VAR

[toffeemax]

VAR should be used only for 'factual' decisions. Was the ball over the goal/touch line, was he offside? Everything else is subjective - was it a fould/did he dive, is it a booking or a sending off, was he interfeering with play or not? Why have 3 or 4 people giving their opinions (the ref plus the VAR lot). Just leave it to the ref and if he misses something, then he misses something. I'd rather have human error than the continual double standards of 'we won't ineterfere with the onfield decision unless it's clear and obvious.................unless we want to!

This is the thing, that's exact rationale for it being implemented. It wasn't used like that today, and I believe that was because Donohue isn't used to using it and was too scared of making a mistake he overanalysed everything (Beto goal as a case in point), and in the end, wanted to not have to make a decision

 

[Titus Shambles]

VAR should be used only for 'factual' decisions. Was the ball over the goal/touch line, was he offside? Everything else is subjective - was it a fould/did he dive, is it a booking or a sending off, was he interfeering with play or not? Why have 3 or 4 people giving their opinions (the ref plus the VAR lot). Just leave it to the ref and if he misses something, then he misses something. I'd rather have human error than the continual double standards of 'we won't ineterfere with the onfield decision unless it's clear and obvious.................unless we want to!

I agree generally and think simplicity of circumstance would improve VAR not more grey areas, but it's a circle that can't be squared with offside. Does 1mm offside count? What about 2mm? 3mm? Should a finger count as offside if you can't score with the hand? Where do we draw the line? What if it takes 3 minutes to get the right call? What about 5 minutes? What about 10? Without clear parameters of the application of the rules it grows as a farce and the game suffers, but that doesn't matter, because VAR is now part of the 'sports entertainment business', whether we like it or not.