I mean, we've had our first choice defence for about 6 games all season and for a chunk of it we haven't had more than 1-2 of our first choice defence.
Again though, is that a good thing? Making people think of you when you are quite scummy seems silly. My opinion on these countries hasn't really changed that much in the past 15 years and if it has, its been in the wrong direction for sure.
Does sportswashing work or do people simply not care. I don't think any better or worse of any oil states due to their involvement in any of the sports I follow.
The issue is that a wrong VAR call is just one that is classified as completely wrong by the understanding of the rules. So they get an offside wrong and thats a gross error because offside is offside. There is not really an argument about that...
I think this is the problem. Introducing even more massively match changing decisions for referees to cock up is not a good idea. Its not a bad idea intrinsically but imagine when smaller teams are playing the big boys and in the last 15 minutes...
Completely different players. Technically Foden is far superior but he also plays in a team where technically good players have an easy time of things compared to most teams. Saka is just a quality flair player. Both are absolutely top top class...