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On the Football Daily Podcast, this is the Monday nightclub with Mark Chapman

Welcome to the Monday nightclub Chris Sutton Rory Smith and Leon Osman are with us and now I wasn't here last week. Leon obviously wasn't part of the

show last week, Chris and Rory were. You are basically now in charge of

VAR. Are you Rory? Is that what happened? We established that it would be better if

if we recognize that offside is less of a kind of binary law and more of a vibe.

I think that was the right. you then became vibes assistant Rory

we just kind of through a process of elimination it just turned out that my whole argument was that I should be in

charge of it so right just on what feels right what what should be allowed what feels right

what doesn't the voice of the football fan actually got quite quite

abusive mark on on the platform X he called me a cold-hearted

technocrat yeah Rory I'm by it you stand by I mean it's remarkable yeah Rory just wants to go on sort of the way he feels and

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