Its taking the elite game further and further from grass roots, but that horse has long bolted.
I guess you can debate, whether or not a toe or whatever constitutes offside or not - I thought he was off as soon as I saw the replay btw. But in the past, rightly or wrongly a flag would have gone up or wouldn’t and every can get on with celebrating or being devastated.
Having minutes of everyone celebrating and then it being called off is unacceptable. And it’s ruining goals, because you can never quite enjoy them.
With offside, hopefully, this new semi auto thing will solve this, because ‘the flag’ will go up instantly as it used to so you don’t have a crowd going nuts only to have it ruled out a minute later.
God knows how you solve the issue of VARS finding some minor foul three passes before the goal though.
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