Apparently there are two VAR officials in their little den. They can overrule very experienced refs and the liners role is somewhat diminished. So for each match we now have a total of six officials and they still can't get it right.
Where have all these officials come from to fill the new vacancies as the officials at each match have increased by 50% virtually overnight? It seems a lot have been promoted too fast and even over-promoted.
There is the same number of officials as last year but they are doing twice as much work. The bloke who did the VAR in Saturday against us was the one who was late for his match on the Sunday. Pep has said that they have taken too much on and no one should be doing two high profile matches in a weekend. Everything about how the clowns are running it is a joke except it is a little like a jimharri joke on off topic......it's not funny :_)
That's great. i haven't seen what he has written yet but at least he knows a story when he sees one. Swarbrick has been quoted all week and has tried to twist the meaning of the words used in the IFAB laws document but no one has nailed him on it. It is obvious that the FA has pushed the handball rules further than stated by IFAB. There has been a lot of covering of backs this week. The VAR officials got both decisions wrong at the Spurs match but no one in the media wants to call them out for it. Perhaps the relationship between people like SKY Sports and the VAR leadership is too cosy and us fans are just not in the loop.Martin Samuel has picked up on the false claims.
Var is a farce, let's face it, if a liverpool fan is in the studio at stockley viewing a City match they're never going to give a decision in Citys favour are they.
It’s not about whether it works, whether it really starts to get the decisions right. It’s about it killing the emotions of goals, all goals.Just have a difference of opinion Karen.
Already mentioned the negatives of VAR and have been more than balanced. For me it’s a case of really trying to make it work - however long it takes , rather than scraping it for the ‘old system’ where we have Refs and officials who make blind decisions.
Exactly and regardless of how much better VAR becomes,that celebration when a goal is scored is gone forever. That is the problem with VAR.It’s not about whether it works, whether it really starts to get the decisions right. It’s about it killing the emotions of goals, all goals.
You don’t know anymore whether some infringement you might not have seen will see a goal disallowed, even if there is nothing wrong with it, you don’t know at the time if you’ve missed something... so you can’t celebrate goals properly anymore.
It’s ruining what’s great about the sport.
So if say a City player is obviously fouled and falls but foul not given but we score from a resultant shot that brushes the arm of the fouled player a penalty cannot be given but the goal can be disallowed despite the fouled player ignoring everything except his own balance?
VAR = Vary Any Result in my opinion.Var is a farce, let's face it, if a liverpool fan is in the studio at stockley viewing a City match they're never going to give a decision in Citys favour are they.
That's great. i haven't seen what he has written yet but at least he knows a story when he sees one. Swarbrick has been quoted all week and has tried to twist the meaning of the words used in the IFAB laws document but no one has nailed him on it. It is obvious that the FA has pushed the handball rules further than stated by IFAB. There has been a lot of covering of backs this week. The VAR officials got both decisions wrong at the Spurs match but no one in the media wants to call them out for it. Perhaps the relationship between people like SKY Sports and the VAR leadership is too cosy and us fans are just not in the loop.
But they haven't been weeded out yet.Especially, when our officials were already considered amongst the worst on the plant e.g. no ref at the Men’s World Cup.
Btw one of the VARs has come from Australia where I think he was a Rugby League ref. No doubt he’s done his conversion training
Or Michael Johnson.VAR = Vary Any Result in my opinion.
Whereas goal line technology has been easily accepted. There's too much wiggle room in VAR for human prejudice; human incompetence and corruption (principally from betting syndicates) to play a role. In that respect, to me it's not much of an improvement upon the days of old Alf.
The apparent inability in some quarters to even accept errors may have happened is not positive as acceptance of such is the first step to improving the system. I never expected it to be 100% correct when it was originally rolled out, but I expected it to be much, much better once its trial was completed. Similar problems appeared in the home games with THFC in last season's Champions League and this year's league match but nothing seems to have been learnt in the period between the two games.
VAR is great for the Milner offside last season because that was a clear and obvious error. It's less so when it's dealing with toenails and shirt thickness variances.
When I last ran, my body was leaning forwards as it was infinitely easier to do than running upright or leaning backwards, unless you're John Cleese. If one attacker is running forward and a defender is holding their position then there is every likelihood that part of the forward's body will be closer to the goal than the defender. To me, it's much more sensible to restrict everything to the feet.
Until they can provide a photo akin to that provided in athletics or cycling finishes, the technology is always going to be open to manipulation. Until then, everything remains in the hands of human fallibility.
Furthermore, I sense a creep towards the American football situation where a sixty minute game takes three hours to complete.
Yes but if you as a fan get screwed do you just keep going ,feeding the system pretending things are just fine..?In my experience if City get screwed, support for City always intensifies.
Especially, when our officials were already considered amongst the worst on the plant e.g. no ref at the Men’s World Cup.
Btw one of the VARs has come from Australia where I think he was a Rugby League ref. No doubt he’s done his conversion training