David Newton

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[David Newton @newty1987]

@ExtremeFootbal4 No

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

Before the woke crowd made loving your country out to be a bad thing.

[David Newton @newty1987]

Come on England 🦁🦁🦁

[England @England]

Our @FIFAWorldCup journey starts here! 🦁

[Leicester City @LCFC]

We are delighted to confirm the appointment of Russell Martin as Leicester City’s new First Team Manager 🤝

Welcome to the Foxes, Russell!

[David Newton @newty1987]

@LCFC @thenickjenkins We’ve got to get behind him this season.
The toxic atmosphere last season was totally justified but this will be a new team so hopefully it’s a fresh start 🦊

[PDC Darts @OfficialPDC]

ENGLAND ARE WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS! 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Luke Littler and Luke Humphries win the 2026 BetVictor World Cup of Darts for England, defeating the Netherlands 10-5 in the final 💫

[England @England]

Preparation for a big summer: complete ✅

[Leicester City @LCFC]

The only man to ever win a #FIFAWorldCup while at Leicester City 🦊

The late, great Gordon Banks 💙

[David Newton @newty1987]

#lcfc https://t.co/w1zOUAdPfT

[Foxes Trust @foxestrust]

We can now reveal the results and calls to action from our End of Season Survey.

To view them in full head to https://t.co/u3MgslYR1R

…or watch back the live reveal here: https://t.co/o1bc9nzMFr

[David Newton @newty1987]

@LCFC 😆 get a grip

[David Newton @newty1987]

@SassyXtr Silvinhio

[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.

[David Newton @newty1987]

@DartsBehindThe Taylor

[David Newton @newty1987]

@DartsBehindThe Humphries

[David Newton @newty1987]

@DartsBehindThe Anderson

[Online Darts @OfficialOLDarts]

🗣️ "I'm just done with seeing the same players duking it out every week. I'm bored with the whole concept."

🎤 Chris Mason didn’t hold back with the current format and called for a major shake-up 👀

Do you agree with him? 🤔

🎥 Full interview here 👇🏻
https://t.co/0knQ3RIjQi