The offside rule is just incompatible with VAR, as best I can tell. Even if you change the rule to be that the whole body has to be offside, now you’re using VAR to see if maybe the player’s right foot was still onside, y’know?

Baseball is, I think, a bit of a unique case because there’s so much stop/start built into the game and no real time pressure— like, what’s another 30 second delay to see if a guy was really out at first? I still don’t think we need it (a blown call is fiiiine, and can even be entertaining in its own right; would you…

Is the important thing here *really* fair enforcement, as defined by a degree of precision that human beings cannot hope to have in live time? It’s sports; for me, at least, entertainment is more important than getting calls correct down to the millimeter. Especially in a game like soccer, where fluidity is such a…

I keep seeing people say that the problem is the rules, but like, let’s take offsides for example: what, exactly, is the problem with the rule? The rule says you can’t impact the play from behind the last defender. That’s a perfectly good rule! But VAR allows an inhuman level of precision and enforcement of that rule.…

I’m not sure the new names are any easier to understand, though — ‘Championship’ doesn’t mean much outside of its context in the EFL, and having Leagues One and Two seems meaningful only if League One is specifically designed so that at least most of its teams are better than League Two’s, which isn’t necessarily…

Why not just let teams choose who gets to shoot free throws?