VAR

[NathDogg]

No love for talkshite or Brazil, even they can’t get their heads around it.

as far as I can see, the decision is getting pelters from absolutely all angles, even people who have zero connection to the club.

You watch them not overturn it now though, it’s ludicrous if they don’t, but I just have a funny feeling they will double down, a bit like the points deduction.

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[Saint Domingo]

No love for talkshite or Brazil, even they can’t get their heads around it.

as far as I can see, the decision is getting pelters from absolutely all angles, even people who have zero connection to the club.

You watch them not overturn it now though, it’s ludicrous if they don’t, but I just have a funny feeling they will double down, a bit like the points deduction.

It’s no surprise to me whatsoever that we got administered with the one refereeing decision which could affect our PL performance. Anything else impacts us only in the FA Cup but the PL want it’s fake title race and fake relegation battle so up steps they’re useful pigs to do their bidding, let’s see how Everton get on on the back of 3 games loss streak now without their best striker.

 

[Ring master]

I stll dont even think its a foul, never mind a Red card

 

[ToffeeTim]

At this point, it's increasingly difficult to believe all the constant poor decisions against us, are just down to incompetence.

10 points makes it hard enough without absolutely diabolical officiating near enough every week

 

[allen]

No love for talkshite or Brazil, even they can’t get their heads around it.

as far as I can see, the decision is getting pelters from absolutely all angles, even people who have zero connection to the club.

You watch them not overturn it now though, it’s ludicrous if they don’t, but I just have a funny feeling they will double down, a bit like the points deduction.

The great and the good are furious on our behalf.

 

[cronullasharks]

I stll dont even think its a foul, never mind a Red card

It wasn't. Just part of the plan for us

 

[tsubaki]

… and let’s not forget we are consistently bottom of the list of penalties awarded as well

 

[roy vernon]

It's almost as if they are deliberately trying to kill the game as a spectacle. The levels of incompetence shown by the VAR team are barely credible. It makes you wonder how they can possibly have all that technology and time at their disposal and still get things so terribly wrong. The use of this technology is destroying the game with all the stoppages for VAR checks, which would be bad enough if they got things consistently correct, but, some of the decisions are baffling,

I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but, some teams do seem to get the benefit of VAR checks more than the rest. Back to the refs decision being final for me, it's a game that is all about excitement and spontaneity and they are killing it.

 

[Titus Bramble]

Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but before VAR was introduced there would be a contentious decision up for debate at most 1 match per gameweek (maybe 2 one week, followed by none the next). Perceived bias in favour of the 'big clubs' has always been and always will be.

Premier League football matches are played at 100mph. On field referees will inevitably get decisions wrong/miss something. Frustrating, yes... but also understandable (up to a point anyway).

VAR was brought in to 'correct' the incorrect decisions and misses from the on field referees.

We've now got to the point where we have officials, sat in a sanitised box away from the atmosphere of the game overriding correct calls made by the on field officials by removing all context from a challenge/situation by watching a brief moment in time at a fraction of the speed from multiple different angles to look for contact (my most hated word in football) in a contact sport. Let's be clear: contact does not automatically mean foul.

In my opinion, all that is happening now is the 'big club' bias is becoming more and more apparent, but simultaneously not being spoken about in the wider media, because they themselves don't want to upset the 'big' clubs. The red card last night will be forgotten about by the time Brentford v Wolves kicks off tonight, yet the error which went against the RS vs Spurs was national headline news for a week.

Off the top of my head I can count 5 big decisions that have gone against us in the last few weeks (DCL last night, Beto penalty last night, Onana handball vs city. Onana shirt pull vs Spurs, DCL goal ruled out vs Spurs). We're not talking 1 or 2 decisions, we're talking regular officiating errors which could ultimately be costing us point/cup progression.

My RS mate is telling me that all clubs get bad decisions 'just look at the Spurs game!'. And he's right, all clubs do get bad calls against them, but the 'big' clubs get the 1 or 2 decisions every now and then. The Everton and the Wolves of this world are getting 1 or 2 a week.

It stinks. VAR needs to be binned, at least until we have officials capable of using the technology properly. If not indefinitely.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Nearly 4 years since a red card against a team we are playing.

 

[Billy Dean]

The problem is not VAR itself, it's the people behind it

 

[Jacko93]

Let's not forget Clynes role in this. The cheating rat.

We're at a point now where sensors can be placed in shin pads to measure force applied. Maybe we should check and if the force applied is less than the warranted reaction, off you pop for 10 minutes.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Football lost me as a customer some years back after money took control. At least I thought it took control - it wasn't until VAR came along that it had some more powerful tools. It's an entertainment for mugs or the addicted now, not a sport.

Just watched the highlights off the bbc. I was looking put for Dom's serious foul play ... had he lost his head out of character? Would you believe I missed the event. All I saw was Dom, having a good match, make an excellent tackle where he trapped the ball and made a glancing blow to another player. Not dangerous, not serious foul play, no malice. I actually laughed.

In a game where players can have shirts practically ripped off them in the area without ut being a penalty, so long as they ate certain shirts, and a game where the slightest touch is a foul, so long as it belongs to certain teams .... I'm glad I'm out of the game. Its an utter disgrace. It's fraud.

If people can't see this by now (I have a mate who keeps trying to say it's incompetence not corruption) then I wonder how they manage to have the brains to keep breathing.

Some fans just dont want to accept the reality of modern day football. Even on here there are Evertonians who'll swear blind that FFP is to "protect us from ourselves" and how we should aspire to be a club that sells its best players every season in order to "comply".

 

[ToffeeTim]

The problem is not VAR itself, it's the people behind it

But if the people behind the system can't do their jobs properly, then the only solution is to scrap the system.