The first game to trial VAR will be Perth Saints v Hibs next Friday.
https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/news/va...on-21-october/
Nothing was made better in the Bundesliga by the video referee - nothing at all! New injustices arose, nothing became fairer or better as a result.
It was scheduled to intervene when the referee made glaring mistakes and now he intervenes constantly, nobody in the stadium wants to know if it was an offside that couldn't be seen by the human eye and was only caused by a heel or a toe! The team scores a goal, the cheers go around the stadium, the announcer calls out the name of the goal scorer, the goal anthem plays and 2 minutes later someone in black throws a square box up in the air and looks at it and says: "No goal because of anyone ****..."
Almost every game has long stoppage times that never existed before. We would like to get rid of it again, but what is definitely very good and has proven itself is the goal-line technique.
I like the idea of VAR but not as a constant checking in the background. Like other sports it should be a challenge system. Two challenges per half raised by the captain.
It’ll be piish however it’s supposed to work.
Did Sportscene’s feature on this last night suggest (or indeed confirm) that the VAR referees and the system adopted are based in Glasgow, and not at individual fitba grounds?
This’ll be fun…
Part of the same " Hmmm" will be who chooses which incidents to be reviewed ?
No favouritism or bias will come into it , of course .........
btw. How come the Aberdeen v Partick quarter is the only one not be shown on TV ? If Premier Sports were not interested , surely the SFA would push to promote ALL their games somehow ??
It's just going to bring a whole new level of cheating.
Remember the chocolate frog getting his red card rescinded for his kick out at McKenna?