A debate is currently occurring about if it would be better to scrap VAR now of risk people turning off the sport due to time delays and bizarre decisions VAR Is making.
I think that VAR is great, but they should do like in cricket and tennis, where the captain or manager reviews specific decisions instead of every single decision being reviewed taking up so much time. They should have a certain amount, idk how many maybe 3-5. Idk tho, I ain’t a professional
VAR is shit. It doesn’t change the fact that refs still make shit calls, and it ruins the flow of the game. It’s been a complete negative on the game.
It’s just so corrupt it’s unreal
Either that or the basic bitch punditry we get every week
The problem is not with VAR, is with the referees! The reason he hear so much about var is because now we have proof of their incompetence!
It won’t cost the league but it is going to continue causing a problem until they update the rules of the game and learn how to use VAR to enforce them. Right now, most of what we have is geared towards a non VAR world and a subjective decision by the on field ref. That needs to change.
Personally I think they should take the tennis approach. The captain and manager / coach have 3 (example number) VAR calls they can request per half. If the review shows that the on field decision should be overturned, they keep that call. If the VAR review sides with the referee then they lose a VAR call for that half. Everything else is down to the on field refs with the exception of offsides but only because I think that they could be automatically done in real-time in a similar way we have goal-line technology checking for goals.
It would have to be the manager as the captain could be so far from the incident it would take a bit of time for them to get to the players who were closer to be told what everyone thinks. Also cricket and tennis crowds don’t scream for decisions in the way football crowds do.
Flip side of this would be are poor referreeing decisions going to harm the popularity of the league? At the end of the day VAR has helped improve calls overall, it’s the incompetence of the organisation that is the same with or without it.
Its the refs not listening to VAR that will ruin the PL, every other league and fifa have made VAR work well, only the PL has problems with it and coincidentally its the refs incompetence that is causing the issues
Match fixers dream. It will be around forever.
In a word, yes.
No
I miss being able to celebrate a goal
If all other sports and leagues that use it are any guideline, it will get better with time, to a point where we wonder what life was like without it.
Yes.
The entire premise “if only the on field decisions were more correct then people would enjoy football more” is completely flawed.
Maybe, at best, people would complain less, but it doesn’t mean they will watch more or importantly spend more money attending or watching on TV.
Additionally, what has been completely highlighted is there is a huge amount of referring decisions that nobody can agree on what the right answer is.
I gave up on the NFL because of how awful replay made it to watch. It became a game within the game. It became a competition ABOUT the rules instead of under the rules.
What bullshit post,it’s humans who have been screwing up not VAR