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VARguments

One of the issues I’ve got with VAR is that if any of those Burnley goals had stood a decade ago then nobody would have been arsed. Not even the Brentford manager.
 

HellsBells said:
The bastards are making me feel sorry for Scott Parker.

Mental decisions. I don’t even think the offside should have been given - it’s an arm, I thought you could only be offside if something you could score off was offside?

Burnley been robbed today. As were we.
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TBH I definitely think the offside, whicb wasnt really giving an advantage, evem though his armhair was actually offside, was much harder than the handball as if the ball hadnt hit his hand then it qouldnt have droppwd for him to score. Also, his hand wasbt really in a natural postiion, tour arm doesnt generally stick to your torsk like that when you're running. No ones arm is stuck to their side when they're in any sort of motion unless you're (i don't know as a for instance) trying to stop that ball passing through the natural gao betqeen your arm and your torso.
 
HellsBells said:
The bastards are making me feel sorry for Scott Parker.

Mental decisions. I don’t even think the offside should have been given - it’s an arm, I thought you could only be offside if something you could score off was offside?

Burnley been robbed today. As were we.
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It's not just the ridiculously harsh decisions it's the time it takes and let's the referee and assistant take no responsibility
 
Far Tibetan Mountain said:
TBH I definitely think the offside, whicb wasnt really giving an advantage, evem though his armhair was actually offside, was much harder than the handball as if the ball hadnt hit his hand then it qouldnt have droppwd for him to score. Also, his hand wasbt really in a natural postiion, tour arm doesnt generally stick to your torsk like that when you're running. No ones arm is stuck to their side when they're in any sort of motion unless you're (i don't know as a for instance) trying to stop that ball passing through the natural gao betqeen your arm and your torso.
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I don’t even think it hits his arm. As Shearer says you can’t be sure. It gets given on the pitch and no one bats an eye lid.
League Wan said:
It's not just the ridiculously harsh decisions it's the time it takes and let's the referee and assistant take no responsibility
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There should be a time limit on var decisions. If you can’t tell after 2 mins, then the on field decision stands.
 
HellsBells said:
I don’t even think it hits his arm. As Shearer says you can’t be sure. It gets given on the pitch and no one bats an eye lid.

There should be a time limit on var decisions. If you can’t tell after 2 mins, then the on field decision stands.
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I Thought shearer might have been drunk. They showed the replay about 6 times and it clearly hit his hand each time. Reminded me of myself (in my younger days) trying to claim I hadnt hand balled it when I knew I had.
 
Var isn’t the problem.

the problem is the people using it are the same people who get everything wrong that 99 people out of 100 can watch an incident and make a decision within half a minute.

The officials are the reason why fans are so against it.

They get involved in stuff that would never be questioned and go to the far end of a fart to look for reasons to take the joy out of everything.

They can’t be trusted to get the blatant things correct which snowballs into questions about every decision.

The arrogance they show while doing it is another thing that makes everything unpalatable.

The le fee pen today as an example is an easy decision for anyone who’s watched, played,or been involved at any level of football to make.

It’s a pen every day of the week and twice on a Sunday but the ref who should just give it, doesn’t and then the idiots who get every angle under the sun still don’t give it !!!

It’s simple.
 
The only difference between the Burnley goal and the Bournemouth goal today was that the VAR ref at Burnley took about ten more minutes to check whether it hit his arm or not.

I don’t think you can be 100% certain in either case but ours got given and Burnley’s got overruled.
 
The VAR man for the handball spent five minutes watching the same clip again and again and again, trying to see a handball. So of course he saw it. He could have seen a pink elephant flying by if he had concentrated so hard and had so much wanted to see it.

What I want to know is what was he doing for the first 4+ minutes, unable to see what he later decided was clear and obvious?

As for the offside, they don't have the technology to judge by 2 inches. For that to be offside, they have to be certain that the photo(s) were taken at the exact moment that the boot came in contact with the ball. If the image was taken at the moment the ball left the boot, then it's too late. In the time that the ball is in contact with the boot, Anthony would have moved the two inches needed to make the difference.
 
HellsBells said:
The bastards are making me feel sorry for Scott Parker.

Mental decisions. I don’t even think the offside should have been given - it’s an arm, I thought you could only be offside if something you could score off was offside?

Burnley been robbed today. As were we.
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I noticed on match of the day they said it was offside by the shoulder but that's supposed to measured in line with the armpit not the edge of the arm.
 
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