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How can anyone not be in favour of the referees having access to extra replays to help them make the right decisions? Even the referees, who I'm never shy about pointing the finger out due to the complete lack of accountability for game-changing mistakes that they make, can't be blamed for this situation with handballs. They started by saying that clear and obvious mistakes would be reviewed. They quietly allowed clear and obvious as a phrase to slip out of our vocabulary, now they're obsessed with reviewing every goal or goalmouth incident to interfere with the game. These decisions have all been made by humans. The value of having a video assistant referee is objectively good. Nobody can argue with that, so don't try. It is an absolute fact that having more opportunities to see an incident from more angles gives you a better chance of making the right decision. If the handball rule is open to interpretation, you have a better chance of making the right and fair call by watching a slow motion replay than you do by relying on what the referee and linesman could see in real time. Too bad this absolute and undeniable benefit to fair officiating of football matches has coincided with idiots in board rooms somewhere bringing in absolutely farcical initiatives to try and take advantage of the new technology, without giving it a season or two to see how VAR works in its most basic form. Literally all of the problems are created by humans and how they're using the technology. Claiming that VAR should be scrapped and not used at all cannot be backed up by any feasible argument. What needs to change is the idiots using it, the human people, not some mysterious AI that doesn't exist.

Went for something different today... Yellow curry and roti.

The handball thing isn’t the thing of computers, it’s the thing of dickhead suits in an Ivory Tower somewhere. VAR is simple enforcing said laws, it’s the laws that’s the problem.

Do you think he should get some hair replacement surgery? He’s too bald.

Better than letting Alonso drive a bus for sure

Just dug some photos out of my album, all taken around Leith Links. Our eldest grandson took this when he popped up for a wee visit, old footpath behind Seafield Cemetary Leith Links Behind our flat near the Old Railway Footpath Wee Kaiden and his big bruv going for a walk down the Old Railway Path, the wee man with his scooter, Connor with his skateboard. Old Kirkgate Church, gala, bizarre day. Leith Links early summer morning.

Sounds so much more better than The Raj on a Friday night. Stick me down for a portion. I'll bring a takeaway tub with me just to make it feel authentic.

Can I have some? That's looking delicious.

Making the most of local restrictions and going to start taking some more photos around the house including the cats!

Not many other sports using VAR have 22 people all over each other tbf.

Expecting students to pay for accommodation in a year where it looks like many universities are going to be forced to move their teaching online is a disgrace. The Scottish government have offered a 4 week rent rebate to some of the students affected in Glasgow but it isn't enough. I know from my own experience of teaching during lockdown that the technology is there to deliver online teaching. It has its own challenges when you're trying to get 25 teenagers logged into a Zoom call for a lesson at the same time, in houses with shared laptops and general immaturity, but there's no reason you can't do video lectures for university students. It's bad enough this generation won't have experienced a freshers' week and year like their predecessors. This whole being forced to self-isolate and find out after signing up to paid accommodation that they could have just stayed at home, and talk of them not being able to go home for Christmas is nothing short of scandalous. I know Covid 19 was starting to slow down towards the back end of the summer but did universities and policy-makers really think you could just go back to cramming 300 young adults into lecture theatres again? This was always going to happen. I'm not having this "it's fine for them because it only kills pensioners" shite. Yes, we do need to bear that in mind when we're making sweeping decisions that destroy sectors of the economy, but at the same time, there are people in all age groups with underlying health conditions, and even if it doesn't kill you, there are plenty of stories out there of people still suffering from chronic fatigue, breathing problems and other symptoms months after testing positive for the virus. This virus is a horrible one but the situation these students have been put into is farcical and having taught some of them last year when they had to go through the exam results scandal and subsequent, uncertainty over university places, proms, last day shenanigans and leaving ceremonies cancelled, now this, it's really pissing me off. This generation have been shafted like no other by circumstances beyond anyone's control. They need an arm putting around them, not being told that they're not allowed to leave their flats even for Christmas.

Afternoon out with the wife, grandson, son & daughter in a restaurant by the Waters of Leith.

They all say i have a nice butt too, every time i walk away from them they say "what an ass!"