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Post by kustokie on Aug 18, 2019 20:58:50 GMT
The rules are being made by people who never played football and I suspect driven by "big money". As someone referred to above, there is an argument Stoke should not be relegated, which is a bit tenuous, but imagine you are a major investor such as the Glazers, Sheikh Mansour, Fenway, etc. and have spent £100ms on the club, you would not want to see your investment fail because of human error. There is eventually going to be a case of someone taking the authorities to court because of an officials' error which has cost them a massive amount of revenue. I'm sure more and more authority is going to be taken away from the referee and placed in the hands of invisible officials secreted in some room reviewing events. It may all be in the interests of trying to achieve the "correct" decision, but it is also going to be less and less of a sport. I wish they would review matches with VAR to pick out all those players who fake injury or being fouled and diving, and then give retrospective warnings and fine the club for the behaviour of their players. I know it would have little impact on Man City who could put out 3 Premier League sides and pay £millions in fines, but it might improve the game. generally. There’s another big factor in this “getting it right” bollox. Millions are bet on sport and a lot is riding on the result, who scored first, who scored the third, who farted etc. |
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