Cyderman

With actual info, or just reporting the bookies’ odds?

Not sure saying the ref can use it if unsure would work - imagine they’d just end up reviewing everything on the basis they’d be absolutely pilloried if they made a mistake and didn’t review when they had the chance.

I'm confused - is this saying we were top of the league earlier in the season? I don't remember that.

Be ironic if the one time we do it keeps Cardiff up

No I’ve got it too and I’ve never been on there.

Blimey, hope this is true, so I can call off the ambulance for the heart attack I was about to have

I think Mehmeti will be very important on Saturday for this reason - should be fresh and raring to go, and the sort of player who can then inspire the rest of the side if he gets going.

I do agree it would probably be a bit of an improvement, I'd just question how much. Any result-changing goal in the last ten minutes or so would be bound to get reviewed on the off-chance. And you'd get managers slated if they didn't review, then replays showed someone's nose was offside so they should have done. I don't like VAR in football because I think there are just too many variables to make it work. In cricket, the stumps don't move, so it's easy to draw lines for an LBW decision because they're in the same place every time. For offsides in football, the last defender will be moving around all the time, different parts of his body will represent the line at any given point, there are potentially multiple different times during a goal scoring move when the line will need to be checked, and different defenders will represent the line at different times. If a foolproof AI system can be developed that can handle all that and check it all in seconds then fine, but the current system of humans drawing lines on a video screen I think will always be inadequate no matter who gets fired or what procedures get changed - still too many variables to avoid mistakes.

Ten wickets per innings in a game of cricket though, so generally a bit of incentive not to waste reviews. With so many football matches having only one or two goals I’m not sure how you’d avoid a lot of them being spuriously ’reviewed’ anyway on the off-chance?

Different Richard Hughes apparently, this one came from Forest Green - https://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/2022/september/richard-hughes-appointed-sporting-director/

Hopefully that's not quite accurate, since Google suggests Pompey's director of football is 34

I don't see Beckham as a 90 minute player for England anymore, as i don't think playing in the MLS (or not playing, as of now) will give him the match fitness needed for international football. I can still see him being used as an impact player off the bench for his set pieces, but not as a regular starter, which for me rules him out of the captaincy..

Gerrard's never really done for England what he does for Liverpool, bu the responsibility of being captain might get the best out of him. Probably the best of the realistic candidates.