Yes.
It would be unrecognisable.
It would resemble a game of Aussie rules in its tactical base.
Thanks. Next.
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The way football is going with all these penalties it’s going to resemble one of the egg chasing sports eventually anyway.
It won’t be long before it’s 1 goal for a peno and 2 for a goal from open play. Maybe introduce a new 25 yard line and give 3 points if you score beyond that. If your goalie scores it’s game over and everyone goes home.
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Teams would set up differently. Two meter high forwards would try to crowd out the goalie and defenders would launch long balls forward. There would be no midfielders, and no passing moves anymore. It would all be about having the ball in the attacking zone as quickly as possible (eg. long kicks from the rearguard).
No need for technique nor precision. All which would matter is height and strength to deal with the incoming high balls. Crouch for instance would have broken all records in such a system.
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The offside rule for me is similar to the rugby rule of moving forwards while passing backwards. It adds a level of difficulty and technical precision which makes the sport interesting.
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The Wimbledon players would go and stand near our penalty area. 
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Would trenches be allowed as well…crowd the goalie, open fire.
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Thats Chernobyl too!!
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If Sheffield Utd keep Wilder he will be playing with 5 subs in the championship next season. 
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The current whinge about the oval ball game is that they all kick it too much. The way the game has evolved, in part down to rule tinkering, means teams have adapted to play the percentages and running with the ball in hand with fast skillful players is getting less and less common.
Makes you wonder when teams will start playing the percentages in football. No longer worth forwards playing on the last man so target men come back into fashion. Aim crosses or shots at defenders unless you’ve a clear opportunity to assist or score and hope you get a penalty.
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Agree
The point of owning the ball is becoming less important
You don’t even need control of it to earn a penalty
Just lump it forward and draw the foul. Defending in packs.
Goals and chance creation feeds the highlight reels and creates the money, stats as such lead to better individual contracts
We are heading into a period where the craft of the game is less important than it has been for some time.
Well done whoever the fuck it is Who is responsible
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If Messi was as offside as Mane, I’d be fuming. If it was the Salah one, I’d also be fuming - but at the defence and not the officials.
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No it mustn’t. That’s entirely the problem. If you need lines drawn in a screen to work out if he’s offside, then he isn’t. He’s level and you play on.
It’s as soon as those lines get involved that the problems start.
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it’s not entirely trustworthy, and still prone to human error and bias
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it’s still not getting the decisions correct (see Mane, Bamford)
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it’s destroying enjoyment of the game. This is the biggest thing, and the Premier League needs to understand this. It’s literally making football not worth watching anymore. Personally, I’m at the point where I feel like swerving matches. We’re inevitably going to get fucked by a computer and one of our lads is going to get a hammy. What’s the point anymore?
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I’ve already missed a lot of games since the restart began last season, and with the way it’s currently going, I think that I’ll swerve more and more of them going forward. It’s really not worth bothering anymore.
The lack of atmosphere is already hard to take (especially when it is replaced by some stupid fake noise), and when you see games decided by a bent *sshole in a VAR office, it’s becoming too much for me. There are other, more interesting ways to spend two hours of one’s life.
Also, we are far away currently from the exciting heavy-metal football from a couple of years ago. Not that I blame Klopp or the players for it, but with the kind of schedule they are submitted to, and without any atmosphere to take your energy from, the level of passion is bound to go down, and the quality of our game suffers from it.
Add in all these bad injuries, again because of that crazy scheduling, and the level of our football goes down two or three notches again. There’s simply no way for the lads to get into any kind of rhythm.
All of that makes watching football a very dire affair currently, and VAR ruining the game because of the idiots running it, is just the icing on a quite indigestible cake.
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You guys are all right of course but at the same time we should also understand that for most of us on this forum we have been at this for years and decades. We are… old hands, disciples, die hard, hardcore or however you want to put it. The thing is though, aside from the match going fans and those in the near surrounds the vast majority of global fans are not actually like us. On my satellite subscription there is an entire channel dedicated to the Premier League and all its content is geared around it and there is the PL Analysis Show, PL Today, PL Fan Zone, The Kelly and Wrighty Show (sometimes without the actual Kelly and Wrighty but anyway…), endless repeats, endless highlights and so on and the personalities and presenters behind it are not paid to denigrate the product to the detriment of their paymasters. I can literally switch on my tv at any given time and see PL coverage and that is invariably geared to telling me how great it is and how it is the best league in the world etc etc.
Anyway, the ease of access around the world is huge and there is an army of mindless ‘fans’’ swirling around every club and the PL in general lapping it all up like sweet nectar because of the relentless marketing and media behind it while making the broadcasters, and the clubs and managers and players it has to be said, billions upon billions while here we are bemoaning that the sport is becoming farcical. We are significantly in the minority and us switching off from it is a drop in the ocean which nobody will notice, sadly.
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So true and so depressing in one post.
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No probs. But your post does raise an important issue with VAR, and one that perhaps doesn’t get the same level of attention as its other defects, namely the difficulty of accurately determining the position of an irregular object in a 3D space from a single 2D image. Too often VAR appears to rely upon a singe image when multiple images / composites would allow a better determination of position / illustrate what actually happened in a situation.
For example, in the game against west ham, Mané was wrongly penalised for committing a foul on the goalkeeper, when in fact it was Mané who was fouled by the whu defender. When the referee viewed the incident on the match-side monitor, he was only shown the view in which the actions of the defender were obscured; had the ref been shown the incident from different positions/angles (that were available) he should have drawn a different conclusion.
In the case of determining offside no allowance appears to be made for the radial distortion that occurs with the wide angle lenses frequently employed in the cameras high up in the stands. Consequently, plotting straight lines to determine a player’s position to the nearest millimetre, especially on the periphery of these images, is a nonsense.
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In this pandemic and restrictions brought about because of it, the powers at B that govern football, have shown they are only focused and interested in the money they can generate from the sport.
Why…??
It is because every 10yrs the game of football recycles itself, with the next golden generation of young talented footballers coming through the ranks. As supporters, some will still hold an interest.
As Liverpool fans, especially at the moment under the guidance of Jurgen, it becomes a reality that we will miss out watching / seeing / supporting the best team ever assembled in this country, if not Europe, due to the schedule, volume of games, competitions etc, that each differing Football Association push forward for their own, selfish agenda.
Maybe Jurgen can already see this for himself.
What a travesty if this guy’s talents are suppressed by the events we are all witnessing at present.
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Needs the music.
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We’re bloody good but we’re not that good.
Yet.
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Thought this would have been Suarez’s song…but alas no.
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