So who are these faceless wonders sat in the stand making stupid var decisions?

Anyone know?

 

So, nobody knows??

 

VAR for the Man City - Spurs game was Graham Scott, assisted by Andrew Halliday. Theres a forum called rate the ref which publishes all appointments and has a discussion forum which mostly focuses on individual performances/incidents throughout the leagues.

 

They aren’t sat in the stands. They are miles away in VAR central

 

VAR HQ is apparently in Stockley Park London. Prior to the start of the season, every
Premiership manager was invited to look round to get a better understanding as to how
the system would be used. It's always going to have its critics, but at the end of the day,
it's a way of hopefully making certain that crucial decisions are clarified.

If I were Man City, I would feel aggrieved at yesterday's decision to cancel what looked
to be a perfectly good goal by Jesus. It looked as though it was difficult for Laporte to avoid
the ball brushing his arm prior to the shot, but they have to accept it.

 

VAR has not decided that in the above circumstances, the goal will be disallowed. That is the rules book. VAR is simply being used to determine the facts. VAR was not wrong, the rule book is.

 

The handball rule is just stupid and shows just how inept the custodians of our game are. The rule that forced the goal for City to be disallowed is beyond ridiculous.

 

What about the penalty that wasn't awarded, who on earth can look at that and say it's not a penalty, he had him around the neck and wrestled him to the floor.

 

I completely agree. Even with VAR the decision making is still all over the place.

 

Unfortunately, because of the very nature of decisions that will be referred to VAR, VAR equals fewer goals. That was always my problem with these automatic reviews. They will review every goal, and disallow many. They will not be able to review every decision the ref makes in the build up to an attack, nor be able to recreate the lost chance that resulted from a wrong decision by the ref. Therefore VAR reduces the number of goals and refs reduce the number of opportunities to put right that imbalance. What we must establish is whether righting some of the wrongs is acceptable if it is impossible to right all of the wrongs.

 

Is that an underground station on the Piccadilly line?

 

What if the VAR panel are feckless?

 

Whatever we think of VAR, at least a reversed decision didn't cost us 45 thousand pounds....

 

Ladbrokes customers.

 

It would appear not