Paul Perkins

Off for Lent. Possibly.

@eighosensei @FansAgainstVAR_ Erm, no we’re not. Scott, Aluko, Carney et al are a breath of fresh air. VAR should be consigned to the bin, alongside Joey Barton’s views.

@FansAgainstVAR_ The people who think football is better with var are the same ones championing aluko and Alex Scott to talk shvt before and after games..

Do you agree with Martin football is better than ever?

@honigstein This is pretty much VAR! 🤣🤣

Marginally correct calls are infuriating! What football needs is to make one of the few binary laws and factual decisions subjective. A panel of retired judges, voting remotely, should rule whether the attacker has gained an unfair advantage, and thus serve natural justice.

@FansAgainstVAR_ I think what he might actually mean is ‘Premier League club owners’ shareholder return’ is better than ever…

@JelleVitesse @FansAgainstVAR_ I think that’s the point. I wonder what proportion of VAR supporters have been to more than 10 matches in their lives. 🤔

@FansAgainstVAR_ For people watching tv only

@martindelp @wurzelofoz @FansAgainstVAR_ Another who wants football played on a spreadsheet. 🙈

If you justify this decision you are an enemy of football. VAR has to go, the laws have to become more lenient on offside. The game is finished as we knew it.

@martindelp @FansAgainstVAR_ You know that human officials are fully automated, right? 🤣🤣

@AndyBxxx I don’t think anybody thought he’d been murdered. The Guardian/BBC even did a feature on him recently…

@jonpayates @KeirIrwinRogers My thinking on this has been influenced (rightly or wrongly) by: Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast & Slow’, my time at Save the Children UK (seeing up close the search for silver bullets divorced from the real world) and Dawn Plimmer/Toby Lowe/others’ work on outcomes and impact.

@jonpayates @KeirIrwinRogers The claim to objectivity is often itself the fundamental problem, and the lack of acknowledgment is what can cause damage. I have very rarely seen meaningful ownership of this and related issues (assumptions, identities, agendas) in the WWCs space.

Was on SkyNews yesterday talking about how we prevent knife crime. The answer is not more knife bins 👇

@priceman71 @FansAgainstVAR_ Do you know if that statistics includes contested decisions, like this one? Next!

@FansAgainstVAR_ Out of interest , do you ever praise the 96% of VAR decisions that are correct?

I've had this account since 2019, calling out hundreds, if not thousand of bullshit VAR decisions and why I think VAR is terrible for the sport. But now I'm being accused by Manchester United fans of having an agenda against them? What a joke.

@FansAgainstVAR_ Wear it as a badge of honour ✊ £1.67bn spent on transfers in the last 10 years and the only thing that gets them into the FA Cup final against a Championship team is a dodgy VAR decision? Of course they're against you!

@longlivethepast @FansAgainstVAR_ @MrTrickyTree 😂😂😂

@FansAgainstVAR_ @MrTrickyTree TBF, they were awarded a penalty that never was.

#ccfc have been robbed. Future scandal.

@jonpayates @KeirIrwinRogers For me the question is less about youth work and more about why and how we believe we know what makes a difference, across the board. It is an approach which is perhaps rational, but not necessarily justified: why do we put faith in an approach with divorces academia and praxis?

@jonpayates @KeirIrwinRogers Without wishing to be (overly) facetious 😉 I am interested in if there is a what works for what works centres. This isn’t to deliberately sidestep the points made above, but rather to highlight that presumptions inherent in the so-called ‘evidence-based’ paradigm.

Embarrassing and cringeworthy to see Arteta’s comments on the decimation of the FA Cup, as if all of his players emerged from the stratosphere rather than through grassroots football. Amazing how the vision narrows…

@dominiccampbell I find the idea of AI contributing to human emancipation completely surreal; a bit like the notion of the FA acting in the long-term interests of football

Latest update in the 'FA not fit for purpose' series bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

@jonpayates @KeirIrwinRogers I've no objection whatsoever to developing a formal evidence base (or not) for these sorts of interventions, but it strikes me that we overlook the role of on the ground experience in drawing the same conclusions. Any youth professional worth their salt could have explained this.

@KeirIrwinRogers Thanks Keir :-)