Marc

Dundonian in Malta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇲🇹

[Marc @marc_day]

Robbed.

[Marc @marc_day]

@NotoriousBAG_ @PartickPeter @E19177 It was at a Scotland game, this is Patriot Place about two hours before kick off against Haiti. Tartan Army know not to wear club colours these two were locals and took it in good spirits.

[Marc @marc_day]

@MickyJnr__ @petermccue1 What happened to the “Any team, including the supporters and officials of that team, who qualify for a World Cup need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup.”

Russia let in anyone with a ticket, Qatar made a special pass for everyone. FIFA pants down

[Ashley Armstrong @AArmstrong_says]

EXCLUSIVE: UK government is in talks with large supermarkets about voluntarily capping food prices on basic food items, four people told @FT. Comes after SNP’s food caps were branded a 1970s style gimmick.
https://t.co/rwFB0XIdR7

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

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.

[Marc @marc_day]

@brougher1 They decided to call it… I mean it was over as a contest but how can they just decide to end up because the fans 🤣

[Marc @marc_day]

@shazxraz Match abandoned 3-0 win to Hearts?

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

I wrote an article in 2024 about how far the Israel lobby owns Wes Streeting

Andy Burnham was a member of Labour Friends of Israel for years, too

Britain is occupied. The lobby has the whole political class sewn up

We need a public inquiry now👇
https://t.co/mEUSAcZ0Vz

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

They told us we’d never leave the EU.

They told us we’d never have Boris Johnson as PM.

They told us Labour would deliver change.

They will tell us they can stop Nigel Farage holding power.

Britain is broken.

Let’s take control of our own destiny as an independent nation.

[Ross Colquhoun @rosscolquhoun]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 73 MSPs from pro-independence parties have been elected to Holyrood - a majority and a record high in the history of the Scottish Parliament.

[Ross Colquhoun @rosscolquhoun]

🎯

[Marc @marc_day]

@Tele_Sport @di_cranio Facts are it is a watered down version. Mans a clown.

[Ross Colquhoun @rosscolquhoun]

It would also be really unfortunate if @D_G_Alexander was on record trying to dissuade the First Minister of Scotland from promoting Scottish interests, wouldn’t it?

[Connor Gillies @ConnorGillies]

NEW: President Donald Trump has phoned SNP leader John Swinney to discuss the US scrapping whisky tariffs.

The 9 minute call also included talks about Iran war.

Swinney’s team also revealed a message sent to him from POTUS last night. 👇🏼

@SkyNews

[Marc @marc_day]

@brougher1 It’s a total joke, clearly pushed him which he didn’t have to do silly from him. If it’s offside then fair enough but to take seven minutes or more, then ask the referee to decide from a still photo is quite ridiculous just go with the on field decisions if you’re not sure 🤷‍♂️

[Marc @marc_day]

All that time for nothing

[Marc @marc_day]

@JamieKeith27 Then he’s told to guess from a picture!!

[Marc @marc_day]

What a joke… get on with it referee decision stands

[Marc @marc_day]

@brougher1 @ForresDee Yep, no arguments there just a bad few minutes

[Marc @marc_day]

Nightmare few minutes for Astley

[Marc @marc_day]

@brougher1 @ForresDee The goal as well though