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Except for the blatant match rigging where Argentina got 4 penalties every game from VAR.You would not have known VAR was in operation at the last world cup, it was managed that good.
Nothing will change whilst they have such poor inconsistent use of it in this country.
Why are you putting plastic bags in your recycling bin? you absolute horror!
Cant agree. Live Football is not a computer game. Tech is screwing everything with zero discernable benefit for the average person. That includes ruining our game.I really find it interesting that there are so many against VAR in general instead of how the PREMIER LEAGUE use VAR. It works in every sport out there and works in ALMOST every instance in other countries who use it for football. It's mates who don't want to overrule their mates. The EASIEST way to fix this is to have a dedicated VAR group for Europe but they have no idea who they are watching until that day. And you can't do your own country. Bam, it's fixed.
DefinitelyThere is nothing wrong with the hardware/software with regards to VAR. As always, the problems lie with the baboons that operate it.
Technology integrates into sport with ease if done correctly, look at Hawkeye in Tennis, look at DRS/snickometer in Cricket. Notice that we never discuss the goal line technology in football? Examples of technology integrated into sport with ease.
We need to keep VAR, and develop a more robust system/protocol that even baboons can’t get wrong.
If it goes, I never want to hear a manager complain again about a decision that went against his team when VAR may have helped him.
...same with the time wasting, excellently handled.You would not have known VAR was in operation at the last world cup, it was managed that good.
Nothing will change whilst they have such poor inconsistent use of it in this country.
There is nothing wrong with the hardware/software with regards to VAR. As always, the problems lie with the baboons that operate it.
Technology integrates into sport with ease if done correctly, look at Hawkeye in Tennis, look at DRS/snickometer in Cricket. Notice that we never discuss the goal line technology in football? Examples of technology integrated into sport with ease.
We need to keep VAR, and develop a more robust system/protocol that even baboons can’t get wrong.
If it goes, I never want to hear a manager complain again about a decision that went against his team when VAR may have helped him.
I'd rather see it used as just a mopping up tool where somebody is watching looking for properly bad decisions. We all accept that sometimes a challenge can look better or worse in real time and having someone checking that the ref hasn't made the wrong decision on that is fine. Same with a dive or the Maradona or Henry style handball its good to use the technology available to say no that is blatantly unfair we need to overturn it. I dont think the review system works in football because the game is a lot more fluid than cricket or tennis where its used and the scoring system is so different so managers would basically just review every goal anyway because theres few enough of them to justify it.People go on about how VAR kills the joy of a goal - and it does - but that would be a price worth paying if VAR was certain to get decisions right. It isn't. It interferes in things it has no business interfering in, is as inconsistent as any human official refereeing a game, and brings in toenail offsides that the human eye either called reflexively or missed completely when linesmen were responsible for flagging (allowing us to either blame the lino or excuse him on the basis that judging offside is impossible for the human eye).
Scoring a goal is difficult - as DCL can testify. VAR gives the impresson of doing everything it can to find a reason - often spurious - to disallow a goal. "His knee is offside", "he touched him", and other such ridiculousness destroys the benefits of technology. Having a shoulder or a kneecap beyond the last man would result in a flag or no flag in the past. Now it results almost certainly in a flag - but also a three-minute delay. And for what? In the spirit of the rules of the game, a shoulder or knee was not why offside was necessary. It was to stop goal hanging.
Football was always a contact sport. "Touching" somebody before playing the ball - or even after it as happened at the World Cup when Szesze...Szeszeny...the Polish goalkeeper dealt with a cross and grazed Messi with his hand as he fell for the concession of a preposterous penalty - was always part of the game. Force is what used to be taken into account, recklessness, or endangering an opponent. Or simply gaining a premeditated advantage by making contact with a player. In this case, the keeper didn't even see the beatified Lionel, dealt with the danger, and unknowingly feathered the Argentinian as he fell...only to be penalised. A farce. You just know Beto isn't getting that penalty.
Technology itself can be managed. But it needs to have very clear and specific applications. Allow coaches to call for VAR no more than twice a game for offside or penalty incidents. One issue right now is the feeling - paranoid or not - that VAR is used to benefit the fashionable sides. Reduce that by allowing each team two reviews. Allow the video refs to call the on-field ref to a screen ONLY when an egregious error has been made (an off-the-ball incident, for example, or when clear daylight can be identified between the forward and last defender in an offside call). VAR should not be "looking at" or "checking" every single incident in a game. Human error is priced in to the game. If you introduce VAR with all its constraints, you HAVE to eliminate it or it becomes bureaucracy. And that's always the first step to dystopia.
Definitely
VAR isn't the problem
We need 'clear and obvious' removed and deal only in the facts of what has happened, VAR is better positioned to do that
Refs need to lose their egos and accept VAR is better positioned too
and fans need to let go of the traditionalist and conservative views that make the League reluctant to give more power over to VAR
Now that we've seen half hearted VAR have no consistency, we need to embrace it fully, because this second layer of subjectivity is ridiculous and isn't worth the increase in injuries due to delays and cooling down
Disagree take a look at Coadys goal in derby last season. If linesmen thought Coady was offside, disallow it. Don't wait until he's ran off celebrating to do it. VAR missed VVD stamping on Onana, a handball by Milner in same game. What your forgetting is ever since Sky came in, there's been an incentive to ensure clubs with large TV audiences do well. Rodris handball was blatant we didn't get penalty, that was bad refereeing it was just blatant corruption. Nobody cares if somebody is slightly offside, plus you still have subjective issues surrounding red card offences.I really find it interesting that there are so many against VAR in general instead of how the PREMIER LEAGUE use VAR. It works in every sport out there and works in ALMOST every instance in other countries who use it for football. It's mates who don't want to overrule their mates. The EASIEST way to fix this is to have a dedicated VAR group for Europe but they have no idea who they are watching until that day. And you can't do your own country. Bam, it's fixed.