VAR thread 2022/23

[BlueHammer85]

Haha

you ok ?

 

[BigJoe#1]

only captains can talk/shout at the ref, everyone else gets booked.

Simple solution

 

[mat]

only captains can talk/shout at the ref, everyone else gets booked.

I thought that was a rule already?

 

[inchy14]

Simple solution

Just like rugby. Simple and easy to sort.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Referee's have been mic'd up for a long time now. Swearing as an offence is easy to prove. The referee could ask VAR if the swearing was picked up on the microphone if there was any doubt that they'd just been called a c*nt. If a player or manager feels aggrieved at a sending off for swearing they could be sent a copy of the AV feed.

At the top level, you can swear about decisions happily. "Fucking awful decision, ref" happens regularly without punishment, as the swearing is viewed as not at the ref, but at the decision. It seems you can get away with swearing as long as you don't abuse the ref. "You're fucking useless, ref" is likely to get a card.

The same goes with rugby, although dialled down a lot. Players still swear, but not generally at anyone or about a decision - the 10 yard move for dissent mostly stops that. I'm not quite sure how they avoid picking it up on the ref mic, but it may be that the players are too busy shouting about other things, often to persuade the ref that the other side are breaking the laws.

It's pretty common in rugby union that the ref penalises what he sees, or what he thinks is the most important. He will usually let minor things and "six of one" type stuff go until he has to intervene. It's more technical, but not often subjective. They still make howlers occasionally.

Rugby is also a much slower game, and many punishments are codified; in football, the ref needs to decide if it's careless, reckless, endangering, excessively forceful...

 

[Jack Hackett]

VAR is ruining the game. It should be restricted solely to looking at offsides or red cards

 

[MillionMilesAway]

only captains can talk/shout at the ref, everyone else gets booked.

Doesn't work as a goalie as captain can't then do anything upfield.
I do agree that it could be cracked down on though, and some players are at it all the time.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Doesn't work as a goalie as captain can't then do anything upfield.
I do agree that it could be cracked down on though, and some players are at it all the time.

There could be a nominated member of their team if they didn’t want it to be the keeper.

 

[madloaf]

VAR is ruining the game. It should be restricted solely to 2019 - Sept 2022 and never be spoken of again.

Corrected

 

[MillionMilesAway]

There could be a nominated member of their team if they didn’t want it to be the keeper.

That would work.

I think IFAB would want it to be a global rule - it's pretty common, for example in Italy, that the international captain's armband is just the person with most caps.