VAR & rule changes next season...

[captainvindaloo]

There's an separate ref's VAR bunker in Milton Keynes or somewhere that makes all the decisions and relays it to the ref I believe. The screens are just for the benefit of fans.

I picture the bunker being in Norway, filled with red scarfed chuckle-heads.

 

[anton66]

This will totally mute goal celebrations, on and off the pitch. Who decides when VAR should be used? There will be officials to oversee these contentious decisions, but and that’s the problem.

 

[RomanReigns]

This will totally mute goal celebrations, on and off the pitch. Who decides when VAR should be used? There will be officials to oversee these contentious decisions, but and that’s the problem.

yeah those liverpool fans were so muted when they got a pen in the champions league final because of var

 

[Hilga]

Unwatchable.

 

[Moomin]

This will totally mute goal celebrations, on and off the pitch. Who decides when VAR should be used? There will be officials to oversee these contentious decisions, but and that’s the problem.

Works well in the Australian league for the last 2 years.

People are scared of change. Imagine giving up on football because we used technology to make sure the game is fair.

 

[Ring master]

Even if/when the rare VAR goes for us next season,there will be at least triple go against,i can just imagine,i am and never will be a fan of this VAR, and can think even fans of VAR will even be going against it,games that end at say 4.50 will still be going on after 5 because of VAR-yeah AUS works well as its used right,everywhere else it isnt,

 

[davids]

What it is showing is the offside rule as it stands is stupid.Offside if your toes are across the computer generated line!

 

[mrb85]

Fair enough hopefully it is better ultimately but they need to speed up the decisions and make the rulings clearer. The refs will go to VAR all the time because ultimately they are cowards. It takes so long sometimes too that you wonder what the point is? Football is about the game not the VAR. I guess my point it used to be just play on its a goal if it was that marginal. Being exacting about milimeteres is fussy in my view. But looks like I am in the minority...

I'd say you're with the majority -- and that majority will be greater after the season starts because we'll be seeing more goals rubbed out than ever before.

 

[mrb85]

Look at the luddites on here.

VAR is a godsend, will make the game fairer.

I admire your faith. But in any event competitive football has survived for this long without being totally correct in decisions made. Incorrect decisions have always been accepted as a fact of footballing life -- until the moneyed interests took over the sport. And in fact it is the world's number 1 sport precisely because the absence of any long drawn out search for confirmation of fairness has produced the instantaneous outcomes and spontaneous emotions that only football generates. Reduce this and the entertainment value of the sport will be badly affected. Some godsend.

 

[ricer10]

Based on it's inconsistent application / correctness in FA Cup / WWC etc...... I fully expect it to be business as usual where the "haves" will get more than their share of the dubious decisions and others will continue to be undone by controversial mistakes. ( Which group do you think EFC will fall into more often than not ? )

 

[Moomin]

I admire your faith. But in any event competitive football has survived for this long without being totally correct in decisions made. Incorrect decisions have always been accepted as a fact of footballing life -- until the moneyed interests took over the sport. And in fact it is the world's number 1 sport precisely because the absence of any long drawn out search for confirmation of fairness has produced the instantaneous outcomes and spontaneous emotions that only football generates. Reduce this and the entertainment value of the sport will be badly affected. Some godsend.

NFL is the number one game.

Most fairest league as well.

 

[mrb85]

Why do they keep their flag down if it's offside? Just so VAR can check it.That needs changing. Stupid.

Agreed. Pretty much like in cricket since it was introduced, with umpires calling for the video to be looked at for run outs even when they must know they're 99% sure they've already got it right.

 

[mrb85]

NFL is the number one game.

Most fairest league as well.

But NFL is full of punctuations in play anyway. Using the system doesn't much elongate play and take all the emotion out of it.
(And by what measurement is it the world's number 1 sport?)

 

[Cameron Manning]

THIS WILL FAVOR US ,more than them.

Don’t bet on it !!!

 

[Cameron Manning]

....eventually this will be a good thing. There will be an immediate level playing field for the straightforward decisions (offside, inside or outside the box), and ultimately more consistent definition and interpretation of penalty decisions.

There will certainly be more penalties for and against next season. Any ball hitting the arm, defenders who grab shirts and block forwards at set pieces will be penalised. They will have to stop doing it and eventually strikers will have more freedom. The game will change significantly in the next 5 years and I think it’ll be all the better for it.

You are right Eggs, the game will change significantly in the next five years: but I disagree the game will be all the better for it, I doubt that very much.