Recent content by Guy Fawkes

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/25/nhs-hospital-trusts-paying-hundreds-of-millions-in-interest-to-private-firms There were some examples where the deal signed meant that they'd be making payments for the length of the contract, but at the end of the contract, the trust / state...

How do you know whether South west water had any spares or not? Have they said that the issue here is that they didn't have the part and there will be a lead time before it arrives? and that caused the water quality issues that has led to some getting ill because they kept supplying this...

So do valves never go faulty if they are owned and run by the state? We see constant politicking about the lack of money in public services and cuts being made, so why do people think nothing can and will go wrong if under state control? Surely the evidence says it could and probably would...

Aren't they called PCSOs nowadays?

Maybe a solution is to do what some other sports do, you have a set limit for the number of challenges you can make and these challenges are the times that VAR then reviews it? if successful, you keep your challenge, if not then you lose it (not sure if they keep if subjective) Cricket has...

This, the changes they made to the laws to make it easier to use VAR have been, in many cases, proven to be a disaster. Scrapping things like is the player interfering with play and going back to simply on or offside would simplify the process but what you are left with due to this rule is...

What VAR will never do, and will never be captured in any of the stats they produce to show how well (or poorly) VAR has been working, or which teams have benefitted most / least from VAR interventions is show how bias the officials are, especially towards the big six (they get awarded softer...

If it is subjective, then the onfield decision stands If it's a clear and obvious error, then VAR intervenes and the decision overturned (a clear handball to rule out a goal, a clear offside by a goal scorer, a clear red card that was missed, etc) - If marginal, leave the onfield decision...

Or, especially after watching the ref's performance today against Chelsea "You're the reason, you're the reason that there's a need for VAR"

They don't even need to show it all of the season's VAR decisions, they simply have to teach it which are the top 6 sides and to find in their favour

I'd only keep it for really obvious offenses (like Maradona's hand of god goal) but if it's not obvious within a few seconds, then it doesn't change the on field decision You are right that getting rid of it wouldn't solve the issues with poor officiating (and the clear bias that seems to exist...

Olise's agent has been banned (plus do the BBC know something we don't? hence why this is under league 1 on their site?) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjljl839580o

Bit of a leap to say the least, so far we know little of the would be assassin and their motivation so to think that this event is somehow a parallel to the assassination that started a World War (that most European countries were keen for and looking for any old excuse to kick it off) and...

The net transfer spend metric seems a little bit of an unrealistic measure, especially in our case if you look at that stat before your summer sales then we'd surely have been a lot higher up the table and only because we managed to secure very large transfer fees for some players, it surely...

When we lost Bissouma, we got Caicedo. When we lost Cucurella we got Estupinan. If we miss out on a signing like Kudos because we wanted something we were unwilling or unable to give (like a release clause, but could be anything like wanting a cat to be able to kick or whatever they demand...