Var debate 2019/20

Hate to say this but Martin Samuel made a good point this morning on SS. He pointed out that VAR is definitely failing to addressing the outrageous decisions everyone wanted it brought in to sanitize, rather, it is harming the game by highlighting incidents, SO INSIGNIFICANT NO-ONE EVEN KNEW WERE HAPPENING and would never know if it wasn't for the VAR technology, to disallow fantastic goals and thereby seriously detract from the game as the spectacle we all love. My thoughts exactly! Imo, it's analogous to a chimpanzee being given an iPad! It needs to be addressed asap. Even worse than Samuel, Martin (extremely irritating) Tyler suggested, [because of how the powers that be are implementing it], VAR "...is taking away more than it is bringing...". Couldn't agree more.
 
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Ballet-on-ice said:
I still think the jesus disallowed goal v spurs was a blatant piece of opportunism by the var ref to chalk off a winning goal 'cos it was city'.
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'course it was! a chance to f us over.. We should be on 18 straight wins now.. I was there and after going mental it took a good 2 minutes for them to find reason to disallow the goal.. sucked all the life out of the ground..
 
My two main gripes are:

With Newcastle's goal not being overturned for a handball that was way more clear than Laportes. Have they realised that they were wrong to rule Laportes out? Since he didn't gain possession of the ball, or is it just a mistake that they somehow didn't see it? Which would show how much more closely they are looking at City's goals.

The way penalty claims are being handled basically means VAR isn't going to improve decisions there. They aren't telling refs when they should be giving a clear and obvious penalty because they don't want to "undermine them". What a crap excuse that is to begin with. This probably means that refs will continue to point to the spot for Liverpool and United as they've always done and VAR wont step in when they get it wrong either. At least they aren't getting VAR penalty decisions where everyone else isn't... yet.
 
Kinkys Left Foot said:
Didnt take long to get a completely contrary decision to ours against Spurs which is now why I think the whole thing is bent. They see what they want to see. Its their job to analyse the play when a goal is scored and apply their shitty handball rule change equitably. It wasn't hard to miss so I don't accept their shite excuse. Those two points may cost us the League and those fuckers should be made answerable. It wants binning. The whole thing is not fit for purpose.
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It is fit for purpose though. The whole purpose being to deliver the results they want to deliver. Its another layer of protection against the results they do not want to happen happening.
 
Metalartin said:
My two main gripes are:

With Newcastle's goal not being overturned for a handball that was way more clear than Laportes. Have they realised that they were wrong to rule Laportes out? Since he didn't gain possession of the ball, or is it just a mistake that they somehow didn't see it? Which would show how much more closely they are looking at City's goals.

The way penalty claims are being handled basically means VAR isn't going to improve decisions there. They aren't telling refs when they should be giving a clear and obvious penalty because they don't want to "undermine them". What a crap excuse that is to begin with. This probably means that refs will continue to point to the spot for Liverpool and United as they've always done and VAR wont step in when they get it wrong either. At least they aren't getting VAR penalty decisions where everyone else isn't... yet.
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We're not getting our 2 points back even if they admit their error which I find unbelievable as VAR was implemented to assist the referee. If the ref has ballsed up a decision they should be told, that's why VAR has been brought in isn't it? They seem to make it up as they go along and all the media just shrug it off as teething problems... Did you know it's bad for the brand if a team wearing red doesn't win the premier league .. it's going to be even harder this year to finish top of the pile,,
 
Blue Mist said:
Oh the silence has now been broken, apparently it was human error on the part of the VAR team who simply missed the handball in the Newcastle game. FFS, were they on the same coffee break that Pep mentioned ? you have one job, look at a TV screen, if you cant do that get a proper job. It is simply being made up as they go along and is now a joke.
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Of course it was human error, he didn't look because it wasn't city, if it had been you can be sure the ref would still be waiting to restart the game, while the ref found an angle that provided a blurred image that could be interpreted as a alien space ship landing at Buck Palace or perhaps hand ball,
 
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