Agree with this
Can't be proved. VAR's existence affects how refs and assistants manage the game and call decisions. VAR's use in the play off final meant there was little benefit for the assistant to flag the offside. You can see he dithers and doesn't run back to position, he knew something was up imoTake your point, but VAR changed the history of our club last season, so has a bit of credit in the bank
Got that decision spot on. VAR correctly identified an offside player. Ref then correctly judged he'd interfered. Got no issues with it remaining for things like that.Take your point, but VAR changed the history of our club last season, so has a bit of credit in the bank
Abysmal and it’s not the first time. Literally making VAR pointless.
Same for pens. What exactly needs to happen for a pen to be awarded. A once simple rule of handball meaning a pen has been unnecessarily complicated.
How does it make VAR pointless? It's to assist the ref. Which it did. People have said they want decisions to stay with the ref abd have moaned on for months that refs are pressured into changing their minds. Now we've got people moaning because the ref made the decision, choosing to stick to it after VAR pulled him.
Was the turning point in the match, we were on top from then on
Consistency will be horrific if you have refs brought in from Spain, Italy, Denmark etc. They've grown up refereeing a different game with different thresholds on what's a foul, what's a card, What's a handball etc.
This is what I find frustrating about this. Even the usually useless VAR told him. I haven’t found a single person who things it’s the right decision at all. I’m all for the referees ignoring VAR as it’s shit half the time but Jesus Christ to ignore this is unforgivable
This. It’s funny how these decisions always benefit the big team. Arsenal yesterday for instance. Celtic. Man City against Everton. Man United against us too. Every single time it’s in favour of the big boys - can’t think of any counter examples to this from this season at all.
He didn't ignore it. He went over to have another look, as per the protocol. He has determined its accidental, with his arm deemed to be in a natural position and the ball hitting his arm not directly, but after hitting another body part.
The goal City had chalked off for offside at the Mags. Took about ten mins after they drew the line against the wrong player. Ultimately correct according to the rules but it was a decision that disallowed a goal for one of the big boys.
I don’t really understand this post. On the man united point, every single person in the world has agreed it’s a wrong decision, are you the one @contrarian that disagrees? The arm is clearly not in a natural position, which is the qualifier for the deflection clause to become active.
VAR don't do that. They either advise the ref his decision is right or it may be wrong and to look at the monitor. In this case VAR did it's job, got the ref to look at the monitor, then for some reason he just went fuck it and gave the goal.
Because like I said. You’re around other people all day training and working work them. Referees aren’t going to move abroad on their own. Are you going to pay referees the same as players and managers are paid to move abroad?
Not at all, but it would only make it worse.
The fact we had to go back two seasons to find one example kind of proves my point. To the contrary, there's been 4 big ones in favour of big teams in the last 7 days - Hearts, Celtic, Man United and Arsenal
No they don’t. They meet up once every couple of weeks at St George’s Park. Michael Oliver lives in the North East and Anthony Taylor in the North West. They don’t meet up every day to train.
I was talking to the bairn about it when it happened. Trying to rationalise the decision to him by saying maybe it was the way it came off the defender, maybe it was the way Mbuemo was turning away, maybe it was the way Mbuemo seemed to try and "move off" the ball.
