Will VAR Change Football for the Better?

[Gavia]

This is utter garbage.

[Gavia]

VAR again being checked.

Did he kick the ball too hard?

[Gavia]

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[Gavia]

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[g4ry13]

Quite frankly I think it's been great tonight. Aside from the first disallowed goal i'd say every decision has been right and isn't that what it's really about?

[Lotus Elan +2]

Farcical

[Gavia]

It’s a shambles of a system. The game has been entertaining despite the ref’s attempts to make it all about him.

Farce of a system.

[Black can man]

Gavia said:

It’s a shambles of a system. The game has been entertaining despite the ref’s attempts to make it all about him.

Farce of a system.

Have to agree ,

This is going to kill our game ,

[mikal83]

Moan moan moan.

We need a secondary system to check what the ref missed. You've got it and ...................moan moan moan

[Boydie88]

g4ry13 said:

Quite frankly I think it's been great tonight. Aside from the first disallowed goal i'd say every decision has been right and isn't that what it's really about?

I feel sorry for you.

Trippier pen, definitely pulled back outside the box, after that it is merely just contact. Hardly foul worthy, especially when you compare it to the Moura incident that was deemed not a foul.

Utterly, utterly, st system.

The penalty itself, Lamela and the Rochdale players were in the box before Son even kicks the ball, that infraction is surely before Son suttetering the run up, so why isn't it retaken?

fk VAR, remember this when we look back in a few years wondering where it went wrong.

[Gavia]

Why has the ref checked this goal?

Does every goal have to be referred? If so why bother with refs at all.

[Boydie88]

Gavia said:

Why has the ref checked this goal?

Does every goal have to be referred? If so why bother with refs at all.

It looked pretty close to me, yet they said yes to it nearly immediately. Without supplying the stty line images too.

Something tells me they were told to hurry the fk up.

Knew it was coming immediately, which takes some of the enjoyment of scoring out of it as you won't know if it's going to count.

[Gavia]

I’ve given up

[monty999]

What a farce the game was tonight. So pleased that VAR has well and truly shot itself in the foot by showing that even if you could argue that 'some' of the stoppages produced correct decisions, then even correct decisions can feck up a perfectly good cup tie. For the penalty I think even the Spurs players just wanted to get on with taking the free-kick. Absolute joke and will be the ruin of the flow of footy matches as we know it.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

g4ry13 said:

Quite frankly I think it's been great tonight. Aside from the first disallowed goal i'd say every decision has been right and isn't that what it's really about?

It's what VAR is about, but it's not what football is about.

[Gad-Westy]

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[TwigtheWonderkid]

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[RichB]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

There's only ever been 1 change to the offside law, level used to be off, now it's on. Everything else is just down to Fifa directives on interpretation.

Disagree. Any player used to be offside as long as he was in an offside position on the pitch, i.e. you could be strolling around by the corner flag with the play in the middle of the park but you would be offside and a free kick would be given to the defending side. It was then changed so that you had to be interfering with play. That's not interpretation, that's a change to the law.

[monty999]

Gad-Westy said:

I'm in agreement but at the same time, I'd ask that MOTD cast and other pundits don't spend 10 minutes in a warm studio analyising controversial refereeing decisions from every different angle in slow-mo in order to conclude the referee is inept. It's a given that every decision won't be right. Some of those decisions might be important. Some might be expensive. But to me that's part of the game. It is still a game no matter how much money is involved now. Some will get lucky, some won't. It's part of the show and should remain so.

I was sort of in favour of technology to stop all that nonsense but VAR isn't working and is way too clunky. Can't see it ever getting there. No big problem with goal line tech though that is non-intrusive. I wouldn't mind seeing the offside rules reverting back to their original format too.

Bang on.

[Gavia]

monty999 said:

Gad-Westy said:

I'm in agreement but at the same time, I'd ask that MOTD cast and other pundits don't spend 10 minutes in a warm studio analyising controversial refereeing decisions from every different angle in slow-mo in order to conclude the referee is inept. It's a given that every decision won't be right. Some of those decisions might be important. Some might be expensive. But to me that's part of the game. It is still a game no matter how much money is involved now. Some will get lucky, some won't. It's part of the show and should remain so.

I was sort of in favour of technology to stop all that nonsense but VAR isn't working and is way too clunky. Can't see it ever getting there. No big problem with goal line tech though that is non-intrusive. I wouldn't mind seeing the offside rules reverting back to their original format too.

Bang on.

That whole debate is what makes the passion run more though. The sense of injustice when a decision goes against you and it’s proven to, whereas we all forget the ones that go for us.

That’s part of the passion of football that VAR will remove.