It probably gets 95% of the calls right. FIFA says 99.3% but I don’t think so. Still, if it didn’t exist everyone would be crying to implement technology like they did before. Think of all the goals/no goals that have been rightfully overturned. Even if there are some horrible calls sometimes, the good calls outweigh the bad ones.
I think the issue is that it has shone a spotlight on some of the more recent rule changes and just how fucking stupid and put of touch they are. And that leaves the refs and VARrefs in a terrible position. Granted they’re still a bunch of arrogant pricks not making it easy on themselves but the problem is not all of their own making.
It probably gets 95% of the calls right. FIFA says 99.3% but I don’t think so.
With how much they look at the footage with all those angles, it should be 100%. Theres way too many controversial decisions made for what the technology is. It’s plain incompetence in officiating.
It’s shit. Made the game far worse. Handball is now a complete farce and offsides are a joke.
95% is absolutely shocking considering the time and effort that goes into it. Think about how many decisions a referee has to make in a match. 9/10 are basically clear, cut and dried calls to make so essentially the final 10% of difficult decisions is a coin toss over whether they’re going to get it right or not.
Is a useless trinket
I love VAR. The big clubs don’t.
A note on the 99.3%. Being quiet is also counted as a right call, and i think people undervalue the power and accuracynof saying nothing at all.
I agree about people only getting upset when it’s against their club.
I don’t think the issue is with VAR. Some of the rules/laws need to be amended. Some of the laws create unfair outcomes. But in regard to VAR, I can’t imagine people upset by the fact that the right decisions are being made.
Sometimes its inexplicably wrong, though. I have seen commentators make better decisions for what should have been the right call than the ref
It’s not perfect, but it’s way way better than not having VAR. ppl are just ridiculous
VAR is just the tool, people using it is the problem. Is VAR useful ? yes, BUT there is a big caveat there. too many VAR review may hinder the game. People said from 50-ish minutes Tottenham vs Chelsea 1st half, the ball only played 20-ish minutes. that’s a problem.
There is also problem about consistency. Similar foul can have different outcome. It’s easy to say “In matchday xx similar foul occurred and they gave him red!”. In heat of the match, ref can’t remember everything happened in the past. They also only have may be a minute or two to make decision. Mistake(s) is bound to happened. What is the solution ? Probably more training, more cases review. Probably more VAR staff. Probably there’s a staff to compared this incident to similar one in the past.
Imho the players also have to adapt. They have to be … more mature (?) may be in a sense. Football is contact sport, but deliberately harming your opponent is malicious and need to be punished more. Bruno G actions comes to mind in match Arsenal vs Newcastle. How VAR not suggest red card when Bruno G hit Jorginho’s head ? How about when he slam Jorginho’s back with his shoulder with no intention to play the game.
And a lot of the egregious errors are when it fails to overturn an already incorrect call by the ref.
Think VAR needs to be speeded up a bit. Who cares what the decision is after 5 minutes waiting around… Just make a decision and move on… . But also think managers moaning about var instead of teaching thier team how to win games should be an auto 3 game ban… Arteta for example
I completely disagree , if you’re asking the officials to speed up the process then you get a situation like the Liverpool spurs game , where the right decision was made but the officials rushed the communication process and everyone was crying about VAR
95%??? Come on, even you don’t believe that. Also, Arsenal calls BS since it seems because of VAR they keep getting apologized to from PGMOL
It’s the people using it that’s the issue.
Exactly. In the Forest vs Villa match, I think that VAR official was correct in all the calls they made.
The decisions I was annoyed about didn’t even make it to VAR review. The ref and linesman fucked up and moved on without any VAR review.
You mean the Video Assistant Referees?
The problem with VAR is that it’s not all upside. I imagine the number of correct decisions has gone up but we also now have long pauses in the game and we’ve lost those moments when a team scores and celebrates because we know it’s a goal.
The rules of the game weren’t written to be under this much scrutiny. Using virtual rulers to measure offsides. It’s ruining the game
Plus it was brought in to stop the howlers and hasn’t done so. They still happen anyway.
Get rid of it
I’m a Spurs fan so the VAR decisions have gone massively for my team not against
The “correct decisions” argument is evidently bollocks anyway. Just watch any PL broadcast when you’ll get some ex referee claiming that the officials have got a decision right when everyone can see with their eyes he’s talking absolute bollocks. It’s pure gaslighting.