Anyone watching the Live Football on TV ?

Quoted from supertown

I like watching the premiership. I like football , those of you who don’t like watching it don’t like football you just like GTFC I guess and nothing else .

Not so Super. I love football but loath the Prem because it is not our national game anymore. It is the Sky game and they might as well just sell it in box sets.

Just a question about the Sheffield Utd goal/non goal, if the VAR wasn't working but the ref or lino saw it was over the line, why could it not be given?

Quoted from supertown

I like watching the premiership. I like football , those of you who don’t like watching it don’t like football you just like GTFC I guess and nothing else .

I like watching football at all levels, all the Premiership cares about is the Premiership, not FOOTBALL, which it has clearly been shown during this pandemic.
If you was to offer me a VIP box at Old Trafford, Anfield etc or a ticket for the Poonton stand at Blundell Park, guess what its Grimsby Town everytime for me.
Why because since that first game I attended at Blundell Park, I was hooked, the passion, atmosphere, friendships made, the travelling, the ups, the downs, the memories, I don't get that watching the Premiership.

The thing that the Premiership might get out of the playing in empty stadiums, is yes financially they are ok, but without the FANS, football is nothing like, it is will FANS, because it us the FANS that make football, the sport it is.

Its like the Indian Premier League being played in empty stadiums, its nothing without the fans, its the fans that makes the IPL.

Quoted from Perkins

Just a question about the Sheffield Utd goal/non goal, if the VAR wasn't working but the ref or lino saw it was over the line, why could it not be given?

It gives the officials an easy option but they are wrong and incompetent for not daring to question the tech.
It is very strange and worrying how far just trusting the technology has permeated our lives, in the last week we were waiting for a delivery and the same driver took it to the same wrong address (less than 100m away) 3 times before it eventually arrived, his excuse was that was were his sat nav sent him.  Also on a much more serious note is the large number of sub post office owners jailed, fined or dismissed because courts refused to believe it could be the computer that could be wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-51817918

Quoted from codcheeky

It gives the officials an easy option but they are wrong and incompetent for not daring to question the tech.
It is very strange and worrying how far just trusting the technology has permeated our lives, in the last week we were waiting for a delivery and the same driver took it to the same wrong address (less than 100m away) 3 times before it eventually arrived, his excuse was that was were his sat nav sent him.  Also on a much more serious note is the large number of sub post office owners jailed, fined or dismissed because courts refused to believe it could be the computer that could be wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-51817918

Or it was in a packed penalty area and it went over the line in a position that even the cameras couldn’t see and neither did the officials so they couldn’t award the goal.

A bit harsh to call them incompetent.

Quoted from Posh Harry

Or it was in a packed penalty area and it went over the line in a position that even the cameras couldn’t see and neither did the officials so they couldn’t award the goal.

A bit harsh to call them incompetent.

That used to be the linesman’s main job, to get to premier league standard you would expect he would be at the top of his trade, getting one of the few decisions he is there for so badly wrong negates the reason for having them at all, maybe we should just rely on cameras and technology

Quoted from codcheeky

That used to be the linesman’s main job, to get to premier league standard you would expect he would be at the top of his trade, getting one of the few decisions he is there for so badly wrong negates the reason for having them at all, maybe we should just rely on cameras and technology

I have just looked at it again as I had assumed that the linesman must of been on the other side of the pitch, but he wasn’t, he was staring straight at it, so please accept my apologies as calling the linesman incompetent is correct, but not the referee.

Saying that, it could be that the officials now do not have the authority to over rule the technology, I don’t know. It could be that he saw it was over but was not allowed to say so and would have been demoted if he had done. That would seem crazy, but in the over officious society we live in, it would not surprise me.

I don’t think the ref can be accused of being incompetent though, there is no way he could have definitely seen it was over the line.

They’re saying all the cameras were blocked but they showed a hawkeye angle almost immediately after the incident on the live broadcast. There’s more to this than technology failure I think - more likely operator error - and they’re covering it up. If the linesman can’t see that that’s in he needs to go for a drive to Barnard Castle.

watching Col V exeter its rubbish

Wish I had BT Sport so I could watch my German team, Bielefeld,  get promoted to the Bundesliga tonight!