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What is the relationship between fouls, tackles and yellow cards in the PL? From the blindingly obvious to “being courted” Translating media gossip into reality » How the history and effect of VAR is being re-written to mislead us all by Tony Attwood The essence of the always-famous novel “1984” by George Orwell, published in 1948 which predicted the dystopian world to come, is that history can be changed, re-written, re-told, manipulated, re-imagined by the powerful in order to keep the thoughts of the proles in order. George Orwell was not a great football fan, but he did go to matches and described football as “war minus the shooting” In “1984” itself he wrote of the working classes, “Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbours, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” It is the sort of cynicism that must surely be at the heart of those who run the Premier League, and their collaborators in chief, the PGMO. Instead of taking the book as a warning, they have taken it as a blueprint, especially when Orwell writes, “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” And so it is with that latest Premier League + PGMO plaything, VAR. And if you think I am exaggerating, just have a look at the Guardian’s piece on the topic, published a few weeks ago, which opens, “The year in VAR begins in June.” That June being June 2019. Talk about re-writing reality! By then we had already had a year of VAR in top level competitions across the planet. VAR was introduced in the Premier League from 2019-20 – a year late – because PGMO wanted to be ready for it. They didn’t want to make the mistakes those silly foreigners would undoubtedly make. Ha ha let the foreigners get it wrong then we can laugh at them. Except even with a year’s notice PGMO still couldn’t get it right. And except that now it is such a total and utter disaster, that bit of history is written out of the records. Worse, from PGMO’s position, Mike Riley said that by delaying for a year, VAR would help referees “make more better decisions” and aid the correction of “clear and obvious errors” during a game. By taking the cautious route and delaying the introduction of VAR (a delay, as noted, now written out of all official histories – “official” meaning, licenced by PGMO) we were told that the mistakes the hyperactive foreigners would make (what with their desire to introduce VAR at once) like interrupting the flow of a game which might cause confusion among supporters, would not happen in the PL. There would be no interruption in the flow of the game. (I think I feel the need to repeat that. THERE WOULD BE NO INTERRUPTION IN THE FLOW OF THE GAME). If you, like me, you have been watching matches at Arsenal, you might know a little about that. Neil Swarbrick, the man i/c VAR in the Orwellian-PGMO style, told that bastion of football analysis, the Daily Mirror, “The different variations we’ve got we hope will stop the long stoppages and the long reviews with the screen.” Watch Arsenal Live Streams With StreamFootball.tv And of course we have had none of that at Arsenal. Instant it is. Straight off. No mucking about. 10 seconds. Well, ok, 15. 20 seconds tops. Two minutes. Well, that’s fairly fast ain’t it? Relating to that, the Premier League has taken steps to keep the supporters and those watching the game on TV “informed about the process and rationale of decisions,” according to their own publicity. So part of this unique, revolutionary, ultra-fast, let’s not make the mistake the silly foreigners make rushing in to get it all going before it’s been properly tried and tested by the experts like PGMO approach, was to take the VAR decisions out of the referees’ hands and give it to the invisible VAR Ref at HQ, a man properly trained in the ways of PGMO, Big Brother’s own man, a man who could be relied on to “do the right thing” without interference from the crowd. Even the Guardian, which mostly obeys the diktat of not mentioning that VAR was deliberately delayed for a year in the PL, they are getting mightily annoyed, noting that, “The technology has been applied inconsistently (and slowly) by people with limited experience.” It is an interesting point. We had an extra year when in fact PGMO employees could have been gaining experience so they didn’t enter the affray cold. But it seems not. Because they didn’t need it. Because they are English, not foreign. English referees don’t make mistakes. That is why the media does not need to publicise the fact widely reported in the rest of Europe that match fixing is now so widespread that Uefa has admitted it can no longer cope. If you lived in Germany or France or Switzerland and read your daily paper, you’d know that. In the UK, as far as I know, only Untold Arsenal ran that one. By November last year, Mike Riley admitted that the PGMO-VAR gang had made four errors. That was good of him, because one was a match-defining error in an Arsenal game, which could cost us millions of pounds come the season end. Sokratis scored five minutes from the end at Palace, and Atkinson ruled it out because Chambers had committed a foul. It took over two minutes to work it out, and even then they got the decision wrong. Chambers had committed no foul. Arsenal have been docked two points. That is clear and obvious. PGMO did that. That is clear and obvious too. It could cost us millions. Will PGMO give us a refund? [Please stop laughing, I’m just asking the questions.] And why? Why was it missed? After we had an extra year to get ready… Ah well, you see, the cameras they have been using were not fast enough. Except no one realised. Not even with an extra year to work it out (Rule One of VAR: don’t mention the extra year). We also found out something else. They don’t show VAR messages and information at Liverpool and Manchester United home games. Apparently they don’t have the right sort of screens there. How funny. PGMO has manipulated VAR, delaying it by a year. The media has manipulated our understanding of what is going on by omitting to remind us that VAR was delayed by a year so PGMO could get it right, while letting all these stupid foreign people play around with it. We would of course come in this year and show the rest of Europe how to do it. And we did. By deducting two points from Arsenal. Oh George Orwell. If you came down from heaven now, what would you be thinking? Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look

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