fuck var

apologies for "ManUtdMania"

He even tucks his arm in ffs, absolute horseshit aye

Throwing out all of VAR is just as stupid as the way VAR is being used though

Not the thread for that sort of opinion, please start a ‘var centrism’ thread for you and Danny Murphy to talk about getting ex pros involved or how it’s the laws that are to blame.

Lol

https://i.ibb.co/qnws2rv/Screenshot-20220912-182830.jpg

The Douglas Luiz red card for not headbutting Mitrovic which Michael Oliver gave after being advised to by VAR has...been rescinded on appeal

you have to say that's class

Lol

Look it did the managerectomy job

Women's VARld Cup

we can just incorporate "fuck 20 minutes of injury time" into this thread i guess

terrible for fans at the game but fuck time wasting and fuck managers in the prem with big squads that can change half their outfield players during a game deciding to make 3 of their subs with only a couple of mins of nrml time remaining then complaining about player workload. yellow cards for time wasting should be accompanied by a free kick for the opposition anywhere they want it.

I don't see this working tbh.

a free kick from inside the goal

time wasting only really bothers me when it's extreme (obv my judgement of how extreme it is depends on who it's being used against too)

but ludicrous amounts of stoppage time is always gonna annoy me, and i'm not convinced it does much to address time wasting either

the problem I have is modern sports insistence on exactitude. these are games, this is not DNA testing to exonerate someone on Death Row. watching frame by frame advances to find the little .00000000012 millimeter the player was actually offside doesn't really fit the spirit of the rule (and I don't think people realize that some of their favorite goals of all time might have been call back in the current system).

same with official time-keeping. most people who are avid fans can usually guess the amount of stoppage time within a minute based on how many people scored and how many injuries and substitutions there were, but we don't demand second-by-second accuracy to demand every lost second be replayed.

sure, if someone milks 45 seconds during 3 minutes of stoppage and the ref doesn't compensate for that a little, that's ridiculous, but...at the same token, the team that is chasing the match is doing so because they failed to do the necessary in the previous 90 minutes, so they have some culpability there as well.

I hate what modern HD tv has done to all sports. at least with American football, it's a sport that stops all the time anyway, but nothing's worse than being at a free-flowing football match and have it stop for fucking 5 minutes so someone can watch a movie. and nobody wants 12 minutes of stoppage time!

yep to all of that

only thing nice I'll say is at least it isn't as mental as the NBA, which allowed refs to review three pointers from several minutes earlier and retroactively change the score.

i was at a game once, last few minutes, home team down like 3, and they reviewed a three pointer from several minutes earlier and determined it should have been a 2, so now they were down 4.

half an hour later

That Liverpool pen yesterday looked fuckin scandalous from what I saw

taking away the simulation (because its irrelevant) i thought more than enough to call it a foul meself tbh

its the ones that wont be given and against whom that would sicken you

It's not a hill I'll choose to die on, because as we know you're only allowed to do that three times in a single season now

Did Wolves get their apology yet? Pickford got penalised for a very similar offence to Onana's today

Webb apologised about a minute after the final whistle i think

plus they removed those officials from the next week's matches I believe

mike dean not sending a ref to look at a replay when he failed to spot a clear foul (cuccarella hair pull) because the ref was a mate and dean thought he'd get grief from the dugout at the pitch side monitor says all you need to know about dean and var.

i find it telling that of all incidents they could have picked they chose the one in history that went spurs way

Referee: Cheers mate.

VAR: Thank you mate.

Referee: Well done boys, good process.

Whole thing is great I hope we get the actual audio

Assistant VAR: Offside, goal, yeah. That’s wrong that, Daz.

VAR: What?

the actual audio is on the PL thread!

Oh the audio was released. So good.

VAR fucked it again tonight in the atlético feyenoord game. well done lads

Can you imagine if this happened in an Old Firm game? There'd be civil war.

It was 8 minutes past midnight before VAR confirmed that it is, indeed, 2024.

— Ian Darke (@IanDarke) January 1, 2024

VAR on the ropes; no doubt this is part of an accelerationist plot to restore a wild west where referees are at liberty to allow Man City and Newcastle infringements based on Personal Preference

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 4 September 2022 14:26 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

i know we keep saying we unironically believe this but we all unironically believe this, right

So in the Africa Cup of Nations semi final Nigeria scored a goal to go 2-0 up with minutes to play, the goal was then reviewed and disallowed and a penalty given to South Africa instead... uhhhhh...