Petition to stop VAR

[1959_60]

Will you sign the petition to bin VAR?

https://www.change.org/p/the-premier...otball-matches

[AdiSalisbury]

Unless League One introduce it next season, can't see it effecting us too much.

[Geoff Parkstone]

........bad workmen blame the tools

VAR is conceptually fine if they simply applied common sense using it

sadly that seems to be in short supply

so, I'm out

[swaledale]

Its not VAR that is the problem its how the FA have applied it, they have been too clever and overcomplicated the whole thing, when all that was required was a facility for the Ref to review a decision that he wasn't sure of. So pointless petition.

[MadAmster]

Absolutely agree with both Swale and GP. In places like Germany and the Netherlands, there is the odd decision that takes a little longer but they don't have all of the fancy software the FA/PL does. They can't afford it. They look at the video, in the main, for about half a minute and come to a decision. If the VAR has doubt, or totally disagrees with the ref, the ref will go and look at the video.

Last weekend one PL game had a 48th second goal eventually ruled out in the 6th minute. The intended acid test is, was it a "clear and obvious" mistake. If you need 5 minutes to come to a decision then it's neither clear nor obvious and the goal should have stood.

If the VAR can't come to a decision inside half a minute then, IMO, it's not a clear and obvious error and the original decision should stand.

VAR, as originally intended, is a good idea ruined by the FA/PL, maybe because they think they should do everything differently and, in their own minds, better than the rest of the world. The rest of the world got it right. The FA/PL got it wrong IMO.

[ramAnag]

No...for all the reasons that MA gave...plus, if it’s ‘binned’, we’ll just be inundated next season with examples of why we should have kept it.
The genie is out of the bottle...up to the powers that be to use it properly.

[MadAmster]

No...for all the reasons that MA gave...plus, if it’s ‘binned’, we’ll just be inundated next season with examples of why we should have kept it.
The genie is out of the bottle...up to the powers that be to use it properly.

Just one small problem with our "solution", rA. It would involve the FA/PL admitting they got it wrong.......

[ramAnag]

Just one small problem with our "solution", rA. It would involve the FA/PL admitting they got it wrong.......

...and they got it wrong again this afternoon, MA. Can understand why the referee didn’t give a penalty for Fulham against Liverpool, but two viewings left no doubt that Fabinho took the Fulham player’s foot. Precisely the sort of decision it’s designed for...technology perfect...interpretation horribly flawed.