Re: 8 Min VAR Check

Tandy

Deckchair

Even if you could guarantee that decisions were 100% correct (which you can't), it would still remove the immediate jubilation of celebrating a goal.

Did you celebrate Priske’s goal or did you wait to see what the linesman did before getting involved?

For all the arguments against VAR this one never makes sense to me. Everybody still celebrates a goal even if it ends up getting overturned. I’ve not seen a single occurrence of everyone just sitting there til they’ve heard from VAR.

Yep it’s bollocks, lies that people keep telling themselves to support their unwavering view that VAR needs to go despite the evidence of their own eyes on TV multiple times every week where every PL goal is still celebrated.

I challenge anybody to come up with a single clip of a stadium full of people not celebrating in case VAR might intervene.

It isn’t just the instant impact. I know you played American football. VAR type interventions are quite common in that game, but, like Rugby it is a game of stops and starts and the ‘stops’ for rulings are not as intrusive as in football (though one of the criticisms about AF and rugby is that there are too many stops - even so in both sports I think the refereeing and use of technology is much better).

Football is a game of flow. Niggly fouls and other tactics to stop flow and a team’s momentum are used tactically, and unofficial ‘time outs’ and keepers (and sometimes other players) lying ‘injured’ on the floor are already seen as disruptive to the momentum an flow of the game. Stopping the game for often lengthy checks not only negatively impacts the spectacle but can radically change the momentum in a game. Saying this isn’t a problem just seems self-evidently wrong, and fans complain about it at the time very often.