Timo Harvey
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Timo Harvey
@TimoHarvey
Crystal Palace ⚽️ Helsinki/London/Southeast Asia. Hodl #Bitcoin
Helsinki, Suomi Katılım Temmuz 2009
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@theawayfans @EllisMoore1904 The picture shows how foreigners see stereotypical Brit abroad on holiday.. 😅
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@tkotimaki Wharton ulkona... Ei ole toista pelaajaa Englannilla, joka osaisi syöttää samalla tavalla linjan taakse.
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Melkoisia päätöksiä Tuchelilta.
–360 #Valioliiga -minuutin Stones ennen Maguirea, joka olisi myös loppuhetkien ET-uhka
–Ivan Toney pelaa näköjään yhä futista —> IN!
–Madueke in. Mitä?
–Trent, MGW, Palmer ulkona. Etenkin Trentin QB-erityisominaisuuden poisjättö älytön. #mmfutis
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VAR
I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead.
But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong.
Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal.
Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others.
Subjectivity.
I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess.
Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy.
For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect.
Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy.
As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human.
Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life.
VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR).
Enough is enough, fuck it off.
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This has been a terrible week for VAR.
The events at West Ham, Tottenham Hotspur and Motherwell proved as much.
And to think its introduction was designed to “get rid of headline mistakes and scandals”. Instead, they have not been removed from the game but have in fact been piling up like never before.
Mistakes and scandals that are not just one-off errors, misses, lapses of judgment, but rather an inevitable part of the VAR system.
There is one clean clear simple solution for this, @JackPittBrooke argues.
That is full abolition without delay.
🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/72757…

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@derro1962 @richie26188 @johnmerro1 Tribal, one-eyed perspective. What makes me fall out of love with football. Along with VAR of course. Night
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"Seven years after VAR’s inception in England’s top flight, we still can’t stop losing sight of what VAR was introduced for. It’s supposed to step in for clear and obvious errors."
✍️ @GregorRoberts0n #Echobox=1778531902" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/sport/football…
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Bournemouth was awarded a penalty in that situation
Dean Henderson vs Marcos Senesi
x.com/bfernandesball…
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Marcelo Bielsa: "I am sure that football is in a process of decline.
"It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore.
"If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football.
"For me, the introduction of technology like VAR does a lot of harm to football.
"This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal.
"As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted."

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@ccliffy90 @paddypower Their back line was the full side. Only Sarr and Wharton missing. Maybe another midfielder. Larsen started every league game since signing before you say Mateta.
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Feel like Palace are the only English club who can do this convincingly. They’ve nailed the European Ultra atmosphere without it feeling completely artificial
The 44 ⚽️@The_Forty_Four
Crystal Palace fans in Italy tonight 👏 I didn’t know us English fans were capable of something like this 😂😂😂
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Viimeistään siinä vaiheessa, kun Chris Richards on listalla Pedriä ja Bruno Fernandesia korkeammalla, voipi alkaa sammutella koneita. #Valioliiga #mmfutis #laligafi #jenkit
Waleed@waleedinhoafc
Somebody CANCEL this World Cup😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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