one controversial VAR incident is amplified to the max nowadays, aided by social media and forums of course.
before VAR vast majority of games had so many controversial incidents, left to a ref to make a blind guess and constant outcries from the fans and panelists - lets not forget that's why VAR was bought in the first place.
Incidents were not amplified to the max like they are nowadays which is due to VAR. Ref's making decisions on the pitch before VAR was merely "a blind guess"? There was nothing blind about it, it was all quite visible to the ref. "Constant outcries"? Give me a break, what we have
now is constant outcries due to VAR reviews driving people up a wall!!
What you're referring to is post-match banter in pubs about what everyone remembered happened, which was recalled on fan's own often in jest and fun, from their own actual memory of what happened on the pitch not from 5 minutes delays to review decisions made that it would be impossible for anyone to forget, which causes an immense amount of disturbance and controversy to the whole match. Before VAR you had to actually remember what happened to describe how your club had been wronged, now we're merely spoon fed it by which VAR the VARs in the Ivory Tower decide to stop the match and obsess about, with little standards or consistency to any of it. And even when matches are somewhat flowing nowadays, you're always on edge as a fan wondering when VAR will rear its ugly head.
No one's forgetting why VAR was brought in the first place. In fact everyone has their own theory as to why VAR was brought in. Social media, forums??? Really, that's how VAR was brought in? Or was it the sports media pundits always carrying on about an injustice on the pitch. Which on its own would be perfectly fine only they created excessive outrage, often times claiming injustice for things that weren't and getting everyone all riled up. Which again, on its own wouldn't be a problem, but if someone heard that and thought it was a bright idea to go on this agenda to rid football of injustice, which regardless of what you might say was what those behind it at FIFA said VAR was brought in to do. And we heard catch phrases like clear and obvious, it was brought in to deal with those. But how many damn non- clear and obvious decisions get reviewed? It has played out in a different way than it was brought in for, on many levels, and far more controversial and annoying than anyone who promoted it in its early stages could have ever dreamed, or nightmared. But of course they're so flipping invested in its success it's essentially been too big to fail even though it clearly has, and it's gotten plenty of time to iron out the problems which was another excuse for why we should give it time. VAR has fundamentally eroded the very basic elements of how football works, and it's been a complete and utter failure.
VAR needs to be Hammered Out of Football along with Forward Kickoffs returning, only then will Football be back in order. Make no mistake about it, football is in Severe Disorder in this current VAR-induced state. It has a strange hold on the sport and the oxygen and spirit is being sucked out of football one VAR decision at a time.
