VAR - the death of football (as I know it)

[heatmeiser]

I stopped reading at bed wetting millennials. Ugh.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Trouble is the stakes are so much higher than they used to be that one bad decision could cost a team tens of millions i.e. if a team gets relegated because of a bad decision. How is that fair on the club?

 

[Boss_Blue]

Sorry, it's just this treating football like it was life or death. It's a bit of craic' ffs. Heaven help us if we start to get all serious about it.

I'm not really bothered mate.

 

[upthetoffees]

Whenever I doubt whether this will be good for us, I think about that late winner from John Terry that was a good three yards offside. Fume.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Whenever I doubt whether this will be good for us, I think about that late winner from John Terry that was a good three yards offside. Fume.

We'll be on both sides of decisions

One week you'll hate it, the next you'll love it

In that regard, very little will change

 

[upthetoffees]

We'll be on both sides of decisions

One week you'll hate it, the next you'll love it

In that regard, very little will change

No doubt it evens the playing field; anyone thinking clearly will agree with that.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

That derby goal that went in before the whistle

 

[newton-stewart-blues]

Referees and linesmen/women spot these things 95+% of the time though and I'm fine with that. Over the piece, I would wager that the number of VAR decisions that could go either way will be equal to the number of times a ref got things wrong on the pitch without VAR.

I have faith in referees and I can live with a mistake or two.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

This really needs a parallel universe thread
In which the decisions we would've got with VAR

 

[Khalekan]

FFS...can we not, as civilised human beings, trust a man/woman who has trained for years to get to the position they're in to carry out their job correctly and allow them the odd wee mistake without moaning like a bunch of feckin' bed wettin' millennials who'd rather settle for a 0-0 vs Stoke (or some other such gash) than see a debatable 1-0 or 0-1 - referee mistakes can work in your favour as well as against lest us not forget?

Sit two people down in front of a dodgy penalty decision and you'll very likely get two different opinions anyway so how can you trust VAR when it's still down to one person's assessment?

It's the death of football, so it is. I'm glad I'm old school and not part of this moaning, whinging, sore-loser, society that's creeping into almost everything these days.

It's a game ffs. Entertainment. Let's not tear the soul out of it and let's not start pretending it's more important that nurses, surgeons, emergency service personnel etc. Jeezus.

(had to get that off my chest)

I wouldn't go as far as that but I didn't like what I saw last night.

Football moves too fast for this sort of shenanigans IMO.

That time Chelsea were about to take a corner, a good half minute after an incident, but play was delayed to examine said incident being a case in point.

 

[deipnosophist]

One day in the not too distant future, an AI (robot) will ref games and will have instantaneous access to all the video data.
VAR is just a step in that direction. It will initially slow the game down, but ultimately, when combined with AI you will get a quicker games with no mistakes.
The sooner the better as far as I am concerned

 

[Brendan Janus]

VAR was Mark Hughes' idea. So he had an income to fall back on !

 

[mawders]

Call me an old fogey (and I'm below 40 years old) but I disagree with technology in any sport. Look at cricket and rugby league. It's farcical. Human decision making and human error are all part of the game, things even out over the season etc. Goal line technology, OK that's fine. But just leave everything else alone.

 

[jaybx1878]

I think it will benefit us and be bad news for the vile cheating RS to be honest.

 

[dead_soft]

Football is entertainment and a narrative, not about achieving perfection. VAR is the Sky fan’s dream