VAR Thread - 2021/22

[stonerblue]

The better team winning is hardly a surprising prediction is it

And neither is var fucking up yet another match.

 

[stonerblue]

what do people think on the Kane disallowed goal...didnt watch the game but just seen the highlights...looks like a deliberate push by Kane to me on Silva so rightly chalked off.....doesnt have to be a hard push whn moving at that pace to knock someone over (especially when pushing them in the direction that they are moving in anyway)

however seems to be a lot of uproar about it

Yep, shoved him over

 

[stan bowles]

This weekend, wrong decisions so far

• Spurs goal disallowed
• Newcastle stone wall penalty
• Liverpool offside goal
• Liverpool initiating contact and given dodgy penalty
• United offside goal
• Stonewall red card for foul on Laporte

You can add a clear red for the Burnley stamp/standing on Tierney's leg in the Arsenal game to that list.

 

[simon23]

Yep, shoved him over

havent heard anything of the commentary on it from pundits etc but seen the headlines......why is everyone so incensed about it then?

 

[Coljj]

Just want to remind everyone since the penalty award has overshadowed it when a Palace player took a hard fall jumping for a header but the referee wasn't arsed and wanted to see the Liverpool attacking phase play out.

It took one of Liverpool's own players (Curtis) to motion for a stoppage and get the ref to actually stop the game.

Flashbacks from 5 weeks ago...

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Of course he will. Smith and Warnock will be bringing their full Scouse to the table in defending them as we

Dermot Gallagher is the PiGMOL apologist and Sky just use the dippers stooges to appease the dipper fuckwits.

A total waste of airtime

 

[ysmsa]

Mic them up, let us know what’s being looked at, put it on the screens, put a time limit on decisions. Look how rugby league do it. Very rarely have controversy like we’ve experienced just today in Rugby League

Put it on the screens, what a laugh.

They're not even arsed that the 2 "biggest clubs" don't even have fucking screens.

The whole situation is a fucking joke.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Put it on the screens, what a laugh.

They're not even arsed that the 2 "biggest clubs" don't even have fucking screens.

The whole situation a fucking disgrace .

 

[ysmsa]

Have said this repeatedly, and even highlighted Oliver as the King of the “No decision!”

The “No decision” is the ref’s best friend, because he doesn’t get to make a potentially game-changing decision (unless he really wants to!!!) and then relies on a VAR Official somewhere remote getting 10 different angles.

That means the VAR OFFICIAL gets to make the decision, far away from any crowd pressure, and the agenda of the day can be served by his SELECTION of the video clips we or the ref might see!

It was hilarious yesterday watching the KDB “penalty” on US TV! Initially, they said Salisu got a good tackle in on KDB and not a foul. But, when they saw the slo-mo replay, EVERYONE said “Oh, that’s a penalty! VAR is going to have to give that as no-one gets the ball and they BOTH foul him!”

Showed it multiple times and pundits repeatedly said the penalty was going to be given.

Then, no penalty!!!

What do the pundits do then??

“Well, guess it wasn’t in the box after all!”

They’d just watched it 10 times, but the TV agenda in the States is to try to “big up the game,” not point out how bent it is, so they (99% of the time!) acquiesce to the Refs!!!

It’s such a shame to see otherwise decent commentators and analysts having to backpedal their thoughts and feelings, just to keep their post-career gig on TV.

Sad.

However, when it came to the Laporte foul and straight red, even they couldn’t explain away how a thigh high, straight legged, studs up challenge wasn’t a red! HAHA!

They searched for an out but couldn’t find one….until they settled on “the ref called it based on ‘real time’ not the super-slo-mo that makes all challenges look worse than they are in real time!”

You just can’t make it up!!

I look forward to seeing high, studs up challenges only getting yellow cards from here on out, as Hooper & English have set the standard.

Now, if PGMOL suspend them for gross negligence, I’ll take that back, but until then, WE ALL MUST ASSUME THE HIGH, STUDS UP CHALLENGE IS A YELLOW and no longer considered “Serious Foul Play” under the PGMOL version of Laws of the Game.

Even former refs, with a media gig, are at it!!!

CHRIS FOY'S EXPERT OPINION

Former Premier League referee gives his view on the big calls...

76 mins — NO PENALTY

Kevin De Bruyne drives into the box, between Oriol Romeu and Mohammed Salisu, and goes down. Referee Simon Hooper decides there was not enough in it to give a penalty and waved play on.

VAR Darren England will have checked, and the first contact, as light as it was, was just outside the box (left). So it could not have been a penalty anyway.

79 mins — NO RED CARD

Stuart Armstrong comes in rashly on Aymeric Laporte with a high foot. Hooper blows for a foul and also gives a yellow card to the Southampton player for a reckless challenge.

VAR would have checked it as a possible red-card offence but decided —and correctly in my view — that the challenge was reckless and therefore worthy of no more than a caution.

The leg is high and Armstrong runs a risk with that, but it is a glancing touch, no more, and I am happy with the verdict.

YCMIU, yet they do…repeatedly!

The whole penalty ruling needs a rethink.

De Bruyne was definitely stopped in a goal scoring opportunity. It was not manufactured but came about by great play and mis timed tackles. The issue was, is the offence classed as "in the box"

Fucking Djota (world class tm) did not have the ball, was not getting the ball but chose to throw himself at the keeper.

Fucking ridiculous decision and these fucking idiot officials are turning match going fans off the game.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

He was well onside based on that frame. If it is the right frame, of course, is another discussion.

You know full well that they could have chosen a frame which showed Cavani offside with the ball still at Martial's feet and NOBODY would have questioned the decision.

VAR is being used to manipulate close decisions and we are being conned.