Paul

Husband, Father, reformed luddite. Novice guitarist.
Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter.
One city one club

[Paul @p4ulg66]

@Mappiman1 Us Sedglyites are lucky to have a few places that sell decent ale!

[Rega Research Ltd. @RegaResearch]

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[Paul @p4ulg66]

@RegaResearch Who killed Bambi by The Sex Pistols

[Paul @p4ulg66]

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[Paul @p4ulg66]

@HarryMcNally00 Bridgnorth is nice. You could push on a bit and get to Ludlow too.

[Paul @p4ulg66]

@powelly_wwfc I think he gets in a squad now he's a 40 mil West Ham player.

[Paul @p4ulg66]

@powelly_wwfc Odds on that he makes an England squad in the autumn now?

[Paul @p4ulg66]

Not that I think it will make any difference!

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[Paul @p4ulg66]

@MrRyanLeister I may be wrong but my ticket in the Steve Bull:
£835÷19games= £43.95
My sons:
£626÷19games= £32.95
Total. £76.90

Ouch!

[Paul @p4ulg66]

@MrRyanLeister It's yellow in real time and red after several slow motion replays. It's also why I'm not renewing my season ticket. I feel sad for the @wwfc fans who've spent (wasted) money travelling to watch this. We know they're a better team bur VAR sways the field for the top 6

[Paul @p4ulg66]

@SkyJohnnyP this is an interesting read

[Mike Holden @binaryfootball]

The Premier League now has a big problem with VAR - a conceptual problem that runs much deeper than just incomptence or bad PR.

Accusations of corruption might be laughable when each one is taken in isolation, but this is now becoming the go-to response of the disgruntled fan.

And the paranoia is real.

The noise generated around every contestable decision might only be a few hundred cranks - but every club has them.

And the list of clubs with fans who are rotuinely throwing around the word corruption is growing all the time.

Nearly 5 years have passed since VAR was introduced and the story of how it's being received has gone through various phases.

With each passing phase, we get closer and closer to what is likely to be the default attitude of audiences at scale in the long run.

So this latest turn isn't to be taken lightly.

Nobody thinks the Premier League has total control over results and nobody believes the Premier League wants total control over results.

But it would also be naive to think the Premier League doesn't have preferences that tend towards its future prosperity.

So somewhere in the vast grey area between those two positions lies all of our perceptions.

And those perceptions are largely a matter of individual personality.

VAR has taken a problem rooted in Decider fears (about people, referees) and turned it into a problem rooted in Observer fears (about things, secret societies and such).

Decisions made in the moment by people we can see are now made in a controlled environment that lacks transparency.

This is no small thing.

We can accept that referees are human and vulnerable to emotions in a cauldron of 60,000 passionate people.

It's much harder to accept any sort of human error that comes from a control room that is meant to deal purely in cold logic.

If the game has taught us anything in these last few years, it's that many of these decisions are not as black and white as we assumed they would be.

Increasingly, we are being presented with footage that is far from conclusive in a sport that is phenomenally fluid - fluidity that should be celebrated, not disrupted.

For example, it doesn't matter where you draw the two lines for an offside decision, you must also agree on the exact moment in which the ball was played (at 60 frames per second).

I've seen instances where I believe contact with the ball is made and the receiving player is onside - only for the same player to be offside at what the control room eventually deems to be the moment of contact.

Either way, it doesn't sit well.

This is dangerous territory at a time when the No.1 news platform in the world is encouraging free speech and driving towards zero censorship.

Over the coming years, establishments will come under serious pressure from the masses.

People will throw mud. Some will stick, some won't.

Where mud sticks most, bigger crowds will gather.

Social mood is unpredictable and it certainly cannot be controlled once the balance tips against you.

We've seen how cancel culture works on the individual level. The next logical step is that crowds will now start flocking to cancel whole cultures and institutions.

If a critical mass of people buy into a certain narrative, the avalanche of mud that follows will see some huge organisations crumble.

If football wants to sidestep these culture wars and remain a happy distraction in a world tending towards chaos and disintergration, it should bin VAR immediately.

This summer.

In terms of cost-benefit analysis, the case for keeping it is becoming almost impossible to make.

Don't fall for the sunk-cost fallacy. Roll back the years and revel in the innocence of human error once again.

Get rid, and don't for one second look back.

[Mike Holden @binaryfootball]

The Premier League now has a big problem with VAR - a conceptual problem that runs much deeper than just incomptence or bad PR.

Accusations of corruption might be laughable when each one is taken in isolation, but this is now becoming the go-to response of the disgruntled fan.

And the paranoia is real.

The noise generated around every contestable decision might only be a few hundred cranks - but every club has them.

And the list of clubs with fans who are rotuinely throwing around the word corruption is growing all the time.

Nearly 5 years have passed since VAR was introduced and the story of how it's being received has gone through various phases.

With each passing phase, we get closer and closer to what is likely to be the default attitude of audiences at scale in the long run.

So this latest turn isn't to be taken lightly.

Nobody thinks the Premier League has total control over results and nobody believes the Premier League wants total control over results.

But it would also be naive to think the Premier League doesn't have preferences that tend towards its future prosperity.

So somewhere in the vast grey area between those two positions lies all of our perceptions.

And those perceptions are largely a matter of individual personality.

VAR has taken a problem rooted in Decider fears (about people, referees) and turned it into a problem rooted in Observer fears (about things, secret societies and such).

Decisions made in the moment by people we can see are now made in a controlled environment that lacks transparency.

This is no small thing.

We can accept that referees are human and vulnerable to emotions in a cauldron of 60,000 passionate people.

It's much harder to accept any sort of human error that comes from a control room that is meant to deal purely in cold logic.

If the game has taught us anything in these last few years, it's that many of these decisions are not as black and white as we assumed they would be.

Increasingly, we are being presented with footage that is far from conclusive in a sport that is phenomenally fluid - fluidity that should be celebrated, not disrupted.

For example, it doesn't matter where you draw the two lines for an offside decision, you must also agree on the exact moment in which the ball was played (at 60 frames per second).

I've seen instances where I believe contact with the ball is made and the receiving player is onside - only for the same player to be offside at what the control room eventually deems to be the moment of contact.

Either way, it doesn't sit well.

This is dangerous territory at a time when the No.1 news platform in the world is encouraging free speech and driving towards zero censorship.

Over the coming years, establishments will come under serious pressure from the masses.

People will throw mud. Some will stick, some won't.

Where mud sticks most, bigger crowds will gather.

Social mood is unpredictable and it certainly cannot be controlled once the balance tips against you.

We've seen how cancel culture works on the individual level. The next logical step is that crowds will now start flocking to cancel whole cultures and institutions.

If a critical mass of people buy into a certain narrative, the avalanche of mud that follows will see some huge organisations crumble.

If football wants to sidestep these culture wars and remain a happy distraction in a world tending towards chaos and disintergration, it should bin VAR immediately.

This summer.

In terms of cost-benefit analysis, the case for keeping it is becoming almost impossible to make.

Don't fall for the sunk-cost fallacy. Roll back the years and revel in the innocence of human error once again.

Get rid, and don't for one second look back.

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[Paul @p4ulg66]

@rcrdcltr It may be a good thing for my bank balance that I'm in London.....

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