What is the point of VAR?

[Adi_Dem]

Just watching the Liverpool game. How can a referee sit there and watch what that keeper just did and decide no further action was required?

 

[breakthewallsdown]

Should have atleast asked Mike Dean to go look at the monitor

 

[BlindBoyGrunt]

I honestly thought the decision was between red and yellow and I was coming down on the side of red.

 

[NormanbyRed77]

Was thinking the same. thought the red was going to be shown

 

[Adi_Dem]

It’s a red card no matter how you look at it. Almost the definition of a red card.

 

[Alexander Supertramp]

Keepers and pandas. The two great protected species.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Quite unbelievable. Would've been looked at completely differently if no goal was scored, but it shouldn't matter.

 

[Carlos Fandango]

Absolutely a straight red

 

[Same_as_before]

To spoil a football game.

 

[NormanbyRed77]

The worrying thing is that two referees that don't see it as a red card. Diaz looks a good player.

 

[Same_as_before]

As Barnsley get a none penalty.

 

[Red76]

100% Red card not even a debate.

SERIOUS FOUL PLAY

A tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality must be sanctioned as serious foul play.

 

[Way_Out_West]

I didn't think it was a red. Jumped in front of him, didn't jump into him. Diaz's momentum took him into the keeper.

 

[Adi_Dem]

I didn't think it was a red. Jumped in front of him, didn't jump into him. Diaz's momentum took him into the keeper.

 

[Adi_Dem]

Here it is for anyone who hasn’t seen it:

Beyond debate

 

[271266]

Would love to have seen what VAR would have made of the Fry incident against Blackburn last season.Probably given them a free kick for Fry heading his boot!!

 

[Way_Out_West]

Here it is for anyone who hasn’t seen it:

Beyond debate

Half hearted waft at the ball by the keeper, and stuck a leg out. A leg (not a boot) across the chest was never going to actually injure the player.

 

[Adi_Dem]

Half hearted waft at the ball by the keeper, and stuck a leg out. A leg (not a boot) across the chest was never going to actually injure the player.

 

[BoroFur]

For anybody not old enough to remember.

 

[BoroFur]

Primarily it's the referee and his assistants to blame here. Waiting for VAR to make a decision for them instead of having the guts to make the correct call.