West Ham Utd 3-0 Southampton (04/05/19)

[Samba]

The opposition view: Southampton

'And West Ham fans remain among the most despicable bunch of morons on the face of the earth."
- InvictaSaint'
Little bit harsh...

[Clacton-ammer]

Nice way to end the home season, at least our gaff is starting to feel like home in respect to points gained.

Interesting summer ahead for Pellers.

[Graza]

I've always found their superiority complex r.e. us baffling. It makes an easy win like that all the more satisfying.

[S-H]

I've always found their superiority complex r.e. us baffling. It makes an easy win like that all the more satisfying.

Doesn't it stem from them coming up automatically and us through the playoffs?

Was gutted they didn't go down this year.

[sendô]

^ Didn't they finish ahead of us on GD?

Us having to go into the playoffs was due to Reading's freak end of season form anyway. Where are they now?

[Estuary]

Sit behind some Spanish chaps who add friends with Adrian. He feels really let down that he wasn’t given a go today. He felt he should play as was a dead rubber.

Small world, so do I.

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

The rubber wasn't quite as dead as it might have been. Beating Southampton and then Watford puts us at least one and possibly two places higher, with the corresponding prize money increase.

[TheHandOfDog]

^ Didn't they finish ahead of us on GD?

Us having to go into the playoffs was due to Reading's freak end of season form anyway. Where are they now?

Reading 89 +28
Saints 88 +39
WHU 86 +33

[mushy]

The opposition view: Southampton
http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=133518

I quite like it that one of them is looking forward to season and VAR, like its some sort of saviour of football.

[DaveWHU1964]

Doesn't it stem from them coming up automatically and us through the playoffs.

I think that’s right SH.

I never minded them before that season. Their fans had never so much as registered on my ‘unlikeable fans’ radar but they were patronising, thought they’d made it ****ers that year. I too had hoped they’d go down this year. Maybe next eh?

[Up the Junction]

I quite like it that one of them is looking forward to season and VAR, like its some sort of saviour of football.

Hopefully he's right!

[Harry Hound]

Was gutted they didn't go down this year.

Me too, I was hoping that we'd be the ones to relegate them

[Graza]

Doesn't it stem from them coming up automatically and us through the playoffs?

Was gutted they didn't go down this year.

I remember them harping on (and on and on) about them being the best promoted team... But they never let it go. Meanwhile both teams have toiled in the midtable and they've become Liverpool's youth team.

[Clacton-ammer]

I always felt Reading fans had that title of best promoted team, their beliefs of grandeur was sickening.

Another one looking forward to VAR, in my mind today VAR is going to help the smaller clubs more than the big 6. I hope I am right!

[sendô]

^ IIRC much was made from them about their silky, free flowing football "on the floor" and the direct approach Allardyce had us playing.

[Monkey Mike]

'And West Ham fans remain among the most despicable bunch of morons on the face of the earth."
- InvictaSaint'
Little bit harsh...

I was surprised at the lack of derogatory comments towards us.

[Graza]

Another one looking forward to VAR, in my mind today VAR is going to help the smaller clubs more than the big 6. I hope I am right!

I'm theory it should eliminate the pathological need to give the bigger (and spurs) clubs the benefit of the doubt(or in Liverpool's case a 2 yard leeway on offside). But it will only do that IF the people on the other end of the cameras have any bottle.

They also need to get the questions and instructions right. The thing that annoys me with the rugby implementation is when they ask "is there any reason I can't give it?" Which is too broad. Assuming the football one won't have questions the impact will be - how far back do you go? Would a foul 2 minutes before a goal without the ball being dead count? What's that cut off? Will it be fairly and evenly applied? Also is the reason to give something clear evidence, or just balance of probability? If it's the latter it won't help everyone. If it's the former it puts the pressure back on the ref to make a decision in the first instance and then be overruled - potentially damaging their authority.

[woodford]

You would hope and think that the people making the VAR decisions will be subject to some scrutiny rather than it being wrapped up in the moment.

So if someone makes a few dodgy calls over the course of a couple of weeks they'd be subject to demotion or a good old fashioned sacking

The evidence is there for all to see. And ending years of "the ref has to make a quick decision in the moment" crap, the evidence any review board will see will be exactly what the VAR official would've seen. Same angles, same slow motion, same replays

[Coops]

I always felt Reading fans had that title of best promoted team, their beliefs of grandeur was sickening.

The only thing that matters is more inflatables.

[BondsoBob]

All VAR will eventually do is make games go on for two plus hours.
And decisions will still be contentious and subjective.