Scrote
Well-known member
I think FIFA have allowed this for one or two games per league this season to show the process but it's not allowed across the board.
This is a great example of why VAR is worth having and it also shows how much better it is when the process is fully transparent.
The biggest problem for me, here, is that the ref was correct, in my opinion, and there wasn't enough clear and obvious to overturn the decision.
If the defender had been running alongside and just touched him, fair enough, but the defender had been done and it was a last gasp attempt to disrupt the attacker's movement.
However, if the ref hadn't given it I wouldn't have expected VAR to overturn it - similar, in a way to umpire's call in cricket - VAR isn't supposed to re-referee, which is what it's done there.
VAR in the Premier League robbed Wolves. Clear foul. Clear penalty ignored by the ref. If VAR can't get the simple things correct then it just becomes an expensive waste of time. Which it currently is.Lack of VAR in the championship have robbed Leeds here. Clear handball, and a clear penalty ignored by the ref. I mean I struggle for sympathy with it being Leeds, but still, the game has been decided by a lack of VAR.
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I'd be happy with the black and white stuff being VARed if they could speed it up (or make the laws simpler for implementation). Offsides and mistaken identity (and add foul throws for good measure). The technology and implementation thereof isn't good enough or consistent enough for anything else yet.