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VAR works perfectly well for armchair Sky TV watching plastic second club tosspots.
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Leave it to the refs, take the wrong decisions against you and moan about them, take the wrong decisions in your favour and cheer. I’d rather that than var any day.
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Clear and obvious and VAR would be fine all this millimeters business is bloody rubbish.
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The refs and linesman didn’t see the hand of God goal or the England goal against Germany 2010. FIFA couldn’t allow them decisions to carry on it was getting embarrassing for them.
That England “goal” would have been given with goal line technology, which is totally different to VAR!
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Human error was always accepted as part of the game …and life .. until recently. We got steamed up at bad decisions ..and then adopted a swings and roundabouts approach. Give and take. Now there has to be ‘our rights’ and ‘entitlement’ to perfection. There is no concept of an accident anymore. Someone has to be blamed ..and punished. VAR hasn’t eliminated the subjective elements of decisions and, as several have already said, robbed the game of its immediacy and spontaneity.I would happily see it gone ..and live with the hand of God moments.
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Part of the reason VAR came in was due to pundits on shows like MOTD constantly going on about poor refereeing decisions, now the pundits moan about the people who control VAR on match days either informing or not informing referees when they should review certain incidents occurring during the game, it’s bonkers. Damned if you do damned if you don’t it’s a no win situation. VAR is just a machine, it gives marginal offsides because that’s how humans have set it up, all the controversy surrounding VAR is as always down to human interpretation and interference, JI is right they should have left things alone and allowed referees to sometimes make mistakes because guess what?, they are human after all.
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One thing about offsides is at what frame do they decided it’s left the boot of the player. In those split seconds, the player looking for the ball could go from on to offside, so the moment they choose is vital. For these incredibly marginal calls, is it really worth this nitpicking over something where there will be margin for error? They are looking for a perfect call when there might not be one.
Before VAR no Man Utd fan would have grumbled about that Coventry goal for possible offside, since it was so marginal, except for the extremely biased. Others have said that it will be hard to shift, because there’s too much money and pride involved now. However, I can’t help but feel the spirit of the game has gone with this (as with other things, including replay scrapping). It would have been better if it was only used for the truly ridiculous, but it would have been hard to stop there with managers causing a fuss over the lesser incidents that would have missed.
Forest aren’t too happy with VAR, they’re in for a hammering from the authorities.
I absolutely applaud them for publicly speaking out and saying they’ve had enough – in the same way that I applaud all of the clubs who have come out and complained about the recently announced changes to the FA Cup.
This quite British attitude of ‘shut up and take it on the chin like everybody else has to’ is a self-defeating trick. Revolution has to start somewhere.
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