Still no word on the handball incident in the United game from our resident VAR expert?
Banks didn't give it because he thought the arm was in it's natural position. When you look at the footage, the VAR can't argue it wasn't. Therefore he didn't intervene. Remember his job isn't to judge what is and isn't a handball, his job is to examine whether the ref missed something or not, and send the ref to the monitor. Anyone expecting an apology for a call that had no impact on the result, will be kept waiting.
I wasn't referring to united Keith. I'm talking about Var in general.
But OK, as an example ... Everton were refused a penalty for clear handball against city ... the weekend which would have seen us claw back more off a 15+ point deficit striking a vital blow ... only for it to be denied by a Manchester referee , backed up by a var ... from Manchester. Not to mention the ref that day klopps friend Mr Tierney has family who are city supporters.
And that means what exactly? I don't know how many clubs there are in mancland but I know there's more than one.
We had Mike Dean reffing our games for the past two years. Who complained? The VAR from Manchester, is the ref who decided West Ham should not have a penalty against us when the ball hit Thiago. Who complained?
VAR literally bailed us out last week in 2 of our top 4 rivals matches, decisions that without VAR stepping in, would see us much further back. Not even so much as a pipsqueak of gratitude from anyone over them getting the right decision, along with the multiple other VAR decisions our way all season. Only me of course.
Well if we do finish inside the tent, you can send the relevant refs a postcard from wherever our European Tour takes us next season.
Nobody could argue that the endless debates over every single incident isn't tiresome and sucking the lifeblood out of the game.
I'm sure if supporters (of all clubs) were given the vote (They won't) to either keep it or ditch it....it would be voted into history as a bad experiment. It was a better experience when ref's and linesmen just got things wrong, but we just moved on.
No they didn't, stop lieing. You still haven't moved on from the Everton - City game, never mind anyone else. One of the worst ref decisions of all time was the West Brom goal given at Leeds. Rather than move on, the wrong decision prompted a pitch invasion, riots and arrests. Is that what people want? All over an error that a VAR could have cleared up in half a minute max. Leeds lost the league as a result, and their fans developed the reputation they have to this day.
If it was my vote, I would have VAR in all 4 divisions but supporters won't get a vote. We know how they would vote, and they might be happy enough until they're robbed by a ref over a howler that kicks them out of the cup/league. Then as in the above example, self interest kicks in.
Fans celebrate getting everything from penalties to free kicks. Nobody ever said you can't celebrate goals. You celebrate however you want, whether the goal will stand is a different matter.
In my national league we don't have any form of technology at all, but while you don't have to wait around to celebrate, the gloss is always taken off if you know that the goal should never have stood. It's supposed to be a professional sport in 2023, not a park kickabout from the 19th Century.