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What VAR has done is give referees an excuse to not make big decisions. Then they can hide behind the 'not clear and obvious' or 'it's a high bar to overturn a decision' lines for subjective calls

Spent a few days in Puerto Vallarta - pretty nice place

https://apnews.com/article/guilavogui-referee-saves-life-bundesliga-009fccff7971ef2386a623462f084d4b Mainz player thanks referee for potentially saving his life during Bundesliga game Mainz player Josuha Guilavogui has thanked referee Patrick Ittrich for potentially saving his life in a Bundesliga game after his tongue had blocked his airway. Guilavogui received an accidental blow to the head from teammate Anthony Caci’s knee during Saturday’s match at Bayern Munich. The French player lay motionless on the field, seemingly unconscious, before Ittrich arrived and put him in the recovery position, then adjusted his tongue so he could breathe again. “You just have to act quickly, there’s no praise for it,” Ittrich said afterward. Guilavogui on Sunday expressed his gratitude. “Thank you very much for the quick intervention and the help provided, Patrick Ittrich, my teammates and the doctors at Mainz!” the defensive midfielder wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Mainz lost 8-1 and remained in the Bundesliga’s relegation zone.

Comes out on the 22nd and I can't wait. Koei Tecmo are back at it again.

Mac could have shown the marks made by the studs and they'd still say no foul. They panicked when they realized their bank accounts would start seeing a lack of incoming funds if they had made the right call. There's no other reason why they shouldn't be calling that a foul and awarding a subsequent penalty. We had Curtis get a red for something else which was incidental post contact with the ball first so they can't even use the excuse that Doku gets to the ball first.

100% a penalty. Fair enough if a ref misses it because their one angle could/may be obscured by other players. But VAR officials shouldn't be missing it. They get the benefit of all other angles. There's even contact high on the leg after the initial chest/torso contact. No doubt PGMOL/Howard Webb on that Sky programme will try and defend it though. There's literally no reason to not give a penalty (barring $$$$)

I'm not sure what's more suspicious. The two at the top or the one at the bottom:

@Pyfish @Rucksackfranzose @Bluebird Hewitt @Viva la FCB @Tommy @nawoo @CaaC (John)

With one notable exception that was a high scoring matchday. 5 (In words five) perfect scores helped matchday winner Bluewolf to equalize trago's all time high score from the old forum. Matchday 25 1) Bluewolf 18 points 2) Stan 15 points 3) 6666 12 points 3) nawoo 12 points 5) Coma 11 points 6) Michael 10 points 6) Rucksackfranzose 10 points 6) Tommy 10 points 9) Viva la FCB 8 points 10) CaaC(John) 2 points Now Tommy has company at the top. Table after 25 matchdays 1) @Stan 186 points 1) @Tommy 186 points 3) @Viva la FCB 178 points 4) @Michael 174 points 5) @Bluewolf 168 points 6) @6666 167 points 7) @Coma 161 points 8- @nawoo 149 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 143 points 10) @CaaC (John) 135 points

It's been a while since we had four players sharing the top spot like this matchday. Matchday 25 1) Michael 8 points 1) nawoo 8 points 1) Stan 8 points 1) Tommy 8 points 5) Bluewolf 6 points 5) CaaC(John) 6 points 7) Coma 5 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 3 points 8- Viva la FCB 3 points Michael extended his lead. Table after 25 matchdays 1) @Michael 159 points 2) @Viva la FCB 153 points 3) @CaaC (John) 149 points 4) @Coma 148 points 5) @Bluewolf 146 points 5) @Stan 146 points 7) @Tommy 145 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 126 points 9) @nawoo 111 points 10) @londonerlilie 86 points