Another excrement ref

Quoted from diehardmariner

I'm not sure it's not simply a case of the players not interpreting the rules, I think it's a genuinely impossible ask for players to not go into challenges as they do.  

Going into a challenge in a way that the modern game would deem safe is actually dangerous, you're asking professional athletes to put their bodies in the way of harm without the protection of their legs or arms going up in the way as a natural defence mechanism.  Try and go in for a sliding tackle and see if you can hold back on your feet going slightly off the floor or at a completely downward angle, you can't do it.  Your body will not allow it and instinct alone puts up the natural protection.  

The game has become too much of a non-contact sport and whilst we don't want to see the days of players getting 'done in' and careers ended because of a grudge, it needs to be a happy medium.  The footballing authorities would do well to look more at retrospective actions that can be taken rather than put pressure on the referee's to make immediate decisions.  There's cameras at all games, most games have multiple.  I think the referee's are under so much pressure to get it right, because of the scrutiny from extra cameras and the ability to see incidents from multiple angles and to be slowed down etc.  But without the assistance that all that should be bring.  If they see something that they're not sure of, they're bound to be thinking 'well I best send him off because I don't want the pundits ripping me apart later on'.  

The Tyrone Mings incident is a classic example of how it could be used, albeit from the other end of the spectrum.
The referee saw something, he didn't think it was intentional.  He let it go.  That's fine, it's a split-second event and we don't know what was blocking the referee's eyeline or what view he had.  However it was just sheer nastiness from Mings.  He knew what he was doing and he did it with intent, in my opinion.  The footage should be used, regardless of what the referee decided on the day, to punish Mings accordingly.  

We've got all this technology, let's use it correctly and to help the match officials. Yet instead we're pushing bloody VAR which does absolutely nothing to improve the game other than sell extra advertising slots.