Evan Sofer

#DAFC

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@spanky Didn’t you read Kalish’s manifesto on studying bookmaking techniques

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@jonlerner @davidclowery Have you ever met anyone from Pittsburgh, Youngstown or Steubenville that wasn’t a bookie?

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@ssigsbee @astraffon @ImawhalePM Congrats on 1b

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@AGallacher1999 43 Pars game in a year is pretty savage. Ty for your loyalty.

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@kevyodp @officialdafc You should see this 16 year old from
Bhutan we are looking at!

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@jbulltard1 @JCOviedo6 It’s worth whatever they can force passive investors to buy at

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VAR

I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead.

But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong.

Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal.

Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others.

Subjectivity.

I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess.

Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy.

For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect.

Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy.

As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human.

Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life.

VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR).

Enough is enough, fuck it off.

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@DryburghJohn They say the Scottish Championship is about the friends you make along the way

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Great run. In the end it was too many games in too few days.

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@danyboy198631 @jamesferg88 “Hey Neil, we got it figured out. We broke the bank on the guy that will send us over the top!”
Neil: “what position? a new striker? A number 10?”
“No he plays goalkeeper coach.”

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@danyboy198631 @jamesferg88 According to my mother, I never gave up a single soft goal in all my years playing the position, but this was against 11 year olds. We’ll probably leave me off the coaching staff.

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@danyboy198631 @jamesferg88 Ball doesn’t have deflect to the exact wrong place on first and hard to prepare for a guy playing dead in front of your goal on second.

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@danyboy198631 @jamesferg88 Billy made some nice plays as well today. He shouldn’t have to face that many 1 on 1’s.

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David Stern rolling over in his grave at how bad these premier league games are

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@ChrisParry Don’t think it has much to do with the sustainability as a league, and more to do with the sustainability of team valuations being in the 600m+ range.

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And they say Americans don’t get football

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@yizzle_ev Send me a dm

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@DerekLomas58616 The passion of the fans and community are what make it special.

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@jacob_1885 Holy sh*t was it cold for ET