If Ronda Rousey could be the biggest draw and money maker in the UFC (even at the time of McGregor's rise...) there's no reason as to why women's football couldn't do the same in the future.

The game is a long way off though and the grassroots system when I coached about four years ago in this country was non-existent.

Think here have been some comments about the standards of goalkeeping in the women's game. Have to say, that save by Karen Bardsley for England against Japan earlier from the free kick was superb.

That Scotland game was a perfect demonstration of the utter, utter shitness of VAR, that was not entertainment in any shape or form.

pembsexile wrote:Think here have been some comments about the standards of goalkeeping in the women's game. Have to say, that save by Karen Bardsley for England against Japan earlier from the free kick was superb.

The Japaneses goalie was pretty impressive too !

Marky wrote:That Scotland game was a perfect demonstration of the utter, utter shitness of VAR, that was not entertainment in any shape or form.

The game was stopped for about 10 mins and had less than 5 mins as extra time ???

Marky wrote:That Scotland game was a perfect demonstration of the utter, utter shitness of VAR, that was not entertainment in any shape or form.

Rubbish.

The goalkeeper moved off the goal line and was penalised for it. That's VAR working as it should

The subsequent lack of stoppage time was probably human error, largely due to women's football being promoted too quickly for political correctness, before it's infrastructure is ready and able to cope.

whoareya wrote:

Marky wrote:That Scotland game was a perfect demonstration of the utter, utter shitness of VAR, that was not entertainment in any shape or form.

Rubbish.

The goalkeeper moved off the goal line and was penalised for it. That's VAR working as it should

The subsequent lack of stoppage time was probably human error, largely due to women's football being promoted too quickly for political correctness, before it's infrastructure is ready and able to cope.

I never knew anyone thought goalies coming slightly off their line for penalties was a problem but that's by the by, the problem was the ten minute stoppage, this is not American football. That was frustrating, boring, unnecessary and unfair, the main talking point should be a team coming from 3-0 to draw, but the TV overlords have decided they know best.

whoareya wrote:

Marky wrote:That Scotland game was a perfect demonstration of the utter, utter shitness of VAR, that was not entertainment in any shape or form.

Rubbish.

The goalkeeper moved off the goal line and was penalised for it. That's VAR working as it should

The subsequent lack of stoppage time was probably human error, largely due to women's football being promoted too quickly for political correctness, before it's infrastructure is ready and able to cope.

You don't need VAR to pick up on that. Three competent qualified referees/assistants. Simply detail one to specifically watch the goalkeeper's movement and another looking for encroachment in the box. You get an instant decision rather than wait for a frustrating five minutes .

[/quote] You don't need VAR to pick up on that. Three competent qualified referees/assistants. Simply detail one to specifically watch the goalkeeper's movement and another looking for encroachment in the box. You get an instant decision rather than wait for a frustrating five minutes .[/quote]
I agree with you, but it will become like Rugby where the officials bottle giving a decision sending it 'upstairs' to avoid criticism if they make a mistake.

Well. INTERESTING so far.

Well, well. England v Cameroon. Won't go into details but in this game the VAR has given the correct decision for both the England goal and the Cameroon disallowed goal. However, it has completely screwed the game up. All the players heads seem to have gone. Ludicrous.

If you are going to have VAR there must be a system in place to sort out the appeals that follow. The referee has lost the plot here. It does nothing to advance the cause of women's football, the standard of play now is hopeless. That is a shame.

Without VAR the decisions of the match officials would have been accepted without complaint. VAR is going to spoil the game has it has already done to rugby. Get rid of it.

And we think League Two referees are poor. This is the World Cup ffs.

G Guest wrote:Without VAR the decisions of the match officials would have been accepted without complaint. VAR is going to spoil the game has it has already done to rugby. Get rid of it.

Agreed. Even England's second goal that was initially disallowed was so marginal that nobody on the pitch would have disagreed had it just been ruled out. This has all come about because of TV football and the plethora of pundits blathering on about marginal decisions to justify their existence on programmes like Match of the Day.

G Guest wrote:Without VAR the decisions of the match officials would have been accepted without complaint. VAR is going to spoil the game has it has already done to rugby. Get rid of it.

And with VAR we'd be playing in League 1 next season.