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VAR should be making all the decisions and the 4 officials on the pitch should be there to communicate those decisions.
Intimidating the on field officials should be an instant red card and the pitchside monitor should be scrapped.
Clubs should have the right to appeal decisions that are blatantly incorrect, after the game, and the whole process should be transparent. If necessary players who are caught cheating / diving / feigning injury should receive mandatory 5 match bans. Games should be replayed if cheating / poor decisions have a defining affect on the outcome of the match result.
Supporters calling for VAR to be scrapped is due to the volume of terrible decisions VAR is (deliberately) coming up with in the Premier League.
They want it scrapped because if VAR is used correctly it levels the playing field and the bigger clubs cannot be guaranteed to win, when they need to, through dodgy officiating.
I am rapidly concluding that top flight football is fixed in the interests of the richest clubs and the bookmakers.
Brighton were on the receiving end of one bad decision yesterday. The clear penalty that should have been awarded after the foul by Hojbjerg on Minamino. A decision that was so bad; as a Spurs supporter I feel ashamed to have benefitted from it.
The handballs were both fair to be awarded, in Spurs favour, in my opinion.
Spurs won the game because they scored two very good goals.
Brighton were given a free gift for the goal they did score and unfortunately for them they hit the post and controlled the ball with their arms / hands for the three other big chances they created / Spurs gifted them.
Lenglet probably did pull Dunk's shirt too but apart from that Brighton didn't create enough clear cut chances in the game to have too many complaints.
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They have spent all week talking about attempted spit and working out if it's spit or not if there is an action but no Spittal. Looking for evidence of the actual spit. Over a week and no consensus but are deciding that the action of spit is enough.
Fair to say we won't get another decision via VAR this season.
Yesterday was all our luck in one afternoon
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Yesterday was all our luck in one afternoon
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The VAR official at our game against Brighton has been dropped from the next round of fixtures and the PGMOL has admitted mistakes were made in the match. Oddly the referee in the game has not been dropped and will be on VAR duties for the Wolves Brentford game even though he was shocking too.
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Awaiting the same from the dippers match so
If we can hear why they come to a decision, it would help in understanding how VAR fuck it up so many times.
This is getting fucking ridiculous.