Topic: VAR! Video Assistant Referee & Shite Referees in General

[Knight]

Barcelona threatening legal action over a failure to award a goal at the Classico on the weekend. This is what VAR does, once it’s possible to reassess decisions after they’ve been made it becomes possible to imagine reassessing after the game is over.

[Eeyore]

Ah, the Community Shield. Right.

Yeah piss City off with a decision and you don't get any more City games as Ref. Ask Simon Hooper.

Give them decisions and you get an all expenses paid trip to the UAE. I mean you have develop myopia so you miss Kovacic committing a couple of stonewall yellow/red card challenges. The myopia becomes so severe that you even see Doku drop-kick Macca.

I am sure his eyesight returns when he views his burgeoning bank balance though.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Barcelona threatening legal action over a failure to award a goal at the Classico on the weekend. This is what VAR does, once it’s possible to reassess decisions after they’ve been made it becomes possible to imagine reassessing after the game is over.

Nothing to do with VAR, for some strange reason they don't have goal line technology in La Liga.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

They're just bothering to use it anymore. Rugby tackles are now allowed.

[Barneylfc∗]

They're just bothering to use it anymore. Rugby tackles are now allowed.

It's absolutely pointless when fouls like that are allowed to go unpunished.

[farawayred]

It's absolutely pointless when fouls like that are allowed to go unpunished.

They've been allowed since John Terry's time...

[Historical Fool]

Yeah piss City off with a decision and you don't get any more City games as Ref. Ask Simon Hooper.

Give them decisions and you get an all expenses paid trip to the UAE. I mean you have develop myopia so you miss Kovacic committing a couple of stonewall yellow/red card challenges. The myopia becomes so severe that you even see Doku drop-kick Macca.

I am sure his eyesight returns when he views his burgeoning bank balance though.

What decisions were given before they referred in the SPL?

[The G in Gerrard]

So why wasn't Jackson shown a red for that challenge in first half yesterday?

[Romford_Red]

They've been allowed since John Terry's time...

I remember a Euros (or maybe WC?) when they first had VAR and they aggressively stamped all of that out. Loads of penalties were awarded. It was really nice.

[Barneylfc∗]

I remember a Euros (or maybe WC?) when they first had VAR and they aggressively stamped all of that out. Loads of penalties were awarded. It was really nice.

The 2018 world cup had lots of penalties. I made lots of money on it 

Noticed after the first load of games there were loads of pens. Bet365 offered odds on most games before kick off for first goal to be a penalty at about 14/1. The later the game went on, the higher those odds went.

So basically at the start of every match then after every goal I was betting on the first or next goal to be a penalty. I think there were one or 2 games with 2 pens which was nice. They caught on around the quarter final stage and cut the odds significantly and was no longer worth doing.

[swish]

i am lost with it all, after the fulham game they said jota was ahead but because the lines touched they give the attacker the benefit of the doubt.
then when its close a green line is drawn, surely the lines from the manure vs Coventry game the lines where touching? looking at the lines they drew over Wan-Bissaka's foot.

i would love to hear the audio from that 3rd dodgy pen decision against everton, how that's not a pen i will never know

[GreatEx]

Just forced myself to watch midweek highlights. Wolves getting absolutely reamed by VAR once again. Good thing we didn't consider O'Neil for manager.

[DangerScouse]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/41bde8e1-7f5c-4b3c-8cc1-3b8d9ce145b2?shareToken=c147db48f5b17184ce349835abeebce2

[Mister Flip Flop]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/41bde8e1-7f5c-4b3c-8cc1-3b8d9ce145b2?shareToken=c147db48f5b17184ce349835abeebce2

Well done to them. Very sensible decision. We've no VAR here in our league football in Ireland and i can't even begin to tell you how much more enjoyable it is compared to the rubbish we've seen in the prem the last couple of seasons. Goal celebrations that matter.

[Nick110581]

The non penalty in the Brighton game is hilarious