Let's also not forget that over the past couple of years the rules have been specifically been tweaked continuously to suit VAR, and we get this shit result with that.
Abolishing VAR and replacing the rules with something that refs can actually judge would go a long way towards fixing the damage done.
VAR and is there a way to fix it?
- Irishbornevertonian
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Re: VAR and is there a way to fix it?
In an ideal world, I’d be all for this. Sadly, it’s here now and it will be here for the future. TBH, I think it’s a ruining the spectacle.Cods wrote:Bin it off.
Just get rid.
And they call it progress
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I'd argue a highlight reel of Steven Gerrard's incidents during some of the the derby games might say otherwise.Cods wrote: ↑Sun Feb 15, 2026 8:54 pm I guess that's on the ref/assistants though, who will now have to be held accountable for their performance.
I very much get it's a difficult job, it really is.
The standards however used to be good enough.
I'd very much prefer to return to the time where games weren't held up for minutes because we had to watch slow motion replay and analysis, and nonsensical long winded discussion about whether or not there might have been the faintest of inconsequential touches on a player moving in the box, whilst we endure/ignore ultimate tag team wrestling at every corner kick, appreciate and justify the art of diving, and other blatant inconsistencies.
It's farcical.
The pursuit of perfect really is the enemy of good enough, and we've lost sight of what the game is about.
I think there is a balance to be had still between nothing and catching the really stupidly obvious stuff that gets missed minus the forensic analysis.