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Topics: 59Once again it’s not the technology at fault but the interpretation of the law by different officials on the day monitoring it and yesterday an on field referee not paying attention to what he was actually seeing. For something that was designed to make the game fairer and decision making easier it’s just turned into a complete bag of bollocks.
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Celebrating the same goal five minutes apart is only something we could have dreamed of just a few years ago.
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Celebrating the same goal five minutes apart is only something we could have dreamed of just a few years ago.
Is the implementation of VAR policy of the ruling elites, as theorised by the cultural Marxists emanating from the Frankfurt school to the WEF and beyond, a part of the upcoming totalitarian state? :-)
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So if it’s ultimately down to human interpretation why not just let the ref and linesmen decide like down here in the plebs’ leagues?
Or is it done because the PL teams are something special?
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The Premiership is stuffed with clubs as pretentious and pampered to hell, VAR is the result of moaning and groaning about poor refereeing decisions over many years and in particular some of the bigger powerful clubs not being satisfied with ” their lot ” all the time. VAR was going to be the bees knees but it’s turned out to be total crap, goal line technology withstanding. If they had come to a common sense approach about the interpretation of offside when VAR was first launched, none of this would be happening, it’s entirely of their own stupid making.
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Come more from international games Germany v England especially than the premier lge,clear and obvious was the first mantra. Keep goal line technology and bin Var would see most fans happy.
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VAR probably would work providing you didn’t have clueless morons using it. Thing is with referees in this country is that they all interpret the laws within officiating differently so on any given day you’re always going to different decisions with very little consistency.
I’d rather they all didn’t go rogue and just all strictly followed refereeing guidelines, least then you’d have consistent decisions.
I just wish they went back to how it was. As somebody said above, keep it for goal line technology. Get the refs to all follow the same guidelines, ditch the shitty offside 1st and second phase bullshit where they blow up about a minute after it’s obvious they’re offside.
They’ve over complicated football for the sake of it and somewhat ruined it.
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Thing is with cricket les, they have umpires call which is non negotiable and quite right too. In football they will say to a ref, ” in retrospect go back and have a look at this for a penalty “, different interpretation of how the technology works in football compared to cricket. The cricket version of how it’s interpreted and used is far superior to football because the initial interpretation of umpires call isn’t questioned.
Also cricket is a sport where delay doesn’t affect the feel of the game so much. Football isn’t as stop/start, so anything which disrupts the flow is more noticeable and if it results in a dubious VAR decision there will be frustration. Whereas, some more time deliberating in cricket is less of an issue because there are inherent stoppages (between runs and overs) which do not matter if they last a bit longer than average.
Cricket DRS was designed to “eliminate clear and obvious errors.” Missing an offside knee cannot be described thus so Ref/Asst Ref’s call would stand. Too controversial?
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The umpiring decisions in cricket have improved beyond measure. Not ‘like with like’ maybe, but rather, ‘like with similar’.
I agree in some respects but fundamentally I still hate that you can’t celebrate your team taking a wicket because you’ve no idea if it will actually be out or not when the umpire’s finger is raised.
The trouble with these technological approaches to refereeing/umpiring is that all you do is you narrow the window of debate: so whereas before we would look at a player half a yard beyond the last defender and all be pretty certain that he was offside, now we have to look at the leg hairs of the players to make the same decision. The same applies in cricket where run-outs/stumpings/no balls are judged by fractions of the players’ boot being behind the line – or not.
Frankly, we’ve reached this situation because as a game we weren’t mature enough just to shut up and accept decisions. You end up with Match of the Day spending no time analysing strikers missing open goals or defenders passing the ball straight to opponents, you just get loads of discussion of whether the referee’s decisions were “correct”. And a decision in football often isn’t “correct” because it’s a matter of interpretation by a human being. Pundits who talk about “correct decisions” are themselves fundamentally wrong.
When VAR was first proposed, the errors that were highlighted like Frank Lampard’s “goal” in the world cup against Germany, were such obvious errors that the solution was to work with officials and raise the general standard, not ruin the game for the sake of the odd gaffe.
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