While far from perfect,it surely cannot be argued that with it we would get more fairer decisions than without it, a lot more imo than the 2% quoted in the last post?
It also surely can’t be argued with what we watch either at the ground or on the telly each week that refs need help?
Diving for example for pens by players would be much easier to spot and VAR will get better as it as time goes on.
What is clear in my mind without a shadow of a doubt is without it games that could cost clubs millions,will be decided by a person who clearly has not got the tools to do the job!
Correct! It’s called progress!
bollocks is it. why do people who support it keep conveniently forgetting to debate the main issue that those against it bring up? the spontaneously and raw emotion of football - this is much more integral to the very essence of the game that getting every single decision right. you could have robots playing and have 100% decision making correct, which you would obviously love, but have every drop of emotion taken out of the game, and it would render the whole sport not worth watching anymore.
yes referee decision making is important, without a doubt. its very high on the priority list, but it will never be more important the feeling of raw emotion from the crowd. take away the latter, and no one will even turn up anymore to give a flying fuck about whether martyn waghorn was 0.4mm offside in a FA cup 3rd round replay.
do you agree, or not, that it will kill the game, from a match going supporters emotional point of view?
I think tbf mate the Rugby comparison is a better one than monopoly!
I was originally against VAR at the start because I just thought mistakes by players and refs are just part of the game and should be accepted as such.
However mistakes are not accepted now and people who make honest decisions are called cheats biased and all sorts of shit just for making honest mistakes in extremely proven diffcult circumstances, that should be accepted as just football because like you say it’s just a game.
Rightly or wrongly it has become bigger than just a game sadly and as such fairer correct decisions are needed and the only way to do that is VAR.
yes they are. people go off it at the match, talk about it in the pub after, post rants on online forums the next day, then generally forget about it by next saturday. it has never changed for the fans.
the only thing that has changed, is that someone, somewhere in the upper echelons of the footballing establishment, has realised there is some money to made through this, and that is the top and bottom of why it is being introduced.
i notice they arent bothered about 'fair play' when it comes to diving (great talking points for the media, stir up column inches) or bothered about 'fair play' when it comes to how many players man city and chelsea can have on their books, and play weakened teams in cup competitions, or bothered about bringing in safe standing (which the overwhelming majority of football fans want) or lowering ticket prices, or the price of a kid being a mascot, i notice they aren't too bothered about those things
