noodlehair
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The thing with the Forest statement is, that yeah it's childish, but it's also kind of childish to laugh at or dismiss it when literally everyone thinks the officiating is a shambles.
The state of the officiating, particularly with how VAR is used, is so bad and inconsistent, its quite natural and logical to suspect its on purpose, because the idea it KEEPS happening entirely by accident has become equally as farfetched.
Some of the decisions and inconsistencies are so bafflingly bad it's really difficult to explain them, particularly when there is no admission of fault/review into why its so bad, etc. If a system is THAT incompetent and isn't willing to try and improve itself, you have to start suspecting it's on purpose, and if it's having a negative impact on you, or you perceive it is, then you almost certainly will start thinking it's on purpose. This happens with people affected by any kind of authority where that authority fails to be consistent or act within its own rules.
It's not like Forest are even the first. Liverpool and Arsenal have already basically accused VAR of cheating against them this season, and used their social media to publicly insinuate as much. Liverpool even had Klopp demanding a game get replayed.
Also the second part if the problem is allowing former referees like Clattenberg to take up these almost celebrity like roles where they feed off controversial refereeing. So you're incentivising officials to cock things up for celebrity and entertainment value. How is a man who, in order to sell a few books, publicly admitted to deliberately refereeing a game wrongly which literally decided the league champions, fit to be an officiating consultant?
So what you're saying to the current officials is if you purposely make an arse of doing your job that will be beneficial to you in the future as opposed to doing it properly.
That would be like appointing Trump as an election vote counting consultant.
The state of the officiating, particularly with how VAR is used, is so bad and inconsistent, its quite natural and logical to suspect its on purpose, because the idea it KEEPS happening entirely by accident has become equally as farfetched.
Some of the decisions and inconsistencies are so bafflingly bad it's really difficult to explain them, particularly when there is no admission of fault/review into why its so bad, etc. If a system is THAT incompetent and isn't willing to try and improve itself, you have to start suspecting it's on purpose, and if it's having a negative impact on you, or you perceive it is, then you almost certainly will start thinking it's on purpose. This happens with people affected by any kind of authority where that authority fails to be consistent or act within its own rules.
It's not like Forest are even the first. Liverpool and Arsenal have already basically accused VAR of cheating against them this season, and used their social media to publicly insinuate as much. Liverpool even had Klopp demanding a game get replayed.
Also the second part if the problem is allowing former referees like Clattenberg to take up these almost celebrity like roles where they feed off controversial refereeing. So you're incentivising officials to cock things up for celebrity and entertainment value. How is a man who, in order to sell a few books, publicly admitted to deliberately refereeing a game wrongly which literally decided the league champions, fit to be an officiating consultant?
So what you're saying to the current officials is if you purposely make an arse of doing your job that will be beneficial to you in the future as opposed to doing it properly.
That would be like appointing Trump as an election vote counting consultant.