mark rowe

[mark rowe @mark1975rowe]

@ValueBetSpotter Gordon for rashford 👍🏼

[Fans against VAR @FansAgainstVAR_]

@EarlBarretsMuzy https://t.co/fJrHaBYp40

[Fans against VAR @FansAgainstVAR_]

VAR has been a total unmitigated disaster for football.

We could just turn it off. It's not that hard.

Why don't we?

We have to reclaim our sport from being Americanised dirge.

[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.

[Ultra_Fox 🦊☮️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇸 @Ultra_Fox]

1-0 ft. Mavididi's late strike gave #LCFC first league win on road for nearly FIVE MONTHS.

But Blackburn wasted several big chances to open scoring before Foxes did.

Ultimately, though, it was the Rudkin Tax, plus his shocking choices of manager, sending us down.

#RudkinOut

[Leicester Fan Tv @LeicesterFanTV]

Our financial mismanagement has cost us 6 points, which after a terrible season is why we are relegated.
Surely heads should role... or is it another internal investigation by the same people who caused the problems?
#lcfc #leicester #leicestercity

[John Percy @JPercyTelegraph]

Ten years after the fairytale, #lcfc are relegated to League One - a consequence of huge mismanagement, negligence & ruinous decisions.

The cycle of football? Absolute rubbish. Completely self-inflicted.

Leicester had it all and have totally blown it

https://t.co/Pd1OwSmCYA

[Mr Geoff Peters @mrgeoffpeters]

Jon Rudkin is Top's right hand man at Leicester City.
He makes the key decisions - recruitment of players/managers, contracts, communication.
He needs to come out and say why and how they got it so wrong and how they'll put it right.
Otherwise it's dereliction of duty.
#lcfc

[Mr Geoff Peters @mrgeoffpeters]

To the owner, senior management and players at Leicester City.

You've got exactly what you deserve.
It's been an utter shitshow.
Gutless, spineless, rudderless.
Hang your heads in shame.
Dereliction of duty.
#lcfc

[John Percy @JPercyTelegraph]

#lcfc winning the league was a miracle and should be remembered as such.

Announcing this the night before the club could be relegated (for the 3rd time in 4 seasons) when they are arguably at their lowest point in their history is really odd

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Huge, growing disconnect between Leicester City fans and their players on top of the huge, growing disconnect between fans and board. It’s down to poor leadership from Top and Rudkin, poor recruitment and bringing in certain players who are big on wages but short on fight. #LCFC

[mark rowe @mark1975rowe]

@NBottrill @LCFC Staggering inability to read the room 🤦‍♂️

[Essex News and Weather 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ @southeast_watch]

This is how shit the @bbcweather app is shows rain for today.. scan though 37% chance at 2am Saturday utter joke #weather #bbcweather #useless

[The Final Whistle @TFWhistle__]

Charlotte Duncker absolutely spot on with her analysis on our situation as a club🙌🏻

@CharDuncker

#lcfc #leicestercity

[mark rowe @mark1975rowe]

@LCFC Skipp should be on the list

[mark rowe @mark1975rowe]

@roygoodwin1 @LCFC @Rovers 🥴😂

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

…managerial churn; disconnect between fans and board and fans and team; controversial director of football; the cost of excessive, unsustainable wages and PSR woes. Long read here on the many issues at #LCFC 2/2
https://t.co/tIuwaFNP6b

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Plenty good about Leicester City, academy, support, facilities, but what's befallen them recently is a painful sequence of events that fans at many other clubs beware: a naïve owner; bad decisions; stars sold; overpaid under-performing players; uninspiring football... 1/2