VAR

[SantaClausisanEvertonian]

The worst weekend so far for VAR.
Some absolutely dreadful decisions and non-decisions.
I'm hoping for a hideously wrong decision at the theatre of excrement today, whichever way it goes, to highlight just how flawed the whole system is.
VAR is doing football no favours whatsoever and, in my opinion, it will continue to get worse, not better.

 

[Lee Smith]

Is VAR deliberately not being discussed properly on MOTD because the Premier League advocate, Shearer, is on the panel?
Mina's goal wasn't even shown!

What REALLY annoyed me was Phil Neville's insistence to keep saying "the decision was probably the correct one" after every discussion, when it blatantly wasn't, like the pathetic little FA "yes" man he's become now he's in charge of the ladies team

 

[Mat70s]

Is VAR deliberately not being discussed properly on MOTD because the Premier League advocate, Shearer, is on the panel?
Mina's goal wasn't even shown!

Mina wasn’t a VAR call it was just a very puzzling piece of reffing.

 

[SantaClausisanEvertonian]

If you want a fantastic example of how VAR can be used in sport, just watch the French sending off against Wales that's just happened in the Rugby World Cup.
No ifs or buts, just great communication and great reffing.

 

[arch stanton]

The worst weekend so far for VAR.
Some absolutely dreadful decisions and non-decisions.
I'm hoping for a hideously wrong decision at the theatre of excrement today, whichever way it goes, to highlight just how flawed the whole system is.
VAR is doing football no favours whatsoever and, in my opinion, it will continue to get worse, not better.

it will only get better if the FA/EPL openly say it is getting things wrong and actively look to revise the methodology. That won't happen.

 

[DixieScoresAgain]

It seems those working on VAR have a mandate not to overrule and change the decision of the Referee.

It screams of the incompetence of Mike Riley the head of Referees who's overseen the worst era of refereeing of the PL era.

 

[Old Blue 2]

What was interesting on MOTD was that Shearer said that no refs have yet gone to the touchline monitor to look at a single incident. I had noticed that (honest!) - I just thought that with VAR being run from a remote studio, they were not bothering with the touchline monitor, such as we saw in the World Cup, and which worked very well...

 

[samcdavies94]

It seems those working on VAR have a mandate not to overrule and change the decision of the Referee.

It screams of the incompetence of Mike Riley the head of Referees who's overseen the worst era of refereeing of the PL era.

So infuriating. If you know you're not going to overrule the ref, don't waste our time in reviewing it.

 

[Zezti]

Is this the case?

Reality is that since VAR is a company we're now in a society where debate on the bbc about its accuracy, bias (or corruption) would probably end up with the bbc being sued to smithereens. This is how free speech and debate is stifled in our brave new world.

Strikes me that VAR is being used to ensure the "right" teams get the result the script needs. It's an absolute pantomime.

I really couldn't help but be suspicious of the decisions going against us yesterday. I wouldn't be surprised if the ref or a friend of the ref had a bet on Silva being sacked.
The Mina goal with a mythical foul coincidentally blown in a sitaution where VAR couldn't intervene, and the foul on Sidibe which wasn't given and given as a WHam corner. The BT Sport commentators were as bemused at the decisions as we were.

 

[stony]

VAR isn't broken it's the self serving pigs who run it that are ruining it. The only real thing it's being used for in this country is offside and offside is the one thing that we can't actually be sure about using current technology. Frame rates aren't fast enough to keep up so they need to sort this out and I think the easiest way is unless there's daylight between the players he's onside.
Every penalty decision is looked at and every single time they agree with the ref on the pitch. It doesn't matter if he's awarded a soft or a none pen(like Liverpool get) or turned down the most blatant penalty ever(City on numerous occasions).
This is all down to the refs not wanting to disagree with the ref on the pitch. They've obviously got their heads together and decided this. Can't have themselves being marked down and dropped from future fixtures which will affect their income. So it basically boils down to all the self serving little pigs are terrified of another pig taking their place at the trough. Corrupt, selfish and greedy. They should have that in Latin on their headed notepaper.

 

[degsy]

The worst weekend so far for VAR.
Some absolutely dreadful decisions and non-decisions.
I'm hoping for a hideously wrong decision at the theatre of excrement today, whichever way it goes, to highlight just how flawed the whole system is.
VAR is doing football no favours whatsoever and, in my opinion, it will continue to get worse, not better.

Or more likely we'll get used to it and the past will fade out of memory and we will no longer know what we missed

 

[twoblue]

The fact is that var has served no purpose. It’s doesn’t make the game fairer or less controversial. Watford are likely to struggle this season and have two decisions go against them that are likely to have cost them three points. I would be surprised if these three points are huge at the end of the season for them

 

[DOMNOLAN]

Just saw Watford’s penalty and Deli’s handball... what’s the point of VAR again?

 

[4737carlin]

 

[Minimeister]

NOW watch the media go after it.....