Dale Johnson
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325 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Yeah, so I think there's two parts and potentially a third part to this question, really.
In terms of time, really, it can go back much further.
And actually, in terms of in the Premier League, they don't go back too far at all.
And the fact there's a really good comparable one from last season involving...
Aston Villa and Brentford where the ball went out of play virtually in exactly the same area of the pitch that it did in Argentina versus Egypt right in the far corner by the corner flag and in the Premier League game it went back 19 seconds and today's game it was 17 seconds so that just shows it was quite a bit of time but honestly sometimes in the European League's
they go back 40, 45 seconds, whereas in the Premier League, they have a much more controlled idea of what should be the attacking phase, as they call it.
Now, when it comes to whether they should go back that far, I think the Premier League's got it better that way, to be honest.
I think going back so far in the move, whereby people don't realise when the attack has actually begun, I don't think that makes any sense at all.
They're defending.
Yeah, so the way it's defined is when the team gets the possession of the ball to start the attack.
So if they get possession of the ball by committing a foul, then that means it's in the attacking phase and that's how they define it.
Well, no, exactly.
And it's one of the things that frustrates people more than anything else is...
VAR getting involved when I guess when people aren't expecting to when they've just seen especially when you've seen one of the goals of the tournament as they did today and people just get frustrated and feel that VAR is there just to find a reason to disallow a goal and take the joy out of the game that they're watching.
I think Lloyd makes a good point there.
Does he?
It's good to get your first one.
The challenges that have been let go, we've had a really, really high threshold.
Pierre-Louis Ducline said only last week that he wants normal football contact to be allowed to go, so it's a higher tempo game, so you're not stopped starting on tackles.
That's great, but if you're doing that, you've got to have the same ethos in the VAR room as well.
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