VAR Discussion Thread

[Kippax77]

I’m sitting wondering why it’s taking so long to give the most obvious handball and quite incredibly the referee sticks to his original decision. Not VARs fault but officials just not seeing what anyone with eyes can see

Who is this ref, Howard Webb's daughters boyfriend.
Not seen him before

 

[Taylor]

Natural position, yeah right

 

[Don Karleone]

VAR told him he may have made a mistake. This is on that cheating **** in purple.

 

[eversince 76]

Tbh advantage wasn’t given but the best thing from that situation was for Marmoush to score.
That said it was a clear handball. The farce from VAR was why it took so long. The farce from the ref not to give it. Nothing natural about it and it has been given numerous times.

We move on ….

 

[No.8]

Surely we can see it is being used against city

VAR called for the onfield review. I just can’t understand why it took so long as it’s absolutely blatant. Arm should not be that far away from his body. This is all on the referee

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

VAR called for the onfield review. I just can’t understand why it took so long as it’s absolutely blatant. Arm should not be that far away from his body. This is all on the referee

It's all on pgmol imo. Something strange is going on with decisions against City. Really baffling decisions in so many games now

 

[hertsblue]

Darren England should be no where near our games, clear Arsenal fan

 

[Blue Mist]

Yet another match where Var features in a City match. I sat in the cold for 4+ minutes . It's a joke.
Why does it take so long for a decision and then just as long for the ref to disagree.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

It's all on pgmol imo. Something strange is going on with decisions against City. Really baffling decisions in so many games now

Not baffling when there is a clear intent from PiGMOL reps to remove any potential decisions from going in City's favour.

They are not even trying to disguise their blatant bias or collusion against the club.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Yet another match where Var features in a City match. I sat in the cold for 4+ minutes . It's a joke.
Why does it take so long for a decision and then just as long for the ref to disagree.

To give the illusion that it wasn't a straight forward decision that they were required to judge upon.

Then once VAR had passed it on, the ref studies it for several minutes before giving the decision despite the evidence before him.

All part of their double act of corruption and bias.

Happening all too often to be a coincidence.

 

[madloaf]

From ESPN VAR Review.

"Hallam is the first Premier League referee this season to stick with his own penalty call after going to the monitor. It's just a shame that, in this instance, he was wrong to do so.

In my opinion, this was a correct intervention by VAR. The pictures clearly show that the Wolves defender's arm was in an unnatural position at the moment the ball struck.

This incident met the following criteria of a handball offense in law:

• A player is considered to have made their body unnaturally bigger when the position of their hand/arm is not a consequence of, or justifiable by, the player's body movement for that specific situation. By having their hand/arm in such a position, the player takes a risk of their hand/arm being hit by the ball and being penalized.

I'm sure Hallam will reflect on his review process post-match, as this was a clear handball offense given the current guidance and interpretation."

I'm sure Hallam will reflect, with the lovely bottle of wine he's been sent from the Anybody But City committee at Pigmol.

Tl;dr - City fucked over again by Refs

 

[Blue Mist]

Many decisions could be used to say why Var is good or bad, right or wrong but this one sums up why it should be binned off.
The referee had a split second to make a decision. Var had 3 ? minutes to say he might be wrong and the ref then took another 2 ? minutes to decide he was right.
You do not need multiple angles and slow motion replays to decide if someone's arm is in an natural postion. 10 seconds max would do it. It's a fuckin' farce.

 

[johnnytapia]

You ballistic, just like we all used to do and then..,,

VAR confirms that the goal stands! My word that was carnage.

 

[CC1]

From ESPN VAR Review.

"Hallam is the first Premier League referee this season to stick with his own penalty call after going to the monitor. It's just a shame that, in this instance, he was wrong to do so.

In my opinion, this was a correct intervention by VAR. The pictures clearly show that the Wolves defender's arm was in an unnatural position at the moment the ball struck.

This incident met the following criteria of a handball offense in law:

• A player is considered to have made their body unnaturally bigger when the position of their hand/arm is not a consequence of, or justifiable by, the player's body movement for that specific situation. By having their hand/arm in such a position, the player takes a risk of their hand/arm being hit by the ball and being penalized.

I'm sure Hallam will reflect on his review process post-match, as this was a clear handball offense given the current guidance and interpretation."

I'm sure Hallam will reflect, with the lovely bottle of wine he's been sent from the Anybody But City committee at Pigmol.

Tl;dr - City fucked over again by VAR.

Their corruption failed to stop us - so desperate aren’t they

 

[Bill the Blue]

Fkin bent as fuck..!

Any other team, especially playing in red, would have been given that decision.

Fortunately we were better than Wolves today and won the game but we' were once again reffed deferently than everyone else.

It's becoming so transparent what's going on and we as a club need to stand up and make a stance..!

 

[pepguardiola'smoustache]

It's all fine.

The bbc say it was a "courageous call".

Nothing to see here, move on now.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I hope someone is keeping tabs on total minutes lost whilst VAR decisions affecting us are made.

 

[Blue Mist]

I hope someone is keeping tabs on total minutes lost whilst VAR decisions affecting us are made.

Yep.
I will repeat myself. It was an easy decision. 'Do I think his hands were in a natural position, yes or no'

That doesn't take 5 minutes of multiple camera angles and slow mo replays. What the fuck were Var looking at ?
It's yes or fuckin' no.
What was the ref looking at on the screen ? It's yes or fuckin' no. 20 seconds to make a simple decision not 5 minutes.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Once again the combined inputs of the referee and Var officials demonstrate that their combined efforts are being used to negatively influence teams, and most certainly City from the officials,

It is no coincidence that the number of incidents which have had a negative effect upon the outcome of results involving City are demonstrating clear, biased and detrimental influence.

Cartel club members are a protected and the favoured species under a PL organisation who are as corrupt as their paymasters.

The sooner this is exposed and eliminated, the better for football as a whole. Corruption has prevailed for far too long.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Once again the combined inputs of the referee and Var officials demonstrate that their combined efforts are being used to negatively influence teams, and most certainly City from the officials,

It is no coincidence that the number of incidents which have had a negative effect upon the outcome of results involving City are demonstrating clear, biased and detrimental influence.

Cartel club members are a protected and the favoured species under a PL organisation who are as corrupt as their paymasters.

The sooner this is exposed and eliminated, the better for football as a whole. Corruption has prevailed for far too long.

If it's ever truly exposed I don't think there will be any coming back form it.