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Add that to the bloody list.

 

You can just imagine the number of lawyers waiting .......

 

Can I just say that VAR doesn't always get it right but yesterday's offside decision in the game between Palace and Leeds is one of those times where getting it wrong can be fully accepted.

 

That disallowed goal was a joke. Forget any team biases - football is about joy, goals, excitement. We're seeing quality goals disallowed for the most minor of infringements. If they're even infringements at all. That goal yesterday- brilliant foot work by Pogba, great awareness and lovely weighted pass, great movement by Cavani, great finish. Fans want to see that stuff. And it happens to every side in the PL. And what's worse, fans can't even celebrate goals now. That moment of joy when the ball hits the net - its gone. You have a half celebration and then wait to see if VAR is going to rob you. It seriously needs binning off.

 

Exactly. I was watching my other team, West Ham, yesterday. I jumped off my sofa when Lingard put his second goal away, then had to wait 30 seconds while they decided if Bowen had been offside before delivering the assist. It just kills the joy.

 

Mrs IB wonders if I'm asleep watching now days, usually she can tell from the next room when we score.

 

It's not done Huddersfield any favours. I thought both shouts were penalties

 

I didn't think he actually made any contact with the Huddersfield player. Having said that, I think he would have tripped him if the forward hadn't dived first. So it was a tricky one.
The second one looked far more clear cut. The ref was unsighted, but I was amazed that VAR didn't call the ref to look at it.

 

One of the newspapers have produced the results and league table if VAR had not been used, In that league Leeds would have gone down and Burnley stayed up

 

It’s terrible. The worst of all is the new interpretation of handball. Absolute joke, a rule change made by absolute imbeciles.

Luckily it won’t affect the khazi league though. I’m used to seeing it used in ligue 1 etc on tv, and i preferred things how they were. Stops the game too much, it just courts controversy and i honestly just think it is done for tv pundits to have something else to waffle about. And cause ‘more talking points’, not less.

 

Would have got us another point at Sunderland though!

 

Needs a considerable amount of work in my view. The goal Lingard scored his toe nail was offside. Other rules are being ignored, like giving the attacking team the benefit, and a clear and obvious error are a couple that are being ignored. They need to watch the cricket the umpire is still in charge and even though the tracking has the ball hitting the wickets if it is only just clipping it is still what the onfield umpire has given.

I don’t like the age we have to wait for the flag to go up even though it obvious, then the massive inquest that takes place eating up time, if it takes more than a minute forget it, the clear and obvious error comes in. The hand ball incidents are now a joke.

 

It’s getting to the point where linesman aren’t calling offsides anymore. I mean what? They were very very good at it and it’s such a skill I think to call it. At the top level they rarely get one wrong.

VAR will spoil the game. It’s the penalties and all subjective decisions they are messing up. Handball always looks worse in super slow mo. It always looks deliberate. Same with any contact in the box. Slowed down it always looks worse. Let the ref do what he’s paid very well to do. I’d say use it for offsides if it becomes clear and the angles are better in the grounds. And for anything missed like violent conduct off of the ball (Suarez biting for example)

 

Next season all handball in the area by a defender will be a penalty, Accidental hand ball has been done away with so i guess handball will be easier for VAR

 

Fookin joke it is