Ali Gold asked Postecoglou: Is there a chance that the amount of waiting around players are doing now with VAR can lead to more muscle injuries?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8065229

Postecoglou: "Absolutely. I am not going to draw a direct correlation to Micky's injury but I was half-tempted to throw some balls out there for them to kick around. It's the reason we have warm-ups but if you're going into a game, the fact there was only 47 minutes of game time the other night in whatever it was, 110, that is not ideal for the type of athletes we have out there"

That's the disgrace right there. All this waiting around is likely harming the players.