Unsocial Distancing

The way the games going football will be like covid.If you get within 2 metres of an opposing player you will get sent off. And referees are twice more inconsistent now as they ever were. Yet another weekend of laughable decisions.

 

Players falling over when somebody brushes against them is definitely a joke now

 

They will keep doing it whilst they keep getting the decision. Some of the decisions in the Newcastle game were pathetic, and not just the Wilson penalty.

 

I mean how did the ref watch replays of that Newcastle penatly incident and still give it and send the player off? Note nothing to with VAR and all to with idiots we have using it.

 

It would held with VAR if they roped it back in a bit with offside and stopped giving them if a players eyelash is in front

 

Maybe but then how far would you take it? What would be the margin of acceptable error?
I agree its tedious to watch them drawing lines but if you are going to use it then you have to go the letter if the law of the game.

 

I’d go back to where their feet are and leave it at that

 

Not saying I disagree but major rule change needed for that, certainly think it all needs to be looked at.

 

I've got a good idea scrap it and go back to normal.

 

Wiseman, Kennedy and McNulty must've thought this was an actual rule when they played for us.

 

Exactly, people moan about technology being used but that’s not the issue, it’s the idiots using it who are. I honestly thought he was about to overturn it, then he brings the red card out. It never crossed my mind that it was a red card offence.

 

The genie is out of the bottle now. The problem is that an "eye lash" offside is still offside. We need something like "umpires call" in cricket. Perhaps assistant referees call. If the offside is within a ball width of being onside or vica versa it is within the margin of error.

In the old days "level" was offside and a player in an office position could be flagged offside even if the player was "not interfereing with play". The modern equivalent term is "not active". The old rule led Cloughie to state that " is the player is not interfering with play what is he doing on the pitch!.

 

cricket have it largely right.

LBW - can be both out or not our based on the umpires decision but can also be definitely not out or definitely out too

Run outs are largely similar to goal line tech, a definitive answer one way or the other... at the minute this is what offsides give an answer to too, I’d change it based on the linesman’s decision, umpires call replaced by some form of tolerance level so a toe nail difference might not offside etc