VAR vote next month

[boingy]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...table-32819964

Needs a 2/3 majority to scrap it.

Would be great to see this scrapped. Always seems to favour the so called “big boys” in the Prem. (As to whether it’s employed or not)

[boingy]

Leicester fan on a phone in, said how great it’s been to have no VAR this season. (5 live) today.

[mickd1961]

Leicester fan on a phone in, said how great it’s been to have no VAR this season. (5 live) today.

There’s not much wrong with VAR other than,

1/ It’s run by idiots,

2/ They’re not consistent in the way they interpret the brief for VAR.

Offside should be automated with no human input.

They also should not be able to rule a goal out because of a foul ages ago during the build up.

VAR is a terrific potential tool which has been ruined by cretins.

I still get the feeling they’ll vote to keep it but in a pared down way.

[DaveP67 is back!]

It has to go, ruins the spontaneous moments in a game and gets the big decisions as wrong as the refs.

[boingy]

There’s not much wrong with VAR other than,

1/ It’s run by idiots,

2/ They’re not consistent in the way they interpret the brief for VAR.

Offside should be automated with no human input.

They also should not be able to rule a goal out because of a foul ages ago during the build up.

VAR is a terrific potential tool which has been ruined by cretins.

I still get the feeling they’ll vote to keep it but in a pared down way.

I think so too. I don’t like the way the top teams complain about an incident which leads to a VAR check. Lower team complains no VAR check. I see that a lot. It’s an unfair system as it is.

[Calgarybaggy]

I think VAR would be fine if they modified it.

For example, maybe they should go to a system similar to American Football where no review is allowed unless requested by a team. A team can ask to challenge a call if they want but if they are wrong they lose a substitute and if they have no substitutes left they lose a player unless its in the last ten minutes of regulation time, or something like that. In that way, the howlers can still be reviewed.

I think they have to modify the hand ball rule which ignores intention unless the offending team gained any real advantage as a result - this giving of penalties for a handball when the player is half a yard away and its blasted into his elbow is ludicrous unless the deflection saves a goal. I thought the hand ball rule was that is had to be intentional - if that is the case, why are the players never sent off???

I also think the basis for overturning offside and penalty decisions should be a clear and obvious error - if they have to get out a micrometer to determine if a toe nail was closer to the goal line, that's not a clear and obvious error. And unless its obvious that that a player completely dived or was completely hacked down, they should defer to the refs original decision.

Its not that VAR is available that is the problem, its the way they have applied it that annoys me.

[Leicesterbaggie]

Far too many flaws in it. I imagine the so called ‘big’ clubs will be in favour as they appear to gain advantage from decisions. I’d retain technology for only goals and offside as they are factual and no dispute.