I wasn't suggesting that there is money to be made off the back of using VAR/technology (although how long before we start to see adverts in the "VAR breaks???"...Originally Posted by Witton Park
More that the ruling bodies appear to be so frightened that they are going to be on the recieving end of a legal case from a club who may feel they have lost out on a promotion/relegation/tv money, due to a wrong decision... so they are trying to tie everything into a black or white decision, with no grey areas.
This doesn't work in football... the handball rules have been shown to be a farce... it's equally impossible with offside... goal-line technology fair enough (when they remember to switch it on of course!).
In reply to a couple of posts above regarding Black Lives Matter etc in football... i'd sooner not get involved in any discussion which involves racism, as there is always someone who will take offence in some way... but yes i wonder what the response will be when the World Cup is on, given that it's common knowledge that it was "bought" with bribery, and the well-publicised issues with immigrant (slave) workers involved in the construction of the stadiums.
I was also a little alarmed this morning to see another BBC feature on racism in football... the alarming aspect was the heavy focus on that England away game in Bratislava a few years back, as "evidence" of footballs racism problem... while that was indeed shocking, i hardly think it is a barometer for the current situation in British football...
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