Fans in agreement as Vinnie Jones gives his opinion on the current state of the game

Fans have been left in agreement as Vinnie Jones gives his opinion on the current state of the game in a gone viral video.

Jones played professionally as a defensive midfielder between 1984 and 1999, notably for the likes of Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chelsea, and Queens Park Rangers, and also played for and captained Wales.

In his career, Jones gained a reputation for adding steel to a team, was had a highly aggressive and physically uncompromising style of play, and leading to being described as someone who had a “hard man” image on and off the field, as well as on TV and in films.

He received some questions when speaking with SPORTbible, with the clip going on the get over 35,000 likes on Facebook, over 2,300 comments, and has been watched over 2.4 million times throughout December.

Have a watch at what he had to say below, or scroll further down in the article for the transcript of the interview…

He said: “Holes in socks. Bollocks. Game’s gone.”

Interviewer: “Why are they doing that?”

Vinnie: “I think probably so that they’re not putting all that pressure on their calf muscles, I think. Let’s get a bigger pair of socks. Come on, lads.”

Interviewer: “And not celebrating against your old team.”

Vinnie: “Yeah. Yeah. I see that.”

Interviewer: “Fair play?”

Vinnie: “I think that’s fair play. Not if you had a good, you know, a good infinity towards the club and a good a good rapport with fans. Nah.”

Interviewer: “Semi finals at Wembley?”

Vinnie: “No. Don’t agree with it. Never have done. That is, that is the sacred turf. That is the international. That is the FA Cup final, and it devalued it. And I think it devalued the cup final, the FA Cup.”

Interviewer: “What about VAR?”

Vinnie: “Hate it. Hate it. There ain’t enough goals in football as it is, and when you’re saying the bloke’s offside that much. What I would like to see is that’s offside, not that. There’s a complete gap. Here’s your forward. Any part of him touching the defender you’re on. It has to be that. You have to see a divide for it to be offside. More goals. That’s what we want more goals.”

Interviewer: “So then you’d keep VAR because if they gave it offside, then you go, no actually, it’s on”

Vinnie: “Yes. Because then you then you could show even the viewers at home a gap. Not a, not a tiny f*cking fingernail. ”

Interviewer: “If you could bring one change into modern football, what would it be?”

Vinnie: “It’d be the VAR offside. I want more goals. And I also wanna see more bookings when these f*ckers roll over and they’re not being touched, or a red card. I mean, there’s a proper red card. Geezer goes over. They do VAR, he ain’t been, he ain’t been f*cking touched, and he gets up, I’ll get up with a warning. Well, he’s trying to get the other geeser sent off. Go. Boom. VAR red card.”

Interviewer: “Red card’s for diving.”

Vinnie: “Yeah.”

As mentioned, fans are in agreement as Vinnie Jones gives his opinion on the current state of the game…

Craig Aston: I agree with everything he’s said

Eddie Williams: Totally agree with red card for diving

Andrew Ginn: Totally agree with his comments, the game has gone to the dogs

James Bird: I never ever thought I’d find myself agreeing with every word Vinnie Jones said. I do here.

Gee Kiddo: He’s absolutely spot on the game is garbage now – played by a bunch of Prima Donna’s – it’s pretty much a non contact sport now – VAR has added nothing to the game other than making it stop start – and less enjoyable And don’t get me started on the fa… See more

Anthony John Hide: His idea on VAR offside is spot on. It shouldn’t take 5 minutes and multiple replays to finally arrive at an offside decision. It should be clear and obvious from the first look.

Billy Bell: Vinnie, red card for diving. 🤔 100% 👏👏👏👍👍👍👌👌👌,it’s the biggest disease in the game.

Karl Stewart: Looks unprofessional playing with holes in the socks !

Gary Bright: Vinnie should be running the game.👌

Danny Clegg: It makes no difference where you judge the offside. Be it with a gap between attacker and defender, or simply any part of the attacker behind the defender. We would still get them messing around with lines etc. You are simply moving the goalposts. The … See more

John Stewart: Fairly good assessment of current state of play.

Dave Bond: Injury time running to 10 minutes. Why does the clock keep running when there’s a stoppage in play such as injury or VAR. Surely it’s easy for the ref to just stop the clock until play starts again. It’s the same when players take their time with restarts. Just stop the clock and then there’s no issue. It works well enough in rugby and let’s face it there’s enough officials in the game to administer it.

Anthony Busst: Var was introduced to stop diving yet it is ruining football with mm decisions on offside. Diving and play acting is worse than ever yet goes unpunished. Mind boggling.

Darren Graham: Definitely agree with the red card for simulation and the offside rule. Would also like the game stopped immediately if a player is offside, not play on for another 3 minutes before blowing the whistle. A player could get seriously injured in the time the whistle should’ve blown to when it actually is. Handball is also now a joke. Refs are asking players to move in unnatural ways to avoid a handball – who doesn’t jump with their arms out 😳

Alan Lofthouse: Absolutely totally agree with Vinnie the game is getting boring compared with what I watched back then. I’m 80 years old and have fond memories of football as a man’s game. When did you ever see Vinnie rolling around like he’d caught a bullet? Overpaid posers most of em! Get rid of VAR and let’s see some old fashioned tackles too. 🙏🇨🇦

Conor O’Hagan: The offside suggestion’s a good one. Or go by feet on the ground only, bodies are always gonna be leaning a certain direction when defending or attacking so judge it by the feet.

Paul Dunne: He’s right about the fa cup should be just the final no semi but it’s not about football any more it’s about money these days and that’s the bottom line

Hugh Carson: Proper player give and took it , 100% on what he’s saying 👏 👍

Paul Nash: Totally agree with Vinnie, spot on- football has become a joke with VAR. Plus only Finals played at Wembley not semis. He should be on the football board association 😉👍

Lee Jay: A real footballing character, from a great era. Can’t disagree with his assessments, real world football needs to return.

James Smith: I am coaching a grassroots under 8 team and it drives me mad that some of the kids dive and pretend they are hurt all because they copy what their heroes are doing. Had a chat with my son about sportsmanship and cheating and now he is constantly recognising it for himself and questioning why there is so much cheating in the games when we watch MOTD together.

Mike Hill: strangely enough, I couldn’t stand the bloke when he was playing…… but here he’s spoken nothing but good, old-fashioned common sense, no beating about the bush, just said what he thinks, which is virtually, word for word, what most ordinary, everyday football fans throughout the entire country think….. I’m with you on this one, Vinny…