O/T - Worst thing ever in football?

[SithHappens]

VAR is awful in how it's used. It was always supposed to be clear and obvious errors. It can take multiple minutes to decide, if it takes this long it's not clear and obvious.

There should be a time limit of say 30 seconds and if the on field decision cannot be overturned in that time then it's not clear and obvious so leave the decision as is

[Ramshank72]

I'd go one further, and suggest they only watch it in normal speed (not slow motion). If you have to slow it down, hows it a clear and obvious reffing decision error?

[SithHappens]

I'd go one further, and suggest they only watch it in normal speed (not slow motion). If you have to slow it down, hows it a clear and obvious reffing decision error?

Agreed.

[MadAmster]

VAR is awful in how it's used. It was always supposed to be clear and obvious errors. It can take multiple minutes to decide, if it takes this long it's not clear and obvious.

There should be a time limit of say 30 seconds and if the on field decision cannot be overturned in that time then it's not clear and obvious so leave the decision as is

Something I've posted here and elsewhere several times in the past, even down to the allowed timeframe of 30 seconds.

It needs doing.

[ramAnag]

I know it’s a pain that removes the spontaneous celebration of football, but it does often mean that the right decision is reached, and one does have to wonder why there are not similar problems with its equivalent in cricket, tennis and rugby where it’s been used for much longer.

[Andy_Faber]

I know it’s a pain that removes the spontaneous celebration of football, but it does often mean that the right decision is reached, and one does have to wonder why there are not similar problems with its equivalent in cricket, tennis and rugby where it’s been used for much longer.

IMO

In cricket, the type of game is different to footy, cricket is a set-piece game where folk are used to a stop-start progression. I think it’s added to the spectacle

In Tennis it’s actually speeded up play, the players appear to trust and really like it. Again it’s a set piece sport

I think it spoils rugby for the ‘at the venue’ fan, it certainly does me and anyone I’ve been with, but then again so does the time scrums take to enact. Chapeau to RL for solving that one

Unmentioned, NFL have cracked it after many years of experimenting but it’s a bloody expensive system

[swaledale]

Seeing as this has popped up again, and seeing as I watched my first fif**** minutes of Match Of The Day for years last week, I'd argue that the worst thing is actually VAR. That was the dominant and almost sole subject of discussion, Jesus how boring.

I agree, somehow (typically of the British) we have over egged VAR, into something it was never meant to be, it doesn't seem to be applied in the same way in Europe?

I thought it was to clear up clear mistakes, not be a second referee on marginal decisions. But I guess the guys and gals at Stockley park have to justify their existence. The refereeing of the game should pass virtually unnoticed, now its centre stage. Completely spoilt the game IMO.

[MadAmster]

Said it before, and no doubt I'll say it again, how VAR was designed is good. Hoe it has been implemented in England is awful.

[SithHappens]

Said it before, and no doubt I'll say it again, how VAR was designed is good. Hoe it has been implemented in England is awful.

Don't think it's just England. There have been issues elsewhere too. Wasn't it in Germany where half time came and the players were in the changing rooms but then got called out because var had awarded a penalty?

[swaledale]

Don't think it's just England. There have been issues elsewhere too. Wasn't it in Germany where half time came and the players were in the changing rooms but then got called out because var had awarded a penalty?

Haven't heard that Sith, but that sounds like mismanagement rather than VAR, did someone forget to tell the ref?