[theo_luddite]

Be interesting to get Kirsty Gallagher's take on our transfer dealings so far

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Apart from that the Sports Bra they all wear with the tracking device on their back is supposed to monitor most of that. OK it doesn't show where their toenails, fingernails and armpits are that our dickheads use to make offside decisions but erm, multiplication of bullshit data by any chance?

As I've argued long and hard in industry for far too many years. You can use tech to make things more idiot proof, but sooner or later along comes a better idiot. Train the idiots, or rather those you think are idiots, but often aren't, to do their job better in the first place and use the tech to make them better, not replace them or their decision making process, and you get better results.

Sooner or later the refs are gonna say why do we need to be here?

Rugby League refs went a bit that way when they first introduced it and wouldn't award tries without checking everything, despite have two liners and other folk behind the try line giving the try and it was obviously a try they used to give all day long. Now they look for stuff that happened back on the half-way line they might have missed in the build up rather than whether or not the ball was grounded properly right under their noses. We need to drop the "clear and obvious mistake" bollocks because it's a misnomer anyway.

It's either an obvious foul or it isn't. It's an obvious offside or it isn't. Let the officials on the pitch make the decisions at the time the offence is seen or it happens. If 30,000+ folk are screaming for a foul, you might want to ask them take another look - but not wait for some bloke in Bletchley who might have nipped out for a piss (like with us at Wembley maybe???) to call all the offsides/fouls on their behalf.