VAR thread 2022/23

[johnnytapia]

It doesn’t spoil it. Tonight’s game was dominated by it. When, if ever, had we had 3 decisions reverse on field calls?

If Gomez hadn’t got sent off, we’d have won comfortably.

Spurs Quarter Final. Next question...

 

[stonerblue]

Maybe people are off making a brew like I was?

I decided to make the tea.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I’ll never make peace with VAR. I’ll never stop watching City. I’ll constantly be grumpy. About VAR. it’s shite. Tonight epitomised all that is wrong with it. It was like watching the Harlem fucking Globetrotters. The Rodri goal , great goal but hang on , two mins later some spurious VAR bollocks, corner to City, 2 mins later some bollocks about a penalty the ref didn’t give from 5 yards away, then a sending off he also missed. Let the ref be the ref. He gets it wrong? So what? Otherwise we have the bollocks we had tonight and the bollocks where you can’t celebrate a goal until the opposition have kicked off. It has utterly killed celebrating a goal. And that’s what we live for.

I disagree as fans do still celebrate goals. Sometimes they even get to cheer twice ;-)

All contentious decisions that go against your side annoy us, whether with VAR or without.

We had a goal ruled out (wrongly) for handball.
We had a penalty given for us (wrongly) for handball.
The ref missed a blatant DOGSO red card which was correctly overturned.

We’ll remember the goal and red card decisions and forget the penalty decision as that’s what happens in football!

You can see in a stadium whether a goal is contentious or not. Players’ reactions and length of time to make the decision are the biggest indicators.

I just don’t have the energy to howl at the moon about stuff I can’t affect.

No VAR disallowed goal will hurt as much as the Sterling winner against Spurs, even though I thought Aguero was offside in the build up.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Spurs Quarter Final. Next question...

I can think of 2, what was the third?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Nobody wants 100% accuracy. That’s why it’s hated. Leave the game to its nuances and 95% / 85% accuracies.

Write to the FA and express your views then.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Managers, players, fans, the media. Anyone who had a decision go against them.

Same for a lot of lower league clubs right now that don’t have VAR aswell

 

[Stephen230]

And nobody asked for VAR. nobody. Here we are.

If nobody had asked for it, we wouldn’t have it. The biggest opponents of it for years were the football authorities, on the grounds that they’d be effectively creating two sets of laws of the game. One for games using technology and one for the vast majority of games that won’t. They eventually caved in due to relentless pressure from the media, those involved in the game and fans.

 

[johnnytapia]

I disagree as fans do still celebrate goals. Sometimes they even get to cheer twice ;-)

All contentious decisions that go against your side annoy us, whether with VAR or without.

We had a goal ruled out (wrongly) for handball.
We had a penalty given for us (wrongly) for handball.
The ref missed a blatant DOGSO red card which was correctly overturned.

We’ll remember the goal and red card decisions and forget the penalty decision as that’s what happens in football!

You can see in a stadium whether a goal is contentious or not. Players’ reactions and length of time to make the decision are the biggest indicators.

I just don’t have the energy to howl at the moon about stuff I can’t affect.

No VAR disallowed goal will hurt as much as the Sterling winner against Spurs, even though I thought Aguero was offside in the build up.

“You can see in a stadium whether a goal is contentious or not. Players’ reactions and length of time to make the decision are the biggest indicators.”
Yes, the City players knew Rodri was never being credited with that “contentious “ goal. And none of the fans celebrated.Night night.

 

[eversince 76]

Fair enough. It does seem ingrained with some people. Even if it were 100% accurate, you’d still moan about it!

Why would I moan when it’s accurate? Why would I moan about the referee when he is right? That’s not the point mate. Bit weird reply. Bit VARish

 

[madloaf]

It doesn’t spoil it. Tonight’s game was dominated by it. When, if ever, had we had 3 decisions reverse on field calls?

If Gomez hadn’t got sent off, we’d have won comfortably.

Celebrate goal. Wait 3 minutes. Stop celebrating. Its insanity to suggest it doesnt spoil it. It doesn't matter about whether it happens for or against city. As a spectacle. As a mode on enjoyment, visceral release, whatever you want to call it, it's being sanitised and thats insanity.