James Rix

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@MaximumHog57298 @Steven_Swinford ADP precedent is the most likely outcome with the current US administration.

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@DPJHodges This opens a can of worms on verification that probably slaps straight into Apple and the US first amendment. Seems like a terrible compromise position.

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@DPJHodges You are going to have to countenance this take with the 2 x Reform + 2 public polls last week.

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@DailyMail By guillotine?

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@MattChorley Well done. This is more of what we need to see in the media.

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@andrew_lilico Would you be a good Bayesian and bet on it?

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@johnloeber @finn_hulse Don’t forget his time designing women’s underwear.

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@andrew_lilico Either Augustus when there is just a little hope left, or Odoacer when all hope is gone.

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@DaleJohnsonBBC Started this on one of your other posts. I think technology in sport is excellent when used to answer factual questions in a tight problem space (think tennis - is the ball in or out or ball tracking in cricket) when the problem space widens, it is more open to interpretation.

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@TheYellowLlama1 @DaleJohnsonBBC This is where I am. Where I am unsure and not seeing any info on is whether the VAR looked at that incident or not or If the VAR was just looking for “is there a reason to disallow the goal” which is another problem entirely.

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@AJ_Basic @DaleJohnsonBBC Thanks for taking time to reply. On this, the VARs decision is still subjective, it isn’t factual like say goal line technology. You can see it’s still subjective by how many times this season the KMI have come out and said VAR got a decision wrong etc

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@rvgooner @Johnsie31 @DaleJohnsonBBC Completely agree with this as well. This is a problem that has been coming for a while.

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@Johnsie31 @DaleJohnsonBBC Yeah I can understand the disappointment. This does seem to be a mistake by the VAR, pretty clear cut that Pablo is being fouled before engaging with Raya. Rice vs Mavropanos is probably a foul, pen and a red - but it does occur just after the foul on Raya, so I do get that one.

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@Johnsie31 @DaleJohnsonBBC By the way - I don’t think there was some grand conspiracy (I’m a Norwich City fan, no dog in this fight). I think Arsenal’s lucky stars have lined up this season. I remember your article re: 3 KMI incidents that should have led to pens and then Gabriel/Haaland incident + this.

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@Johnsie31 @DaleJohnsonBBC This is my first time seeing this angle. @DaleJohnsonBBC do you know if VAR reviewed this? I can’t for the life of me see how you don’t give a pen if they did.

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@DaleJohnsonBBC Ha ha thanks for taking the time to respond! I actually think this gets to my biggest problem with how VAR is used. We see the same images and see slightly different things. For these types of decisions, you are swapping one qualitative assessment (ref) for another (var).

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@DaleJohnsonBBC It’s just consistency. How can you allow the goals vs united and villa, then disallow that one?

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@jonsopel Just a bigoted journalist who used to vote Labour.