VAR

[hallamblue]

Howard Webb will be furious. He's changed it this season so VAR doesn't get involved when it doesn't need to, which is what made yesterday so annoying.

 

[The Littlest Yobo]

THIS. Been saying this for a season or 2 now. If (big ‘if’), VAR got everything right and eliminated any mistakes, you could maybe make a case for it. But it doesn’t. We all still come away from games moaning about officials.

Footy is unique in that it’s a very low scoring game. Goals are rare and hard to score. That’s why strikers get paid more than everyone else. That why goals are celebrated so crazily, as opposed to a try in rugby, or a basket in basketball, or an ace in tennis.

Taking away the spontaneous joy of a goal, cos people are thinking “I’m not celebrating this, it’ll go to VAR”, is genuinely killing the game.

Totally agree. It doesn’t even matter if it’s a screamer from 30 yards with no one round them as we don’t know if there has been a minuscule shirt tug in the tackle before the assist. I thought it was a blatant pen yesterday. And watching the highlights last night, I was perplexed why it took so long to allow Beto’s goal. It was clearly onside to me. The whole feeling yesterday was one of over fussiness and re-refereeing. The whole buzz of scoring is totally gone for me. I instantly think something will rule it out. I’m not one for conspiracies at all but there felt a definite “narrative” among VAR that they were looking to rule things out rather than in. Personally, I would only have VAR for offsides. Anything else is subjective. That ref was 10 yards away, bang in the heat and flow of the game and gave his decision as a penalty. That should have been that. Why is the opinion of someone else overriding his?