No they don’t want it, because they don’t want transparency.
The two incidents you reference are extremely debatable, so if the ref had to talk through his reasoning for giving a decision, the next time a similar incident occurred then they couldn’t then give a different response, it would soon become obvious it was bent.
This why it’s all cloak and dagger. None of us know why they looked at Agüero’s goal, some of us don’t know if it was handball and why was a penalty given for holding in our game, but not in United’s.
If it was all in the open it wouldn’t take long to get a bank of incidents and the result of the decision. Then when they start changing the decisions it would look to obvious.
I commented on the review of Aguero's goal immediately it happened, as it was clear from a quick replay, that absolutely nothing untoward had taken place.
It's one thing these blokes in the van checking it over, just to make sure that the referee doesn't need to be alerted about anything, but it's quite another when they have involved the referee, in a complete non incident for the goal, which appeared to go all the way back to Laporte winning a header.
That's not part of the goal incident at all, & the fact they spent so long looking at it, said to me that those people are actively looking for a way to disallow it, rather than doing their job. The ref should have just got a message 'no problem' ten seconds after it went in.
The 'offside' from Fernandinho's 'foul' should have been the one which took ages, as there were a lot of players involved, moving around, any of whom could have been committing an offence.
As you mention the Utd game, I recon there is a very good chance if that is City v Liverpool, they get several penalties irrespective of v.a.r. but penalties for stuff like that are rarely ever given against the red teams, only for them.
Michael Oliver would not miss an opportunity like that, if Liverpool were playing Burnley or Wolves.
I don't believe any of that will change, with v.a.r. no matter how inconsistent it is; the pundits will mostly agree with the refs as they did in the World Cup, as they like v.a.r.
And if it happens that we are playing v Liverpool or Real Madrid & v.a.r. gives them a horrible, bent, game changing deciision, everyone will tut tut about it, then move on.
Just like the numerous awful decisions we suffered v Liverpool last season don't matter, nor will any v.a.r. ones, it will just go down in history as they win.
The only time it will matter is if one goes against them, which will create such a shitstorm, nobody in a v.a.r. box will ever want to do it again.
