VAR again

[Barrera]

Watching Spurs v Brentford. Bees just had a goal ruled out for Toney’s hand being ‘offside” .... it’s playing by the rule book .... but for god’s sake ....

Btw Brentford still look a better side than us despite losing Watkins and Benrahma....

[Albionic68]

Watching Spurs v Brentford. Bees just had a goal ruled out for Toney’s hand being ‘offside” .... it’s playing by the rule book .... but for god’s sake ....

Btw Brentford still look a better side than us despite losing Watkins and Benrahma....

Fk Brentford, they wouldn't have got past us if their player hadn't made a contact free swan dive in the general vicinity of Cedric Kipre. Cheating w@nchors.

[kettering_baggie]

VAR ****s up again in the Blades v Newcastle game; penalty should never have been given by VAR, Steve Bruce’s criticism was quite correct and I also agree with him that Billy Sharp’s foul on the Newcastle defender was very nasty and cynical, probably deserving of a straight red. About time it was scrapped, there’s nobody with enough brains to work the system properly.

[Barrera]

Tbh I thought the handball probably was a penalty as the Newcastle defender seemed to deliberately touch it away .... very slight though and no way would it have been given in “real rime”. But the Sharp tackle was an absolute disgrace ..... why VAR did not review that is beyond me ..... as I have said before VAR is ultra harsh on petty yet not dangerous tantrums ... like `Gibbs against Everton .... but completely misses the very dangerous and cynical stuff .... like the Sharp tackle ..... how VAR is being used is definitely killing the game ... you can see the players are confused ..... so the appeal for everything ....and the refs not wanting to be found wanting use VAR as a crutch ....

[kettering_baggie]

What Steve Bruce said, though, was correct; the ref didn’t give a penalty in real time and with several views of the incident you could not say that the ref made a clear and obvious error, therefore the original decision of no penalty should have stood. Also, the Blades player had a tug of the Newcastle player’s shirt just before he ‘handled’ the ball, again, good reason for not giving a penalty. Top level football is going down the bog, fast. Another point, not VAR though, when Fraser received his second yellow card, no doubt about that, but the way that McGoldrick went down, oh dear, what a prat, you’d have thought that he was dead.

[Yarmbaggie]

What Steve Bruce said, though, was correct; the ref didn’t give a penalty in real time and with several views of the incident you could not say that the ref made a clear and obvious error, therefore the original decision of no penalty should have stood. Also, the Blades player had a tug of the Newcastle player’s shirt just before he ‘handled’ the ball, again, good reason for not giving a penalty. Top level football is going down the bog, fast. Another point, not VAR though, when Fraser received his second yellow card, no doubt about that, but the way that McGoldrick went down, oh dear, what a prat, you’d have thought that he was dead.

I totally agree Kets and this is why I think that VAR has got football into so much of a mess. Who wants slide rule decisions that take ages to review and still are not clear.

For me make the referee make a decision. If his decision is clearly and obviously wrong then VAR should point it out to him and he should go and have a look. If not keep VAR out of it.

Will we get every decision right? Probably not because so many in football are about opinions not a slide rule which in itself isn’t 100% accurate anyway. VAR could be a great tool but it is the people controlling it who are making a complete horlicks of it by trying to rely upon it too much.