Ruinous in the sense that the game, in all its important moments, has been taken over by book-learnt, plodding, computer assisted pedantry, that is the ONLY skill that these natural-born bureaucrats bring to the game.
Tag: Jim White
15th May – Penalties reversed.
So instead, they adapt their play to take away this risk, and they remove this cheat from their playbook. That’s what a deterrent looks like: utter terror of the consequences of being rumbled. Ask anyone who stole an orange and got sent to Australia for it.
7th March – Varsity football is rank amateur.
It's like measuring the time of a 100m sprint to the hundredth of a second, having started it with a flag.
Dickie White's Diary 