SCRAP VAR

[Captbitter1995]

VAR is a disaster.

No one knows what a foul is anymore.
We don’t know if goals will be given.

It has added confusion and has not improved the decision making.

Can work both ways. Hope we get more luck with it next season. Especially handballs

 

[Uuuuuurgh plop plop]

It's a load of garbage and needs to be abolished. What's the point of the system when it still manages to get loads wrong?

And that's before we even get to we as fans not being able to celebrate goals properly in case there's a 'var check'.

I follow cricket and rugby league as well and technology works fine in those sports but it's clearly incompatible with football. Just get rid.

It's not the technology, it's the implementation. This is how they want you to feel about it.

 

[Bluestar]

It's not the technology, it's the implementation. This is how they want you to feel about it.

It detracts from the game. It is a step backwards.

 

[Bluestar]

Can work both ways. Hope we get more luck with it next season. Especially handballs

That stuff rarely goes for us. I don’t expect anything next season.

 

[Death]

Can work both ways. Hope we get more luck with it next season. Especially handballs

You are so a kopite

 

[DualityNSNO]

It detracts from the game. It is a step backwards.

Yes, it helps in 95%+ of cases in mainland Europe, but it's bad because English refs are poo.

Sure.

 

[blue61]

One of the many reasons why I've somewhat fallen out of love with the game, hate it.

 

[allen]

It’s not the VAR, it’s the VARists.

Our referees just aren’t up to it.

Give me cold, incorruptible T800s watching the screens with their beady machine eyes.

 

[The Gueye Science]

Yes, bin it. Slows the game down, saps the drama, yet more creeping Americanisation of sport, in exchange for, if anything, even more time spent bellyaching about the refereeing than before, just with an extra level of abstraction and absurdity.

The solution is to ban the broadcast of slow-motion and/or multiple angle replays on television, and to ban pundits from talking about refereeing decisions - no excuses and upon pain of immediate dismissal and blacklisting.

People will moan for a few weeks but eventually just get on with it. And after a year we will all agree that we are better off without it.

Of course, English football will need to recruit an entirely new class of pundits because if it weren't for refereeing hot-takes most of them know so little about the game that they'd have nothing else left to say.

 

[Professor Toffee]

I think the best thing for Everton FC to do is to treat the entire football establishment as if it is bent. As if every referee is in the pocket of the big clubs and engaging in a bit of spot betting to boot. As if every decision will go against you and as if every player is engaging in the use of performance enhancing drugs.

I know that sounds really bleak, really cynical, but the way we've been operating in good faith has been disastrous.

With that in mind a full report by an Everton specialist appointment on VAR and refereeing decisions should be made post every match and made available to supporters, media outlets and other clubs

 

[TheBigIguana]

I'd like to see it made a challenge system where when used the referee has to go to the monitor and everyone gets to hear what and why the decision is what it is.

 

[neil999]

I'd like to see it made a challenge system where when used the referee has to go to the monitor and everyone gets to here what and why the decision is what it is.

Works well in cricket but slightly different sports

 

[TheBigIguana]

Works well in cricket but slightly different sports

It would work fine in football I think

 

[riddick]

Did the Huddersfield manager say anything about the crap calls they made them lose?

 

[OneTrueLegend]

Can work both ways. Hope we get more luck with it next season. Especially handballs

I can’t accept that it’s “luck” when they have slowed it down and viewed if from several angles. If they still get it wrong, they are incompetent or corrupt