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It’s true though . Chelsea must be up a few billion with the amount of loans they’ve made over the past 5 years

It's a bit crazy how many people seem to call things "VAR's fault". Do we need to clarify that anything to do with VAR is actually just mistakes by people not using the availability of new technology to make decisions? Some people talk as if VAR is some sort of sentient being hell bent on ruining football. It's like blaming the linesman's flag for an offside call or the referee's whistle for a dodgy penalty.

Nothing like the royal seal of approval to keep us peasants happy is there...

328 votes to 301. There will be a debate and vote tomorrow on whether to block no deal. Boris claims he will table a proposal for a general election if the house votes to block No Deal. I still worry that Johnson will just about scrape through an election and we'll end up back at square one, because the public are stupid enough to believe that he will actually try and negotiate a deal, when it's apparently come out that his team for negotiating a deal is one quarter of the size that Theresa May had but sadly our electorate is too ridiculous to pay attention to Boris Johnson's track record of being a known liar and charlatan as long as he shouts some idiotic catch phrase like "take back control" or "brexit means brexit" or "hang the traitors" louder than anyone who is actually trying to discuss the pros and cons of any of the issues at hand. I'm also getting fed up of people arguing that Brexit "just needs to get done". You being fed up of hearing about it on the news isn't more important than the future of the country being sorted out correctly, but again watch people use this as a rationale for choosing whoever they vote for. There's a woman on Sky News going on about getting the deal done because we want to get back to the national agenda. Yes because the Conservative government were doing such a fine job with education and the NHS before Brexit became everything . Problem is I just don't see Corbyn ever winning a majority and I don't see other parties propping him up in a coalition. If Labour had a more moderate and centrist leader they should be able to walk a general election. I have no idea which way this ends up going now but at least the stalemate is broken and at least the probable No Deal coup looks like it's going to be prevented.

How will it? They still cant get decisions right between them, and everyone already knows that before VAR the officiating was crap. All VAR is exposing is the human that is in control of it, but we already knew they'd be shite anyway. It's just doubled the shitness, simple as that.

Interesting you raise this point. I remember a study or stats being revealed when it came to the amount of time the ball was in play in football... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40993250 (August 2017) So while on the whole it appears non-stop, there's actually a lot of breaks in play in your average game. Bit more in-depth stuff from the same weekend: https://en.onefootball.com/premier-league-saturday-ball-play-minutes/ It's not as non-stop as you think, basically. American Football has plenty more stoppages, I don't disagree.

YOU think it’s a lazy argument, but actual logic and reasoning goes against what you think. It’s actually concerning seeing you going against basic rational thought and instead calling it ‘lazy’. You don’t blame an anesthetic machine if someone wakes up during surgery. You blame the anesthesiologist.

But it works....which is the point? Whats interesting is that you find it more logical to get rid of it when it isn’t the issue, it’s human interpretation.

Incorrect. The technology works. Human interpretation is the issue. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

They knew his wages but clearly didn't plan for it. Bad decisions by the board or hierarchy there. He's been released as a free agent so can play for any side that chooses to take him on. I sympathise with him though as he's such a nice guy and been done out of a move due to carelessness by other people out of his control.

How dare you

Calm down sweet cheeks. You’re starting to look more like Ricky Villa than David.

Not really. VAR is technology. If a referee can’t use the technology to make the right decision, it’s not the technologies fault is it?

I just enjoy coming in here, reading and posting, I am not a young lad anymore and go out around town like I did years before.

Vettel number 2? https://www.planetf1.com/news/nico-rosberg-sebastian-vettel-rubens-barrichello/

To ge honest mate, I love the way you keep us all upto date with such a varying array od news from all over the place. I imagine you wearing a Burberry beige mac come sunshine or rain, from Moscow to Delhi grabbing news and bringing it home to TF365.

@SirBalon drinking jungle juice last night and couldn't find my glasses this morning.

I don’t think we can compare VAR to goal-line tech for the simple fact that goal-line tech is linear technology. It’s a ball and a line, no X factors, no did he touch it with his hand, no angles are required, nothing. And that also happens to be the one thing that is driving people up the wall about it and sparking debate. I do think it slows the game down with all the decision making time required and that should change but we’re still in its infancy and I imagine its going to get a lot better faster than we think it will. Using it in a few tournaments and saying its shit doesn’t even encompass 10% of the failures we’re going to see along the way and that will come with rectification. It is technology after all and universal adoption is the ‘only’ way anything gets better. Sure, we’re going to see it fail numerous times in our lifetime and I highly doubt the people who want this to succeed are going to let all the pitfalls its showcasing to be the way to kill the tech but these are the early days of the adoption process and its going to be crazy. The biggest downfall of this technology is how its adopted and the rules governing its adoption process as well. Standardisation of practices has always benefited anything new introduced into any sport and its seems like here its all about appeasing people to introduce the technology versus using the technology effectively to govern the rules of the sport across every instance of its existence.

I’ve missed your negativity

Proper Brexit stuff, this. We're talking about a trained referee with the benefit of replays, slow-motion, alternative angles, tech to allow him to measure offsides, and several assistants. But it's just "some other fella's opinion"

Most of the teachers I see these days are kids... not like them horrible ex army nurse types we used to get when I was a kid..

John wick. First time watching it. Really good movie.

Thank you Mistress!

It's funny how you mention a 'blue moon' considering how there is 1 shining so brightly above Manchester these days..