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Oh god I totally agree.

I think this forum is a great example of why VAR exists & why it’s shit.

Most people on here only watch their team on the TV, probably didn’t play. Consume football through online, mostly.

As a result there is this fucking hysteria around decisions and an obsession with there not being any errors.

It’s seen as like some deep rooted injustice now if a decision doesn’t go your way. Previously that was just sort of accepted & people move on. Now we have Reddit and twitter so people don’t move on, they post it and show angles and argue about it.

Before, you just went to the game or watched it on TV and that was kind of your consumption of that game over with.

I don’t know why people are so quick to ignore the actual football. Like Newcastle Arsenal. Tight game, but Newcastle were better than Arsenal. Yeah gooners didn’t get bailed out by the referee, but the fact is they still weren’t as good and that’s why they lost. - but all of that becomes irrelevant because there is some controversy to obsess over.

Had Arsenal just played well & won we wouldn’t have a fucking club statement, Arteta acting like he’s Malcom X & gooners fabricating illuminati level conspiracy theory bullshit as those Mike Dean is this puppet master over all pundits.