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@theawayfans They've made that many bad changes to the sport that they're now looking for ways to make it more entertaining. If they'd left it the way it was there wouldn't be any issue. Get rid of VAR and the game improves x100

Pierluigi Collina: “I think there’s an excessive gap between the opportunities for the shooter and the goalkeeper. On average, 75% of penalties end in goals. Plus, there’s the chance of a rebound off the goalkeeper. One solution is the ‘one shot’ rule, similar to what we see in penalty shootouts after extra time. No rebounds. Either you score, or the game resumes with a goal kick. This would also eliminate the spectacle we often see before a penalty is taken, with everyone crowding around the area. It looks like horses at the starting gate before a race.”

@theawayfans Honestly I'm sick to death of these people. Stop trying to reinvent the game.

@jviddy @WhistleBlowerDK They have to see it in real life before they go 'oh shit yeah, it doesn't work does it'.

@WhistleBlowerDK I don’t understand how people don’t get this. All this does is change where your draw the lines. The same as giving a 5cm leeway just means you are drawing lines 5cm apart and checking that it’s not 4.9cm.

This will still result in “toenail” offside decisions.

@its_all_atoms @deejayfaremi Spot on

@deejayfaremi “Accuracy” is not the only thing that matters in decision making. Speed is also of critical importance. A referee who takes ages to make each decision is a bad referee, even if those decisions are “accurate”. Accurate but slow = bad. VAR is a bad referee.

I can’t believe people like this, with so much influence, think it’s okay to come out and speak so carelessly publicly. Football before VAR was a crime scene. Referees were as bad then as they are bad now, and they had zero opportunities to change even the most egregious mistakes. VAR gives them a chance to correct some of those mistakes. It has made a positive difference! No, it’s not perfect. There’ll be no perfect calls in football. There certainly won’t be, as long as we still have so many subjectivity laws (understandable so) and humans are officials. What you can have is a system to reduce it. Heck, even in a line sport — where most things are black & white — like tennis, there are still controversial calls. There’s no case for the scraping of VAR. Except sensationalism and carelessness.

@MrMattyjohnson Hate it. Watching the game in a constant state of stress and anxiety knowing there's someone in stockley park dying to get involved. Get rid completely.

It’s absolutely shite. You can’t celebrate goals now without doubting “oh that may have been offside”. It’s killed the joy out of the game.

@JackPittBrooke The tech is shite and the people using it are shite. Needs binning. The only people who seem to like it are on twitter. I haven't spoken to a single person who thinks it's an improvement

I oppose VAR, not the people who operate it.

@AdamFulwell_ It's absolutely terrible! The things that made this sport great are gone. The greatest moment during a football match is watching your team score a goal and celebrating. This has been taken away. How anyone can go along with this and think it's ok is totally beyond me.

I genuinely don’t think fans oppose VAR, they oppose the clowns who operate it. Every international tournament the English officials are shown up. Standards are rock bottom.

@LS1hack @AdamFulwell_ Exactly. I despise it. The sport is a terrible, terrible watch in comparison with pre-var.

@AdamFulwell_ Anyone who actually watches their team live hates VAR...it kills the passion stone dead.

@TrueBenito @parkendgoodison @premierleague Yeah, more exposure being the only fixture on the day maybe. Also maybe easier for police/stewards to deal with night games after work rather than weekend games as fans want to get in and out, esp with it being a new stadium, new matchday routines. Can't be Sky forcing us on MNF

@Toffeepot1 @parkendgoodison @premierleague Probably right there. I'm sure the club see it as a way to increase the bank balance!

What’s the point of having rules when Everton have played 6 and will be 7 by the end of the season Monday night games @premierleague

@DavidJWalton1 @CrosenderWay Not sure they deserved to win myself, thought they were piss poor and pens would have been a fair way to end it. Marine were better in the first half but didn't really get going 2nd half but still had opportunities on the break. Deffo agree on settling for pens at the end though

Gutted but will wait till tomorrow to go over the performance more. I thought we were 2nd best today, Wealdstone deserved it. The game was going till 94 minutes, one side was playing until then, we were preparing for pens and it bit us on the arse @CrosenderWay

@MarkBadMan @djpain1 😂😂😂

@djpain1 Honestly I kinda like Suno artists more than Spotify artists. I think it’s because they’re aimed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Thank god I have easy tastes. Everything I hear on Suno is awesome. Or maybe it just has a better algorithm for me.

People do NOT want AI music or unlabeled AI music.

I've always had this subtle intuition about The Beatles that Piero Scaruffi here articulates.

@Jonny_morgs @henrywinter Exactly. Sick to death of this acceptance that it has to stay. They've never once asked the people who matter the most in this whether it is wanted or not. Every PL season ticket holder should be asked if they want it, but wont happen as they wouldn't get the answer they wanted

@henrywinter I suppose the question is why is it here to stay? Because the law makers have got themselves into something sinister that they can’t reverse? No one (fans) will celebrate a goal at the time in a couple of years They have sanitised the game VAR is the start of a slow death

The biggest time-wasters in football now are not the players but some of the officials implementing VAR. Turf Moor confirmed that. Almost three minutes to decide that Anthony was offside. Right decision but a nonsense it took so long to establish. Sort out semi-automated. Almost five minutes to decide that Barnes had handled. Not even sure it was the right decision anyway. The unacceptable, unconscionable amount of time taken damages the game and alienates the fans, without whom there is no game. PGMO has to improve. It claims it is speeding up decision-making and then delivers this desecration of a great football game between Burnley and Brentford with delays. PGMO use of the technology has to be better. And quicker. VAR is here to stay - IFAB underlined that in Cardiff on Saturday - so let’s make it work for the game of football not against. Improve standard of officiating - on-field and at Stockley Park. Invest even more in developing good officials. Speed up the process - and if that means a time limit on decisions then do it. Don’t chase perfection; just prevent injustice. PGMO has forgotten Clear and Obvious only. PGMO has forgotten the game is about passionate match-goers not pedantic, slow-moving law-enforcers. #BURBRE

@BlakeDemarest12 @ednewtonrex I'm convinced it's just bot plays, surely nobody with a functioning brain would listen to that shit

@ednewtonrex This is mindblowing because every SUNO song sounds the exact fucking same, it follows extremely predictable patterns, has a disgusting hiss at the top, and I swear the vocals switch between 3 different ppl and that’s it , how bad does your taste have to be?

This tweet, from Suno’s lead investor, will surely be used in court one day. She says she has shifted her listening from Spotify to Suno. *This is a direct admission that Suno competes with the music it trains on.* This is exactly the kind of competition that Judge Chhabria, in Kadrey v. Meta, said could lead to AI companies losing copyright lawsuits: AI products “helping to enable the rapid generation of countless works that compete with the originals”. The fourth factor affecting fair use decisions - and the one Chhabria says is most important - is the effect of the copying (here, the training) on “the potential market for or value of” the copyrighted work. Suno’s lead investor here provides evidence that Suno displaces demand for the music it is trained on. She even specifically says she uses it as a replacement for the music the *record labels* release - the very companies suing Suno. It is clear to any rational observer that AI music models, trained on copyrighted music without permission, will harm that music’s market & value. But it is still pretty shocking to see Suno’s lead investor admit as much.

@NiallHarbison I find the AI thing totally depressing and honestly don't know any normal people actually in favour of it. Even in the blue tick replies on this post, I don't know who are bots and who are real! You are inspirational to real people, I only rescued a dog after seeing what you do

Did you ever question everything? I do. I was sitting in the beach just after sunrise this morning with my 2 dogs and I came across a man taking his buffalo swimming and bathing him. He loved that animal and the 2 of them had a deep bond as they spent 30 minutes in the water. He has the same bond I had with Hank and Chance beside me. It’s my favorite time of the week. Most people are hungover in bed. The tourists aren’t up yet. After working all week I give myself 30 minutes to think before the dog madness continues. Lately I’ve been feeling a bit down looking at the world. Everything seems to be about money. Every human is trying to amass power, wealth or fame at the expense of everything else. People don’t even look at each other any more instead preferring their phones. Image and status is everything. The world seems driven by anger, consumption and a total disregard for others. We’ve crossed the rubicon in many worrying areas globally as a society. I think I’m just at the sharp end of it in Samui as the island gets taken over by tourists and people building villas. I see everything tossed out from rubbish and local customs to the dogs I try to help. Humans care so little for the world we live in and it’s really starting to show. My mission is to help the world’s street dogs and I’ll need to use the technology, capital and systems of the modern world to do that but it pains me to live in that world. I’ll only do it for the sake of the street dogs. AI is 100% taking most of the jobs no matter what anybody says, the wealth divide is growing and the unfortunate creatures like the dogs will continue to suffer most. As I sat watching the man washing his buffalo and the sun rising I just longed for a simpler life. A life where humans and animals lived together peacefully and respected the land rather than chasing meaningless paper wealth and fake status. All I can try and do is build a small corner of kindness and compassion with wonderful people to help as many dogs as possible. No matter how helpless some of us feel in life the street dogs really have no voice and very few humans on their side. Be kind to each other ❤️

@BarstoolNate Used to love going there with my dad on a Friday and is still one of my fondest memories of being a kid. There's no way the modern version of this, ie sitting on the couch with your dad scrolling through hundreds of thumbnails on Netflix, is a better experience.

*Cracks knuckles* As a kid, it was everything. We didn't have everything at the tip of our fingers. So the dopamine rush of going to Blockbuster and picking out 1 or 2 movies for the weekend was much stronger than the dopamine rush of scrolling through 8 streaming services to decide what to watch. We have it *easier* now, and with way more options. But is it a better experience, as stated? I'd say no, and not even close.

@DeadStarLegacy @FansAgainstVAR_ It does not. The game is absolutely abysmal and the pay-off of getting a few extra decisions right is not worth what it has done to the greatest sport ever made. The heart and soul has been sucked out of the game for it. Rather have the drama of wrong decisions made in real time

@FansAgainstVAR_ This actually proves exactly why we need VAR and in fact more technology.

Referees forgot how to referee because other referees sat in a box miles away do it for them. The dismal affect VAR has had on the game needs studying

@henrywinter Definitely and to be fair to them they shouldn't be being asked to referee in the old way one week and then the new way the next. They are instructed to let things go in the event that var picks something up, we can't expect them to revert to pre-var and expect it to go well

Have some officials become conditioned to have VAR as a safety net to make decisions for them? So assistants not making simple offside calls? Not only Tammy Abraham. Also Omar Marmoush. With Manchester City leading 1-0, Marmoush timed his run perfectly, good finish yet flagged offside. Cut of the grass showed him onside. Salford were threatening so it could have been costly. City won 2-0, so little focus on the incident, and they’d be expected to beat Salford but it adds to debate on officiating standards/dynamics.

My 2 rescue dogs in their Sunday best today. Hank and Chance. Wouldn’t it be cool if everybody who had a rescue shared them in this thread to show the world that rescue dogs are the best option. Shelters and rescues all around the world full of great dogs. Go for it👇