Should just scrap var altogether. We were well better off without it
No we were not. The human error on the pitch is a reminder of why we're not better off without it. At least they've owned up and admitted responsibility. Five years ago, we wouldn't even get a whisper of accepting responsibility, let alone a statement of accountability.
JĂźrgen can't go on a tv rant about officials. Not worth it. He's on a suspended ban for the rest of the season remember.
The VAR was incompetent. Everyone is focusing on the offside decision but VAR also showed the ref the most biased and incriminating still photo they could find for Jones red card.
The ref was also terrible, the decision to give Jota his first yellow card was especially awful but there were multiple other bad decisions.
We got some terrible decisions at Spurs a few years ago and it's happened again.
Before, it was the refs that were biased, now it's the photos. 😅
Any ref anywhere on earth, is going to issue a straight red card when he sees where the impact is from a challenge like that, regardless what motion he sees it in. It's endangering the safety of an opponent, so unfortunately he has to go. And we would be baying for it to be given if it was the other way round. No issue there.
Whatever about the first yellow given, Jota shouldn't be making tackles like that when he risks another. He got the first yellow after a number of previous challenges. Didn't learn obviously.
Why oh why was Endo not put on earlier? If we're going to boast about signing a new DM, he's not much use on a bench while the midfield is being overrun. After Diogo had to walk for his rash lunge, I thought the game was up. 9 v 11 usually turns out that way. So to keep going to almost the bitter end is a credit to everyone out there who gave everything they had to try and get us a point.
The long unbeaten record is gone but other results have softened the blow imo, so we forget about it and move on.
It's not difficult to focus on 2 issues. JĂźrgen and his players can spend their time preparing for the games on Thursday and at Brighton.
Other people at the club will be dealing with the VAR issue. Obviously, JĂźrgen's press conferences are likely to be dominated by VAR questions but I don't think it will significantly affect the preparations for the next game.
The more we find out about this incident, it's just getting worse. On Saturday evening almost every Liverpool fan would have presumed this incident was just incompetence, a few days later more of us are starting to become very concerned about corruption because it's becoming a very suspicious situation.
We need a full investigation of this incident and some of the issues around it, PGMOL, the trips to Abu Dhabi, etc.
I'm starting to think that there is a possibility that the game will be replayed.
The game will not be replayed, no league game is. By this time next week, it will be all forgotten about by most people, because there will be something else to talk about.
Players need help, managers need help, officials need help. Why do they need help? Because they make mistakes. This error was initially created because the linesman put his flag up and got it wrong, as they've done since the year dot. The pictures showed it wasn't a hard decision for him to get right, but he still got it wrong. So if anything, he should share the blame for everything that happened, as he would be without VAR. Then it was compounded by another mistake made upstairs, and then everyone jumped on the anti VAR bandwagon. It's mistakes, happens all the time at every level of the game. It's not corruption.
The level of comment from all involved has been unwise and unhelpful, and fuels bitterness and hatred all the way from the top of the football pyramid to the bottom of the ladder. It's that kind of vitriol that sees officials having to take time out because of physical threats to them and/or their families. For what?
I include the club in that, for putting out a statement, which only brought about more questions. Explore what other options? There aren't any. What escalation and resolution? Telling everyone that we should wait for the conclusions of the review, then goes on to say the decisions undermined sporting integrity, such as what exactly? It's a live investigation, and as with any investigation, there should not be any official comment until it's complete and the full facts are known. Where was all this stuff after the Karius and Kane incidents in front of the Kop? Where was it after Bobby's perfectly good goal against Arsenal was ruled out for a fictitious offside, that cost us the two points that lost us the league? Where was it when the decisive penalty in the 1985 cup final, was given for a challenge outside the box? Etc etc etc. Or is it just ok to issue official statements when a VAR is involved?
Every player, every manager and every fan at every level of the game treats an official as an opponent, when he's just trying to do his job to the best of his ability, to get decisions right. The VAR in charge of our game will be devastated by getting it wrong, because he realises it's an automatic ban as a result, which he is now serving. He'll also be devastated at what has been said about him since, and he'll wish he could go back and give the goal, then nobody would have cared where he was beforehand. It's not right and it's not fair, and grown men really should know better. We're all gutted by what happened, but the game is done, and we just have to get on with the rest of the season now.
