Dom Thomas

There was a plan for this boy never to be born, for my own children never to be born, for any of our children never to be born. Their laughter is our greatest revenge.

@FansAgainstVAR_ Mate, my manifesto is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1Ue… 100 ways to improve football. I'm on 74 so far

VAR Kick off times Shirt begging signs Players covering their mouths Ticket prices Tourists over real fans All seater stadiums No beer in view of the pitch Players making more in one week than fans male in a year There's honestly too much

@AdvFtbAcad And yet he sits on the IFAB board and promotes anti football nonsense... Fraud is an over used word...

This Arsene Wenger advice will change how you see youth football [allsoccer.us]

@sidlowe Going beyond 90' is so simple, yet why do so few clubs do it? My club - YB in 🇨🇭- shows replays, but not of opposition goals. I sort of admire the pettiness, but it is actually really frustrating! And no VAR replays - because who cares about fans in the ground....

This, by the way, is how a scoreboard should be. (Weird how rarely it’s done right). Went beyond 90’ too. If it could actually show replays as well, that would be the business. Keep saying this, I know, but stadium giant screens without replays are largely pointless.

My club. youtube.com/watch?v=L5NTQW… Gemeinsam gegen Rassismus #YBforEveryone @BSC_YB

@mayormossco Daft twat.

Inter Miami new stadium. A club started in 2017 will have bigger and better stadium than 120years Chelsea 🤦‍♂️

@ma33499357 @afc_richard That was the replay at Old Trafford. Which they wouldn't have got now because of the no replay rule.

@afc_richard Nigel Clough was saying a Burton away day a few years back kept the club going for more than a decade. 800k or something. So as much as I like the point in principle i just don't think it would benefit smaller clubs financially.

Said it for years, but the FA Cup could do alot worse than follow the German model that any side drawn against a team from a higher league is given home advantage. Yesterday’s ties re-enforced this. We would have made light work of Mansfield at Emirates.

@AwayDays_ I hope they include something like this in the new San Siro. Went to a game a couple of weeks ago - what a stadium!! 🤌🤌

The iconic spiral walkway at the San Siro 🇮🇹😍

@Barbara4003 Because the people who run football are incompetent, clueless, yet cycnical, fools who don't care about actual fans at all. So long as the TV audience is catered for by their fabricated nonsense then they are happy. VAR and @IFAB are a stain on the modern game

How come the commentators are 'privileged' to hear the VAR discussion and decision, but the paying spectators aren't?

@daisychristo One can only conclude they simply don't care. They could simply show the live TV feed. They could show the myriad replays. They are just not interested in fans in the ground. It's purely a TV 'product' with all the production values geared to the TV audience. Shame on them.

@daisychristo There's zero interest in actual match going fans. I've been told by the Swiss League (I live in Bern and go to YB) that they are looking into improving it since November 2023 but apparently it is complicated... And yet they can cut to adverts for first corner in an instant...

I am watching the Spurs vs Palace match on TV and there's just been a lengthy VAR check for offside. It is so much better watching VAR on telly than in the ground. You get all the angles, loads of replays, loads of graphics and the commentators tell you the decision before anyone in the ground knows it! It is optimised for TV, not for fans in the ground.

@sfl But don't worry, tomorrow's another day and you can invent more epic ways to show how much you despise football and football fans. I'm sure you won't disappoint in your endless ability to ruin this beautiful game. Tiny minded, pedantic, joyless, clueless, awful people.

@News_SFL No genuine feel for the game. Clearly no love for it. Pointless and wrong on every turn. You wake up every morning wondering how to ruin football a little bit more. I don't know who hurt you, but don't take it out on football and its fans Just go away and get help

There is literally no depth you won't go to in order to ruin a game of football. To what end? To what purpose? For the self justification of your own existence. @News_SFL Awful, misguided, weak minded and clueless enjoyment vampires. You have no point or purpose.

And your continued, deliberate and wilful disregard and disdain for actual match going fans is another disgrace. You actively seek to ruin games and to ruin the live experience for fans. You forget you are meant to be custodians of the game. Pathetic, tiny minded pedants.

@News_SFL Pathetic. Your standard of VAR, of reffing, of decision making about handball is pathetic. A disgrace. You can't simply punish players for having arms. No regard for biology and no regard for clear and obvious. You actively seek to ruin games. Pathetic people.

@Chels1an Do you actually go to watch games live? I don't know a single person who attends games live who wants to keep VAR.

@DomThomas8 Wanting the people who hold supreme power over who wins and loses to get things right isn’t overthinking

"but it kills the flow and the emotion" i literally never want to live in a world where my team could concede a goal on a call that is demonstrably, factually wrong, but I'm forced to accept it because "the vibes are better if we do it quickly" horrible. worst possible outcome

@TheIFAB Do you deal with questions about FIFA Peace Prize 'winners' breaking international law?

@Chels1an The answer to VAR being a soul sucking joyless thing isn't more VAR. Keep goal line tech if you must. But the rest of it can get in the sea. It's actively anti-football. Beloved by pedants and the joyless.

@Chels1an At all levels of football it should be: Score goal Look at lino (Assistant Ref if you like) Flag - offside and no goal No flag - goal and celebrate Simple. And fun. You remember fun? You remember joy?

@DomThomas8 Spoken like someone who has never played football It’s anticompetitive and unfair to the players on the pitch to let incorrect calls decide their fate when we can provide officials with the tools to get it right