You only have to look back the last couple of weeks at the Rags & City to see how certain teams are refereed differently. Mctominay (RED) & the dwarf (PEN) not given inexplicably the Ref (Even Dermot said it was a joke). Then the Alvarez offside, given straight away by a linesman who is under clear instructions to not flag unless its 100% a clear cut offside. Checked by VAR an incorrect disallowed goal then given.I’ve always stated I’d scrap VAR and go back to how it was if everyone could be happy with refs and Lino’s making the odd completely blind decision, guessing, players blatantly diving, goals scored even though they was well offside, off the ball horrendous tackles not seen etc
But I’ve a feeling would probably be more outrage now we know we could have technology assistance
Now only 1 of those 3 incorrect decisions were corrected and that's poor. And that leads to quite understandable frustration. But I'm adamant we'd (CITY) be much worse off without it. The Redshirts got away with murder for decades. VAR is our only hope of levelling that playing field, albeit' s far from perfect.