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Well, hello dearest friends of the internet. Here we go again – another week of competitive football in the Premier League of England & Wales. Let’s get into some of the mad stuff that happened yesterday.
Nottingham Forest skewered the VAR in their match against Everton for being a Luton fan. Using a club’s social media channels to make a really emotional point about referees is, of course, very Barclays Premier League, but I’m not sure it helps their cause. It was amateur. The club channels should be above that sort of thing. The game decisions were poor, but I’m not sure it’s because the VAR was rooting for Luton. I think it’s more likely they’re just not great at what they do.
That said, the FA and PGMOL do next to nothing to avoid conflicts of interest. There are 28,000 registered refs in England, 4000 offer up their souls to get into the game each year? yet Arsenal manages to get an Australian Liverpool fan in the VAR box for six Arsenal games and as referee twice this season. There are more Australian refs than refs from London ? a capital of 9 million, a huge pool of refs, and not one ref can make it to the elite in *this* era" They only have one ref of color in a diverse league. The majority of refs are from the North, mostly from the Northwest. Refs from Manchester ref the Manchester Derby. Football obsession is inherited. I hate Spurs because my dad told me to. I tried to support Nottingham Forest and my Da...
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