There is so much wrong about this decision. I’ve said loads of times - like cricket - the technology isn’t 100% accurate. That’s why they have umpires call which is half a cricket balls size leeway. Surely this should apply to football now after today. Widen the VAR lines on the pitch to half a yard then only clear and obvious mistakes will be changed. After all, this is what the whallies at the FA said VAR was for at the start of the season.
They couldn’t have actually made a bigger shambles of the implementation if they’d tried.
Until a computer can accurately give a 100% correct decision then there has to be a margin for error given as an advantage to the attacker, it just really isn’t that difficult.
The buck stops at the top. Said many, many times that Old Mother Riley should go. He was incompetent as a ref and it should be no surprise that he is incompetent as their chief.
At the last World Cup, there wasn’t a single Premier League referee.
When Europe’s major leagues implemented VAR, the Premier League delayed for a year.
When the Premier League implemented VAR, they decided to use it their way.
Part of the way through the season, they’ve changed their minds and are using it a different but still wrong way.
When will PGMOL realise that they don’t know best?