Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on May 20, 2023, 08:03:56 PM
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Almost over now.
https://thebirminghampress.com/2023/05/aston-villa-and-the-ends-in-sight/
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Well said Dave
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VAR: that’ll fuck up the game
Added time: hold my beer
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If we are going to measure the finest of margins by the use of technology then it’s about time that time itself is taken out of the hands of officials. The argument for VAR is that is meant to rule out costly errors that ultimately provide advantages to those who benefit from erroneous decisions. Then the same can be said for adding on time arbitrarily versus playing to precisely 90 minutes. The costs of adding ludicrous amounts of time leading to late events needs to be evaluated in the same way on field decisions are.
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There should be a representative of each club and an official available to agree the added time (with an explanation for each portion added) so that everyone knows and understands what's going on. I know there's a chance a team won't agree, but at least the discussion and explanation will be there.
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Done.
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"A ninetieth-minute equaliser and over to the fourth official to see how long he was going to allow Liverpool to equalise."
Score again? Win?
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There should be a representative of each club and an official available to agree the added time (with an explanation for each portion added) so that everyone knows and understands what's going on. I know there's a chance a team won't agree, but at least the discussion and explanation will be there.
Who decides the time added on to cover the time it takes to reach that decision
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Just stop the clock when play stops ŕ la rugby.
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Great read Dave.
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I watched MOTD, and it does seem that more minutes were added on across the board.
I remember when we played Boro at VP when Southgate was in charge, and by today's standards 15 or 20 minutes would have been added.
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The officials are wholly complicit in the lost time during games.
Every free kick, throw in and corner takes an age to be completed, yet it is allowed to continue.
Restarts after goals are even worse.
It’s officials who allow time wasting, they can so easily sort it out during the game and thereby take away their ability to affect the outcome of a game by adding tons of additional time on.
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Why not enforce a rule where you have a maximum of 5-10 seconds for restarts. And for a defending team touching the ball after the whistle has been blown its a booking.
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If arbitrary decisions are now being made about which round of fixtures get the full allotted time, then I'm an advocate of going down the route other sports have. The duration of every game is determined by a clock on the screen that is stopped everytime there is a stoppage in play.
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Ridiculous over officiating for the sake of it. Time wasting is not an issue unless you believe it is unfair when the opposition do it and perfectly reasonable when you employ it yourself, i.e your a big fucking baby who can't cope with losing.
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If arbitrary decisions are now being made about which round of fixtures get the full allotted time, then I'm an advocate of going down the route other sports have. The duration of every game is determined by a clock on the screen that is stopped everytime there is a stoppage in play.
Far too sensible.
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Thanks Dave, another great read.
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When the clock on the old Witton Lane stand showed 20 to 5, the ref blew up.
Modern football is rubbish.
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When the clock on the old Witton Lane stand showed 20 to 5, the ref blew up.
Modern football is rubbish.
Hi Mr Lockhead, do you remember the Argus (sp.) that came out rapidly on a Saturday evening in 'pink' with all the footie scores?
It would be 'fecked' these days!!
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There should be a representative of each club and an official available to agree the added time (with an explanation for each portion added) so that everyone knows and understands what's going on. I know there's a chance a team won't agree, but at least the discussion and explanation will be there.
NO.
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When the clock on the old Witton Lane stand showed 20 to 5, the ref blew up.
Modern football is rubbish.
Hi Mr Lockhead, do you remember the Argus (sp.) that came out rapidly on a Saturday evening in 'pink' with all the footie scores?
It would be 'fecked' these days!!
We lived in Halesowen and the van with the evening edition used to pass us on the way home.
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A good read Dave. Well summarised and the “Immaculate” assessment of Tyrone Mings is spot on.
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A good read Dave. Well summarised and the “Immaculate” assessment of Tyrone Mings is spot on.
Mings was awesome last week too, he's playing out of his skin at the minute. Talk of 'McGrath like' on the match thread and it's justified, he should absolutely be first choice for England alongside Stones, never mind pissing about in the squad.
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A good read Dave. Well summarised and the “Immaculate” assessment of Tyrone Mings is spot on.
Mings was awesome last week too, he's playing out of his skin at the minute. Talk of 'McGrath like' on the match thread and it's justified, he should absolutely be first choice for England alongside Stones, never mind pissing about in the squad.
Some of that was me. In particular the commentary was remeniscent of McGrath Vs Italy. Mings was a mountain at the heart of our defence. Fantastic stuff.
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There should be a representative of each club and an official available to agree the added time (with an explanation for each portion added) so that everyone knows and understands what's going on. I know there's a chance a team won't agree, but at least the discussion and explanation will be there.
NO.
There’s no way officials would dare to give equal weight to what the representative of Luton or Bournemouth were saying compared to the one from Liverpool or Man United.
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All club representatives should get on with playing the game and leave the ref to ref. It would sort out most problems.
Whenever it was ref decisions become perceived as the greatest miscarriages of justice in history, I blame it on our species' lack of a natural and effective predator.