VAR worked well here, the Arsenal player scored but the liner flagged him offside?????????
Can't see Ole being too happy as a couple of the players stopped when the lino put his flag up even though the ref didn't blowVAR worked well here, the Arsenal player scored but the liner flagged him offside?????????
Can't see Ole being too happy as a couple of the players stopped when the lino put his flag up even though the ref didn't blow
Yep. They keep getting it wrong though. Apparently the refs are telling players to play to the whistle. Now that's something I was taught at primary school but granted I never turned pro so things might have changed.Isn't the linesman not meant to flag until it's in the net now VAR is in use ?
Isn't the linesman not meant to flag until it's in the net now VAR is in use ?
As ever, VAR is not the problem - the inconsistency of the referees running VAR is the problem.
At the start of all this, one of my main gripes with the idea of VAR was that wherever it makes decisions for offences that CAN BE subjective, rather than clear fact, then the best that you could ever do would be to reduce the number of errors. But the flip side is that the errors that remain will be magnified a hundred times because, without VAR, normal football fans understand that a ref has a split second to make a decision and, even though we will shout like hell, we accept mistakes.
Fair enough.So I don't really share your opening line. I think (to a greater or lesser extent) there will always be inconsistency in VAR refereeing. The problem is indeed with VAR itself.
And then there was the farce at Tottenham stadium.... The big electronic scoreboard said “ No Goal “ but the ref gave it.As I said a long time ago VAR has now encouraged a defender to dive in the box after minimal contact to have a goal disallowed ..... fuckin mess !!!!
Evans would never have got the ball anyway.
That was my view as well... he hardly got touched, but went down like he had been shot .Controversy now in the United Liverpool game. Personally I just think Origi is overly dramatic when he goes down and it just isn’t a foul.