will VAR be scrapped or greatly reduced in scope within next three seasons

it didn't help us when sterlings dive wasnt important enough to be a foul but romero (admittedly) smashing enzo five seconds later was

id have a lot more respect for rugby style reffing, where they manage the game self contained but tell you that- like a judge you can annoy or has warned you a few times.

theres more fairness in that than there is this half implemented bureaucracy from a van with mike dean in it

anyway- fuck em

the whole package was sold to fans as a way to deal with outrageous dives and players giving the elbow away from the ball in play. next thing you know we're debating whether standing 5 yards offside bang in front of the keeper is interfering with play and whether you can find one camera angle out of 24 with some evidence that two feet have touched each other

the default on first replay should be as follows:

"onside for me trev"

"not enough in that for me trev"

"ball to hand trev"

honestly if that were applied across the board i think we'd be fine?

yeah, the point of a replay is to look at something a second time as it happened in real time. once you get into Zapruder territory you're asking for deeper logical insight than the average referee is capable of

before var if a ref was gonna do you he did it quickly

this times 1000.

like I said above, in the US it's not handled so poorly, but if I'm at a match and we score, halfway through my celebration, I go to the Twitter account of our team's fan page to see if that guy is indicating there might be a review.

what utter fun.

Gary O'Neil revealed referee Michael Salisbury admitted officials were wrong to award Fulham their first penalty in Wolves' 3-2 defeat; Wolves boss also said officials conceded they should have sent off Tim Ream for a second yellow card and Carlos Vinicius for his clash with Max Kilman

lmao thanks guys, does this come with points attached

it worries me that it's become a distraction for manager and squad but i dunno how you can avoid that. to paraphrase another goalkeeper you still have to get your heads down and play better, even in the face of an arbitrary meaningless system.

agree with that.

xp pope john paul ii,rc

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well it's been decided

If they add power plays I’m blaming VAR

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/28/sin-bins-football-trial-ifab-referees-abuse

It's as if football's administrators are ashamed at how simple football is, in comparison to many other team sports, so they're determined to make it more complicated.