VAR and is there a way to fix it?

[Gash]

Slapped the ball out of play and they get the goal kick. Terrible calls all over the place just in the one incident.

[Cozzie]

Thing is.

We can make a fuss about it

But what exactly do we gain from it?

Fuck all. Corrupt bastards.

[Cods]

Just the clangers it's supposed to correct, Yeah?

Bin it off.

[Cods]

referee chief suspends himself over allegations

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/arti ... l7ld1nxqro

In Italy, there are accusations that you can indeed fix VAR, just not 'fixed' in the way we'd all hoped.

[Stumpy]

referee chief suspends himself over allegations

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/arti ... l7ld1nxqro

In Italy, there are accusations that you can indeed fix VAR, just not 'fixed' in the way we'd all hoped.

After another unbelievable cock up at Brentford for a west ham penalty, i wish Webb would suspend himself and take the rest of the shower with him

[Cods]

Was very enlightening on one of those mic'ed up ref videos where the ref actually says to the VAR team what he's going to say to 'sell' a particular call (which wasn't controversial at all) to the crowd.

Why should that even be a consideration in their mind. A referee's job is not to be diplomats and manage fan and player expectation, it is to uphold and administer the rules.

[blueToffee]

[AjaxAndy]

11 Vs 0 is some stat!

I find it hard to believe the officials have been so perfect with our decisions and essentially 1/3 of games elsewhere they've got something wrong.

[blueToffee]

11 Vs 0 is some stat!

I find it hard to believe the officials have been so perfect with our decisions and essentially 1/3 of games elsewhere they've got something wrong.

I think it just underlines what nonsense the whole "things even out in the end narrative" has always been around officiating. They really don't, there are those clubs who kindly I'd say definitely get the benefit of the doubt be it with traditional refereeing or via VAR. 11 v 0 seems pretty statistically unlikely if things were actually treated with an even application of the laws.

I had hoped in the beginning of the VAR rollout that just maybe VAR would've cut down on the more egregious bias but at times it's even more baffling as they still make the same choices even when presented with literal video evidence to the contrary. They just now just seem to come to the same conclusion and bend over backwards to form a narrative that somehow supports it.

[blueToffee]

Everton wrongly denied handball penalty at West Ham - panel

It would've been more useful if they'd actually done the super obvious thing on the day. Also, expect we'll get another in a couple of weeks for the Silva on Rohl one...so look forward to that.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/arti ... l200g358jo

[Shogun]

It is funny watching some older games back

[Audrey Horne]

bloody hell !

[Lazarou II]

It is funny watching some older games back

The RNIB Sunday league school of refereeing.

[Goaljira]

It is funny watching some older games back

Watching that is so much more fun than what we see now.

[blueToffee]

It actually feels a bit nuts watching some of that, as you do kinda forget some of these incidents. Obviously not all games would have such obvious issues, but all the (deserved) whining around VAR kinda obfuscates the standards of refereeing that really are the central problem to the whole thing. That, or maybe one person refereeing a game of this pace with this much going is never going to work reliably?

Just the other day, in the Spurs/Leeds game...how do you not whistle for someone getting kicked in the head right away? Even if you think it's not a foul. Why did that need VAR in that instance? They're just devoid of common sense at times or afraid to make decisions.

I still don't actually think any of them are really corrupt in a direct way. Although going on pre-season trips with teams seems like an intentional blurring of lines.