Darren England VAR

[DavidObs]

While we're setting the world to rights, I don't personally why it became normal or expected to need to introduce law changes every season. I don't know of any other sport that does it.

Mostly I would say the reason for it is because clubs often try & circumvent a law, which then requires tweaking. Other occasions it can be when to try and improve the speed of the game eg passes of the ball to the goalkeeper, but there are also occasions when changes to the Law can shoot themselves in the foot e.g goal kicks taken from either side of the goal area which was meant to speed things up, but actually slows things down

Oh aye, you're quite right and I recall your enthusiasm when pointing this out before. However, whilst you are indeed completely right, it's a classic example of our Confederation, National FA, PGMOL and our entire branch of the tree, taking the correct wording and brainwashing us with terminology and interpretation that doesn't exist. I can't see how 'natural position' emanated from pundits when Howard Webb for one, uses the term freely when justifying VAR's input. And be honest, have you never called out 'natural position' in games of your own? We all do, because that's the ubiquitous term in use despite what's printed in our pamphlet

I get where you are coming from but if we don’t have our own guidelines at certain levels whether it be grassroots or elite or anywhere in between, then we could end up having the same low ish level of threshold for penal offences & handball as there often is in European Countries, who will I suspect (but I don’t actually know) they have their own interpretations/guidelines. There are Laws within the game saying must caution, when virtually no one at any level does