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@SarahCoombesWB Potholes?

Making our roads safer for all road users is a key priority for me in West Brom 🚗 Earlier this year I was out with police, Sandwell Council and the DVLA to catch people driving with no insurance, no MOT, illegal numberplates and more 😠

@EmmaforWycombe Labour delivering? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Great to be back in Sandwell, close to the council flat I grew up in, speaking with local residents. Labour is delivering for Sandwell and will keep doing so. Reform offers chaos, division, and broken promises. The choice on the 7th May is clear.

@Keir_Starmer The man who defends peado’s and invites terrorists into No. 10 shouldn’t really be taking the moral high ground

Shameful. Nigel Farage should do the decent thing and sack him.

Some people ask me: what is Labour even doing for Sandwell? 🤔 Well in the last few weeks alone we have announced: £20 million of investment for Tividale, supporting Oldbury Health Centre to deliver more appointments, a funding boost for SEND AND two new schools-based nurseries

@mgshanks Oh fuck off. They are still higher than when Labour came into power

From today, energy bills will come down. Labour took the decision to bring down bills by asking the wealthiest to pay a little more. That’s the fair thing to do. We know there’s more to do to tackle the cost of living but this is an important step.

@DannyJamieson Probably not a peep out of the media and journalists like on the many occasions he served up tripe in friendlies and nations league. Reaction to these friendlies is embarrassing

Trying to imagine the reaction if Gareth Southgate had overseen these last two #England performances

@tomtastic09 Happy birthday pal 🐺🍻

What a way to spend my 50th today

Fantastic to have Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood in Sandwell to support our local election campaign. 💪 We stand against division and will always stand up for communities across Sandwell 😄

@Nick_Metcalfe Managers moaning and owners claiming decisions were costing them millions is why VAR is here

@Prim1877 Yeah of course but it would be an honest starting point if fans conceded it was actually them (the majority) that wanted technology.

I feel like I should go to a priest with a confession like this, but I don’t want VAR to go. Football before VAR was dominated by referee gaffes. You lot pleaded for technology. It wasn’t quite the technology you wanted, so you moaned again. Fewer mistakes are made now.

@SarahCoombesWB Bunch of traitors. The quicker you all get voted out the better. I'm ashamed you're my MP

Yesterday I was on GB News discussing Labour's Local Election launch here in Sandwell as well as all of the positive work this Labour government is doing in the face of global uncertainty 🙏

@scottjwillis No fans hate it because it kills spontaneity. Why is that so difficult for people to understand? Killing the sport for a few extra right decisions is ridiculous. VAR will never work in football

VAR isn’t perfect and that’s because we have humans implementing a subjective rule book. It’s still a net positive for the game and has corrected most of the biggest clear errors. People dislike it but they hate massive errors that go against them more that you can see clearly on replays.

@HACKETTREF We'll still have to wait for some idiot to put the lines on. VAR will never work in football

I like the idea of giving any benefit of doubt to the attacking team. ‘Toe Nails’ offside frankly is not football. A law should be evolved to promote goals not call them off. VAR is not operating correctly

@TheRefereeForum We might get a few more right decisions but at the expense of killing the passion of the game. Nothing is more important than the ecstasy of a goal being scored

The problem with asking the average fan Their opinions about the laws of the game is that they haven't got a clue so their baseline is incredibly skewed from the off. For example, they think that VAR hasn't improved decision-making accuracy when it clearly has.

@JakeJK666 @FansAgainstVAR_ @davejsports @premierleague @FA_PGMOL @Telegraph Automated offside is awful. If you have to even think about drawing a fucking line then the on field decision stands

@davejsports @FansAgainstVAR_ @premierleague @FA_PGMOL @Telegraph We need to separate, goal line technology (which I think most are happy with), automated offside (which is accurate although some still don’t want) and reviews of subjective decisions. I would kill the last one now.

I understand your point but there is real frustration about VAR and its implementation. Former @premierleague @FA_PGMOL Graham Scott in @Telegraph " hated standing around waiting for a colleague to pore over the pixels of an impossibly tight offside decision" VAR overturning goals not in spirit of even is on every week around the world

@RobHarris I’m surprised it’s only 75%. What isn’t surprising is how many pundits, journalists and blue tick bell ends still won’t listen to match going fans and keep saying VAR will improve

Do 75% of fans really oppose VAR? That's the claim by the Football Supporters' Association. But not based on scientific, random sampling polling representative of all fans. It was through a website fans had to chose to click on which could skew to those more strongly with views

@henrywinter Henry, what do you mean by “people forget what it was like before”? VAR has never worked in football.

@Bigalanh5 it's here to stay, people forget what it was like before. it's now a case of getting back to its original intent - clear and obvious

Premier League fans deliver damning verdict on VAR. 75% of 7,946 fans polled by the Football Supporters’ Association “didn’t support the use of VAR”. Too long, too forensic, too much of a joy killer, fans say. Findings shared with Premier League and PGMO. 92% of fans surveyed “agreed” that “VAR has removed the spontaneous joy of goal celebrations” (82% of them “strongly agreed”). 85% of match-going fans “strongly disagreed” with the notion that “VAR makes watching football more enjoyable”. And 83% of those watching on TV. 85% of match-going fans “strongly disagreed” that “VAR decisions are generally resolved in a reasonable amount of time”. Echoed by 83% of those watching on TV. Only 18% agreed that “VAR has improved the overall accuracy of refereeing decisions”. 72% are “concerned about the expansion of VAR beyond its current remit”. 79% “strongly disagreed” with the suggestion “that the match-going experience is better with VAR”. 67% “strongly agreed” that they preferred “watching games that are played without VAR to games with VAR”. 84% “strongly support” goal-line technology. 34% “strongly opposed” to the idea of a challenge system (two per game per team). “These findings back up the FSA's previous survey in 2021, where fans expressed misgivings about the introduction of VAR,” says Thomas Concannon, @WeAreTheFSAPremier League network manager. “The vast majority are reporting the same concerns five years on - the loss of spontaneity when celebrating goals, and an overall worsening of the match-going experience. We have shared the survey results with the Premier League and PGMO, and look forward to discussing its findings with them.” Fans surveyed of all PL clubs and all ages (Under-18 to 65+).

@Sam_LUFC__ 💯 Staggering that people can't understand this. VAR has never and will never work i football

I oppose VAR. Even if VAR got 100% of decisions correct, I’d still oppose VAR.

@henrywinter @Bigalanh5 VAR has never and will never work in football. We've tried it, its failed. Sack it off and give us our game back