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Been watching recently and getting so frustrated at the poor decisions by officials and VAR

It appears that officials that go to Liverpool, Manchester Utd/ City, Arsenal and Chelsea appear to be scared to bring out cards.
Today there was a 'so called' penalty, that should have been given and wasn't by a 'knee'

VAR is ruining football and referees should go back to the training board

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Arthur did you not say at some time in the past you had been a ref? Just curious whether there’s anyone in the lower/non leagues that thinks VAR is good or if it’s universally despised.

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Ruining it how ?

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Just takes too long, flow of the game ruined.

Work in cricket/tennis where there is a delay after each ball/point, but not football. Most of the games I see aren't Premiership/VAR and are so much better. Mistakes happen by players/officials/managers - accept them and move on - evens out over a season.

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Mistakes have "ruined" football for years, I remember in the 1980's a Clive Allen "goal" was ruled out because the ball flew into the net, hit a stanchion the back, and bounced right out again. The ref (and linesman) thought it had hit the post. Then of course, Englands goal against Germany in 2010 that looked a foot over the line but was not given. VAR helps reduce mistakes, overall its a good thing.

Also, it "evens out over a season" is a complete falacy, it doesnt.

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If it reduces mistakes why does pgmol (stupid name) have to apologise every week? It's not reducing mistakes It's creating new ones. Off side is a joke now, they seem to think if your off side your off side which clearly it isn't or the rules wouldn't need to be kept tampering with

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I gave up on football when they removed the limit of foreign players on the pitch at any one time killing grass roots football. Now its all diving and cheating and arguing with the ref (which never changes a decision) at least VAR and tighter rules on diving has helped a little but not enough for me to be interested again

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It doesnt.

Ummm, those two are entirely different things. You can reduce mistakes from 10 to 1, and create 1 new mistake. Overall, you are 8 mistakes better off.

What :confused: I cant make any sense of what your point is here.

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They apologised twice to Brigton in February alone and to Everton in the same month, a mistake that could cost them their place in the top league

If only it were only 1 mistake

What's the point of off side

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Football has not been a sport for many years. It is now a busines.

I lost interest years ago.

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Premiership maybe, but how could you lose interest in Barry Town United F.C.? Top of the league !

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Twice in a month is not every week.

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Again, not really the point, the aim is less mistakes, no mistakes would be ideal, but unlikely.

The point of specific football rules is not relevant to the use of VAR, but since you ask ...

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Paul: I'm a tad surprised you think the refs/VAR is that good given what we have had to put up with over this season. Even tonight with that last minute pen which didn't seem to have any contact at all. Though when it's odd you never see the VAR checks...

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We were told it'd eliminate the errors refs make and that we'd have nothing to talk about down the pub anymore when the exact opposite is true, I doubt there is any true fan in the country that is happy with it.

Twice in a month, they never used to apologise at all, how bad is it now they actually have to come out and say sorry

Exactly, that's my exact interpretation of the rule, not because someone's arm is ahead of a players body or because a player has bigger feet than someone elses, so now to tackle the ludicrousness they're drawing lines bigger on screens :doh:

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Decisions have gone for us, and against us, but yes, Id rather have it, than not.
I can only think of one I thought was wrong, but the issue with handballs is they are still subjective (as are some fouls) VAR or otherwise.

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A rule is a rule, it doesnt matter if they are 3 mm offside or 3 meters offside.

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It's not though, it was clearly designed to stop unfair advantage or goal hanging, it even says as much in your description, it was not designed because someone's arm is in front of another players or because someones feet are bigger than anothers and that is evidenced now by them using thicker lines, why bother with that if off side is offside and a rule is a rule?

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Um, Yes it is.

It doesnt matter what you think it was designed to do, or whether you like it or not, its a rule [law of the game] no amount of moaning changes that, your posts are just starting to look a bit silly now, and really not worth the effort of responding.

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They are and realistically it does seem to shift the decision from the ref's view to the VAR's view.



Even last night I think Felipe was probably offside but not sure if that could have been seen properly in normal time. So we had VAR micro-analyse it for ages. The two pens probably weren't and if they hadn't been given then VAR probably wouldn't have been involved, but, there was definitely contact on Johnson unlike the one where Surridge apparently fouled their player near the end, which even from the replays Sky showed looked like there was no contact at all, so why didn't VAR spot this? And there's the inconsistency of checking x seconds back to see if anyone was marginally offside in the build up.


I can think of maybe a couple of times where VAR has given us an advantage where it has over-ruled an incorrect decision from the refs, probably the first goal vs Leics is the obvious one, but every time we've had the ball in the net vs Man Utd this season VAR has saved it (maybe they should get VAR to play in goal with DDG's form!) and the pen we were given at home to Brentford was given wrongly by VAR, as well as last week away at them where for their 2nd they had a player clearly offside right in the view of Navas when their player shot to score, should have been ruled out because a player in the middle of the pitch is in play.


With offsides in general it does seem to be a bit of a debate as to whether players are offside if certain parts of their body are behind the last defender and also where the lines are drawn. I think the other week Bamford was called offside with his arm, which of course you can't play the ball with. It needs a bit of consistency and maybe some automation like calls in tennis.

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It's a good idea poorly implemented, and they don't stick to their own guidelines.

VAR should be used only when there is a "clear and obvious" error by the match officials.

3mm offside, is not a clear and obvious error.

Also if the VAR official spends 5 minutes looking at an incident from 20 different camera angles, it is also unlikely to be clear and obvious.

I think they should consider moving to a tennis type model, where each manager has a maximum of, say, 3no. challenges per half if they think the decision was wrong, and if they are right they keep the challenge, if wrong they lose it.

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I think it's a good idea, but generally is implemented badly, the World Cup it seemed to work, Rugby it works (although they've had time to get used to it)

that's not bad idea a mate and me were discussing the other day.

having said that, I've been to a few women's matches recently, where since not all the stadiums have VAR, there is no VAR. It's interesting to go back to the old days of everyone jumping up, shouting "offside", "handball", etc then sitting back down again and getting on with it and forgetting about the ref's decision you disagreed with ;) no waiting 5 mins while they work it out.

I think the ones that annoy me the most, are the ones where offside is given, as a player was right on the touch line, miles away from the ball or anyone else and his little finger was in line with the drawn on line, but then 5 mins later, 3 players are "offside" in the box, but somehow, they're not interfering with play, so a goal is given.

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The sooner VAR is binned off and the refs do their jobs properly the better...

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As long as you accept refs make mistakes, just like players, managers and everyone else.

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Good idea.

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the funny thing is, in the women's game, and men's championship and lower you hear "the sooner we have var the better, referree cost us that game" blah blah, and they obviously see the hatred for it in the premiership

in the men's premiership, ppl are moaning about it, and many want rid, since they can't implement it properly :)

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Yes they do but then the VAR doesn't overturn it when they do because at the end of the day it's select group refs doing both.


For example on Sunday we had Anthony Taylor as ref and Stuart Attwell as VAR.



Taking aside the point Attwell shouldn't have been on a game involving the two clubs his side are directly involved in a relegation battle with


This was a reverse of the team who officiated our match at Old Trafford in August where we had a controversial penalty and red card such that the club actually complained to PGMOL about the ref and VAR


Then we get this nonsense and countless other examples throughout the season...

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I think thats how American Football works (and cricket ?), it seems to work quite well.
NFL referees also announce the review decision to the stadium via wireless microphones.

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VAR will not be binned.
Refs not doing the job properly is a whole different thing.

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An issue I have is not the technology itself but all the furore that goes on post-game with people looking at video frame by frame and supporting or opposing what happened. It's just a game (regardless of size or shape of ball) and it really doesn't matter that much what the result is.
We all know that the refs leave their Alsatians, white sticks, dark glasses and tin cans off the pitch. They do make mistakes, they always have done and always will do but that should be part of the game.
Separately I do think that players should always respect the ref whatever the code as should the spectators. A bit of chat/banter is OK but the ref is still in charge and deserving of that respect. A few cards for dissent would help.

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I'd like to see every pulled shirt called a foul, sometimes they are sometimes they aren't . It would soon stop inside the box if it was called a penalty every time.

Also like to see any player asking for another to be carded, to be given a card themselves.

These things would makes refs lives easier and give a bit of consistency/clarity.

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Thats already supposed to happen, and indeed I saw an example happen the other day (cant recall which match).

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The Champions League seems to do it well. VAR is rare and quick. Works well.

I think they need to dismantle the PGMOL. The PL brings it in-house. They get the best refs from anywhere in the world, we recruit them like we do the best players, and we adopt the VAR practice used by UEFA.

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Yeah, think it was in one of our matches...


Although when Maddison assaulted Yates the ref missed it and Yates was asking him to review it, still didn't get sent off for it weirdly, but he didn't get booked for asking and arguably should have


that's the same ref we have on Sunday.