The day VAR being in place or not is the difference between us and MK Dons is the day weâve regressed 4/5 years.
Christ you are actually using the MK Dons tie as support to your VAR love affair. Unbelievable. If we need VAR to beat MK Dons then we are in trouble.
I think we know the story in knockout cup competitions. One mistake and it's curtains. If we put out something like a PL2 level side, their results this season have been poor. This is a step up from that for them, without the ref becoming the centre of attention as well.
This. I remember saying last year that itâs all well and good bringing in something like VAR but ultimately itâs still the moronic officials making the decisions.
Trying to bring in a system to rectify the amount of wrong decisions officials make but put them officials in charge of it. Itâs like putting someone whoâs been nicked for grand theft auto in charge of a car garage.
There is so much emphasis on cutting out diving and reprimanding players who have tried to deceive the officials but nothing happen to officials who are constantly making the same mistakes over and over.
The fact there are different rules for different penalty boxes etc is a joke. Handball is handball, whether thatâs a defending player or an attacking player. Likewise this âclear and obvious errorâ bollocks, an error is an error.
Itâs not the technology thatâs the problem, itâs the idiots using it...well attempting to use it.
Then you get who do a weekly hypothetical quiz about what will or wonât be overturned once itâs in place and how the outcome of the game would have been but in actual fact, itâs still wrong and he hasnât got a damn clue because itâs still got the biggest and worst problem with it all - human error.
4 injustices were corrected this weekend, the most in one weekend to date, and bringing the total to 11 so far. Taking the impact of the overturned decisions in our game and the City v Spurs game into account, that's an extra 4 point swing in our favour in this title race, converting what would be a fragile 1 point advantage without VAR into a comfortable 5 point lead with it. If most fans were asked before the season started, if they would prefer to wait a bit for a VAR check, so we could be 5 points clear by mid-September, instead of 1 point because of wrong decisions, I think most of us would rather be 5 points clear of the rest.
Handball has exactly the same rules for forwards and defenders. PGMOL say that only forwards will be penalised by VAR in the EPL. There is the difference.
Hang on. All last season you were telling us that never again will a wrong decision cost teams points or games. But clearly it still happens because they do not utilize VAR and when they do itâs still an incompetent individual making the decision.
So your drumbeat and VAR quiz all of last season was ultimately wrong. How many of those overturned decisions from your VAR quiz would have actually been overruled in practice? Very little.
Because it's only been used for offsides and handballs by forwards which is great, but not what VAR is everywhere else. So technically the other "errors" this season, have not been errors because of the "high bar" in operation.
Based on Riley's figures, up to Week 4 of the league, the accuracy of correct decisions in the EPL was 98.2%, taking all checks into account, approx 7 per game.
There is nothing wrong with VAR as a technology, The offside thing is fine, but why not flag immediately on an offside, why let play carry on?
If they flag immediately, play is stopped and the incident can't be checked. If they wait to put it up, the offside call can be checked at the next stoppage in play. Many offside calls can only be judged accurately by VAR, not the human eye.
Alternatively, all goals should be flagged if the lino thinks there is any doubt. That puts any celebrations on hold instantly, while we can check if it really is offside or not. If it's not, the goal is given and celebrations can begin.
I was convinced on first viewing, that our third goal at Burnley would be ruled out for offside against Salah. The first thing I said was that it will have to be checked, so I waited to celebrate until the replay was shown and the goal was fine. It was not the first time nor will it be the last, but I prefer when we score a goal that is 100% valid than if it is 100% luck.