The City and Chelsea cases are much bigger, so it’s understandable that it will take longer. But it nothing comes of it, what message will that send?

https://nitter.cz/TheAthleticFC/status/1725906962292838539

Does this mean we all get to sue City and Chelsea too?

And Chelsea

Hello!

Would be great if highlights and goals could be kept in a single matchweek thread or similarly organised somehow. They often crowd out and rapidly push down other content making it hard to see. I’ve sometimes logged in to find a wall of scores and match updates for stuff I’m not interested in (e.g. the wall of Copenhagen v Manchester United goals recently - would those not be better served up in a single thread rather than a post per goal?). Highlights are fine, but I can usually find extended highlights pretty easily on the many highlight websites out there (including YouTube). Posting scores here seems a bit redundant too - there are so many apps and websites now that provide live scores and in-depth stats.

But I appreciate these things might be useful to others so just appealing for perhaps a bit more organisation around them.

It’s not the calls that are the problem. In the Tottenham Chelsea game the decisions were all correct in the end (pretty much). It’s all the waiting around that’s the problem. It ruins the flow and enjoyment of the game. I don’t know anyone at this point that thinks VAR has improved the game. Fans of clubs in the Championship often tell me they prefer no VAR.

Yeah, experience from moderating over at !coys@lemmy.world is that you’ve just got to keep posting and posting and posting and gradually, very slowly, the numbers creep up. Same on Mastodon on the #MastodonFC and #COYS tags (can’t speak for other clubs). You’ve got to give people a reason to come back.

Personally, I’m not sure the individual posts containing a single goal from a specific match is helping much. Makes the community seem very noisy. IMO would be better to have one thread per match with goals posted as comments. But I’m not mod here and others may feel differently, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

FWIW, I don’t see the community as dead. I post a few things here and there’s often a good number of votes and some good discussion. Seems far from dead to me.

They’ll need to come up with some strategies for keeping warm while waiting an indeterminate amount of time while waiting for VAR.

In American Football they use stationary bikes to keep warm.

https://bikehike.org/why-do-nfl-players-use-stationary-bike/

Yeah, he did say, “I was half-tempted to throw some balls out there for them to kick around”. It’s right there in the quote I posted.

They’ll need to come up with some strategies for keeping warm while waiting an indeterminate amount of time while waiting for VAR.

So not bullshit at all then.

Is the argument trash, though?

100% agree the discourse should be public. Good point.

Yes, the big league with their multiple camera angles led to so much scrutiny after the games, VAR felt somewhat inevitable. I’d like to see it radically scaled back. Goal line technology is fine. But get rid of the ridiculous offside checks and the debatable handballs and let the game flow. There’s an argument emerging too that all the standing around waiting for decisions can lead to injuries as muscles cool and stiffen.