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And without VAR they wouldn't be going to a monitor. The stats are when VAR actively intervenes.

Attacking teams who have more of the ball in their opponents box are going to get more penalties. Teams that are more often on the back foot and don't have as much possession in the box aren't in a position to win penalties as often. That's always been the way since before VAR. The stats aren't...

That key problem isn't actually true when For / Against VAR calls are tallied up. Unless the six clubs you're talking about are Villa, Chelsea, Everton and 3 from Brighton, Burnley, Fulham or Spurs. The biggest issue with VAR for me is the stop /start nature and the way it kills the moment...

Absolutely nothing allays fears of a fix. Tribal bias and footballing victimhood sees the fix everywhere and there is absolutely no system whatsoever that overcomes that. Not sure a system that places emphasis on speed over everything works either. May as well just let refs and assistants to...

If that was the other way round and an ultimately correct VAR decision went against Man Utd to give Coventry the win or take it to extra time nobody (apart from Man U) would have an issue with it.

To assist with making decisions. It's been doing it for a few years with stuff like Moreno's disallowed goal when we played Villa or even something like Henderson's disallowed injury time 'winner' in the derby a few years back. It was introduced due to strong support for video to be used in...

It can and did. Whoever was on VAR told the referee to look at it again. The onfield referee disagreed. And the onfield ref has the final say on those decisions which is exactly what those against having VAR want. Anyone strongly against the use of VAR should be celebrating Michael Oliver for...

It was an onfield decision to not give the handball wasn't it? In this instance VAR has told the ref to look again at a handball he hadn't given or had missed. I'm not entirely sure how this is something to put in the anti-VAR camp.

Fair point but history also has lots of clubs who simply don't exist anymore due to going under. We live in an age were owners are taking over community institutions that are often over a century old, loading them with unsustainable debt in the name of 'ambition' and then turning off the...

Where do you draw the line then? Is it fair play that Everton can sell out Goodison and sell loads more shirts and merchandise than Tranmere Rovers? Plenty of things may be disgusting or rotten to the core but a fair and equal distribution of financial resource has never been a feature of the...

As a tool to control narrative it does a pretty poor job. It's a fact that it's been used to give decisions that have hindered the 'narrative' that people talk about. It wasn't used very well to ensure the narrative of Everton's relegation battle against Forest was it? Any narrative you propose...

Still leaves it open to the usual crybaby accusations of corruption though - They deliberately took too long rather than overturn a decision which went in favour of Club X etc.

And then you get "They deliberately took longer than 30 secs because of the PGMOL, Premier League, Sky 6 (insert chosen conspiracy here)....."

VAR generally works very well in terms of getting ultimately correct decisions. There's a very low percentage of stone wall never in a month of Sundays demonstrably incorrect decisions and as long as there's human involvement those errors will always be there. The major downsides are the time it...

It's not VAR, it's the refs.

Or do we? He does know a thing or two about how finance works at high levels. He is certainly privy to more relevant information regarding where 777 actually are regarding the finances than 99.9% of us here, people in the media and any number of self appointed Twitter football finance experts...

It'll be like two new signings. My faith is restored. You are my go-to source for up to the minute Finch Farm related goings-on.

I've only seen a clip of that lately and my take was he was talking about it not being the absolute end of Everton Football Club as an ongoing concern which seemed to be a fear from some of the fanbase or at least a vocal minority. It's open to interpretation I suppose. From what I've read and...

There's your mistake. Another ITK falls by the wayside :)

Probably nobody specific - just anybody. They want Everton Football Club as a shiny trinket they can leverage for more lending until they start making profits from their portfolio. They're seemingly chasing losses with credit until they turn those businesses around. Unfortunately for them they...