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       Re: Simon Hooper - West Brom v Southampton
   DIR By: Ref Watcher
       Date: April 13, 2021, 4:24 am
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       --- Quote from: ajb95 link ---
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       > It's no wonder managers get sacked and teams get relegated...
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       Managers got sacked before VAR was introduced and teams will
       definitely continue to be relegated with or without VAR.  This
       was a poor offside decision.  How many additional poor offside
       decisions would we have had this season without VAR?
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       Re: Simon Hooper - West Brom v Southampton
   DIR By: ajb95
       Date: April 13, 2021, 5:01 am
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       Hooper I thought was excellent. Beck and VAR were terrible.
       Agreed beck made a mistake but from his position he cannot make
       a credible decision.
       VAR can rule Jota and the Wolves player offside for having a
       string of sleeve offside but when someone is TWO YARDS onside
       they come up with any excuse to justify their awful system of
       decision making.
       If they cannot get the lines on to the screen don’t use them
       because it becomes (as we saw last night) a farce! Thank god the
       terrible decisions seen this week have had no impact on the
       final result!
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       Re: Simon Hooper - West Brom v Southampton
   DIR By: Irishref1985
       Date: April 13, 2021, 8:14 am
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       Good to see that people come on here and try to defend the
       indefensible.. UNCALLED FOR COMMENT EDITED OUT
       The laughing stock of the footballing world they are. It’s not
       acceptable and shouldn’t be. A mistake? I use the word
       incompetent....
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       Re: Simon Hooper - West Brom v Southampton
   DIR By: Leggy
       Date: April 13, 2021, 9:18 am
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       --- Quote from: Irishref1985 link ---
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       > Good to see that people come on here and try to defend
       (EDITED,TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE LANGUAGE )and call it as it is..
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       > The laughing stock of the footballing world they are. It’s not
       acceptable and shouldn’t be. A mistake? I use the word
       incompetent....
       >
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       I don't think that encouraging people to do what has now been
       edited out is helpful in any circumstances, and certainly not in
       this case.  People are entitled to their opinion and to an
       opinion that differs from yours.  Perhaps if you avoided the
       hyperbole ("they must be sacked", "incompetent") your reasonable
       arguments may hold greater sway.
       PS:  I thought it was a rubbish decision as well.  But less the
       blame of the VAR "operatives" than the people telling them what
       to do and how to do it.  When it is your main source of income,
       one tends to do as the boss says.  The history of football is
       littered with plenty of "brave" referees who have called it as
       it is and seen their careers suffer as a result.  When it was a
       hobby / pastime, getting on the wrong side of the "boss" was way
       less serious than when it is the day job.
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