VAR - Good Idea but badly utilised

wizard_wes

wizard_wes

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For me, VAR should have one purpose and one purpose only and that is to see if a ball has crossed the line. The rest should be forgotten about because it is making a mockery of all concerned!

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Three VAR errors in one night, MOTD told

Incorrect penalty decisions were made by the video assistant referee in all three of Thursday's games, BBC's Match of the Day is told.
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Just read that someone has suggested that an ex-player sits alongside the VA referee. Sounds sensible to me although it would have to be an advisory only role.
 
wizard_wes said:
For me, VAR should have one purpose and one purpose only and that is to see if a ball has crossed the line. The rest should be forgotten about because it is making a mockery of all concerned!

www.bbc.co.uk

Three VAR errors in one night, MOTD told

Incorrect penalty decisions were made by the video assistant referee in all three of Thursday's games, BBC's Match of the Day is told.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Four uses yesterday and they got it wrong three times. That's not the technology, that's incompetent officials backing up incorrect calls by incompetent referees rather than admit they were wrong.

Even the FA have said they were wrong calls. Woeful.
 
I think human error is part of the excitement in football, which sounds ridiculous. I imagine from a logical standpoint VAR technology was inevitable but I'll miss the spontaneity and drama of incorrect/debatable decisions.

I think my opinion could change on it if it became more streamlined in terms of what it can actually be used to make decisions on, and how long it can take. At the minute it seems a bit chaotic.
 
I think the fact that we have had numerous threads and debates on here does demonstrate it is controversial and becoming more of a story than the match itself. I was never in favour of its introduction and haven't changed my mind
 
TangerinePeel said:
I think human error is part of the excitement in football, which sounds ridiculous. I imagine from a logical standpoint VAR technology was inevitable but I'll miss the spontaneity and drama of incorrect/debatable decisions.

I think my opinion could change on it if it became more streamlined in terms of what it can actually be used to make decisions on, and how long it can take. At the minute it seems a bit chaotic.
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Where's the logic when 75% of the decisions were clearly wrong?
1. United's penalty. He fouled the defender not the other way round
2. Push in the back of Harry Kane. Blatant from any angle.
 
Wizaard said:
Where's the logic when 75% of the decisions were clearly wrong?
1. United's penalty. He fouled the defender not the other way round
2. Push in the back of Harry Kane. Blatant from any angle.
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By "from a logical standpoint VAR technology was inevitable" I meant that in this day and age and how big football has became it was bound to happen that they brought in VAR-like technology eventually. I wasn't referring to any specific games decisions
 
wizard_wes said:
For me, VAR should have one purpose and one purpose only and that is to see if a ball has crossed the line. The rest should be forgotten about because it is making a mockery of all concerned!

www.bbc.co.uk

Three VAR errors in one night, MOTD told

Incorrect penalty decisions were made by the video assistant referee in all three of Thursday's games, BBC's Match of the Day is told.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
Click to expand...
Remember the 2018 world Cup, everyone was up in arms because VAR was to be used for the first time and football would be ruined forever and we were all going to hell in a cart?

2 weeks in most people said grudgingly how well it worked, diving was reduced, there were plenty of goals and the overall the football wasn't diminished. In fact it was higher quality then expected.

So what's happened?
 
controversial I know, but these VAR decisions need to be explainable by the VAR referee to the general public and media. We need to know his thought process when basically everyone can see he has got it wrong. What didn't Michael Oliver see that everybody else did?
Won't happen though.
 
It seems to me that they’re utilising VAR so badly they’re doing it on purpose, so to scrap it as soon as possible.
 
Glad we don't have to contend with this shite in L1. However going off some of the standard of referees last year, it might of done us some favours 🥶
 
Why can't it be used like in the world Cup the ref on the pitch to make the decision and the person in the studio there to point stuff out it works if they then get it wrong tough tits the person in the middle is at fault.
They then get demoted for poor games.
 
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