Cods wrote: ↑Sun Jan 11, 2026 9:36 pm
Keep the automated stuff for when the ball is in/out, and offside.
Get rid of all the subjective stuff.
If the ref misses it, too bad,...the ref can then be judged on their performance after the game, rather than having an out being able to use the Wenger "I didn't see it" excuse. It puts the onus back onto the referee.
Severe incidents can incur retrospective bans.
Just don't stop the game so often and for so long for things that might constitute an infringement.
Totally agree. For matters of fact, like goal line technology, the tech can be improved and improved and it works well.
For subjective issues like is it a red, is it worth a penalty, you can watch it 100 times and have two referees still disagree so there is absolutely no point delaying or sucking the soul out of the game. Nothing in the years it has existed has altered my view one bit. It was a shit idea, it's been shit in practice.
In a world full of adversity, we must still dare to dream.
The only thing I'd be willing to accept VAR for is off-the-ball incidents. But even there it should only be about calling the ref to the screen to check out something they've missed.
Re-refereeing using multiple slowed down camera angles to still end up making a subjective decision is so far from what the game needs.
Don't get me started on offsides either. Football has completely lost sight of what the offside rule was put in place for and we're essentially seeing loads of goals that SHOULD be perfectly legitimate being ruled out for no good reason. Scares me how many football fans seem to think that having a foot or a shoulder or whatever inches in front of a defender at the split second a pass is made is what the offside law should be preventing.
It's not changing though, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle as far as football goes these days. It'll probably only get worse.
Risky wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:39 am
Yep all VAR has done is made football worse.
Re-refereeing using multiple slowed down camera angles to still end up making a subjective decision is so far from what the game needs.
Don't get me started on offsides either. Football has completely lost sight of what the offside rule was put in place for and we're essentially seeing loads of goals that SHOULD be perfectly legitimate being ruled out for no good reason. Scares me how many football fans seem to think that having a foot or a shoulder or whatever inches in front of a defender at the split second a pass is made is what the offside law should be preventing.
It's not changing though, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle as far as football goes these days. It'll probably only get worse.
PGMOL get in excess of £30m a year funding, most of it from the EPL, you’d think they’d be able to run it properly
I'm really confused now. Is there, or is there not a small margin of error? The images of Florian Wirz's goal last week show that his foot is clearly a fraction ahead of the defender, but the officials overrule the "automated" VAR, with the final decision made by the bellends sat in Stockley Park drawing as many lines as necessary to give the goal. Then when it still showed he was offside, it was announced that there is a small margin of error allowed for situations like this.
Last night, Semenyo scores from a corner and VAR step in to look at it. Four minutes later, they are still looking at different angles and drawing lines in order to disallow the goal, stating that Haaland was in an offside position. From every angle, it was impossible to tell whether Haaland was even the tiniest fraction ahead, but they were absolutely determined to chalk the goal off, and did.
So my question is, does the "small margin of error" actually exist, or is this just another conveniently made up rule that applies only when PGMOL need to cover up their blatant corruption?
