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grandoldteam said:
FanView: Why the Shambles of Spurs vs Rochdale at Wembley Should Be the Final Straw for VAR
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That’s a point I and several others have made.

Any game with VAR in use will be ruined, because every goal will be only half-celebrated as the crowd anxiously waits to see if VAR will be used, and if so, what the outcome will be.

Everybody at Wembley on Wednesday, and everyone watching from home, just assumed Lamela’s perfectly legitimate goal was a perfectly legitimate goal. Everyone except one wanker behind a screen who doesn’t know how football works.

One of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen in football, and I’ve seen Jake Wheelchair trying to play it.
 
ajachilles said:
VAR is here whether we like it or not. It needs to be fixed however and the best way to do that is to limit when it is used.

1) Goal line technology, this works already.

2) On/offsides when a goal is scored or looks imminent. When the assistant ref raises the flag and a goal looks likely the ref allows play to continue until the ball goes in OR the imminent threat of a goal is over. The instant that the assistant ref’s flag goes up an onsite VAR official should immediately begin review of was the player on/off sides… If the VAR official cannot tell definitively if the player was on/off within 30-45 seconds, he alerts the referee and assistant ref via headset “Onside.” Assistant ref puts down flag and play continues. If VAR official determines player was offsides he alerts ref and assistant ref via headset “Offsides,” ref blows the whistle and awards free kick. If the ball goes in before the VAR official has verified on/off the ref uses the little VAR screen signal to alert that it is under review. An announcement is made in stadium and the video used to determine on/off is shown on the stadium video boards. If offsides is called in a non-scoring position there is no review!

3) Foul in/out of the box. Is it free kick or pk? Again, this should take the onsite VAR official no more than 30-45 seconds. Play has already been stopped so it is not interrupting the flow of the game. Just like in the on/off sides review, the ref makes the VAR review box signal, an announcement is made that the location of the foul is under review, and the video is shown on the stadium video boards.

The most important aspect of VAR should be that only what is under review can be called. If on/offsides is being reviewed and the VAR official sees a defender foul an offensive player that was somehow missed by the ref it CAN NOT BE CALLED!

I am also completely in favor of a post-game review of all games. Dives/simulation/trying to deceive the official should be strongly penalized financially through fines and through suspensions and retrospective yellow cards issued. Mustafi should have been carded in the Caribou Cup final for his reaction and trying to get a call on Aguero’s opening goal when he realized he was going to be beat.
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Is it ? It seems pretty crap to me
 
ajachilles said:
It already takes 30-45 seconds to dig the ball out of the back of the net, get it to midfield and get restarted. It's by far better than the clusterfuck that was Wednesday... and it shouldn't be for every goal... only goals where the linesman signals offside and it isn't obvious.
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After 5 games of celebrating goals only to be told each time a minute later they actually weren’t..... still. Gonna kill football long term
 
The elders should introduce a VAR type system on here to mediate or clerfiy an argument. Any ideas of a name?
My idea would be...
Clarifying Understanding Negotiating Translator?

Im putting this out there again.
 
mickdale said:
30-45 seconds you have just killed football. Why don’t people stop and think about what they are proposing? Someone scores a goal and we all wait 45 seconds..... we will NOT celebrate the goal like we have for a hundred years. It will kill football as the emotional rollercoaster will be gone. Gone.
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mickdale said:
30-45 seconds you have just killed football. Why don’t people stop and think about what they are proposing? Someone scores a goal and we all wait 45 seconds..... we will NOT celebrate the goal like we have for a hundred years. It will kill football as the emotional rollercoaster will be gone. Gone.
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Yep, if we lose that adrenaline-fuelled ecstasy of jumping up and down and hugging total strangers when Spurs score then we will have changed from supporters into spectators and football as a spectacle will be dead.
 
ajachilles said:
And that is different from celebrating a goal only to then see the flag up for offsides how?
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It takes seconds at best to realise a goal has been flagged offside. That’s very different to expecting every goal to be subject to a 5 minute review by people who don’t understand the rules of the game.

There’s probably some minor incident in the buildup to Aguero’s famous last gasp title winning goal. Imagine VAR in that situation, with a similar outcome to Lamela’s perfectly legitimate goal. There would have been riots.

VAR could end up killing the sport.
 
Football is now fucked.





You have to wonder if the powers that be are really interested in free flowing exciting football or not. There must be some seriuosly big brown envelopes passed on by those that may want to influence VAR decisions.
 
JohnH said:
Football is now fucked.





You have to wonder if the powers that be are really interested in free flowing exciting football or not. There must be some seriuosly big brown envelopes passed on by those that may want to influence VAR decisions.
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It was always going to go through and get approval given the FIFA hold 4 votes on decisions to 6 votes to all members. So if they want something it will go through. Also Infantino has been pushing for it.

Still blame Blatter, Platini was 100% opposed.
 
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