VAR

davek · August 17, 2019

paultheblue said:
Sky Tv is a business and Lfc is a major cash cow for them. You only have to look at the crowd at the mid week friendly in Istanbul there was a max of 10000 from Liverpool area there the rest are from all over the world.
I said before it was introduced that it will favour the lovables and I stand by that; City lost 2 points today that they would have got last year.
There only has to be a handful of decisions like today and they will win the title.
Of course I could be completely paranoid and similar match effecting decisions will go against the spawn of Satan but I doubt it and we will all see at the end of the season.

If for the first time in 30 years Liverpool win the title in the same season that VAR was used there wont be any debate as to why it happened.

Azza · August 17, 2019

How was that arm around the neck of Rodri not deemed to be a foul and a penalty when they reviewed it?

davek · August 17, 2019

Azza said:
How was that arm around the neck of Rodri not deemed to be a foul and a penalty when they reviewed it?

Apparently it's entirely fair and not open to abuse.

KaiserEFC · August 17, 2019

It’s way to up to the referee when it’s used and they’ve added some ridiculous rules to it now to boot. I was initially very supportive to it but now I’m not. Instead of a decision going for/against you VAR now goes for/against you. Nothing’s changed.

Today for example DCL gets wiped out in the box with no appeal. Deulofeu clearly dives and gets called out by the defender for doing such and it gets appealed. Mix the ludicrous new handball rule with it and its what the fans wanted and it’s not fixed anything.

ijjysmith · August 17, 2019

Azza said:
How was that arm around the neck of Rodri not deemed to be a foul and a penalty when they reviewed it?

This one I can’t get my head round.

dead_soft · August 17, 2019

Genuinely consistent lol at City and their fans, the UAE loving, sportswashing adoring, community ruining weapons

DanEFC92 · August 17, 2019

It's a load of shabite.

emir · August 17, 2019

English fans and England are a bit backwards when it comes to technology and VAR. It's 2019, not 1960s....time has changed. Germans have fully embraced VAR and the yanks have had VAR in their sports since the 90s....the fans of those nations are what I call progressive.

marsh · August 17, 2019

What if that Spurs player who was challenging laporte, it had hit his arm spurs break and score, would they dissallow that?

dead_soft · August 17, 2019

emir said:
English fans and England are a bit backwards when it comes to technology and VAR. It's 2019, not 1960s....time has changed. Germans have fully embraced VAR and the yanks have had VAR in their sports since the 90s....the fans of those nations are what I call progressive.

If you see progression as making a package that the global sad sacks can buzz off, alright pal.

davek · August 17, 2019

emir said:
English fans and England are a bit backwards when it comes to technology and VAR. It's 2019, not 1960s....time has changed. Germans have fully embraced VAR and the yanks have had VAR in their sports since the 90s....the fans of those nations are what I call progressive.

The Germans hate it. As do the Italians.

MikeH72 · August 18, 2019

Hawhaw said:
Okay is there a mandate of fans? Or a majority.

We’ve got DBB, a woman who has background in charity making decisions, who went to a very mediocre school. Hardly means anything.

Incredibly random this.

LouReedwalkonthewildside · August 18, 2019

killenefc said:
It’s way to up to the referee when it’s used and they’ve added some ridiculous rules to it now to boot. I was initially very supportive to it but now I’m not. Instead of a decision going for/against you VAR now goes for/against you. Nothing’s changed.

Today for example DCL gets wiped out in the box with no appeal. Deulofeu clearly dives and gets called out by the defender for doing such and it gets appealed. Mix the ludicrous new handball rule with it and its what the fans wanted and it’s not fixed anything.

That's the thing I don't understand, is the decision to use VAR up to the ref, or does the ref get a word in his earpiece that something should be looked at?

TheBigIguana · August 18, 2019

I'm never going to be one of the sensationalist "VAR is killing football" guys but it is not being implemented well at all. Far too difficult to tell what is actually going on.

Maine road Man · August 18, 2019

Hawhaw said:
Is there an mandiate for this?

Did the clubs have a vote, I might be ignorant but I’m unaware of one.

It’s been imposed by stealth to help the established media teams like United and Liverpool.

Spain has var for a while, and they favour Barcelona and Madrid.

The only ‘big’ clubs I can see having problems with it, is Manchester City, and that’s for obvious reasons.

Well that's the second time in as many games against spurs we've been shafted by someone making a decision in a secret bunker! The FA want a new PL winner and seeing as your RS neighbours and Tottenham haven't won the league for close on 90 years between them, it's looking like the FA are desperate to deny them. I take it the VAR decision maker was probably having a ham shank in the bog over the readers wives page in Fiesta not to see Rhodri denied a pen.

I was at the game and when Jesus scored we went mental. A minute later spurs fans went mental and started taunting us. The stewards looked worried as it nearly kicked off with us and them.

VAR needs to become clear as to what is going on as it's killing the game and enjoyment of celebrating a goal.