VAR Thread - 2021/22

you have only got to look at fan forums ,twatter, tv and radio dicussing that dipper penalty to see how much interest they can generate about the premier league after one fucking game!!
plus a brucie bonus of a slight title race back on

they have gone from one ref getting it wrong to two
 
the-ecstacy-of-eight said:
100% this.

Conveniently, this tactic employed by the refs ALSO allows them to escape from correctly punishing the defender who commits the "foul" (which is given as not a foul) against us.

Foul INSIDE the box = Penalty and just a yellow card (due to the double jeopardy rule)
Foul OUTSIDE the box = Free-Kick and red card for denying a clear goal-scoring opportunity.

The tactic is...

NO FOUL = VAR check for possible penalty which can ONLY give a penalty

VAR then decides if a "clear and obvious error" has been made by the referee, so the only outcome is either a pen (but only if it's clear and obvious) or no pen (any doubt) and then defender gets ZERO punishment.

Convenient, eh? ;)
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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!
 
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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
 
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