I agree with most of what you say, but think they did a good enough job on Pogbad at the weekend. I agree with the earlier post about the Ronaldo incident. Personally, I felt it should have been a sending off as it was an assault - the ball wasn't playable in the way he tried to boot it, and the intention was very obvious - hurt, or injure an opponent.
In a European game, he'd have been sent off, I believe. Still, we rose above the shite ref/VAR decision and won very comfortably; United got totally embarrassed, so, happy days!
Both referees and the VAR officials have often been seen, especially in City matches, to either chicken out of giving any decision in our favour, or completely ducking a decision entirely.To be honest, despite the backlash i get on here
i rarely see people discuss VAR nowadays outside of forums and social media and are gradually warming to it year by year
it was supposed to have 'killed football' and fans were all going to boycott the game and not attend - but that's simply not happened has it, if anything - it's enhanced the game worldwide and it's bigger and better than ever, in my view - the weekend games were proof of that - Liverpool annihilating Man Utd, Us Hammers beating Spurs, you lot stuffing Brighton - and most games were brilliant - VAR has not ruined the game at all.
Now, please don't get me wrong - there's some incidences where i don't agree with the VAR call and I suspect that may be the case forever - there's so many grey areas in football
but do I want to go back to CLEAR offside goals being given on a REGUALAR basis, same with fowls, goals etc. - NO.
All I simply want is the Ref to have a second chance of viewing the incident - that's all I want ! I don't want a ref being forced to make a blind decision, that is the reality without VAR and it's ludicrous when you really take that in.
If there is solid proof that officials and people at the top purposely bought in VAR to favour Liverpool and Man U then I take everything back
at the moment, I'm seeing the system improve season by season and seeing it get a lot more right than wrong
I'm not on a wind up, I know on forums you have to have a extreme view one way or the other and can't be civilized about it, but reality is and I'll always repeat - I just want a system in place for the ref to have a second look and get the decision correct - VAR is the only way forward for that at present, is it perfect? No! but would I scrap it.. No.
Both referees and the VAR officials have often been seen, especially in City matches, to either chicken out of giving any decision in our favour, or completely ducking a decision entirely.
Sorry about the grouse.
Spot on.i even think the harry maguire foul on jota was last man and red card but again united getting the benefit of doubt
yep manchester city pep and the players have had to work hard on turning another cheek and just getting on with it with the officials. but its getting crazy with the grealish stuff going on and they are letting them kick him off the park. from the most fouled player in the premier league at villa to a cheat and diver at manchester city
Chicken and grouse in the same post. I cry fowl. :-)Both referees and the VAR officials have often been seen, especially in City matches, to either chicken out of giving any decision in our favour, or completely ducking a decision entirely.
Sorry about the grouse.
As did @BlueHammer85 in the post I replied to at #272, which I highlighted, hence the "fowl" allusions.Chicken and grouse in the same post. I cry fowl. :-)
Chicken and grouse in the same post. I cry fowl. :-)
There’s pages and pages of hooky VAR decisions to write about instead. It’s simply no betterI will check out the offside decision today and get back
Ronaldo incident - some refs would have gave a red for that some wouldn’t - I didn’t think there was too much to warrant a red.
as I’ve mentioned though , just because I’m an advocate for VAR - do I have to answer every single incident someone is not happy with ?
If we had no VAR - I could post pages of pages of incidents the Ref didn’t get right and ask people to explain how that is more acceptable than having no VAR.