VAR: Premier League referees set to.....

comment by Winston (U16525)
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comment by Klopptimus Prime (U1282)
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comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 1 minute ago
Well if you know what I said was correct then your comment about ‘what used to happen’ was not correct, as I explained.
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You miss the point. The premise is to imagine a scenario where the toenail or nose hair is already offside, its not a debate. From that premise what I said is exactly what would happen preVAR and also post VAR.


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Nope, you said ‘what used to happen’ and then described a situation that didn’t use to happen.
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No I described exactly what used to happen

But it didn’t happen, did it?

No one could tell if a toenail was offside. We all saw a few replays and made our own minds up, but we didn’t have the level of detail available that VAR has brought.

comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 3 minutes ago
But it didn’t happen, did it?

No one could tell if a toenail was offside. We all saw a few replays and made our own minds up, but we didn’t have the level of detail available that VAR has brought.
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I don't care about that in my response.

I chose to reply to the hypothetical aspect instead of arguing the unrealistic nature of the idea.

If you want to argue the unrealistic nature take it up with the poster who came up with it instead of lying in wait and pouncing on my posts out of context for otherwise being unreasonable. Its my choice what I want to debate.

I've already explained this. If there's nothing else then thanks

You haven’t explained why you described something that didn’t used to happen and said that if did happen.

I’m not being argumentative, just debating a point as it’s key to the issue that people have with VAR and key to this article.

You said something inaccurate and I picked up on it. No big deal.

But if you can’t accept that point then you’ll continue to struggle to understand why VAR is being criticised in relation to this point.

comment by Klopptimus Prime (U1282)
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comment by Globaled (U7198)
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comment by Klopptimus Prime (U1282)
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comment by Inbefore (U20589)
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Spurs must be one of the biggest benefactors of VAR this season.
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Definitely.
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VAR only helps those who help themselves.
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VAR has succeeded in making a farce of the off-side rule. Now off-side can be applied if someone's nose hairs, big toe nail, chin etc. are beyond the last defender. The off-side rule was always somewhat controversial. VAR has made it a total joke.
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Its always been offside if someone's nose hairs, big toe nail, chin etc. are beyond the last defender. The only question used to be whether the linesman would flag or not.

If the linesman flagged and replays showed that only a toenail was offside, we would hail the accuracy of the linesman on a correct offside call.

Why has this changed after VAR? All of a sudden people are uncomfortable with hairline offsides. Its always been that offside is offside, end of.

VAR is a tool and did not introduce new rules to the game. If your expectations are irrational you will be frustrated.

My only gripe with VAR is the time its taking to make decisions.
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VAR by its design and implementation adds time to making decisions. What did you expect?

The goal line technology is a great success. VAR, so far, is a marginal success at best!

https://mobile.twitter.com/YouGov/status/1224656513001836544?s=19

Good link Bales

Football fans may hate VAR, but only 15% think it should be scrapped. They think it has to change though - 74% want to keep it but improve it, while only 8% want to keep it as it is.

What can I say?

It's demonstrably bad for the sport, but people still for some reason vote for it. Sums up the state of the country.

It's certainly bad for the sport at the moment, but I can see why people don't want it scrapped.

I still believe that over time people will come to get used to it and the crap parts of VAR will just become the norm.