Ligue 1 VAR decision

it would be good to hear the players as well at this point, the offending teams captain came across very well there admitting there was contact but it was light and that is what VAR said also
 
The defender was very well mannered wasn't he. 'mr referee'. Is one of the reasons we cant have this because of the language used by the players towards officials? i agree it should be stopped but can say sky broadcast this?
 
TheWolfman said:
The defender was very well mannered wasn't he. 'mr referee'. Is one of the reasons we cant have this because of the language used by the players towards officials? i agree it should be stopped but can say sky broadcast this?
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This is just another situation where the thinking is the wrong way round. The players act like that because they aren't punished for doing it. The referees already have the power to punish this behaviour. Same as diving and timewasting. All these things ruin the game but there are far too many people championing the behaviour instead and celebrating it as "shithousing". If the referees actually applied the laws of the game and punished players for breaking the rules then they'd stop doing it. We don't need to overhaul the game, we just need to apply the laws that we already have.

De Bruyne was complaining the other day because matches will now be 105 mins instead of 95 and he thinks it's a bad idea that we are adding on time because he'll get tired instead of thinking about it logically and realising that if players change their behaviour there won't be loads of added time. These players are paid millions and they can't even put in a full hours work a couple of times a week. Give over.
 
Kramer said:
The foul mothed tirade the English players give the refs would stop if they knew they were being picked up on the ref's mic for all to hear
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The majority of players and managers in the Premier League are foreign and are still abusing the referees.

It's not a nationality thing, it's just the culture that's been allowed to take root.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
Ah, but over here don't you have 'the right' to go down if there's any contact at all?

Ex players, commentators and fans on here have all explained that one
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I know that's partly tongue in cheek, but really should be a yellow for the forward there shouldn't it? I mean he's dived hasn't he?

But because there's "contact" it apparently doesn't count as one. As you say, it seems the the unwritten rule is he has the right to go down.
 
TeaCider said:
The majority of players and managers in the Premier League are foreign and are still abusing the referees.

It's not a nationality thing, it's just the culture that's been allowed to take root.
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yes, I should have said players in the English game
 
Nano said:
This is just another situation where the thinking is the wrong way round. The players act like that because they aren't punished for doing it. The referees already have the power to punish this behaviour. Same as diving and timewasting. All these things ruin the game but there are far too many people championing the behaviour instead and celebrating it as "shithousing". If the referees actually applied the laws of the game and punished players for breaking the rules then they'd stop doing it. We don't need to overhaul the game, we just need to apply the laws that we already have.

De Bruyne was complaining the other day because matches will now be 105 mins instead of 95 and he thinks it's a bad idea that we are adding on time because he'll get tired instead of thinking about it logically and realising that if players change their behaviour there won't be loads of added time. These players are paid millions and they can't even put in a full hours work a couple of times a week. Give over.
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Players like De Bruyne and Varane will only be playing the extra minutes that have already been wasted, which they’ve spent until this season just standing around waiting for Nick Pope to take a goal kick.

Goalkeepers getting the ball back into play, throw-ins, subs, free kicks… there is absolutely no way these things should take as long as they do. They certainly never used to take as long when I first started going in ‘91.

It’s also interesting that these changes aren’t being applied to the women’s game, which suggests that that game doesn’t suffer from cheating and time wasting in the same way the men’s does. That proves players are choosing to bend the rules, cheat, ‘sh*t-house’, whatever, and that it’s perfectly possible for football to function without it.

I’m glad they’re finally taking some action but suspect it will be gradually phase out as the season progresses. But I’d love to see the back of goalkeepers getting away with absolute murder when it comes to taking goal kicks in particular.
 
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