i suppose there are some pretty easy holes to pick in VAR;
benefit of the doubt to decisions called or not called: 2 incidents both involving United: Fernandes gets ridiculous pen but VAR decides it's not clear and obvious to overturn decision to give, Zaha does not get pen against Utd and VAR decides not clear and obvious to overturn decision not to give. A clear pair of examples where abuse of the system is entirely possible and, frankly, probable by the ref simply calling or not calling for a particular team on any grey area and above. Previously they had to think and be accounted, now they can call/not call grey areas and pass it up to Stockley Park and the shady processes on high.
Offside. Seemingly the bastion of objectivity - you are off or you are not. As much as i fucking hate footy decisions going on 1mm offsides, the principle of this is sound - you are off or you are not. And those blatant 2 yarders should be a thing of the past. Trouble is you simply cannot back up the principle in practice. We are seeing low frame rate footage to decide when the ball is played, coupled with mm decisions - surely the error margins are too high for this? perhaps they have better footage on high. i doubt it. So for Sterling's goal some time ago, we see 3 frames where the ball is apparently 'played' and Sterling is onside (in the mm world) for 2 of them and offside in the last. The last shot is used and he is off by 5mm or something. Even tennis Hawkeye at 1000fps shows a tennis ball moving many cms along the ground and so can be out and in with the same footage. They have very low error margins but they have them.
anyway, we used to argue about stuff and now we are told those arguments are over. They're just controlling the narrative, that's all.