VAR thread 2022/23

[The Future’s Blue!]

Footballs not ruined
Growing bigger and bigger world wide
VAR is here to stay, it’s improving and making the game better - you won’t accept it ever which is fine, but for most fans and the next generation it will be accepted and part and parcel of the game

Decisions from VAR are not improving the game, they are improving the drama. The game has been sold, the last bastion of integrity gone for the sake of money.

 

[wattle]

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Finally conclusive proof from VAR and FIFA that it was in

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Those who watch games in stadiums hate it. Those who only watch football on TV love it.......so we're fucked. Its here to stay.

And there’s the answer, it’s all about the clicks.

 

[wattle]

Decisions from VAR are not improving the game, they are improving the drama. The game has been sold, the last bastion of integrity gone for the sake of money.

That's it exactly. Improving the drama - but not the entertainment or joy/misery

 

[Blue Mist]

Decisions from VAR are not improving the game, they are improving the drama. The game has been sold, the last bastion of integrity gone for the sake of money.

Bang on. Manufactured for a world wide TV audience.

 

[BlueHammer85]

The vast, VAST majority won't accept it, but you're right, within the next 100 years when our generation of football fans die out, it'll be the norm. Great! That's a great comfort. By the way my lads are 18 and 21. They HATE it, as do all their mates. So it might be some time before it's accepted as "the norm"

3 more years is my guess

Loads of issues will have been ironed out and less controversy

Even now the controversy is mainly around minuscule decisions that could go either way - whereas before it was blatant offsides and dives the main talking points

 

[jrb]

 

[Ballymagash Blue]

3 more years is my guess

Loads of issues will have been ironed out and less controversy

Even now the controversy is mainly around minuscule decisions that could go either way - whereas before it was blatant offsides and dives the main talking points

Yeah. Before VAR there was endless bickering over decisions. City fans are still angry over Alf Grey in 1981! And rightly so. VAR's not going anywhere. The job now is to make it as efficient as possible.

 

[Blue Mist]

Yeah. Before VAR there was endless bickering over decisions. City fans are still angry over Alf Grey in 1981! And rightly so. VAR's not going anywhere. The job now is to make it as efficient as possible.

How long has var been in place now ? I dont think France or Germany are likely to agree with you.

 

[Ballymagash Blue]

How long has var been in place now ? I dont think France or Germany are likely to agree with you.

VAR is imperfect. Infuriating at times. But we're not going back. That ship has sailed. And France won the WC in 2018 largely thanks to VAR.