Poster this on another thread, but it’s equally pertinent here.
Whilst we are all pissed off this morning at another VAR decision, or 2..., we do need to accept that everyone is learning at the moment.
We were told that referees will still be the men to make the subjective decisions and VAR will only step in when absolutely necessary. Everyone was happy with the limited usage of VAR as it allows the game to flow as much as possible.
Pretty much all the decisions that VAR has overturned have been the definitive ones ie offside and handball. It hasn’t yet got involved in the subjective decisions as to what a foul is.
It’ll go one of two ways now in my opinion. Following from the Rodri obvious penalty, VAR will either continue to ignore all subjective decisions if the referee says he has seen it, or VAR will use this as the green light to get much more involved in decisions leading to more penalties being given (probably against us in the next game for a slight push when defending a corner)
I’m not going to make any hasty decisions about stopping going until I’ve seen how this season plays out and if VAR adapts as it goes to iron out as many issues as it can in doing so.