Recent content by FishofContemplation

No one should ever need an excuse to boo an opposition player. And no one in the country needs an excuse to boo a Leeds player.

Your first sentence displays a misunderstanding of how probability works. It is not just as likely that it won’t even out in the long run. Unless there is genuine bias, random mistakes will tend more closely to approximate to a 50/50 split over time. Just as the proportion of heads and tails...

Saturday afternoon is a relic of the Victorian era, when most people worked Saturday mornings, you couldn’t play after sunset as it was dark, and you couldn’t play on a Sunday as you’d burn in hell. None of this applies anymore. It still works well as a kickoff time for away fans who have a...

There’s a fair bit of repetition of the myth that the offside law was changed for VAR. It’s easy to check as the the IFAB publishes an archive of the laws going back about about 30 years. The incessantly tinker with the precise definition of active/interfering, only this year slightly changing...

Does it? Goal line technology is accepted because we don’t see it so we can’t argue with it. There’s no intrinsic reason why it should be more or less accurate than the offside technology that we do argue with because we think we can see it. Same laws of physics apply to the instruments used.

That rule has moved up a step, in that the National League now allows such pitches, but the EFL still doesn’t so when Harrogate was promoted a few years back they had to dig theirs up, and Bromley will presumably need to do likewise if they come through the play-off. That rule certainly doesn’t...

Any case of a “big” club that doesn’t comply with the EFL ground regulations being allowed to be promoted? Because if there isn’t, then this isn’t a big/small club thing at all it’s a case of a club that didn’t comply with the rules having the rules applied. Not the most shocking thing I’ve ever...

And to instruct defence counsel as they have quite obviously libelled the VAR.

Even if you take today as an example, then VAR left forest with exactly the same number of penalties they would have had without it, and prevented an offside goal allowing a side to progress unjustly to the FA Cup final. That’s one no difference and one better on a point of huge importance...

The semi-automated multi camera system is certainly more accurate, but even with the single camera system they use in the Premier League you do not need to be in line, because the software that draws the lines does so in a manner that ensures they are in a virtual parallel direction to the goal...

Don’t think I would go for that second one. Given that home advantage is probably the single biggest factor in determining who is likely to be favourite in a football match, giving it up for money is tantamount to throwing the game for a bribe. In which case, why not cut out the token exercise...

The FA Cup diminished the moment the Premier League was formed, and being in the Premier League became an absolute obsession to the exclusion of everything else. The cup went from being what everyone wanted to watch to what nobody could be bothered to watch. In Boro’s case, almost overnight...

If VAR is deciding goal kick/corner decisions as well as penalties, goals and red cards it’s going to get a hell of a lot more intrusive than it already is. Do even it supporters actually want that?

No is wasn't. It was a pathetic surrender by a mickey mouse club that had no desire to actually win the football match it had been drawn to play in and it made the tie a farce. It's a football competition. Hednesford reduced their chances for cash. How is that qualitatively different to us...

Not necessarily a bad thing. I think the Tees Valley districts might do better separate from that. We always got f--- all from the regional authority when it had formal status. We are both and we are neither. And there are times when it serves us to be both and times when it serves us to be...