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: VAR
June 9th – Multiplicating, that’s the name of the game.
Consider this for a rule change: there has to be clear air between the attacker and the defender.
May 28th – no.4: a la recherche du temps perdu.
Its pin-striped, bowler-hatted, serious looking men, constantly exchanging chits of paper with each other to no ultimate purpose, evokes Dickens' circumlocution office.
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.
10th June – You wonder why he stands so high, It’s just the space between him and the sky.
I often watch replays of so-called fouls, and to me it's almost as if one leg behaves badly independently of the brain, while the other leg just stands there looking on unable to assist.
July 16th – Not until the next time, will I cry all night for you.
Here’s my slogan: "That incident is of such little consequence that I am going to ignore it."
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