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You know, it's just a wrestling thing from set pieces now.
And trying to manage that, referee that, is nigh on impossible.
And the way that they sort of have to make decisions, no one's ever going to be happy.
But I think overall, what I will say about that VAR decision, I think it just confirmed to me that people always perceive things according to their bias.
I'll come on to that with you in a second.
What are you shaking your head at?
It's just, unless I've misheard that from Matt, and I don't know if Darren really clocked that, it sounded like, Matt, you were saying that the fourth official, sorry, the video assistant referee has just asked the referee, just go and have another look at this, you know what I mean?
As opposed to going towards a specific thing to look at.
Is that what you meant, Matt?
Or were you being specific about, say, the foul on Raya?
Just to be crystal clear here, so there's no, like, muddying of waters, I think, Darren, you're saying that you sent him over to look at the specific incident on Ryan, not everything else in the box.
Because what it sounded like Matt was saying was that he was to go and look at everything on the side.
That's what it sounded like.
is is nonsense because the premier league isn't physical anywhere else on the field because if it was joe kim anderson wouldn't have been sent off that tackle would have been allowed yeah i think you're making really good points and for me i think we i've spoken about this on this show before and others like a law tweak is something that is needed i think darren's got a good idea in terms of creating space because for the last couple of years in my opinion goalkeepers overall before
the thing on Sunday, goalkeepers overall had become basically redundant from set pieces, especially in swinging ones, and the whole grappling side of things.
Like, realistically, when a corner comes in, in the past, they'd be like, try and find space, try and get a block, try and create this, create that.
But when you've got essentially 15 to 20 players in a six-yard box and the ball's coming into that area, all that people can do is grapple.
Those defensively, those in attack, and realistically there,
It's rubbish to watch.
I'll call it what it is.