No doubt a certain someone on here will trot out the 'offside is offside' line but that was another absolute sh*te call for Brighton there.
I don't think there was too many of them complaining about it, when it happened to Spurs in their last game. Correct decision obviously.
That retake. F**k me. City and Wolves players encroach but itâs by millimetres. There is zero thought process as to what the purpose of these rules are.
Moronic
Law 14 of the sport, makes it clear why the decision was made. The law applies worldwide. Case closed. As regards the rest of the incident, the forward was fouled in the box. It doesn't mean I like the decision, but I can't complain when the decision is correct.
Football isn't a balance sheet it doesn't always add up and trying to make it perfect is destroying it for the fans. In our game on WEDS the VAR decisions were just weird. We need better Ref's and assistants maybe two assistants on each side
That has already been tried. And failed. They just stood on the goalline for 90 minutes scratching themselves.
It is supposed to add up. Results pay the bills. The more results you get, the more money you make, the better players you buy, the more trophies you win etc etc.
Imagine a dodgy decision and a penalty for UTD at Anfield in the 92nd minute given by VAR the place would explode and then people would be criticised for getting over emotional I can see it coming
Nobody else can. What we have seen over the years, is that wrong decisions which could not be changed, have caused riots. It was before my time but I'm sure you're able to remember West Brom v Leeds in 71. The most crowds can do about VAR, is howl at the moon. It has not and will not make any difference.
I Wouldn't say it was broke at all. Incorrect decisions were made but that's part and parcel of football and has been since day one. Football was more popular than ever at the time VAR was brought in
As I said, I can't see people boycotting and if they did, it wouldn't be because they "can't accept the correct decision" it would be down to the fact that it's making going the match less enjoyable - and even watching on TV less enjoyable. This is not just my opinion but the opinion of more or less everybody else I've spoken to about it.
And on the Salah / Kiev point - what would have happened if VAR was in action? It certainly wasn't a straight red challenge. Obviously we knew what Ramos was doing but people get pulled down in more or less every game. I think at best the referee would have given a yellow card. Hardly justice for injuring our star player. With VAR Gerrard probably wouldn't have won that penalty in Istanbul & I'm sure Dudek wouldn't have been allowed to come as far off his line as he did in the shootout if the spot kicks were being reviewed. Sometimes you get the rub of the green with decisions and sometimes you don't.
VAR is making the experience of celebrating a goal - the essence of football, worse. It's now being hindered by nerds pissing about with lines to check if somebody's armpit is a centimetre offside
As I said recently, the best part of football is celebrating the result you want at the end of the game. Regarding the "joy" of goal celebrations, take the European tie against Roma. They scored 6 goals against us, but they couldn't celebrate any of them "properly", not a single one. And there was no VAR then.
Nerds are not messing about with lines. Qualified FIFA officials are doing a very technical and important job, to ensure that no club, big or small, is the victim of a wrong offside call anymore. If you can score a goal with your shoulder, then the shoulder has to be checked. If a forward looks 1mm ahead of the last defender, it must be reviewed. If a penalty call was actually a foul outside the box or vice versa, the decision must be changed. If you handle the ball and score from it, the effort must be disallowed. That's not the rub of the green, that is fair play in action. It's no consolation to say that it is "part and parcel of the game" when it's your team on the receiving end of an error, that may be the difference between achieving what you want all year or not. There were approx 120 major refereeing errors last season. There were 4 on the last day alone. In this day and age, with the resources we have available, that is just not acceptable and it won't be allowed to happen again. The Son incident last weekend would have been recorded as an error in the logbook last season. This season, it's a straight red card and a three game ban. Justice done on the spot.
You said you were a believer in things even themselves out over time. So I asked a fairly simple question. When would the Salah incident ever be evened out? It is your belief after all that it would happen. Personally the least I would expect the ref to be made aware of what happened, advised to look at the evidence for himself and leave the rest to him. Instead we had no VAR and nothing was done, not even a free kick iirc. You've seen the reaction to it ever since. As for talk of "revenge", nobody in the draw should want to play Real Madrid, and I certainly don't. I always want the easiest possible draw, and as many sides have found out down the years, Real Madrid in the European Cup is never an easy draw for anyone.
VAR helped kick City out of Europe last season, as without it the ghost goal in their quarter final would have counted, and I'm sure we would have condemned the officials (and UEFA) for allowing it to stand. But the laws of the game were enforced as they should be, and so we were spared the prospect of facing them in the final.
VAR is not killing the game, it is changing how we watch it to an extent, but for the better. Diving in the penalty area and being rewarded for it, which was once the cancer of the sport, is now as rare as finding a needle in a rainforest. We are getting better decisions, and fairer results according to the laws of the game, not leaving major decisions to chance and getting them wrong. They don't accept it in other sports, and we shouldn't have to in ours either.
