John Bruton
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Jan
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I can see one argument for it.
The problem is, and you touched upon it there, when you get into a VAR conversation, the conversation you want to have is just get rid of it.
Just stop it.
And I was actually wondering if the FA Cup could have some sort of resurgence if they don't have VAR and people start enjoying this sort of authentic football, watching the games last weekend.
Because when you start talking about various things, you always end up crashing up against this sense, like just a dispiriting...
nature of it, this engagement again with the corporate class who kind of, you know, the PGMOL statements about why decisions were made and this explanations and all this management speak.
And it's just, it's soul destroying.
So when you start engaging with it and saying, well, what about this idea?
What about doing this?
It's kind of, you know, you almost, like they've won.
Like they're always just, they've won the war.
And it's like, okay, well, would you maybe give us this little bit of sugar?
And
I see all the arguments against Wenger's daylight, because it doesn't really change.
You're always going to have a millimeter, there's always going to be a point where you're offside or not offside, and actually the unintended consequence of this is that you could actually find teams no longer...
teams will defend so deep because you can't actually defend offside you can't defend offside properly if people have to be daylight between you so you'll end up just it'll make football more boring and more defensive so that's
That's a very strong reason not to adopt it.
The one thing I do think is those situations where players, and it happened in the West Ham-Nottingham Forest game a couple of weeks ago, where there's an offside given, not from when the goal was scored, but from the build-up play, and you have this awful thing now in...
in VAR, where, you know, to go back through the play to see if there's any reason to disallow the goal.
Which is kind of wrong in itself.
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