FA Cup 2017/18

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

Spurs making hard work of this trip to Newport. 1-0 down, 20 minutes remaining.

 

[bocadillo]

Spurs making hard work of this trip to Newport. 1-0 down, 20 minutes remaining.

Concentrating on the League.

 

[fitz]

Concentrating on the League.

Putting the pressure on?

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

1-1. Can Spurs hold on for the replay?

 

[fitz]

I see Spuds have a player called Juan Foyth. If his nickname isn't A Quoiter then somebody needs a slap.

 

[H T B]

Kane to the rescue again. Oh How they will miss him next year

 

[fitz]

Wouldn't have bet on Newport reaching Wembley at the start of the competition.

 

[Brown Nose]

Kane to the rescue again. Oh How they will miss him next year

Spurs = Mid table fodder plus Kane

Take Kane away and I'd take our squad over theirs every time.

 

[Brown Nose]

Scousers 1-3 down. Come on Albion.

What happened to their third goal? Left the room after it went in and come back and it's not counted??

 

[Brown Nose]

VAR + Craig Pawson = Football Bingo!

 

[camberwell fox]

VAR + Craig Pawson = Football Bingo!

It was marginally offside BN.

 

[Brown Nose]

It was marginally offside BN.

Sorry, I was referring to the penalty nonsense. If that's a VAR penalty, there will be ten per game.

 

[Brown Nose]

Now it's 1-3 after more VAR.

The most extraordinary half I've seen in ages. Complete chaos, horrible defending, some great play, not a clue what's happening half the time.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

4 minutes added time! And the rest!

 

[Brown Nose]

4 minutes added time! And the rest!

Probably should have been nearer ten minutes.

 

[Jeff]

Sorry, I was referring to the penalty nonsense. If that's a VAR penalty, there will be ten per game.

It was a definite penalty, but defenders get away with stuff like that all the time. If defenders know that they'll give away a penalty when they pull players back they'll stop doing it, but it'll take a while for them to learn and adjust the way they play.
Hopefully if VAR comes in full time it will cut a lot of that kind of stuff out, and it won't need to be used as much.

 

[camberwell fox]

VAR and the referee were 100% correct in all their decisions in that half.

It still needs tweaking to reduce the lag between the whistle and the decision being delivered but that will improve.

It should also be that the crowd and TV hear the referee talking to VAR as this will bring the crowd into it rather than the current exclusion and silence.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

Probably should have been nearer ten minutes.

3 VAR referrals and 2 lengthy stoppages for hamstring injuries. I reckon at least 10 minutes should have been added.

 

[SwedeFox]

VAR is horrid stuff. Worse than I could ever imagine.

 

[fitz]

VAR is horrid stuff. Worse than I could ever imagine.

I've always thought by removing some dodgy decisions we'd lose some of the big club bias. After seeing VAR a few times it's either something that they're not comfortable with using yet or are deliberately making a pigs fanny out of to avoid it ever being used.