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I think the idea would be that you'd limit challenges and introduce a penalty of some kind for any failed challenges. And it should (in theory) reduce the time it takes to review because you are only reviewing one thing and not looking at the entire build up to a goal.

Great choice on the match of the day today guys. Bloody thrilling.

Also, it’s good to support a pish team. If you want to support a good team, follow the hoardes to Glasgow and you can join in the pissing contest about 55 titles, European Cups, religion, colours and such. In Scotland, supporting a pish team is a badge of honour.

To think that there was a time when every Premier match was broadcast live. it’s quite something, given the advances in technology and media coverage, that Sportsound is so significantly worse than it was 15 years ago.

I think I'm still mentally scarred by Italia 90. It was my first World Cup. We should've beaten Costa Rica, despite the line up. Mo Johnston missed a bit of a sitter (having been excellent in qualifying, he developed a new technique of Smash-the-ball-straight-at-the-goalie). Big Rambo missed a pretty easy header and there was a blatant hand ball right in front of me that I'm still bitter about. Then we had Leighton's fumblitist against Brazil and Johnston perfecting his Smash-the-ball-straight-at-the-goalie routine with the last kick of the ball. With regards to the results going against us: Ireland's equaliser might have been the worst goal of all time. I mean, we're missing utter sitters v Brazil whilst Ireland are getting goals like this crap: https://youtu.be/Zux93NfUoy0?feature=shared

With regard to offside, the law was written with common sense in mind: A player is not offside if he is level with the last defender. The problem is that - mathematically - it’s impossible for two people to be exactly in line. Regardless of how level they may look, there is always a more detailed measurement you can take and, eventually, one will be slightly in front of the other (even if it’s by a billionth of an atom). Drawing lines along the pitch completely ruins the rule because you lose the spirit of it. Player’s can’t be in line any more. You get goals like Shankland’s today being disallowed because he’s a pixel ahead when it isn’t an error that could be spotted without the aid of a computer. That Hearts - Celtic game is a good example for why VAR is a disaster. If we’re going to be getting completely horrendous decisions, just make them in real time so at least it’s quick.

This is the only way I could imagine it being kinda fun. 2 or 3 challenges. If you're wrong with a challenge you lose a substitution, so you can't challenge for any old crap. And you have to specify what you're challenging (which gets communicated to the crowd, so they're not sitting in the dark about it). That might be not awful. Maybe.

I swear Tiger plays with JT every single tournament he plays in. It's getting weird.

Followed by Scottish football pretending that the penalty hadn't actually been awarded.

The changing the rules so they could keep their name was the thing that irrationally annoyed me. I was looking forward to Rangers Utd or Rangers2012.

Well, in the NFL your schedule differs depending on your league position. If you win the league you play twice against your division (6 games), against every team in 2 other divisions (8 games) and you've got 3 other games against sides who finished the same position as you last year. Personally, I'd love this for Scotland. It would be great fun. Having a team miss out on Playoffs because of their strength of schedule would be a thing of beauty.

The SPFL is already like that. Celtic and Rangers are never, ever, ever going to be relegated. Ever. Look at the league winners for the past 35 years. The SPFL is the most shuttered down and closed shop of any closed shop in the history of closed shops. It's weird - Scotland is a relatively socialist country yet our sport is totally, major capitalist. America is crazy right wing yet their sport is practically communism. I'm all for 32 teams, split into 8 divisions regionally, a mix of fixtures that vary from year to year, live games on free to air, revenue sharing, salary caps and Playoffs to decide the champion. Sportsound would spontaneously combust. It would be great fun.

It was a glorious time. Hearts rodgering Rangers. Motherwell pumping them. Even Hibs beat them 4-0. At one point in January, Aberdeen were 4 points clear in the Premiership. It's beyond comprehension that we allowed ourselves to go back to the horrendous 2 club monopoly after that brief glimpse of what could be here.

Yeah, but Scottish football then pretended it didn't happen. So there's still a team called Rangers* playing at Ibrox whilst up to their knees in blahblahblah, surrender or you'll die. The Old Firm are as Firmy as they've ever been. The current pantomime enrages both supports, which sells more season tickets. Win win. *They even changed the rules so they could keep the name and didn't need to copy Airdrie Utd or Gretna 2008.

Hard as it is to imagine, TV, radio and news coverage all used to attempt to cover more than two teams (and the game was much better for it). Here's an example from 1990: Celtic beat Rangers 1-0 and knock them out the Scottish Cup. The back page of the Daily Record the next day was... Aberdeen getting a tough draw for the next round.