VAR...now demanded by some

VAR is male masturbation

Having VAR for the play off final and not the entire league makes zero sense...same as the fact we had VAR against palace but Lincoln, who played Everton on the same day, didn’t.

My view is get rid of it, throw it in the bin and just go back to what we were used to. They won’t though, they’ll chug on and continue to over complicate it and for all the cryarsing tv people do regarding VAR their bosses will be thinking it’s great...a plethora of slow motions and talking points which keeps viewers...

Is the game any better for VAR? Probably not, I’d imagine, much like prior to VAR teams that use it have as many decisions that VAR gets right as those that it doesn’t...much like before VAR.

It works in other sports such as cricket, tennis etc and to some extent in rugby too. But, football is a free flowing sport where it just doesn’t seem to fit in. It would be like having it in horse racing where the nags would have to stop halfway round. Maybe there is something in the technology where instant obvious decisions can be rectified and not because a players shoelace have kept someone onside. The fact that the referee is asked to check a pitch side monitor is a frigging joke too

It was supposed to be used for clear and obvious errors, but if you need to draw and adjust lines, view multiple times, and sometimes get the referee to watch a clip then it is no longer clear and obvious. For me, if you cannot tell within 2-3 seconds, it is not clear and obvious, and should not even be considered.

To me, VAR is all about winning and losing. If a team wins because VAR allows a goal the victors will say it a great piece of technology. If a team loses because a player's nose is beyond the line and is deemed to be offside, then it's ridiculous.

All football rules and reg's are open to interpretation but somewhere along the line some sort of common sense should apply and until that happens we have what we have.

Quoted from supertown

That’s the exact reason it was brought in for, not the idiotic way they apply it

Agree. As long as its applied appropriately I think VAR is excellent. I know  a Spanish friend was devastated when Spain had that goal ruled out in the quarter final of the 2002 world cup game. Clearly the ball had not gone over the line which the resulting cross by Juaqin and that Morientes header would have put  Spain in the semifinal .Hopes of a nation dashed by a grave error from the referee assistant. Game is also littered with countless other decisions wrongly given by the officials which have affected games unfairly.

Pandora's box innit? Once you start using replays the inevitable depressing outcome is people being given offside by 1mm, because you're either off or you're not.

Quoted from Abdul19

Pandora's box innit? Once you start using replays the inevitable depressing outcome is people being given offside by 1mm, because you're either off or you're not.

But if its the difference between winning the world cup or not?. Think about it eg extra time in the world cup final and a goal is disallowed which should of been given eg Frank Lampards goal which of stood in the 2010 world cup against Germany. For me thats why now Iam in favour of VAR.

Quoted from Rick12

But if its the difference between winning the world cup or not?. Think about it eg extra time in the world cup final and a goal is disallowed which should of been given eg Frank Lampards goal which of stood in the 2010 world cup against Germany. For me thats why now Iam in favour of VAR.

But that's goal line technology, which is great (apart from that one time they forgot to switch it on!) but a different thing.

Quoted from Abdul19

But that's goal line technology, which is great (apart from that one time they forgot to switch it on!) but a different thing.

Yes but what about other things. The way Howard Webb officiated that world cup 2010 final wasnt right. Way the Spanish were treated by the Dutch was poor. Always remember De Jongs kick to Xabi Alonso's chest in that world cup as summing it up for me . Should have been a straight red. The stress of the big occasion I feel  got to him. Its why sometimes technology is needed. Human error will always happen and sometimes a helping hand from other sources is needed to make sport more just.