00:00But that's the way the game is. The game's going that way. I've said it downstairs. It's going to become the most sterile game there is really. I think we're probably months or a year away from not celebrating goals.
00:16I'll stand on the touchline. You score a goal. And I feel like there's a million things that go through your mind. Checklists. What happened three minutes before it? Was that offside? Did he stand on his toe two minutes before we've gone for on goal? Is it offside? We need to get the computer out by the millimetre to check whether it is offside.
00:37Linesmen and referees really are slowly becoming redundant and the game's become, yeah, it's being reffed and every phase. I think we live in a world of perfection, don't we? Everyone wants perfection and social media brings that. I think we want perfection in a game of football which I just don't agree with but is what is.
01:01I don't know our other managers. Look, I referenced this four or five years ago when VAR first came in. And I understand. Like I said, I think the ultimately what it comes down to is the world we're in.
01:12And the world we're in is perfection. Whether it's a filter on your phone to make you look a little bit better or whatever it is, that's what everyone wants in life. They want perfection. And we want the game to be this perfect game.
01:24This game, I've been in the arena, is going at a serious pace. It's a contact sport and there's decisions that you have to make at milliseconds. Milliseconds.
01:35Now we can break it down, we can slow it down. He stood on his toe at that moment. It's just, that's the way the game's going. It's becoming even more theatrical at times.
01:46You know, the refs are coming onto the pitch now and having their say and letting everyone know why their decisions are made, why they're not. The game's become a very stop start in certain moments.
01:56And like I said, the emotion of the game is probably coming out of it because you just don't know at any moment what could have happened.
02:04So, well, what can happen? NFL is a set play game. That's where it's different. Football is a 90 minute flow of a game.
02:12NFL is one play and then you have three minutes to discuss the next play. It's broken down. Football is continuous. Football has a flow to it and fans have a flow and you can see things and you make decisions or the ref makes decisions or whatever it is.
02:28So, that's obviously changing and yeah, that's the way it is now.
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