this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
1 points (100.0% liked)
Main
139 readers
4 users here now
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
His anti-red card thing is clearly nonsense
The reason there are more red cards now then there were in the 80s, which he references with the 1985 FA Cup final, is because there are more fouls that are deemed red card offences, even tackles from 10 years ago which would have been yellows are reds now, it's nothing to do with VAR and just shows how desperate he is for a point against it
He follows that up with the fact there were 30 odd red cards last season compared to 25 so far this season. He's making the bigger point that the recent increase in VAR intervention and upturn in dismissals is leading to shite uneven matches far too regularly.
That does also gloss over the fact that we have seen new rule changes too.
We've seen that dissent and time-wasting and now punished a lot more harshly, which has also contributed to it and those aren't down to VAR interventions.
We had far, far too few red cards last season.
Why is he blaming VAR instead of the players for committing more red card offenses?