VAR - 2020/21

[mosssideblue]

Nope, it's not, as has been proven many times with so many correct calls.

but when a ref can't get a decision right even with the benefit of replays - it's not the VAR that's the problem

I'd be all for it if it were totally transparent like in cricket and rugby where everyone can hear the discussion.

I suspect there is a reason why football doesn't want to go down that route

 

[Paladin]

Dean just wanted to be the focus of attention, and he's got that. He probably wanted to be the answer to the quiz question, who was the referee when United scored ten?

In what world would you look at that penalty decision and think, yes, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that that is a foul, and he deserves a red card, when the team conceding the penalty is already a man down, and losing by seven goals.

Dean should be stuck off the list. Game management? More like result manipulation.

 

[give it to gordon]

Where are the VAR apologists today?
First Luiz, disgraceful that the ref and the Var man allowed that decision.
Second if VAR can rule on the tightest of offsides against Southampton, why can they not do so regarding a blatant dive.
It is pointless having it when decisions like the 2 red cards are allowed.

Luiz little clip a penalty and red card, yet Torres pushed and no penalty or card ?

 

[The Future is Blue]

VAR last night at Old Toilet was a joke.....every man and his dog thought Dean was asked to go to the monitor to see if Martial had dived (which he did). The picture was frozen and stayed frozen whilst Dean was getting instructions in his ear...it turns out he was being told that the penalty was to stand but the card should be upgraded to a red.....Rag corruption in full view! Is anyone on Sly saying this is unpalatable?

 

[BlueHammer85]

I'd be all for it if it were totally transparent like in cricket and rugby where everyone can hear the discussion.

I suspect there is a reason why football doesn't want to go down that route

yep i'd be happy with that aswell, anything to cut down the ridiculous decisions.

what we can't do is give up and go back to 'how it was' .. as there would be loads more incidences of Martial dive and the refs can get away with it by having the excuse of his angle and speed. Dean has no excuse for that decision last night and he is quite rightly getting pelters from everyone.

 

[leeneel]

Shocking exhibition of cheating from Martial last night.

Sadly an even bigger disgraceful exhibition of cheating by Dean and his VAR team.

There is simply no excuses any longer for what we are seeing.

 

[mosssideblue]

yep i'd be happy with that aswell, anything to cut down the ridiculous decisions.

what we can't do is give up and go back to 'how it was' .. as there would be loads more incidences of Martial dive and the refs can get away with it by having the excuse of his angle and speed. Dean has no excuse for that decision last night and he is quite rightly getting pelters from everyone.

At the moment, VAR has no credibility imo as, as you say, very obvious mistakes are slipping through.

As a concept, it is a great idea, but it needs competence for it to work effectively, and that is in very short supply in the Pigmol sector.

Maybe, those reviewing VAR monitors should be from a different league either in UK, or Europe.

Maybe better still have refs from different sports as the rules are not that difficult to grasp.

 

[ancoats]

VAR last night at Old Toilet was a joke.....every man and his dog thought Dean was asked to go to the monitor to see if Martial had dived (which he did). The picture was frozen and stayed frozen whilst Dean was getting instructions in his ear...it turns out he was being told that the penalty was to stand but the card should be upgraded to a red.....Rag corruption in full view! Is anyone on Sly saying this is unpalatable?

shocking and so clear what they was up to ? never a pen and never a red card but they got the result they wanted
(operation keep united in the title race at all cost) am fearing tonight game at burnley now

 

[Blue Mist]

I fell in love with City at a very young age, I am now 62. I have loved them longer than my children and more than I have loved my wife :-)
When we were shit I retreated from football and just followed City home and away, I also did the reserves and youth team. This was mainly due to the rag love in and the corruption surrounding it, Whilst I could ignore football I couldnt ignore City.
Now, I have the best team I have seen in my life playing in sky blue, I didnt think it could get better than Lee Bell and the rest but it has so why am I again retreating from football ?
Answer because the same corruption I saw in the 90's is all around and in every game VAR is being manipulated by unseen wankers and even when it is used correctly, like last night where they are basically telling a ref he is wrong and his get out is to review the incident, the whistling wanker ignores them.
I will not stop watching City, it is a love that endures, your first love is always the strongest but football is dead to me. It is corrupt shit fed to the gullible.
I accept VAR the machine is not the problem, it is the wankers using it.

 

[ancoats]

I accept VAR the machine is not the problem, it is the wankers using it.

yep

its like putting a numpty from a nissan micra into a top of the range ferrari