but I am getting slightly irked by a growing trend of tinkering with the name on the back of the shirt. I notice that Oxlade-Chamberlain is now just Chamberlain, and that Alli is now Dele, and I accept that some players may have private, personal reasons … [Read more…]