24 Apr 2024 07:39:25
{Ed's Note - Lets Be Rational has posted a new article entitled, Has PGMOL turned into an impossible to overthrow dictatorship?

1.) 24 Apr 2024
24 Apr 2024 11:37:57
Unsurprisingly I agree wholeheartedly with let's be rational on the VAR silencing and hiding from scrutiny.
Journos won't upset the applecart for fear of being excluded from briefings, managers can't question things for fear of punishment, clubs for fear of fines.
VAR like 'the computer says no' isn't allowing any 'common sense' to be applied and its ruining our sport and in some cases the aspirations of smaller clubs.

Surely the FA hear the derisive chants, surely it can't be good for the physical well being of players to stand around waiting for decisions.

Obviously the emotional turmoil of spectators awaiting outcomes can't be good for the spectacle.

So why do they persist with this unsatisfactory model? Criticism shrugged off without explanation or those that do being penalised.

As the game progressed? Is the game more enjoyable to watch? Can we say more wrongs have been righted that would have been accepted if given by a ref alone, because I feel that the level of reffing as declined since the responsibility is not solely on the heads. Ridiculous laws on handball and offside seem to benefit the lines drawn by VAR and TV companies to repeatedly replay them.

Scrap the system to purely goal line tech and give us our game and sport back, part of which was debating the 'iffy' decisions made after the game, but accepting them too, without the conspiracies that arise under the detached decision makers now.

2.) 24 Apr 2024
24 Apr 2024 22:05:58
Why are VAR operatives paid if they cannot make a decision?