VAR is certainly getting bad press with the women's world cup and I'm not sure it's fully warranted.
To me the refereeing authority has caused the problems.
For a start, the recent decision by some bright spark, possibly the great Collina himself, to change the handball rule is now looking quite ridiculous.
Previously, it was deemed a handball for doing it deliberately and gaining an advantage, which was fair enough and that deserves a booking.
But now, because if the ball accidentally hits any part of your arm (in the box only by the way), we have defenders trying to run around after forwards with their arms tied behind their backs.
It's laughable, I'd like to see that bright spark of a ref try it.
The instruction for the refs to award a penalty and yellow card if the ball hits any part of a defender's arm in the box, intentionally or not is preposterous and unfair.
It ruined the European Cup final in the first minute and many other games which have suffered severe injustices, because of it (PSG v United for example).
Another cracker from that bright spark ref, if a goalies foot is not on the line, not behind it, on it, the goalie has to be booked and a re-take.
Fair enough you say, but this is only applied if the penalty is missed, even if the shot misses the target completely and has little to do with the keeper.
But if a penalty is missed and the keeper is on the line, you know what's coming next, encroachment.
Players in box, yellow cards and re-take.
In most if not all of the above cases, these 'handballs' or ' foot on the line' issues, are only picked up by VAR, after super slow-mo checks, because previously refs would never have awarded stupid penalties like we're now witnessing.
It's why we had ex-pro footballer pundits arguing with the TV ref, Peter Walton, that these decisions weren't right.
Walton, the knob, instead of agreeing and saying the rule needs reverting back, argued that the rule was fine.
So, it isn't VAR that is ruining the game, it just shows what happened.
It was that bright spark ref, changing the rules, possibly not knowing he was destroying instead of enhancing the game.
I'd love it, if it was Collina.
