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No, it's a complete nonsense and ruining the game.

Goal line technology is fine but that's as far as we should go with it.

 

I think it’s clear and obvious that VAR is crap.

 

Guess the Premier League forgot to mention its latest Covid-19 precaution... the ball has to be at least 2m over the line for it to count...

 

Bundled over by his own player though.

 

Another decision in the Man City V Spurs game.

We weren't asking for VAR so that we could disallow goals where a ball brushes an arm in a natural position which leads to a goal.

Ridiculous.

The way some of these rules are being implemented and interpreted is wrong.

VAR is for reversing obvious mistakes not becoming the centre of attention and disallowing goals where there's pretty much nothing wrong.

 

Very much so, like last week against City, but losing the spontaneity is a huge thing when you watch a game live, it's a big part of the experience.

 

Well VAR has been proven completely pointless again tonight.

At least if the referee got it wrong, like he does in the lower leagues you knew it was human error.

When the referee gets it wrong and a guy watching multiple replays taking 5 min over it still gets it wrong then it seems more sinister.

The Wolves stonewall pen tonight that wasn't given was an absolute joke.

 

Have they done away with VAR?
Surely that was a goal for Sheffield United.

 

And, of course, it doesn't do away with controversies about interpretation. Man U had an excellent goal disallowed yesterday because the Spurs players appealed that Son had been hit in the face by McTominay. What actually happened was that Son was blatantly trying to grab McTominay's shirt. In trying to brush him off he accidentally made slight contact with Son's face and Son went down like he'd been uppercut by Joe Frazier. The ref watched the replay, focused only on the touch to the face (which he deemed as accidental, otherwise McTominay would have received a second yellow and been sent off), ignored the context, applied no commonsense and disallowed a perfectly good goal. Madness. The goal should have stood and Son should have been booked for simulation.

 

The problem with it is the extra official sees all the action on a slow mo replay. Every bit of contact or touch of the hand for handball looks blatant when it’s slowed down to slow mo.

It should be used for offsides as that should be clear, however I don’t think that’s ready yet either. The angle isn’t always right they use and someone can look offside on one and not the other.


It’s been rushed in and isn’t working imo.

 

I think VAR has its faults but only by using and refining the technology will it be got right, The worrying thing about it is that it still involves a human opinion watching the screen and determining the outcome which in some cases would just be better letting the officials on the pitch who see it live make the decision

 

Another sh1te bit of VAR tonight.

 

I also think having watched it in the Women’s World Cup, think it should be abandoned until they can get it right. It is taking the joy out of scoring a goal, and I think it alters the game completely. What is the point of having a ref and Lino? Last night both the ref and Lino missed the offside, but who can blame them it was literally inches. The research says you will always have errors on close decision as it is physically impossible to look at two places at once. The question is now, do we go completely computer/VAR or stay with our current system with very strict rules on what could be looked at on the computer? Relying on VAR is obviously influencing how the refs and lino operate.

 

If players weren't such a set of cheating shits, VAR wouldn't be necessary.

 

Its a pain Dave, if only it was as definite as the goal line technology.

 

Man Utd fan by any chance?