VARguments

bernardbresslaw said:
So you pick and choose which goal you go mad to?



VAR was used perfectly and it got the decision right.
It's fuckin shit though.
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You can go mad in a moment of ecstasy when you see the ref do a telly shape with has hands and signal whether it's a goal or not mate. It'll be just as good like.
 


bernardbresslaw said:
The argument has nothing to do with whether the right decision has been made - I'm saying it's spoiling it for people who go to the matches and care deeply about the result.
Did you see when the camera went to the Spurs fans after the goal was disallowed? Half of them were just standing there.
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Yeah I'm sure Spurs fans are gutted that they went through. They were happy as pigs in shit when Sterling scored, apparently.
 
Mackem00 said:
I've complained for years at the pathetic hyperbole (especially on here) about blatant offsides (about 2mm when the camera is frozen) and such like. Some football fans are proper cry babies when anything goes slightly against them. And this is where we are now because of it. Pile of wank.
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See also, massive over the top criticism of referees on a constant basis.
 
We all went crazy when fletcher headed us 1-0 up against Newcastle at home...but that would have went to review for a foul (rightly or wrongly).

I'm not sure about it...although tonight was f***ing class the way it panned out.
 
rey mysterio said:
End of the day it’s a sport. And you can’t have wrong decisions made especially at the top level of the sport where the margins are so tight
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You said it, buddy. Sport.

Played by humans. Watched by humans.

Humans aren’t robots. Humans arent algorithms.

Why can’t you have wrong decisions? Let’s have all decisions in football made by technology, huh? Let’s get a computer to choose teams. Appoint the managers.

Why stop there. Let’s give players headpieces, so the coaches can talk to them in the game like NFL or cycling.

We’ve had wrong decisions and we’ve had bad decisions as long as sport exists. It’s sport.

We aren’t even going to have VAR in all the divisions when it comes in next season.

Where is it going to all end? With the emotions and the unpredictability and craziness of football completely written out of it, that’s what.

Fuck VAR.
 
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Ilios said:
Yeah, tonight's game was definitely dull and drama free.
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Don’t be daft. It was the football that did that, not VAR. I go to watch a game of football not a game of VAR, to watch someone f***ing off to the side of the pitch to watch a TV screen every 15 minutes.

If VAR didn’t exist it would still have been a cracking game and there’s absolutely no arguing that.
 
Tony Towers Fanclub said:
You said it, buddy. Sport.

Played by humans. Watched by humans.

Humans aren’t robots. Humans arent algorithms.

Why can’t you have wrong decisions? Let’s have all decisions in football made by technology, huh? Let’s get a computer to choose teams. Appoint the managers.

Why stop there. Let’s give players headpieces, so the coaches can talk to them in the game like NFL or cycling.

We’ve had wrong decisions and we’ve had bad decisions as long as sport exists. It’s sport.

We aren’t even going to have VAR in all the divisions when it comes in next season.

Where is it going to all end? With the emotions and the unpredictability and craziness of football completely written out of it, that’s what.

Fuck VAR.
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Great post.
 
Tony Towers Fanclub said:
Don’t be daft. It was the football that did that, not VAR. I go to watch a game of football not a game of VAR, to watch someone f***ing off to the side of the pitch to watch a TV screen every 15 minutes.

If VAR didn’t exist it would still have been a cracking game and there’s absolutely no arguing that.
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Well then you've defeated your own slippery-slope fallacy. It was a fantastic game, VAR or no VAR. The only difference being, with VAR, the right team went through. Nobody goes to watch VAR, VAR is just a tool intended to reduce incorrect decisions, and aid the officials. The 'winning' goal was offside, and because of VAR, Tottenham remain in the CL.

It might come down to what you prefer to see. I prefer not to see offside goals decide games incorrectly. What is it that you want?
 

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