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Do not disagree with that, but i suspect that would lead to a shortage of Refs.

How far down the leagues do professional referees go? Even if it's all 4 league leagues, that's only 40-50 refs you need in the country.

Refereeing in rugby and cricket is so much better, as they are all ex-players
 
I do think the VAR replays should be in real time, not slow-motion. If you can't spot something in real time from multiple camera angles, it's obviously too close to call.

Why replay it at all? Just get the TV official to advise the referee in real time, like an extra linesman with a different view

The whole point was supposed to be about clear and obvious errors, e.g. when the referee's view of play had been obscured.
 
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/q-a-new-handball-law-your-questions-answered-v5hgfcrlm

'After a meeting in Glasgow last weekend [in March 2019], Ifab said that handball would be given if the player’s arms extended “beyond a natural silhouette”, even when accidental. David Elleray, the technical director of Ifab, said: “If the arms are extended beyond that silhouette, then the body is being made unnaturally bigger, with the purpose of it being a bigger barrier to the opponent or the ball.

“Players should be allowed to have their arms by their side because it’s their natural silhouette.”

The new interpretation will come into effect on June 1, the day of the Champions League final.'

I am genuinely gobsmacked that this is the best wording that the 'powers that be' have been unable to come up with. Are you fudging kidding me? What the fudge is a 'natural silhouette' when playing football, especially when running / turning / twisting / sliding / jumping? It certainly isn't having 'their arms by their side.'

It is truly astounding, I am lost for words at their idiocy.

That's just ridiculous. Good of them however to allow players to "have their arms by their side".
But even if that is the new rule, it shouldn't have applied last night because according to that article it comes in to effect on 1 June.
And to that - why on earth would it deemed a good idea for the first match when the new rule is introduced to be the CL Final?
 
The purpose of VAR (as well as paving the way for in-match advert breaks) is to allow bureaucrats to protect the interests of the richest clubs. The decisions always go in favour of the powerful. We would never have got the penalty if it had been the other way round last night.
thats a conspiracy theory- its people thinking no mistakes /errors means a better game regardless of the side effects - perfect is not always better - football is art not science.
 
That's just ridiculous. Good of them however to allow players to "have their arms by their side".
But even if that is the new rule, it shouldn't have applied last night because according to that article it comes in to effect on 1 June.
And to that - why on earth would it deemed a good idea for the first match when the new rule is introduced to be the CL Final?
that interpretation of the rule has always been the case in some countries, in Spain any ball to hand is handball - i font know with Holland.
 
thats a conspiracy theory- its people thinking no mistakes /errors means a better game regardless of the side effects - perfect is not always better - football is art not science.

Give it a year to establish a sample size and then look at that data. Almost every key VAR decision so far has gone to the 'bigger' club.
 
Why use it to overturn 50/50 (being generous) penalty decisions and not for clear red card incidents?

Watching Walton try and explain the ridiculous decision making last night just made you understand why it’s the shambles it currently is. The guy is clueless and it’s people like him they have in VAR chair.

The most telling thing for me was that Wallyton was sitting with the rule book in his lap while trying to justify his position, which says to me how is this system going to work quickly and effectively if the "experts" have to consult the rule book every time a decision is made, surely his pronouncement that a deliberated elbow to the head followed by pushing an opponents face into the ground "is all in the rough and tumble of the game" means he believes you can do what you like.
 
The most telling thing for me was that Wallyton was sitting with the rule book in his lap while trying to justify his position, which says to me how is this system going to work quickly and effectively if the "experts" have to consult the rule book every time a decision is made, surely his pronouncement that a deliberated elbow to the head followed by pushing an opponents face into the ground "is all in the rough and tumble of the game" means he believes you can do what you like.

He is saying what he is told to say by the idiots who are bringing this farce into the game.
 
Do not disagree with that, but i suspect that would lead to a shortage of Refs.
Yes, it would, and so it should. To set a precedent like that, requiring experience within one distant part of the field to work within the other, will naturally lead to a shortage.

Hire specific personnel for that job, with reasonable pay, and they will perform adequately. "yér pays yer money and takes yér choice" and get your expected result; loosely translated.

Oh, and just fcking apply the same rules for everyone playing at the same time as long as pool are handballing and cheating all over the place, plz.
 
I am very much in favour of using video technology to assist referees. I have turned against VAR in its current form. Back to the drawing board. We are now back to what happened when they introduced the additional goal line refs, the more refs you have on and around the pitch, the more mistakes they make, it seems.

I propose a challenge system, where the managers or captains can challenge decisions for video review. Then the Rose handball from last night wouldn't be an issue as neither players, referees or the benches thought this was a foul. How could the non award of the penalty be a "clear and obvious error", then?
 
I am very much in favour of using video technology to assist referees. I have turned against VAR in its current form. Back to the drawing board. We are now back to what happened when they introduced the additional goal line refs, the more refs you have on and around the pitch, the more mistakes they make, it seems.

I propose a challenge system, where the managers or captains can challenge decisions for video review. Then the Rose handball from last night wouldn't be an issue as neither players, referees or the benches thought this was a foul. How could the non award of the penalty be a "clear and obvious error", then?


Because according to Peter Walton, handball is treated differently and it’s down to the interpretation applied to the law (ie the action either meets the criteria for handball or it doesn’t) - regardless of whether ref made an error, clear and obvious or otherwise.
Sounded to me like he was making it up as he went along on a number of issues. It was the first time I’ve seen the studio ref getting that level of questioning from the panel.
 
Give it a year to establish a sample size and then look at that data. Almost every key VAR decision so far has gone to the 'bigger' club.
On the CL QFs alone the big decisions by VAR have already gone 4-0 to the bigger clubs.

Emirates Marketing Project 1-0 Tottenham (Danny Rose 'handball')
victims 2-0 Porto (two similar handball-in-the-box decisions that went the opposite way to the Danny Rose one)
Man U 0-1 Barca (offside decision that (correctly this time) allowed the goal to stand)

On top of that you could add Fernandinho's elbow to Kane's head that should have gone to VAR and resulted in him being sent off.

So actually 5-0 to the 'bigger' clubs whereas it probably should have been 1-4 because strictly speaking only the offside one favouring Barca was correct.
 
So we conceded a penalty due to VAR technicality but Dippers get away with this o_O


And here's the problem. We're still discussing blatantly inconsistent refereeing even after VAR has been applied.
When multiple, slow motion replays can't provide consistency in these two, similar incidents, then what's the point of VAR?

They should simplify it, IMO. If the dressing room refs can't decide either way from say three replays or in 15 seconds, the on field referee's decision stands. No one wants a time consuming system in place to debate the 50/50s for minutes while the game is stopped and players stand around scratching their heads about what's happening.

Football fans simply want someone to spot the clear and obvious errors; the two yard offside goal, the cheeky elbow to the face, the ball that clearly was off the field, the clear cut foul that wasn't given. It doesn't have to be so fudging complicated.
 
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