Back in the day it was easier to accept a ref making a poor decision than what we have now, a ref and a whole backup team of officials. There has to be collective bias otherwise you can't get to that decision (Last night)
VAR not fit for purpose....never will be.
I've never understood that last sentence, whether it be about VAR or anything else. I think it's a meaningless phrase tbh. Just what purpose should it be for?
It was never easier to accept a ref decision that was clearly wrong. A wrong decision is a wrong decision, whether it's by a team of officials or a one man band, and nobody has accepted this one either. Unlike back in the day, the relevant officials have now paid the price for getting them wrong.
It was the same VAR as in the Spurs v Brighton game last year. In fairness to him, the high bar, minimum interference threshold is still way too high imo, and hinders rather than helps a VAR in the EPL.
You can tell Webbs in charge.
And since he's been in charge, his VAR's have advised that on field refs go to the monitors to give major decisions against the mancs. Because they were correct decisions, everyone else swiftly forgot about them, bar me of course. All that fictitious "subconscious bias" nonsense had no bearing on those incidents.
Didn't watch the mancs game, didn't see the incident. But if someone like Jon Moss is saying it's a howler, it must have been so. For all their protestations now, Wolves fans were the ringleaders protesting about VAR when it started, singing with gusto about how they didn't want it. Now they've seen the result of what happens when it's not used, chaos, disbelief, and resentment.
Aside from that, they had 23 shots on goal and didn't score. Therefore blaming the officials for not giving a penalty they may not have scored from anyway, is just a cop out tbh.
Lesser handball given in the Brighton, definitely a mission against Liverpool
What is a "lesser" handball? Does such a thing even exist? The ball hit his arm in the box, therefore the decision on the pitch was not a clear and obvious error to be overturned.
Any defender who handles the ball in the penalty area, no matter how natural or innocuous, has no defence if the ref gives a penalty. The evidence is there to justify the decision, so the VAR is going to let it stand.