With the introduction of VAR it's time that the record's book were closed on the Greatest Goal Scorers of all Time, and a New Book should be opened for today's players..
It's obvious that probably at a guess 20 % of Peles, Mullers, Ronaldo , Jimmy Greaves, Messi, Suares, Ibrahimovic's, Hursts Peters etc, etc, goals would today have been called offside for the hand being over the line, a shirt flap crossing the line, their head crossing the line, and looking at the number of goals that are taken away for handballs that the refs miss ,I guarantee the clever ones like Best, Rooney, Shearer, touched that ball with their hands as much as any if not more than any player does today and got away with it .
Lot's the penalties these guys scored would not have been called as penalties, but dives , so take those off the their total, and half of the defenders like Nobby Stiles Hunter etc would have lasted all of 30 minutes before being sent to the showers for fouls the refs missed.
While were here lets get real, not all of Truman's, Holdings, Lillee and Thompsons and the other greats outs would have been called out today ,after a review, how many times do you watch after the video review and the bowlers heel is over the line, a lot if you have been watching as much cricket as I have this winter.
AS for LBW's the Umps seem to get those calls wrong more times than the weather guys gets the weather wrong on TV, it seems 25% or more go for an Umps review and the decision is reversed.
Time to close the books on all the great records of the past, start afresh this year, now that VAR has ruined sport How a bunch of overpaid grown men who run football can not understand that OFFSIDE in a football match should only be called OFFSIDE if the players FEET are OFFSIDE, not his shirt tails or his ear, I will never understand.
As for handball, no don't get me started on any ball that hits a player's hand is handball, even if he is facing away from the player who kicked it from 20 yards away and
it bounced off another player so he never even saw it coming, but a penalty is called or a goal is disallowed, yet an attacker can stand in the 18 yard box, obviously interfering with the keep who has to keep an eye on him, but because he didn't touch the ball the goal is given.
My final " wine " of the day , what the hell was wrong with the way we kicked off for a hundred plus years, how has this change improved the game , talk about change for the sake of change.
I just give up, and I was a strong proponent of instant replay , just not now that the genius experts have ruined the wonderful games I grew up playing and watching.