TheBeautifulGame
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Word on the street is that FIFA is considering scrapping VAR and replacing with a new system called FVS.
FVS, short for "Football Video Support" is a system whereby the managers can request challenges to a decision that they object to, and have it reviewed, rather than VAR overloads deciding what to review and when to stop the match.
We've been hearing this idea floating around for years, it remains to be seen if it becomes a reality and replaces VAR entirely. The fact that they are already trialing this FVS would suggest that they are looking for a replacement. I would expect them to be very tight-lipped about this as announcing a total replacement of the system they've been in charge of for the last 6 years that is widely seen as an abject failure and replacing it with an alternative would surely involve quite a bit of damage control.
VAR is so controversial and unpopular that maybe by now even FIFA realizes that it's unsustainable. The amount of criticism and discontent from fans and pundits alike has to play in their minds. For years we kept hearing give it time, give it another years, it was always going to take 2, 3, 4, 5 years until they got it right. And yet here we are and it's only getting worse. In a way it would make sense that at last FIFA realizes that the VAR gig is up and it's time to bin it and replace it with something that they can put a name on, so they can pretend to claim success.
It will be interesting to see if they decide to make some kind of sweeping announcement that VAR will be replaced with FVS for now on. But then the question becomes when do you do that, and how do you do that? During competitions? What a mess football is in, FIFA is to blame for putting football in such a predicament, such hubris and short sightedness to think they could implement VAR successfully. And maybe they just want to be praised as finally doing something that isn't loathed by fans to the extent VAR is. Is a challenge system the answer? Is that the savior?
I saw, naw, go back to normal football. No challenges, no VAR. Just normal football. Play to the whistle, and carry on if you think you've been wronged, and the game goes goes on. But if I had to choose between VAR and anything else, i.e. a challenge system I think we all know that any alternative would be better than VAR!
FVS, short for "Football Video Support" is a system whereby the managers can request challenges to a decision that they object to, and have it reviewed, rather than VAR overloads deciding what to review and when to stop the match.
We've been hearing this idea floating around for years, it remains to be seen if it becomes a reality and replaces VAR entirely. The fact that they are already trialing this FVS would suggest that they are looking for a replacement. I would expect them to be very tight-lipped about this as announcing a total replacement of the system they've been in charge of for the last 6 years that is widely seen as an abject failure and replacing it with an alternative would surely involve quite a bit of damage control.
VAR is so controversial and unpopular that maybe by now even FIFA realizes that it's unsustainable. The amount of criticism and discontent from fans and pundits alike has to play in their minds. For years we kept hearing give it time, give it another years, it was always going to take 2, 3, 4, 5 years until they got it right. And yet here we are and it's only getting worse. In a way it would make sense that at last FIFA realizes that the VAR gig is up and it's time to bin it and replace it with something that they can put a name on, so they can pretend to claim success.
It will be interesting to see if they decide to make some kind of sweeping announcement that VAR will be replaced with FVS for now on. But then the question becomes when do you do that, and how do you do that? During competitions? What a mess football is in, FIFA is to blame for putting football in such a predicament, such hubris and short sightedness to think they could implement VAR successfully. And maybe they just want to be praised as finally doing something that isn't loathed by fans to the extent VAR is. Is a challenge system the answer? Is that the savior?
I saw, naw, go back to normal football. No challenges, no VAR. Just normal football. Play to the whistle, and carry on if you think you've been wronged, and the game goes goes on. But if I had to choose between VAR and anything else, i.e. a challenge system I think we all know that any alternative would be better than VAR!
