Which is why VAR is a dog's dinner

it was never going to solve the issues of people looking at replays and arguing over whether something was a pen.

Posted By: jamesward on April 23rd 2024 at 11:42:30

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Well done Stuart Atwell and David Coote (Other Football) - SCC 28, Apr 23, 10:10:58
- Stuart Atwell is an absolutely, horrifically bad referee. What a joke. (n/m) (Other Football) - Jim, Apr 23, 10:50:27
  - Maybe that’s why he’s only in the VAR booth (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Apr 23, 10:51:45
    - Well given the influence that the VAR officials now have its arguably worse (n/m) (Other Football) - Jim, Apr 23, 11:08:58
      - Isn’t their lack of influence the issue? (Other Football) - SCC 28, Apr 23, 11:13:40
        
        Which is why VAR is a dog's dinner (Other Football) - jamesward, Apr 23, 11:42:30
        
        But why can’t people realise many decisions are subjective (Other Football) - SCC 28, Apr 23, 11:50:26
        
        Probably because of the way it's communicated (Other Football) - jamesward, Apr 23, 11:55:37
        
        But I can understand it (Other Football) - SCC 28, Apr 23, 12:07:58
        
        Explain the Forest one that was 99% definitely a pen then (n/m) (Other Football) - jamesward, Apr 23, 12:30:41
        
        A human being involved in a game of football made a mistake. (Other Football) - megson, Apr 23, 12:57:24
        
        Some of these errors are so bad they're the equivalent of a player (Other Football) - jamesward, Apr 23, 13:00:52
        
        I genuinely sometimes think that they get so tied up in process (Other Football) - norwaay, Apr 23, 13:12:04
        
        Absolutely they do (Other Football) - SCC 28, Apr 23, 13:21:13
        
        You don't seem to get these ridiculous errors in rugby (Other Football) - jamesward, Apr 23, 13:19:57
        
        Really? (Other Football) - megson, Apr 23, 15:38:28
        
        Guess I just don't watch enough rugby... (n/m) (Other Football) - jamesward, Apr 23, 16:10:34
        
        Not a bad thing tbh (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Apr 23, 18:17:54
        
        Saw a few minutes of some England game (Other Football) - SCC 28, Apr 23, 13:23:30
        
        Human error and around the 29th case this season (Other Football) - SCC 28, Apr 23, 12:39:40
        
        Maybe the ref should carry a little handheld screen (Other Football) - jamesward, Apr 23, 12:48:49
        
        Lol, i love the idea of a VR headset, would look hilarious. (n/m) (Other Football) - megson, Apr 23, 12:58:08
- Lumping on Luton to win the Euros (n/m) (Other Football) - SimonOTBC, Apr 23, 10:34:34

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