VAR bear with me

[Poshgit]

Do you agree that VAR was a good idea in principle
Big But , it’s too slow , spoils tempo of game
Different staff each game so decisions seem to vary game to game
All fans seem to think and maybe justifiably that decisions favour the big teams
Supposing the human element was replaced with Ai ? It could learn from all the existing footage of games , a panel could decide the parameters of trickier decisions and it would be a lot quicker ,not capable of favourtism
Might also call out the epidemic of Diving
I ‘ll get my coat ….

 

[MrRobbo]

Personally I think its bigger than VAR.

Var of course has LOTs of issues, but its also severely hampered by the laws around what it can get involved with, and what it can change.

The biggest issue with me is just highlighted by VAR, its a complete inability to apply any common sense and consistency. In one game a pen will be given for next to nothing, and in the next game (for example) Rice can have 2 arms wrapped round an attacked AND handball it and get away with it.

It blows my mind now obvious some of this stuff is.

EVERY weekend there are a handfull of completely ludicrous decisions that VAR look at and somehow miss

 

[RubinsCube]

Personally I think its bigger than VAR.

Var of course has LOTs of issues, but its also severely hampered by the laws around what it can get involved with, and what it can change.

The biggest issue with me is just highlighted by VAR, its a complete inability to apply any common sense and consistency. In one game a pen will be given for next to nothing, and in the next game (for example) Rice can have 2 arms wrapped round an attacked AND handball it and get away with it.

It blows my mind now obvious some of this stuff is.

EVERY weekend there are a handfull of completely ludicrous decisions that VAR look at and somehow miss

I'd say it is even more fundamental than these issues (although I agree and all good points).

There was and is an arrogance around football in terms of not learning from other sports.

Cricket, Tennis and Rugby to name just three sports brought in tech assistance way before football did. Taking cricket as an example, they understood early on that some things (eg lbw, did the slip fielder catch the ball cleanly, was a batsman's back foot in the air or not for a stumping) were very hard to get clarity on even with tech. So they restricted it early on to just line calls ie no balls, run outs and did the ball cross the boundary.

Had football done the same eg "did the ball cross the line" and actually set up the tech to cover all the lines on the pitch then that would have been an improvement. More nuanced aspects like offside, clear and obvious errors around denial of goalscoring opportunity etc could have been worked out or binned over time.

As others have said, I think there is too much money in the game for this to be accidental and the more top flight football I see the more I think there has to be some sort of deep rooted corruption in the game.