Re: VAR and your relationship with Blues
madWe've been sold a dummy
It's to sneak in more adverts, more close up zoomed in shots of players sponsors and kit logo's and less of the fans, less of the depth and feel of the contest.
It's to Americanise the sport
It's to make it more and more about individuals, star players and individual marketable moments in a game to narrow the focus and divert it away from the team and the fans and therefore more saleable to TV especially overseas
Also it's a self fulfilling vicious circle. It's selling the idea to people that this and only this is proper football and therefore football without VAR isn't proper football. Certain organisations stand to profit from this mindset
Football loses as a result. The beautiful game played from parks pitches to the Azteca Stadium with essentially the same rules is no more
I love how people always say its the Americanisation of sport etc. It's nonsense. There is no shirt sponsorship or perimeter advertising at big 4 sports games in the US. They do have commercial breaks in action and some in picture sponsorship as well as other big money partnerships such as play of the match, kit manufacture and stadium rights, but sponsorship within the sport itself is much more prevalent in other sports played around the world.
As for VAR we don't go to commercial when that happens, so that is nonsense too.