dooderooni
Well-known member
The only feeling I had about the disallowed goal was disappointment. It looked tight in real time so that's good enough for me.
As said above, it's training that the officials need and perhaps some consistency agreed in how they'll officiate.
9 out of 10 refs would probably have booked Hugill for that stupid push, we just got the one who didn't.
Think about what VAR is supposed to be about, namely "correcting clear and obvious errors". That to me does not say spending 5 minutes drawing lines to see if someone is 5mm offside or deciding that routine contact in the area is worthy of a penalty.
Get the officials making more accurate and consistent decisions and VAR, at least in it's human based form, wouldn't be needed. Nobody complains about goal line technology and it doesn't disrupt the flow of the game either.
Then you've got a situation like last week where Edison got injured because the laws made to accommodate VAR made the linesman keep his flag down on a clear offside and the keeper gets injured as the attack is allowed to proceed.
As you can probably tell, I'd nuke VAR from orbit.
As said above, it's training that the officials need and perhaps some consistency agreed in how they'll officiate.
9 out of 10 refs would probably have booked Hugill for that stupid push, we just got the one who didn't.
Think about what VAR is supposed to be about, namely "correcting clear and obvious errors". That to me does not say spending 5 minutes drawing lines to see if someone is 5mm offside or deciding that routine contact in the area is worthy of a penalty.
Get the officials making more accurate and consistent decisions and VAR, at least in it's human based form, wouldn't be needed. Nobody complains about goal line technology and it doesn't disrupt the flow of the game either.
Then you've got a situation like last week where Edison got injured because the laws made to accommodate VAR made the linesman keep his flag down on a clear offside and the keeper gets injured as the attack is allowed to proceed.
As you can probably tell, I'd nuke VAR from orbit.