This is it isnt it.
Just one more mad point, as a planet, society, world we are obsessed with screens, how can we get a screen in on this. Screens are the new god.
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Morse code,secret message.
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Not sure I get you point…?
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Gary Lineker and his holier then holy act can go f… himself, never liked him, never will. For the rest? Not many like us, but we don’t care. If this injury crisis continues it will be hard to win anything but if not we will come back even stronger next year.
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Thought it was a simple question. 
Why do wright with so many dots?
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Ah Ok Dutch…
I see the forum as an informal way of communication… a relaxed way of putting an opinion across… not exactly the lower text speak level of exchange… neither a letter without grammatical flaws to be marked by my English teacher…
If they bother you… No problem I stop using them, just let me know.
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Oke thanks, no do as you like, it just distracts me a bit from your massage. Let me elaborate.
In Dutch we call the 3 dots used by you “beletselteken” what translates in English “ellipsis” and the writer uses it to let the reader finish the sentence himself or at least think about it.
Now I know that is not your point 
I know I can just read true them.
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Mwahaha! I might start marking them now.
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Good point Dutch… Well there are many on the forum, from across the globe for whom English is only their second or third language, so I suppose everything on here is left open to interpretation. Whether the dots are inserted for dramatic effect or leave a sentence hanging for further response discussion, again it depends upon the reader. Will put more thought into where I place them from now on though. 
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He was offside. What’s the problem?
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All the cool cats have been doing it for years…
You can check my posts, if you like.
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1972 Agreed. !
My point, admittedly badly made, was that Sheffield never had a seperate vote of their own and the Sheffield United mangers views on Brexit are irrelevent,.and in any case are not a valid reason for abuse whatever they might be
Raven Respect. Top pedantry. !
Thats why we havent had a majority government in living memory (and never will if those ineligible to vote are included in the calculation).
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The way it’s done is debatable,that’s the problem.
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VAR does not treat offside as subjective though. We know this both in terms of the incidents in which it used (does not need to meet hte clear and obvious threshold that is used for subjective calls) and in terms of the argument presented when people complain about these imperceptibly close ones. In those cases, we’re told “well, offside is offside, and the VAR showed it was offside.”
I think there are some people who are saying to throw the baby out with the bath water, but I think most of us are just saying that they should be more honest in what it can do and refuse to intervene on those that are too close to call. Similar to the Dutch model.
It worth going back to the specific law that was used to penalize this incident
A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following
offences:
** impedes an opponent with contact*
At some point we moved away from the implication of the contact and focused on the presence of contact in isolation. I know this is complicated because it brings in issues of players going down when they don’t need to and then forcing the ref to make a decision. But I think it is clear that using VAR on these incidents has made it even worse by allowing them to focus even more myopically on the presence of contact.
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And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they’d made…
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Debate it then. He was offside. Next?
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No,i’m not going to fucking bother now.
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We’re screwed then aren’t we? Well the game is anyway. VAR was supposed to allow the officials to clamp down on diving. The reality is it has now endorsed it. If there’s contact it’s a penalty. Go down to make certain that you draw attention to it.
Worth noting that we have benfitted from this as well. Salah going down against West Ham.
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Yes that was used on MOTD last night to legitimise the decision against Robbo; there was a difference tho, Salah had control of the ball, Welbeck did not.
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Yes i saw it. Very fair point.
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