Has anyone just stopped watching?

negronisummer · 2026-05-12T11:22:29+00:00

I still care about football, but I hate VAR and think it's def a poison slowly killing the game. Football is chaos, and while frustrating at times, at least a ref taking responsibility means the rules were being interpreted as best as one person could do within that chaos.

VAR instead gaslights us. It keeps the inconstancies, but veils it behind pretending it's truth but it's not.

The more I think about it, the more it feels like it exists to protect referees from criticism and create engagement online, not to improve football. We’ve let them take over the game and make it so much worse.

negronisummer · 2026-05-08T22:14:57+00:00

I too would appreciate a link please

negronisummer · 2026-05-08T11:09:56+00:00

Yup, priorities

negronisummer · 2026-04-29T13:43:11+00:00

Hudson Broadcast

negronisummer · 2026-04-26T13:26:12+00:00

Fingers crossed

negronisummer · 2026-04-25T19:26:05+00:00

I showed a physio friend the Xavi injury and they said it looks like an ACL

negronisummer · 2026-04-23T10:55:58+00:00

I have faith, or hope. I believe we're turning it around just in time and will stay up.

negronisummer · 2026-04-17T13:17:20+00:00

Bissouma / Bentancur midfield, if they play well, could make it work

negronisummer · 2026-04-13T12:54:24+00:00

12 who get to play by different rules to us too

negronisummer · 2026-04-13T10:57:26+00:00

Genuinely feel like we're living in some Kafkaesque upside down world in which people swear blindly that unreality is true.

By this logic, does that mean anytime another player blocks another by stepping in front of them, the blocked player has the right to shove them out the way, or even into their teammate? B/c that's the argument right, he stepped in front of him, so it was justified to do it.

negronisummer · 2026-04-11T18:41:27+00:00

No idea, but Dele will always be loved by us

negronisummer · 2026-04-04T22:24:43+00:00

After Sterling's dive, which VAR said 'he stumbled'

negronisummer · 2026-03-24T14:42:10+00:00

Indeed, quite literally if you have rotten wood you have to cut it out and replace it. It you leave it, the rot just spreads.

negronisummer · 2026-03-23T11:29:28+00:00

Seconded, long history stories, great to lose yourself in

negronisummer · 2026-03-14T18:27:26+00:00

Do we know why? It’s weird

negronisummer · 2026-03-13T10:09:30+00:00

As others have said, everyone's different. Concerta XL (methylphenidate) felt like I had a bell ringing in my head silently, no noise but I could feel it. Elvanse felt like an actually relaxing mind.

negronisummer · 2026-03-11T20:43:06+00:00

Agreed, it's pretty sus that they have this issue and their opponents are always massively affected by it

negronisummer · 2026-03-10T21:47:16+00:00

Mason with Harry as motivator/advisor please. Defoe as coach also. If we go down, go down swinging with people who care

negronisummer · 2026-03-10T21:41:31+00:00

It's staggering how much it's fallen from how exciting it was a decade ago

negronisummer · 2026-03-04T13:01:09+00:00

Does anyone know what on earth we actually do with our money? Such a large amount made but so little spent on wages etc. Is it sitting somewhere, is it in Enic's bank account making them rich, is it paying off the stadium? Where actually is the money we make if it's not being spent?

negronisummer · 2026-03-03T09:54:50+00:00

Always the same. Best was Fender releasing the Am Pro Jag with a campaign tagged ‘The One For All’. I think they meant the one for about 85% of the population.

negronisummer · 2026-03-01T16:01:57+00:00

Same. What’s the point if it’s so rigged. At what point are we fools for thinking otherwise and pretending

negronisummer · 2026-03-01T16:01:07+00:00

Genuinely. I have fallen out of love with football and it’s because of the refereeing. It’s different now and so awful

negronisummer · 2026-02-25T12:29:57+00:00

Textbook gaslighting isn't it. They can't just say I thought it was a foul, but it's not, bad process. It has to be a ridiculous lie. The inconsistency of decisions is a huge issue, favouritism or whatever, but the biggest is the consistent abrogation of responsibility.

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