VAR

[arch stanton]

VAR is run by ref's making decisions on their fellow ref's competence (and with the knowledge that, in the near future, those roles will be reversed). It also guarantees them more money/employment, as pre-VAR there was a ref and 2 linesmen, now there's the ref, 2 linesmen and 3 'off duty' refs manning the VAR. It's in their own self interest to keep VAR going and to 'have each other's backs' as much as is possible. Self regulation never works!

Marking their own homework

 

[woodsyni]

I would like to think it was just incompetence but SO many mistakes with multiple high definition, slow motion replays?

I'm afraid "corruption" is the only logical explanation. I really can't explain some of the decisions any other way.

 

[Lapeno77]

VAR is run by ref's making decisions on their fellow ref's competence (and with the knowledge that, in the near future, those roles will be reversed). It also guarantees them more money/employment, as pre-VAR there was a ref and 2 linesmen, now there's the ref, 2 linesmen and 3 'off duty' refs manning the VAR. It's in their own self interest to keep VAR going and to 'have each other's backs' as much as is possible. Self regulation never works!

Bingo. Bullseye. Nail on Head.

Easiest way to improve refereeing standards is to change VAR from a tool to help referees into one that prosecutes referees.

VAR Panels whose sole intent is to find and point out mistakes in real time.

And at the end of the season, the ref with the most mistakes goes the same way as managers or players or anyone else who isn't good enough to hack it in football. They get to go and work in insurance because their football career is done.

 

[summerisle]

Nowt will happen, bugger all in fact.

 

[Infernus]

More corruption in plain sight. Can't give Everton a penalty at 3-2, but will simply play until City equalize. Club will say nothing as usual

 

[DOMNOLAN]

Was there an explanation why we didn’t get the pen?

 

[Infernus]

Was there an explanation why we didn’t get the pen?

They pulled one out of thin air again. Explanation doing the rounds is "Ball was too far away from the incident to be deemed a penalty"

 

[bag a yoko]

Was there an explanation why we didn’t get the pen?

It happened before the ball was in play is what I think he said.

 

[Ring master]

Pen we never got while it lasts

 

[bag a yoko]

It happened before the ball was in play is what I think he said.

Either way noone has the first idea what's a pen for handballs or grappling. They do what they like.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

I don’t mind them adding time on if there are subs or a goal or injury in stoppage time. And I’m no conspiracy theorist. But if City are winning, that whistle gets blown at 95mins and 58 seconds. Everyone knows.

 

[Bebeto]

It happened before the ball was in play is what I think he said.

Are we sure of that? They only showed one replay of it, very brief replay and we couldn't really make up if ball was in play or not.

 

[DOMNOLAN]

So what? Is the loophole to just sumo wrestle every attacking player to the ground *as long as you get them incapacitated before the ball’s kicked*?

Doesn’t pass the sniff test to me, surely not the rules??

 

[EDINHO1]

I don’t mind them adding time on if there are subs or a goal or injury in stoppage time. And I’m no conspiracy theorist. But if City are winning, that whistle gets blown at 95mins and 58 seconds. Everyone knows.

If they are winning there is 4 minutes. Blown up exactly on time.

 

[Infernus]

So what? Is the loophole to just sumo wrestle every attacking player to the ground *as long as you get them incapacitated before the ball’s kicked*?

Doesn’t pass the sniff test to me, surely not the rules??

They leave the rules deliberately vague so that they can give decisions to the teams that they like. Honestly someone from Everton should just call it out in the press. Take the fine