And here was me worrying that it would remove mistakes from the game, making it duller, less exciting and give us less taking points.
Called that one wrong.
Still don't like it, human error should be part of the game, by player, referee or manager. Most referees were getting around 89-92% of calls right and that was with players pushing gamesmanship to its absolute limit.
Actually think that referees should be allowed to watch the game after and be allowed to issue and rescind cards, including yellows.
I assume that means refs correcting errors, what you are apparently against.
Most refs in our league are running around the pitch one day for 90 minutes and doing VAR for 90 minutes the next on the same weekend. There isn't time for them to be rewatching games and rescinding cards. But amazingly, they do it without complaint. Ask players to do 2 games per weekend as they did 30-40 years ago, and there would be uproar. Look at the outrage expressed about the busy Christmas period every single year. I can remember a time when it was even more demanding than now.
If your boss got 89% of his decisions right, I think his bosses would demand an explanation about the consequences of his other decisions.
If a surgeon told you that because of human error, 89% of his decisions were right, would you still put your wellbeing in his hands, or prefer the surgeon with 100% of his decisions right instead?
If a pilot told you that because of human error, 89% of his decisions were perfectly safe, would you still trust him to fly 200 people over and back several times a day, or would you want the pilot with a 100% safety record, to do so?
People tell me that this is not life or death. But football means a lot to a lot of people. In our league, as in the highest level of any business, mistakes are not encouraged, tolerated, or celebrated. There is a lot depending on those in power to make the correct decision, not 89% or 92% of the time, but as close to 100% of the time as possible. With VAR, the accuracy rate is now well into the high 90's, even with the restrictions on it's usage, and where refs cannot use monitors pitchside to get even more decisions correct.
VAR never promised flawless refereeing. They said that more of the "game-changing" decisions would be correct. That is what has happened. There was 8 interventions this weekend, the first VAR dismissal, the first penalty given, the first penalty overturned among them. People said it would never happen. Well it is happening. There have been approx 30 VAR decisions in 100 games. It's not as much as I expected, but it is still 30 more correct decisions than last (or any previous) season.
It all means we have a 6 point lead in the table, that we didn't have before, without it.