VAR

[BigDunc1985]

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.

No, it's the added enjoyment of seeing a 70% full stadium of bad meffs suddenly go quiet.

 

[Walken]

statistically it will get more decisions right, but like with other sports I personally do not enjoy it and I only watch and play sport for enjoyment

 

[Mozza1987]

Don't like VAR. Let ref just get on with it. Mistakes in the City game for me.

 

[TheBigIguana]

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.

The communication is terrible. Also City getting shafted by a stupid rule where handball goals are allowed if they're accidents only for the rule to be corrected and immediately cost them against the same opponents is just a massive shot to the gut. But outshooting Spurs 29-3, even if they somehow couldn't win, leads me to believe City will be right up around 100 points again.

 

[daza_1973]

VAR is the 'new coke' of sport....
Seems like a good idea on paper, but fundamentally flawed.

 

[EFCINLONDON]

The handball bit is a shambles, as the rules are now different for attackers and defenders.

Re VAR, the amount of time it's taking for decisions to be made is also taking the fun out of football for those in the stadium.

As a very minimum this season, if a goal is ruled out the scoreboard should give an explanation - i.e. handball, offside or foul.

 

[daza_1973]

Interestingly in what most of the media see as a two horse race after just two games the VAR goals chalked off count is currently

RS 0 - City 2

at a cost of 2 points to city.

#handingitonaplatetotheRS

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

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.

Trouble is and this is not a pop at your club, the pressure to bring VAR is from clubs at the very top of the money tree...

Football is not in the first instance a sport anymore it's business by being product for TV.

And noone bemoaned more us being dumped out of the FA Cup last year.

I agree this so called secret bunker is nonsense, open to accusations, and as we see around the world football can be brought by illegal entities.

'There will be no shortage of talking points, including amongst pundits who will wilfully misinterpret the odd decision now and again just for the sake of it (little detail: TV directors will be able to listen to the dialogue between referee and VAR, though viewers won’t). Not only is the Premier League expecting this, they’re sort of content with it; controversy is what keeps the show on the road between matches.'

VAR VAR voom! The Premier League gets set for video referees | Paul MacInnes

Video Assistant Referees finally arrive in the Premier League this season, ready to correct ‘clear and obvious’ errors. At least, that’s the plan …

www.theguardian.com

 

[PhilM]

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

More importantly would it have been a penalty?

 

[ste d' indica]

As though VAR isn't irritating enough, I now find myself in agreement with Danny 'kin Murphy

 

[evilwebby]

Didn't like it when it was introduced, don't like it now. instead of being celebrated, every goal will now have the everyone waiting for the VAR decision before any reactions. Sponteneity will be dead. That is not what football is about.
TPTB have let the genie out of the bottle with this one.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Both VAR and the new rules are a shambles. I’d be far more for the handball rule if it worked both ways - I’ve long said that an accidental foul in the box would be a penalty, so why not an accidental handball?! Punishing only the attackers, though, is a massive unfair advantage to defending teams.

Re VAR, my issue is where the line is supposed to be drawn - Let’s say a team scores a goal after a lengthy, patient build up, during which there’s a handball by one of their players in their own half, early in the move; will that be chalked off, too? Also what about injury time? 4 mins in the City game was pretty standard stuff considering they’d had a good couple of minutes wiped out by the VAR review/overturned goal.

I don’t agree that it’s progressive or that we should “move with the times”. It’s like suggesting every office in the country should conduct checks on all employee correspondence and conduct against the company handbook before they can proceed. It’s cumbersome and will hurt viewer numbers which could impact PL money available down the line.

 

[zzebra]

Did any of the Spurs players actually appeal for the handball? They just appeared to look shattered that they had lost the game in injury time.

It seemed like the VAR were desperately looking for anything to disallow the goal. I can imagine something similar happening in a derby game (and we all know who will benefit!)

It needs to be more like cricket. You go along with the referee's decision but both sides are allowed two or three reviews per game.Once you have used them up then tough.

 

[ste d' indica]

Did any of the Spurs players actually appeal for the handball? They just appeared to look shattered that they had lost the game in injury time.

It seemed like the VAR were desperately looking for anything to disallow the goal. I can imagine something similar happening in a derby game (and we all know who will benefit!)

It needs to be more like cricket. You go along with the referee's decision but both sides are allowed two or three reviews per game.Once you have used them up then tough.

Or, more straightforwardly, bin the entire farce off and get back to enjoying what should be a simple, fast paced 90 minute game, culminating in the spontaneous joy unleashed by the rarity of a goal.

 

[Michaelcoyb]

It’s actually the new handball rules that denied City not VAR as they were just following the rulebook.

The stoppage and the fact it might help the RS has me annoyed though.