VAR and is there a way to fix it?

[biziclop]

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.

[Irishbornevertonian]

Bin it off.
Just get rid.

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.

And they call it progress


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[blueToffee]

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'd argue a highlight reel of Steven Gerrard's incidents during some of the the derby games might say otherwise.

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.

[Cods]

I'd argue a highlight reel of Steven Gerrard's incidents during some of the the derby games might say otherwise.

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.

I don't entirely disagree with that, both points really, but on the first one there is something to be said about certain players or certain teams just not having VAR intervene when it would cost them and it does when it benefits them... I don't see how that has changed the net result all that much really.

Although Gerrard had some shockers, the awful two footer on Naysmith and his starfish dive in the box come to mind, VAR also wasnt there to see Cahill grind Alonso's (?) head in a headlock into the turf.