First of all, I'm not a Villa fan, nor do I have a great deal of sympathy for their charming manager: However, at a very simple level. my understanding is that VAR was well intentioned. VAR would free football games from egregious errors by human officials that might have an impact on the outcome of a game. Certainly an honourable intent! However, the problem today in the Villa - Man. U. game was not solely due to the referee: other major contributors were:
- United's defense was caught sleeping on the Villa breakaway.
- United's goalie was unable to control a seemingly easy ball.
-The referee was in a poor position to make a call AND got no assistance from his sideline support.
- BUT MOST OF ALL, VAR CREATED A RULE THAT MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE REFEREE
TO REVIEW/CHANGE HIS DECISION! Upon advice from the VAR game crew, every call should be subject
to review by the on-field official!
Has VAR out-smartened itself?
posted on 26/5/25
This is a weird post. VAR didn't create "A RULE THAT MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE REFEREE
TO REVIEW/CHANGE HIS DECISION!" in any was whatsoever.
The rule that play ends when the ref blows his whistle has been the case for decades before VAR. It also doesn't prevent the ref reviewing things, because the ref can decide against blowing his whistle to see if a goal develops.
Its absolute nonsense to claim that all ref decisions should be review able (it would take absolutely ages) and even if that were the case, you still wouldn't ba able to allow a goal that was scored after the whistle went because it would be unfair on the defending team.
posted on 26/5/25
VAR didn’t create any rule. VAR checks if the referee made an error using technology available to them. Unfortunately in the big incident yesterday the referee made an error and VAR couldn’t be used since VAR checks for errors before the referees whistle, in the next available stoppage. The referee didn’t allow this to happen as he had already blew his whistle.
posted on 26/5/25
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posted on 26/5/25
Grammatical correction for all you VAR lovers: Yes, VAR did not CREATE the rule. However, it is SUBJECT to the rule! In any case, having a rule that prevents a review for yesterday's blatantly incorrect call is detrimental to the game!
posted on 26/5/25
Every major call is subject to review, ie red cards, penalties and goals. The fact in this instance is a goal was not scored as you can’t score a goal after the referee blows his whistle. VAR was not subject to the rule, it should have been but wasn’t and that is the problem, created by the referee blowing his whistle before the situation had ended.
posted on 26/5/25
comment by Globaled (U7198)
posted 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
Grammatical correction for all you VAR lovers: Yes, VAR did not CREATE the rule. However, it is SUBJECT to the rule! In any case, having a rule that prevents a review for yesterday's blatantly incorrect call is detrimental to the game!
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Again, no it isn't. You are basically saying we should stop the game and have a review every time the ref blows the whistle, or there is a tackle thag might be a foul.
posted on 26/5/25
comment by Globaled (U7198)
posted 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
Grammatical correction for all you VAR lovers: Yes, VAR did not CREATE the rule. However, it is SUBJECT to the rule! In any case, having a rule that prevents a review for yesterday's blatantly incorrect call is detrimental to the game!
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The ref was correct
posted on 26/5/25
I'd like VAR to actually fackin man up next term & not take a fackin EON to decide that it can't make a decision & then call the ref to a monitor (something he could be doing at the time anyway)
I'm a VAR supporter...but this is a ridiculous farce